I asked around, and people who have seen it generally love the second episode, and I am no exception, but the official film review of the "New York Times" wrote this:
Allinall, the threefine stepisodes—the first, sevenhandeighth—haveabitmoreheft, depth and clarity than the others.
Then I went to IMDb to check the ratings, and episodes 1, 2, and 3 were in the top three, and episode 6 was at the bottom... It can be seen that radishes and vegetables have their own love, which is an eternal truth.
What I want to talk to you about today is the 6th episode. Many people think it's a love affair, and they can't get the point of the heroine at all.
However, I got it and was very moved. Some of the lines in this episode are the heroine's confession. The whole script is like a prose poem, accompanied by melodious classical music, which is very beautiful.
Every word in the text is typed by me "hand", the workload is huge, and everyone can see it as an English learning material.
There is a large-scale spoiler scene ahead, and the judges decide whether to continue~
To put it simply, this is the story of a girl who lost her father at a young age looking for a new father. From another perspective, it is also an office romance, but the two sides are psychologically dislocated, resulting in "unfulfilled lovers".
I found this "introduction" by accident on IMDb -
"Hewasveryhandsome.Heworegrayturtlenecksweatersandsmelledlikemintaftershaveandoldbooks.Hewas55andrecentlydivorcedforthesecondtime.Hewasmyfather.Hewasn'treallymyfather."
These are information not disclosed in the play, but the smell on "genius" is slightly different from the description of "Wine and oranges...and dependability" in the play... Anyway, it smells good anyway.
The uncle in the general sense is actually between the ages of 35 and 45. However, the genius in the play is a fake uncle - he is a grandfather. He is called a genius because he is a senior engineer in artificial intelligence.
The 21-year-old heroine is hopelessly infatuated with him, please see how much she tastes——
"This guy, he always had crumbs on his sweater.
Little flecks of silver in his sideburns, his hair was thinning on the top, but he is handsome, too.
Like an actor playing a dad in an AARP commercial . Basically he was a dad porn.
The only thing wrong with him was that he didn't have a big enough paunch. For optimal dadness, he belly needed to touch his knees.
faint old man smell, just like my dad had. "
Such a quirky idea, which came from the mouth of the 21-year-old heroine, turned out to be very frank and cute~ She looked at him with a look beyond her father's love, created an opportunity to get close to him, and also received his dinner smoothly. Inviting, however she said: "I just think of him as a dad.
The first date is very interesting. The location is in the male lead's apartment. I have this residence in New York. I can only suck a lemon? For my respect.
After the genius asked a series of perfectly solid dad questions, he finally said something with a middle-aged insight:
Yougetthislookonyourfaceinmeetingslikeyou'retakingnotesonthehumancomedyforsomenovelyou'rewriting.You'reanobserver,alwayswatchingeverything.
I understand that's what attracts a genius: she has a sense of observation beyond her years, even if she's just a little girl who copies documents and bakes chocolate chip cookies in the pantry.
An observant person is naturally attracted to another observant person.
IamgladyoucameIwasn'tsosureyou'dshowup.
This sentence is obvious, the genius is uneasy in his heart, and he is not very confident about his age, but he said it frankly.
Modesty makes greasy feeling nowhere to breed.
After eating creamy risotto, the hostess has realized that this is a "date", she was a little tangled, and went to the toilet to do some psychological construction, and at this time, the genius had already sat on the bed, and invited the hostess to sit on the bed too listen to music.
I have to say, this wave of operations is too sassy, and Jiang is still old and spicy.
"Schumann wrote it for his wife before he went mad."
Schumann is crazy in his forties. The meaning behind this is that Schumann is still very passionate when he is old, so do I.
The ambiguity of the music plus "he smells like wine and orange and dependability, He was a gray comforter, I was in heaven."
The mistress is gone.
Genius for the next step of testing:
"How can I make you more comfortable?"
Sadly, the hostess replied:
"You can tell me a story."
The atmosphere was cut off, and the awkward chat began. The genius cooperated very well with this game of playing dad, but the technique was a bit clumsy and did not say the set of rhetoric expected by the heroine, so inevitably embarrassed her.
The heroine talked about the blows she received at her roommate's birthday party and her inner desires. The genius said that I understand because I am also a father, and then said that her children are older than the heroine. The heroine responded: "Jesus!"
Having said that, the genius has no interest - Let's go.
For the next few weeks, they kept a friendly distance, the heroine said:
After that, geniusandIwerefriendlybutdistantforafewweeks.iwasshockedtorealizehowmuchImissedhim.
Fall asleep every day with your genius golf socks in your hands.
This……? ? ?
If the plot ends here, it's probably just a sweet and sad trial of each other, and no one has the courage to take a step.
At this time, a Tie Hanhan appeared - an Uber driver . After the crash, the heroine took the initiative to contact Genius, just like asking her father to clean up the mess.
The next picture cuts directly to Genius talking to the traffic police, showing how quickly Genius appears and how reliable he is.
It'snicetoseeyou,evenunderthecircumstances.iamgladyoucalled,Iamsurprise,butI'mglad.
The genius emphasized twice the glad, which seemed to be really glad. During this time, he really wanted to contact the heroine, but he was worried.
"I missed you." The heroine confessed.
"Me too." I seem to see the tenderness in the heart of the genius, even if the surface is so calm.
The MRI in the hospital quickly brought the two people closer together, but the misunderstanding also deepened, which made me realize a problem - in fact, the elements of "love" are the same, including care and love, as a lover The love of being a father and the love of being a father, in a certain context, are the same! It is entirely possible for the person who is in it to define it by himself, leading to the occurrence of dislocation.
Well now, both sides have expressed their intentions, however, this "displaced love" has officially kicked off.
The genius thought, we have already started dating, Dad is just Role Play, I will cooperate with you.
The heroine thought, I finally found a perfect dad, you are my dream dad!
The genius came to give her a toilet, and the hostess' roommate said that this man is too good!
"I want one." I want a boyfriend like this.
"You have one!" You already have a dad!
The whole world thinks that they are on a date, and only the heroine lives in the world of dad, even if there is an element of "self-deception".
The roommate can only laugh and say, "Whatever you say." Just be happy.
The scene at the zoo was very subtle. When the male protagonist found his grandson, his first reaction was to avoid him. He didn't expect the tactical retreat to fail, so he could only use work to cover it up, and his expression was very unnatural.
On the other hand, the heroine introduced herself very generously, showing that she really has no ghosts in her heart, and she also competed with her grandson for sea lions... In front of a genius, the heroine's psychological age can only be so old.
How could all this escape the eyes of daughter Leslie, when she asks Genius if we'll be having brunch together next Saturday? Or are you going to work? At this time, I glanced at the heroine, and it was self-evident, I know the content of your work, hehe.
The genius said to the heroine afterwards that he was afraid that you would not like the part of me as a "grandfather". Obviously, his worries were all based on "year-old love". He didn't want anyone to remind him of his age and seniority, which would put him under a lot of pressure. . Unexpectedly, the heroine said sincerely: "I love all of that!" At this time, the genius must be delighted - a girl with such a unique taste is really hard to come by.
Since I gave the sea lion to my grandson, I have to make compensation! The expression of love needs to have both spiritual and material aspects. Genius of course understands this truth, so there is the following scene:
"It's $395!"
"But Do you want it?"
Money is not a problem, as long as you like it.
In the next scene, the heroine happily put on the red coat.
When trying on the clothes, the genius found that the heroine's hat looked very beautiful. After I bought it, I wanted to see how she wore the hat - ah, you're adorable! Then I thought it was the right timing, and I couldn't help it. One kiss!
All misunderstandings and dislocations explode at this moment! The lines are really great, it's a collision of two kinds of thinking, and I don't forget to have a bit of humor! Even in this moment of intense conflict.
"what's that?"
"It was a kiss, I thought we were going somewhere. I thought you like me." The past tense is used here to show that the male lead now knows that the female lead doesn't actually like him, and he is shocked.
"No, not in that way!"
"Really? I mean, I surprised at..."
"You're, like 30 years older than me."
"Are you hold my age against me? You've been coming on to me for weeks now. Madeline."
Age is the weakness of a genius. As long as the heroine uses this to talk about things, he will fight back with vicious words, and so on. If you think the other party's words are ugly, don't accuse him first, think about what you just said, and you will instantly know the other party's high-voltage line.
"Me coming on to you? I've been doing but nothing but telling you!"
"Tell me what? What have you told me? What?" Genius felt fooled.
"Telling you with signs and words that wouldn't hurt your feelings that I am not into you that way. What are you thinking?"
"Can you clam down and just act like you're not at least partly responsible for this? Laying on the bed with me?" ...
"That was snuggling!" It was snuggling.
"Oh, That what you call it? Because your breast were pushed up against me don't say they weren't."
"Oh, my god. That was an intentional! What am I suppose to do with them? They're up front. It doesn't mean anything!" My boobs are right there, what can I do with them?
"What kind of snuggling was it, then?"
"The dad kind."
"The dad kind? So I am your dad?"
"We talked about this."
"You need to grow up, this is unhealthy." Here the genius stepped on the pain point of the heroine.
"Oh, and fucking somebody 40 years younger is?" The heroine counterattacked mercilessly and delivered the heaviest blow to the genius Achilles' heel!
"40? Where'd you come up 40? This is a lot of hostility coming from someone who let me just buy her a fancy coat." Genius really cares about the gap between 30 and 40! He was so provoked that he finally vented his resentment with a vicious sentence - you just made me buy an expensive coat!
"There it is! I can't believe you would reduce our relationship to a cold calculation! What is this? Coat for sex? Are you serious? This was a transaction? "
"I'm sorry. I shouldn't have said that. I want you to have the coat. It wasn't a trade, of course not. You're freezing, put it on. "The quality of genius is really good .
"No, I don't want to touch that coat again, just fuck that coat!"
"Well, then, here, will you put mine on?"
"This got out of hand. I didn't mean what I said. Okay? I feel like a fool."
"I'm the stupid one. Of course, you weren't gonna buy me a coat because you're nice, because I need one, because you wanted to take care of me a bit. I mean, how could I think that that was enough for you?"
"I don't know, Madeline. Is it enough for most men, in your experience?"
"I don't know, I don't have any experience with men. But I don't know what it feels like to just have a man look after you just cause".
At this point, the heroine finally expressed her inner desire - an unrequited love of the opposite sex, but this kind of love only exists between father and daughter.
The unhappy parted, the genius holding the red coat, drifting in the wind...
When the heroine went back, she was scolded by her roommate:
"It is creepy, but who cares! You gonna take the bad with the good!"
You can't just ask for it. He's not your father. What can he get out of this relationship? Are you sure you don't want to sleep with dad?
"I'm not attracted to him!" The heroine said that the real barrier between her and genius is not age, but lack of desire for him!
The hostess did try it too, in a rather miraculous way, thinking about the genius trying it with others, and there are genius golf socks on the bedside table.
"I close my eyes and tried to feel good about sex with genius. I really tried. But I couldn't envision myself with him, I just wasn't attracted to him that way."
Genius was really hurt. When they passed by, he turned back, paused, and turned back again, showing his inner struggle... He often stared out the window with a haggard expression on his face.
The genius took a long vacation and had something to say to the heroine before leaving.
"It was eye-opening." I was eye-opening.
"Are you crying? Aren't you a little old to be crying?"
"Why can't I cry? Why can't I have emotions about this? Just cause I'm older? It's bullshit that, you know, older people have it together. It's more of the same. You're just trying to figure it out."
Why can't I cry just because I'm old? Everyone is the same, they will be hurt, and they can only get out of the pain on their own.
This clip is so touching, why do we all think older people take feelings lightly? When the old house is not on fire, of course it is calm and indifferent, but once it is on fire, it is really hopeless! No matter what age group you are in, you all have the need to love and be loved, and you have the right to pursue love and express love. Everyone is the same!
The genius gave the hostess a small "adult ceremony" by the flower bed. At this time, the music sounded, and my nose instantly became sour.
You'reawonderfulgirl.You'resmart.Resourceful,beautiful.Andyouwillaccomplishwhateveryousetyourhearton.Youhavegrownuptobeanextraordinaryyoungwoman,you'rethedaughterofanyfather'sdreams.Iamvery,very,veryproudofyou,Madeline.
Comparing this passage with the words of the heroine's roommate's father at the beginning, the different parts show the intentions of genius:
"You exceed my dreams, you're smart, beautiful, accomplished, kind, and finally 21. Anyone will be proud to be your father, but guess what, not everyone is, I am. I can't believe how lucky I am . May this first year of adulthood set you on the path to becoming the amazing woman we all know you're destined to be."
I love you and I want to do my best to satisfy you, I know you need it, so I'll tell you these words before I go.
Looking at the lonely back of the genius, the heroine sublimated, like being hit by a holy light.
Andinthatmoment, somethingshifted.Watchingthegeniuswalkingawayfromme,Ifeltreleased.Splitopen.Hiswordshadbeentransformational.Suddenly,Iwasfinallygrownup.
With the short "wait!" The director stopped abruptly here, which whetted our appetite.
Of course, I tend to prefer that the heroine finally grows up and can use a normal posture to communicate with the genius, but I beg the little girl not to hurt the genius's heart ? Like the heroine's roommate said, even if it's creepy, but who cares? You must take the bad with the good!
However, the director did not think so, and the last episode of "Modern Love" explained it.
The heroine kissed another young man in the rain... oh god, she and the genius are over, so angry that I fainted on the spot.
But I still found a clue. When she and her new boyfriend passed by the "parting flower bed" while hiding from the rain, she was thoughtful, with a mixed expression on her face, and was not immersed in the joy of love.
I guess that day she said that wait wanted to save the genius, but the genius has completely adjusted his position and did not want to continue. The genius played the role of the "leader" for this girl to grow up, and it was miserable to think that she was injured all over herself.
Although this is a misplaced love, the love itself is real. I think when they say miss you to each other, their hearts must be soft and excited. Unfortunately, love is also conditional. When one party finds out that he is just being treated as a father, it means that everything is over. In this case, should each of us think about what the other party can get from this relationship?
Off topic
The storyboard of this episode is very good, and it is very skinny to play with the audience at the beginning!
In addition to echoing the beginning and end of the lines, the composition also echoes several times, which is worth pondering.
Julia Garner's acting skills I have experienced in "Ozark" long ago, and her outstanding performance was completely expected ❤️
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