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Stumbled upon this pretty good American show, Modern Love .
There are eight episodes in total, telling eight independent love stories that took place in New York.
I was fascinated by the cast and looked at each other and then watched it all night and was made to cry several times.
The opening of Modern Love is actually not very good. The first story background setting, although it is my favorite Woody Allen style, is about living in a high-end old apartment building in New York. Smart and interesting Jewish protagonists engaged in cultural and artistic work, this is what Woody Allen is used to.
Even in New York, where every inch of land is so expensive, and the sirens are blaring, they can still live well and walk around.
A story that was supposed to be my favorite, but it made me a little embarrassed. Because it tells the story of a young single woman who, under the protection and encouragement of the building guard, gave birth to a daughter alone and gained love, this is indeed a plot design that is too forceful and wishful thinking.
The doorman of my community is a very kind elder brother. Every time he sees me, he smiles and makes me feel warm. But no matter how I collapse, I will not run downstairs in the middle of the night and cry to him about me. Encountered, then the big brother will be scared to death.
The doorman in the play seems to be in his position 24 hours a day, and the heroine's joys, sorrows and joys are all he has. When I saw half of it, I almost thought that the two of them were going to be together in the end. Maybe it's because I have too many secular prejudices, and I don't know that there will be ordinary warmth that transcends everything between people.
Anyway, what I dislike the most is that the protagonist comes with an inexplicable halo, so the whole world makes way for him. The job of a doorman is ordinary, but people have their own lives.
If it weren't for curiosity about what Anne Hathaway would be doing next, I would have given up on the show. Then came the good show.
But the opening of this episode of Anne Hathaway made me almost give up the show because of the singing and dancing. Broadway musicals are fascinating to watch on stage, but on the big screen, I always feel weird. The previously well-received La La Land , I am actually a little puzzled why it is so popular, not to mention a music TV series.
Fortunately, the plot soon turned to the heroine's Bipolar disorder (manic-depressive disorder), watching her suddenly lose all mobility, fall asleep in the dark, and apply lipstick a second before, waiting for the man she likes to knock on the door, A second later, she had been knocked down by the disease, and she was lying on the floor of the bathroom in pain.
People who are not depressed can probably understand at that moment that when a person loses all the ability to act and desire, life is really better than death. I watched Anne Hathaway go from mania to depression and cried with her.
And the episode that fits my romantic imagination the most is Dev Patel, Andy Garcia, Catherine Keener.
Once again, I want to sigh, Andy Garcia is old, but still stylish, but unfortunately Hollywood failed him and didn't give him a chance. This made me firmer my point of view. Hollywood can't handle all the good Spanish-speaking actors. One of them is wasted and the other is wasted.
As for Catherine Keener, she is an actress who will never disappoint. There are few opportunities for female lead roles, but every play is full of presence. She is not young anymore, but she has managed to age gracefully and gracefully.
Dev Patel is actually getting more and more handsome. When I watched "Slumdog Millionaire" back then, I thought he had striking ears and looked strange.
This episode is what I agree with the most in the whole show. Dev Patel's girlfriend came home and confessed to him in a daze that she almost fell into bed with her first boyfriend by chance. Dev Patel was extremely sad and angry, and the two parted ways.
Then the dating app that Dev created was so successful that Catherine Keener went to interview him, and Dev suddenly opened up about how he missed his girlfriend who had broken up, who later saw the interview.
Two flowers bloom, one for each watch. Catherine Keener is promoting her new book. At the signing site, she actually met Andy Garcia, who broke her heart 17 years ago, but Andy Garcia told her that he lost the Catherine Keener clip. In the book, he gave the two of them the address for a date, and they missed it.
After experiencing heartache, two middle-aged men and women who already had their own families reunited after many years. I was sighing and nervous at the same time, and I was afraid that they would fall into the rut. Can the best emotions not just happen in hotels?
The director is so good.
He asked the two of them to have dinner, drink, walk, sit on a bench, watch the sun rise, and then go back to their own lives. Only one night belongs to them.
Andy Garcia came home and said to his wife, I want to work on this. He was referring to the leftovers on the plate and their already lackluster marriage. And women are always more resolute in their relationships. Catherine Keener went home and said to her husband, We are done.
At the end, Dev Patel met Catherine Keener by chance and told her that he and his ex-girlfriend got back together. I was moved to a mess, not by the happy ending, but by the noble emotional attitude of the characters.
To love, not to love, and not to love anymore is a normal human nature, but once it changes, it is the first time to be honest with your partner, not cover up, not wait and see, let alone deceive or step on two boats. I respect the attitude towards love and marriage.
The other two stories, such as gay people, ambiguity between young women and mature men, etc., I skipped over and didn't read much because I didn't like the actors very much. As for the last episode, I totally fell for it.
Jane Alexander plays an old woman who loves long-distance running. She meets an old long-distance running man who is also widowed, and the two fall in love. In Jane's words, two elderly people who add up to more than 140 years old love like young people.
The two would stop and kiss each other every time they passed each other busy at home, and the old man died.
After the funeral, the old lady was walking on the street alone in grief. Then she suddenly started jogging. The jogging turned into a stride. It was windy and rainy.
Jane Alexander is an actress born in 1939. She has never been a big hit, but there are also remarkable works, such as Kramer vs. Kramer, The Cider House Rules , etc. You can go and see.
As a woman, when you see a 70-year-old actress playing a 70-year-old character, and the character's identity deliberately ignores her mother or grandmother's identity, it still highlights that she is running, falling in love, and heartbroken because of the death of her lover broken, which I appreciate.
A woman is always a woman first, then a young or old woman, and that's what a female character should be.
Modern Love I successfully gave Amway to one of my Wenqing girlfriends. She read it in one breath and was touched by all kinds.
Finally, I would like to share with you a line from Modern Love that particularly touched me:
The love we had in our past, unfinished, untested, lost love, seems so easy, so childish to those of us who choose to settle down. But actually, it's the purest, most concentrated stuff.
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