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Whether you are a woman or a man, you will be amazed after watching this show - just turn the clock back 70 years - and you will see how badly the women of that era survived under the tyranny of gender oppression Life.
And some of them, unwilling to be limited by the times and the environment, went from their own pain and confusion to nirvana and went to awakening.
"My Gifted Girlfriend" is co-produced by the American cable network HBO and the Italian national TV station RAI, and is produced by Paolo Sorrentino, the director of the 2014 Oscar's best foreign language film "The Beautiful City". His screenplay was adapted from the best-selling book "The Neapolitan Tetralogy", which has sold millions of copies worldwide and has been translated into more than 40 languages.
The story focuses on an impoverished community in Naples, Italy, where two little girls, Lila and Lenon, grow up in a friendship that spans half a century.
【A woman's epic, a class Ukiyo-e】
This is an epic about the growth of two women.
It is a ukiyo-e about class.
Through the eyes of the good friends, the audience can see their family, school, and community. Here are all kinds of people:
There are teachers who encourage girls to complete their studies and have the courage to break free from class constraints.
There are also parents who are unwilling (and really incapable of) to support her to continue her studies, although her daughter is a gifted and talented daughter without a teacher.
There are families so poor that their children worry about the money to buy books.
There are also people who are so powerful that they receive loan sharks from the entire community, and have deep personal relationships with the Mafia.
There is a wife who bravely defends her dignity, even if she knows she will be beaten, she still has to resist.
There are also women who think that it is only natural for a husband to beat his wife. This is a way of educating women, and it is a woman who shows the authority of a man as the head of the family.
In such an environment of violence and poverty, our protagonists, Lila and Lennon, struggle to grow. They don't have the so-called protagonist halo, and they don't have the kind of life that rides the wind and waves all the way. Life has given them too many hardships, so hard that they cannot compete on their own. Sometimes, they can only compromise temporarily.
However, their compromise is only temporary, like the hibernation of a lion. No matter what environment they fell into, they were dormant, waiting for an opportunity to resist.
Get rid of poverty, get rid of oppression, get rid of their origins, and run towards personal ideals and passions.
[Women's friendship: love and hate, two sides of one body]
And when we take our eyes back from the big environment and return to the protagonist's heart, the audience also has a glimpse of the secret shared by all women - women's friendship.
Friendship between women is fiery. Your girlfriend can be your closest playmate, know all your joys and sorrows, and be familiar with the most important people and things in your life. But at the same time, it is this intimate relationship that breeds imitation, suspicion, jealousy, comparisons... and other indescribable thoughts, which are the umbilical cord that connects women's relationships.
"Genius girlfriend" is actually a two-way street.
The tone set in the first season was that Lila was a genius, and that Lennon had been imitating and chasing Lila from the very first moment he knew her, and for the rest of his life.
The second season is even more interesting: this kind of envy is no longer one-way. Lila, who is deeply in the quagmire, begins to be jealous of the environment and circles that Lennon has. On the surface, it is cynical and sarcastic. At this time, Lennon in turn became a "genius". Years of good education enabled her to continue Lila's dream and become a cultural person that Lila could not reach.
However, Lila's ambition remains. Smart still. She shines even in the harshest of circumstances. No matter the circumstances, she was always a beacon to Lennon.
The transition from season 1 to season 2 was amazing.
And that's what's really touching about My Brilliant Girlfriend. It's real, cruel, even sinister. It does not deliberately exaggerate anything for a pre-positioned theme. The real humanity emerges little by little in these two girls and their life stories.
【Italian style: romantic brushwork and realistic foundation】
The fourth episode of the second season is so beautiful.
The scorching sun on the beach tanned the young arms, the salty water mixed with the sweat of laughter, and the vigorous vitality inspired by each other between Lennon, Lila, and Nino.
At first glance, it is all fiction, but the delicate emotional entanglement is portrayed in the smallest detail.
In the rough texture, the delicate and unspeakable feelings are described in a meaningful way. This is the unique skill of Italian directors.
Performed in "Call Me by Your Name"
"I Am Love" portrayed
Presented in "The Beautiful City"
Now, this Italian style has emerged again in "My Gifted Girlfriend".
Beauty is beautiful. The realist tradition of Italian art work is still deeply rooted. The rhythm of the whole play is clean and neat, and the main line is clear. When I watched the second season and went back to the first season, I almost gasped.
All the character relationships have already been laid foreshadowing at the beginning of the story.
There are no groundless claims, no artificiality, and the crux of all problems can be traced back. To the cruel reality, to the real human nature.
Can't wait. Looking forward to the third and fourth seasons.
(This article was originally published on the public account: Watch and recommend TheShow)
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