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Midsummer has not yet arrived, but the weather is already so cool.
The sun is drying, the waterlogging is waterlogging, and people have no urge to go out at all.
In that case, it's better to watch American dramas at home.
What Xiaoying wants to show you today is not a new drama for ordinary people, but a new drama directed and written by Ryan Murphy, the "Hollywood Topic King" !
attitude
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Why is he called "The King of Questions"?
Because this guy is really good at telling stories, the themes he chose are all good dramas, and the angle of entry is super clear.
For example, the famous movie "Pray for Love" made the story of an American baby Anne into a platonic healing work.
Compared with movies, he is more famous for his TV series and several signature series. You have never seen it or heard about it.
Plastic surgery is easy, but difficult to fix the heart "plastic surgery room" .
"Glee Chorus" , where joy and music coexist, dreams and youth fly together .
The "American Horror Story" that scares you away from your kidneys and makes you cry when you go out of your mind .
Highly restored, but not boring "American Crime Story" .
No blood and gunpowder, but a thrilling war drama, "American Tear Story", oh no, it's "Old Enemy" .
Now, this buddy finally launched a drama "American Horse Catching Story" with Drama Queen as the main character.
There are not many people watching it, but they are very knowledgeable.
The background of the story takes place in the 1980s.
What was that era?
disco! Break dance! Electronic music! Psychedelic!
The music, sets, and costumes in "Attitude" fully restore the classics, giving the show a gorgeous age-sense shell.
Some netizens commented that the music alone is worth five stars .
At the beginning, I saw that the protagonist was a group of Drama Queen, and the style of Xiaoying's brain supplement was like this:
Screenshot from the American tearing reality show "Flavor of Love".
After watching an episode, Xiaoying felt that this play was better than a group of bichi ripping off!
Because it 's not just ripping off here .
And it 's sweet and sour!
The sadness of life, the sweetness of chasing dreams, the bitterness of life, the hot eyes of styling, the salty and wet taste of evil, including all the flavors of life that you don't usually feel, are all here!
The story begins in a rambunctious room, where a group of slutty whores are wearing their heads and make-up, discussing the theme of the upcoming "prom".
This group of "men and women" who claim to be "the family of abundance" closely surrounds an elder sister who calls herself "mother" and obeys "mother".
Mom took them to the museum, and Xiaoying thought they were looking for inspiration from the museum's cultural relics.
As a result, they turned out to steal the historical costumes of the museum and wear them directly!
Emmm will ask if you are stabbed or not!
Immediately afterwards, in the underground ball with the theme of "royal family", groups of "families" dressed in homemade royal costumes competed for beauty.
Rather than a prom catwalk, the atmosphere here is more like a venue for rap battle, hip-hop dance, or even a fight club event, dark, noisy, and full of "indecent excitement."
With the members of the "House of Plenty", wearing authentic royal costumes, the atmosphere of the ball was pushed to a climax.
This group of well-dressed performers, amid the cheers of the crowd, put on a pose until the police came to arrest them.
This ecstasy expression...
However, the police and museums are not ready to prosecute them, because they are afraid of spreading the word, and no one dares to put things in museum exhibitions anymore.
What kind of beasts are these people, the police don't want to arrest them when they commit a crime?
They are LGBTQ people, in short Lesbians, Gays, Bisexuals, Transgenders and Queer with gender identity disorder.
In the 1980s, and even now, "subcultures," "bulls, ghosts, snakes," "perverts," "ugly," and "mentally ill" were not accepted by the mainstream of society.
Xiaoying calls them "marginal people" .
The flavors of their lives are like the enhanced and enlarged version of ordinary people, as if they are far away from us, but they are very close to us.
bitter life
Damon , a young man in a small town , although he is a boy, has a very high dance enthusiasm and talent.
If he is an ordinary boy, his life may be like "Out of My World", hard but inspirational.
But he was a black boy born in a traditional catholic family and was gay .
This made his life not fully bloom, and it was covered with a thick layer of bitterness.
His father hated him for beating him, and his mother loved him but also blamed him with tears.
Damon, who was kicked out of his home by his parents, wandered to New York.
Yearning for a professional dance school, but dare not enter the door.
He was robbed of money and had no money. He didn't want to sell his body, so he could only make a living by performing arts in the park.
bitter life
Blanca of "House of Plenty" has unique insights into artistic modeling, but is always robbed of creativity by "mother", suppressed and degraded.
Since she was diagnosed with AIDS, she wanted to leave something behind before she died to prove her worth.
So I decided to break the jar and break with "mother" to build a family of my own.
She found Damon dancing Yi Zhuoqun in the square, and soon after meeting, she told her story.
Blanca likes to wear women's clothes secretly in the middle of the night since she was a child. She thought that she would not be blamed for not being gay.
But her mother still expelled her from her home and her heart. She cried like a baby and never looked back.
Perhaps because of what her mother did back then, Blanca is now looking for her mother's shadow.
When she found out that the so-called "mother" in the family was not a real mother, she decided to be a mother herself.
salty fun
The male protagonist of Murphy's queen, "Quicksilver" Ivan Peters , played a white boy Stan from New Jersey this time.
Like Gatsby and the wolves of Wall Street who have the American dream, he is eager to enter the towering office buildings, step into the upper class exclusive to white people, and become a winner in life who spends money.
After he successfully applied for Trump's company , he wanted some excitement, so he came to the street where marginalized people gathered to have some fun.
This is the first time he recruited prostitutes, and he was "lucky" to recruit a "big bird cute girl" - Angel from "Famous House" .
Stan, who can't accept the reality, can only chat with Angel about life and dreams in bed.
I don't know if I don't talk, but after a chat, I found that both of them have the "American Dream", and they both want to have a home .
One world, one dream.
It's just that Stan's family dream has been easily realized, and Angel feels that he will never realize it.
Kate Mara plays the "Quicksilver" wife.
After some rapport (mental exchange), Stan asked if he could have a kiss, and Angel agreed.
The two of them felt unfinished in this kiss, and both felt that they had met love.
But in a blink of an eye, when he got home, Stan began to brush his teeth frantically. He didn't know whether he felt betrayed his family or betrayed the mainstream three views.
Since the little angel Ivan has already played a radical Trumpist cult in "American Terror: Cult" next door, there is no doubt that this time he is playing a white right spokesperson.
hot eye dance
What is the dance party that these marginalized families are so fond of ?
In fact, it is an activity of the black gay community in the United States in the 1980s.
Everyone buys clothes, smears powder, and gathers to play cosplay . The content covers catwalks, dances and other forms, and the judges will score one by one to determine the winners of each category.
The dance is not an ordinary dance, but a dance called Voguing .
What is Voguing?
The fashion magazine "Vogue" knows it.
Voguing is to learn the pose of a magazine cover model. By posing and dancing awkwardly, in the end, whoever can do the best will lose.
At the dance party, this group of marginalized people will be full of rare confidence, show themselves generously, exaggerated and enchanting.
It's worth pondering that while they hate mainstream white people, they like to dress up as white to prom.
Royal dress, modern high-definition, professional elites... all of them are very white themes, and all of them are the groups that most exclude marginalized people.
They fill themselves with a fleeting self-confidence and self-esteem with their posturing orgy.
sweet dreams
Although they seem to be at the bottom of society and never seem to be able to stand up, there is a group of marginalized people who still strive to chase their American dream.
To call it the American Dream is actually a bit narrow.
Because this kind of dream is not unique to Americans, and it can be applied everywhere.
Abandoned by her mother, Blanca wants a home.
Since no one can give you a home, then try to be a qualified mother and redeem those who have been abandoned like yourself.
Although marginal, they do not give up on themselves. It is stipulated that "children" are not allowed to take drugs and not be supported by the sponsor.
Angela , who had a kiss with the white boy Stan , wants to have love.
She took the initiative to go to the department store to apply for the job as a counter lady, just to get closer to him, but was rejected by the female foreman sternly and indifferently.
In the dim golden department store, her colorful figure was striking but out of place.
The white boy said refusal, but his body honestly came to Angela.
She knew that this was a fruitless love, but she still fell into it like a moth to a flame.
Damon , who was kicked out of the house by his biological parents , wanted to pursue his dream of dancing.
Not only did he find a real home here in Blanca.
With the encouragement of "mother" and "brothers and sisters", he worked up the courage to enter the dance school, and finally conquered the examiner and successfully entered the school.
As marginalized people, their dream pursuit is destined to be more difficult than ordinary people, and they have to face more criticism.
However, maybe their dream-chasing fun will be sweeter than ours. Since it has already started, they are not ready to go back.
Diss' attitude
The drama "Posture" is actually about the struggles of all marginalized people under the hideous appearance of pretending.
Although the characters in the play may seem too grandiose, the emotions conveyed in them are quite real.
After all, the actors of several transgender protagonists in the film are the same as the characters in reality.
The show has at least 50 fringe characters , a new record in television history.
It's also the largest U.S. drama ever to feature a transgender actor and an LGBTQ cast in a resident role .
The story of the small town boy Damon being beaten with a belt by his father comes from the real experience of director and screenwriter Ryan Murphy himself .
Not only that, but he will donate all the proceeds of the show to LGBT organizations.
Why did the director take such a heart and soul to make such an American drama?
Xiaoying felt that it was for the diss president! !
After all, Murphy boldly released the faces of Trump and Hillary wearing masks, and the founding President Washington in the title of "American Terror: Cult" ...
These political figures are also put together with the camera lens and elements such as bugs, clowns, knives, etc., plus bloody hands that cannot be washed, dogs poisoned by green gas, stars and stripes stained red with blood...
The intentions of black American political leanings are very clear.
In this new drama, not only Trump's company was introduced, but also the white world was filmed dead, and the marginal groups were filmed full of vitality.
It also has such a cool name - "Posture" .
The attitude is really obvious!
It is declaring to the conservative racist forces headed by President Trump:
The more you suppress, the more I have to pose and show you!
Murphy said: "The situation has fundamentally changed and I can't believe I can see such a change in my lifetime...As a 'survivor' I feel a responsibility to give back, for those who feel they have been marginalized provide support.
If nothing else, this attitude of daring to fight against authority and against the mainstream is worthy of praise.
Look at a group of people without gestures and try to pose.
I couldn't help but let Xiaoying suddenly open my eyes.
What am I worried about? What can I give up?
Why should I be afraid of other people's distorted views pointing at me?
I want to be free, and I want to love.
I want to turn life into art, right now.
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