It's too oppressive and too real, violence pervades the whole play, and the residents of the small town are disgraced and ignorant, like the walking dead in the dark medieval times, and the hopeless people in Lu Xun's writings, (also reminds me of the beauty of Sicily. legend)
Both Lila and Elena wanted to break out of such a prison, but obviously Elena was in a much better situation than Lila: she successfully graduated from elementary school and continued her studies, but a girl with a high IQ like Lila did not even have a chance. The opportunity to go to junior high school, I think it is sad and inevitable at the same time, just like the teacher once said to Elena, the fate of the real world is not as easy to change as in fairy tales, Cinderella becoming a princess only exists in fantasy . The ignorance of Lila's parents limited her future, and Lila's parents were also limited by their parents. This cycle is exactly the core issue explored by most realistic film and television dramas: the high wall of class is insurmountable .
Born into such a family, yet so awake and intelligent, it is extremely ironic. Sometimes I think Lila would live a less miserable life if she was a little ignorant.
The village bully dragged the girl into the car. The adults on the side of the road knew what was going to happen, but they watched indifferently; the girls who had just started middle school innocently thought that the girl was lucky, but Lila came over and woke them up , because Lila saw the dark side of society earlier than the girls who were studying, but those girls laughed at her instead. What a familiar scene: the oppressor is oppressed without knowing it, but still laughs and suppresses the resister.
When the girl got out of the car, her brother gave him a slap when he got up. The men behind her said she put on lipstick to seduce men, and the passing aunt called her a slut. The guilt theory of victims who can no longer be familiar, but I still feel unbearable to see this picture, such groundless accusations and slut shaming do happen to each of us.
Soon it was Elena's turn: between classes, the boy gave Elena a coin to show them her breasts; after school, the grocer's wife's son gave Elena a free bill for bread. Unconsciously, she traded her female identity for material things (money and bread). In this society, beauty and maturity have become dangerous things.
The scene that touched me the most: During the New Year's fireworks, the group was shrouded in bloody, dangerous red. Lila completely saw through her brother, a low-level person who was desperate to get rid of his status as a poor man. The greater the oppression, the deeper the repression, the stronger the anti-social and wealth-hating mentality, and the more unscrupulous and brutal it will be after the upper house.
And Lila, who was watching her brother, was also watched by Elena, just as the title of the play: My Gifted Girlfriend, Elena has been admiring, jealous, and observing Lila from a first-person perspective, witnessing her change. Suddenly there is an illusion of "I am looking at the scenery on the bridge, and the person watching the scenery is looking at me upstairs".
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