In the first episode, Henry's female assistant died suddenly at the door of the pharmacy. Olive teased her at home. No one can stand this old woman, can it? It is true that the deceased is the greatest, but why is it so pretentious to mourn a person who no one likes? This is Olive, a woman with a vicious tongue. She has a high IQ and is unwilling to lose her identity for some trivial matters, and she is unwilling to spend time and energy to cater to all the so-called conventions. Her husband, Henry, was of course the kindest kind of person, full of compassion and willing to help everyone who wanted help.
The second person to die was the husband of Henry's new young female assistant, Denise, also named Henry. Denise and Henry, two mediocre but happy people, are Olive's opposites. Olive has an inference, mediocre people are often happy, smart people are full of misery (average-happy, smart-deppressed), her family has the blood of depression, and she doesn't hide her sarcasm from the nerves and intelligence of depression. 's brain. After the death of young Henry, Olive appropriately expressed his grief, and once took Denise at home, but it was impossible for ordinary middle-aged women to be caring and loving. Olive's eyes were very bright. She saw that her husband was taking too much care of the young widow. Although Henry had always been overflowing with love, his actions seemed to be a little too intimate. Olive just watched, teased in his words, that's all.
The third person to die was Olive's colleague and her lover, Jim. Jim is an English teacher, a disgruntled poet, and a middle-aged young man with smoking and drinking problems. He seemed to understand Olive very well, or maybe he didn't try to understand her. After he hit a tree with his car and died, Olive covered his head and cried at home, which was the most fervent expression of Olive's emotions in the whole movie. Henry watched from the door, neither comforting nor questioning. It was not until more than 20 years later that the old couple complained to each other in a crisis event, Olive blundered that Henry was too ordinary to her, and she should have left. Yes, I was going to go, but the man died.
The fourth person to die was Henry. Olive took good care of Henry for the years after he suffered a stroke. Olive lay beside her motionless husband and whispered, you married a beast and still loved her. Before her husband's death, she was invited to her son's house in New York, and asked the nurse to change the water every day, and told herself to put the phone in her husband's ear when she called. It was in this parting that Henry left. The death of his partner made Olive completely hate the world. With no close family, no partner, and the relationship with his son is extremely tense, Olive wants to end it once.
Olive isn't the next one to go, she's just one of several people in the film who come close to dying. Student Kevin, the woman who fell into the water, and even Olive himself, luckily or unfortunately, they all survived. Everyone's life is not perfect, and some people are even more so. Kevin, Olive, and Olive's son Chris are all depressed to some extent. They are naturally struggling with life and rubbing against their families. They are often in pain, but life must go on, right? As Olive said, the world is frustrating me, but I don't want to leave yet. (It baffles me, this world. I don't want to leave it yet. )
We see marriages in several families through Olive's eyes.
The first is the two marriages of female assistant Denise. For the first time, she was a little princess and was well-loved. But the good is not like the real thing, often it is not true, the so-called too good to be true. Soon after the wedding, her husband died unexpectedly. The second marriage was with Jerry, the obedient younger brother of the previous pharmacy. A few years later, Jerry, who pretended to be a successful person, pointed fingers at Denise and became a Jerk. Denise may be materially rich, but she has no self-esteem and she is not happy.
This was followed by the two marriages of Olive's son Chris. For the first time, the bride was a beautiful doctor, lively, cheerful, and elitist. But on the first night of her wedding, she panicked, angry, and swearing when she couldn't find her earrings, which made me feel that this marriage might not be a happy one. But the person who can see the facts most clearly is Olive. She doesn't have much emotions about her son's failed marriage. "She is a speculator, she thinks she deserves better." This short comment on her daughter-in-law is almost exhausted. What I wanted to say but didn't know how to say it. Chris' second marriage was with an ordinary woman who seemed less attractive, but who didn't have as many demands and who didn't have as much control. He seemed very happy.
As for the old couple Olive and Henry, I have to say that they are indeed a good match. One of the things I admire most about them is that they respect each other so much that they don't ask too much or interfere too much. Even the incidents such as spiritual derailment, both of them can keep silent for decades and never mention it. When the hospital encountered robbers, the old couple finally broke out in the robbers "shut up" one by one, gushing accusations and disgust. But what are the facts? They can't leave anyone. Except for each other, no matter how beautiful the so-called relationship is, they can't last for two weeks. After Henry's death, Olive meets Jack, an old man who is also widowed, an aggressive old man with his own value system. Yes, all the shortcomings of the partner become insignificant after they leave, he/she is always so perfect, and I can't miss it for a moment, can't I?
This mini-series has won many awards at the Golden Globes, and the music, photography, and performance are all at a high level. The portrayal of the characters in this play is what attracts me the most. Olive is a good man, a man of integrity, a serious man, a real man. We hate hypocrisy, but often too much honesty cannot be tolerated. We like people who cater to ourselves, not outliers. Olive is too harsh on herself and others. She is the witch the children call her, and she is the person people don't like to chat with, but these are not important, because she doesn't look down on them and doesn't want to talk too much time to socialize. The important thing is that the various problems that his son Chris has had as an adult makes him always obsessed with his mother being too strict with him when he was a child, and she feels pain as a mother. Yes, she tried her best to love him, but maybe she wasn't good at being a mother. In fact, many people are not good at it.
Life is so impermanent, like the cold wind blowing by the sea, the past has also turned the page. Everyone has to face the world after all.
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