Although I knew it was a depressive drama for women before watching it, I underestimated its depressive effect.
Like many British dramas, the tone of the film is cold. The heroine Gemma Foster did not wear a bright-colored dress from beginning to end. As if she began to suspect her husband's derailment from the first episode, she always looked solemn. And tight coolness.
This is a "catch a rape" play from a female perspective. Although it is a bit cliché to say this, the screenwriter's storytelling ability is extraordinary. There is no hysteria that we are so familiar with in the play, and there is no love and murder that everyone likes to see, only real and frightening depression and helpless compromises that have to be made in order to live.
Gemma found a long blond hair on her husband's scarf, which triggered her alarm.
Once the seed of doubt is planted, it is very difficult to pull out.
Finally, at her husband's 40th birthday party, she found another phone in the trunk of her husband's car.
At this time, she almost confirmed the fact that her husband was cheating. She shook the screen and stabbed her eyes with a photo of him with another woman. She broke down and cried in a low voice.
Therefore, such embarrassing things are prone to occur in small places. The "other woman" Gemma found was not someone else, but Kate, the daughter of a couple who knew each other. What was even more shocking was that her husband still brought her with him. Their mutual friends were out on vacation, and there were shamelessly many group photos on their phones. And his trusted colleague Ros also informed her husband that he would leave work early to follow him.
This is the first time Gemma's three views have been broken.
Not only did the husband cheat, but the people around him actually helped this scumbag to conceal and deceive themselves.
I don't even want to mention the scumbag's name, just call him scumbag.
Seeing this, I believe that many people scolded me in front of the screen like me. Are the people in this town out of their minds? If you don't help Gemma punish the wicked, that's all, why are you still helping the scumbag to be a mistress? What the hell is this?
Let's take a look at Gemma's settings. She was originally in London, went to medical school and got straight A's, and her wonderful life was about to begin. She met a young and romantic scumbag at the time, so she followed him from the big city to this small town. married". The scumbag is a native of this small town. The neighbors have known each other hundreds of years ago. Half of the population are acquaintances. They have to say hello all the way when they go out to buy vegetables, so Gemma, who is a daughter-in-law from another place, naturally follows him. They don't have such an emotional foundation. Even if they are "friends", they are the scumbag's friends first, and then her friends.
This sequence determines everyone's tendency to take sides.
Many times, it is difficult for us to look at a matter fairly, because our judgment will be affected by our emotions, and we will be influenced by our existing knowledge. We prefer to choose the "easy to accept" side rather than force ourselves to understand. A new thing, an outsider, let alone defend them.
Why do many couples find it difficult to accept advice from each other's friends when quarreling, but prefer to seek help from their own friends? Also for this reason. Because essentially, your husband's friends can't pass your husband and become closer friends with you, unless he wants to have sex with you. By the same token, if you find your friend walking past you and getting close to your husband, chances are they've already had sex.
In a mature social relationship, this is a silent mutual restraint, or wink, or, more bluntly, nurture.
How to maintain a proper relationship with each other's friends, neither too far to be rude, nor too close to be unsightly, is indeed a difficult art of life.
Gemma was hinted at the setting of "strong personality and a little condescending" in the first episode, which is not very popular with the residents of the town.
We will find that, whether it is in the workplace or in life, people who are particularly popular must be those who are very easy-going and laugh at everyone. They have no edges, no aggressiveness, and they will happily return when they are joked and complained. Good at self-deprecating, makes people feel very comfortable to get along with.
We can say that these people have no character and are boring, but it is undeniable that such people may not win many true friends because of their sincerity, but they will gain a lot of contacts because of their high degree of fit with anyone.
And those with a little more prominent personality often give people different degrees of "uncomfortableness". This "discomfort" is not serious, but it will limit the circle more or less.
People with a bit more vicious tongue will make people feel sharp at first, and then they will be gradually alienated; people with a little more silence will always seem to have no sense of existence in a small group; people with more biased hobbies will feel that he mentions it. We can't keep up with the topic, so let's not play together.
But they have one thing in common, they will definitely meet several, or even one, the so-called confidant under the precipitation of time.
A little bit of character, seems not to be loved by everyone. But what does it matter? If you do yourself well, you will always meet people who understand you, and one such person is worth ten.
For Gemma, being "strong in character" isn't a bad thing. We can even say bluntly that Phoenix and Chicken really can't stay together. Phoenix is inherently arrogant because of its arrogant capital. From a big city, with a decent and respectable job, financial independence, and a lot of knowledge, Gemma herself is not like most of the narrow-town folks. Forcing oneself to integrate into their circle of life and circle of friends is really a kind of torture.
You are obviously a swan, do you want to aggrieve yourself to be a frog at the bottom of the well?
Stick to your own arrogance and figure, and let the little people break their mouths behind their backs.
The second time Gemma's three views shattered, she learned that the scumbag and the mistress were not fling for three months, but "true love" that had lasted for two years.
Here we have to talk about Gemma's shit stick friend Ros. In a nutshell, this woman has a heart to do good things, but is helpless to be a pig teammate who is anxious with IQ.
It seems that there is such a presence around everyone, who wants to take care of everything, give you some advice, and give him a few words, thinking that he is the network administrator of the intelligence network, worrying about national affairs all day long, feeling that he Once it disappears, the whole universe will be messed up. In fact, it can't help the fart, and it will make the water more and more muddy.
In her own words: I didn't want to hurt anyone, I just wanted to help.
I just want to say to this, please explode in place!
I'll tell you, you can't wash it in white, you should stop cooking. From your first episode, you secretly texted and tipped off the scumbag, and it was doomed that you were a small person and couldn't become a big deal. You are just messing around in this square inch of land, and you are still alive. Originally, you could help the heroine catch rape, investigate the scumbag, and still be a female second, but now you are just a clown.
Ros told Gemma that it was only three months, nothing more.
Gemma still secretly softened, wondering if the scumbag was obsessed for a while, maybe... I can still turn back?
Then I found out that Xiaosan was pregnant! It's been two years! It is absolutely unforgivable that these two scumbags have played a family and have offspring.
Women are weird and believe that feelings are something that builds up over time. They may be able to tolerate their lover's "wandering" and "breathing" for a few months, but they can't bear the development of a stable relationship between him and another woman from a dewy love, and time is their first criterion for defining a relationship.
Women are soft-hearted, and feel that things that have been used for a long time and people who have been with them for a long time are hard to give up, so after thinking about it, Gemma's heart is ashes. They also have children in common.
Many viewers shouted that the heroine is going to be blackened quickly in the first episode. In fact, there is no real blackening in this drama.
Gemma was barely black in the fifth episode, she shook everything out in front of the little three family, making the pair of sluts face disgrace. But so what? This is also her own scar. She opened it in front of everyone, sprinkled it with salt, poured boiling water, and watched it smoke sizzling. She was also in great pain.
The screenwriter obviously felt that this was "not enough to restore life". After a short while of "Hongmen Banquet", she was completely defeated with several blows in succession.
First, the scumbag learned that Xiaosan didn't abort the child, so he shamelessly went with Gemma in front of her. Gemma's eyes were even a little stunned. She stood there, probably not expecting that she would face such an easy comeback after her overall victory in the dinner.
The second is that Gemma, who was forced to be suspended, returned to the hospital. The scumbag and Ros, the scumbag, even found someone similar to a psychiatrist. The view forced her to say that she had psychological problems. At this time, Gemma has realized that she is fighting against the world by herself. She is helpless and no one will help her. She can't speak ten words with one mouth. This town is the home of scumbags, and she will always be an outcast. By.
Third, Gemma hurried to his son's school and picked him up. Unexpectedly, her son gave her the most painful blow, which directly caused her to collapse. She worked hard to support her family and earn money, endured betrayal and hurt, all so that her son could have a complete family. As a result, the son actually said that he prefers a cheating father and hates his mother.
This show tells us too many things, the dilemma between money and company, the heavy damage caused by the difference between the surface and the outside, the ignorant complaints of children are the most hurtful, and so on. Gemma was caught in the most difficult situation, she was betrayed by her family and had to fight alone. We have to admire her courage and strength, she wants the truth to be made public, she wants her original life.
In my opinion, her last blow is the real blackening.
She pretended to kill her son and induced the scumbag to be violent to her. When her head was pushed against the glass by the scumbag and bleed, she really won.
This strong woman learned to show weakness in the end. Because only by showing weakness can everyone stand on her side, can everyone realize that she is the real victim, and can inspire long-dead sympathy, or kindness in people's indifferent hearts.
This is absurd, the truth revealed in blood is dripping, but deformed and sad.
And Gemma, as a cheated wife, has done her best. She got back the house, car, and money, but still lost her family and marriage. It's hard to define her success or failure, she still has a son and a career, but the irony is that the scumbag and the mistress are still living together, even going to London - how ridiculous, she came from London for the scumbag more than ten years ago. Here, he returned to London with another woman a dozen years later.
When I was a child watching TV shows, I would always ask my parents: is this a good person or a bad person?
When I grow up, I realize that there is not so much fairness and justice in this world, and there is no absolute reckoning of good and evil.
A good person does not necessarily have a good end, and a bad person does not necessarily have to pay the price for his evil deeds.
Maybe we can't avoid being disgusted by scum, being calculated by villains, and being shot by bystanders, but as long as we are strong enough and good enough, and then slowly temper the soft heart that was born to be invincible and rock-solid, there will eventually be something. , will never leave us.
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