Just finished watching the last episode of the show tonight, Horace IX. A young man with long hair and a hat met his aunt whom he had never met for the first time. He sat embarrassedly next to the crying woman, and the story ended. There are no surprises from the beginning to the end of this drama, changes in the plot, special effects, flickering of the camera, etc. I mean, as a modern film and television drama, this drama does not show anything through any cinematic techniques. But it's full of surprises, like one of the episodes where we have to quickly accept a person's death, like we have to hold on to an entire episode to watch two people talking or we accept a protagonist's disappearance unsuspectingly. What's even more fucking weird is that we who are watching the show have to cry for an hour before we have time to make any expressions.
What kind of person would go to this 100-year-old tavern? In the first episode, I can't help but think about this question. Would I walk into this pub if I was in Brooklyn? What kind of person did I drink with? The play tells us some answers: anyone. Hippies, punks, aging actors, long-term alcoholics, mayors, anyone from this era could possibly step into this tavern. If you expect these people to have some big stories in the tavern, save the world or political fights or drunken fights or something, I'm sorry not here, this is a civilized society with nothing new and no excitement at all. Tavern.
This pub has been jointly run since 1916 by a man named Horace and a man named Pete. They have no rules and regulations and no entrepreneurial ideals. The operators, bartenders, waiters, and even the boss's friends can be based on their own. You need to take money from your daily turnover and deposit the rest in the bank. Let's think about what happened in a hundred years, racial discrimination in the United States from World War I in 1916 to World War II to Roosevelt's New Deal to Clinton to 9/11, this pub has been so fucked up in these 100 years Continuing its fucking tradition, it was opened by two not-so-good surname families. So what kind of people would you expect to step into this tavern? What wine to order? Oh, by the way, they even have a pitiful selection of drinks, not to mention craft beer and broken wine, the boss will kick you out of this pub at any time according to your preferences. So what kind of people do you expect to walk into this pub and talk to you about?
No one wants to discuss a boring and boring story, but behind these boring and boring stories often hide the true face of life, and those deep-rooted philosophy of life are not put forward by any writer and philosopher for you to quote repeatedly. In fact, our life is so fucked up that it makes you sad and makes you happy, you can open your eyes carefully and you can see that those who are sad and happy are ordinary people, and the people who tell you how to live are also ordinary people. The century-old tavern, its century-old storytelling did not create any miracles, it just stuck there like a mirror.
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