Generally speaking, when it comes to youth pain films, I can always think of a lot of horses, especially Chinese youth films. There are too many inexplicable divisions and integrations. Every time I see the protagonists tearing their hearts, they make me wonder if I am one An emotionless robot. Most of the youth movies I can't hold for half an hour and want to click on the upper right corner, the first episode of normal people is exactly half an hour, but I really almost didn't watch it, not because I was embarrassed, but because I was too sad for marianne, I watched this I didn't know I was such an empathic person before the show. But I was really attracted by the atmosphere of this show. After finishing 12 episodes in two days, I even looked for the book to read. . . After watching it, I really felt deeply, but I couldn't find anyone to communicate with me, so I had to write a movie review to express my feelings.
The most special thing about normal people for me is that this is not just a love story, but also a story of two young people repairing and maturing themselves. Many youth love movies and TV dramas always fall into the vicious circle of plotting for the sake of the plot. The behavior of the characters is not driven by their inner personality, but simply creates contradictions to create plots, which has resulted in many scumbags and female characters. The conflict between marianne and connell is not like this, every conflict between them is due to their character. Marianne was born into a wealthy family, but she was abused and lacked love since she was a child, which made her an indifferent person on the outside, but extremely sensitive on the inside. On the one hand, she longed to be loved, and on the other hand, she felt unworthy, so she was always unable to manage a healthy and normal relationship. . Connell, on the contrary, has an open-minded and loving mother, but suffers from a lack of money, which makes him lack self-confidence, blind conformity, and lack of firmness of mind. Their character is caused by their family environment and life experience, and cannot be simply attributed to scum, wrongdoing, or misunderstanding. As long as the two of them have such personalities, the contradictions in the play are completely unavoidable, which is why such a plot is more abusive and empathetic. For example, when Connell lost his job and couldn't continue to stay in Dublin for the summer vacation, he could directly ask Marianne to borrow it, and even Connell's friends knew that Marianne would never refuse this request. But his lack of confidence in his financial ability, his doubts about his unworthiness for marianne, and his jealousy of marianne's rich friends made him unable to speak at all, so he struggled to the end and could only say that he was going home for summer vacation, or even Yu Zhuangbu said i guess you'll want to see other people, then, will you? Careful people. When she heard Connell's question, she would only consider whether Connell wanted to find someone else, and whether she wanted to break up, so she had to answer sure. It never happened to anyone else, but it was unavoidable for both of them.
Another important breaking point between Connell and marianne was will you hit me, and this conflict was related to marianne's inferiority complex. The relationship between marianne, Jamie and lukas is mixed with a lot of bdsm factors. Like playing sm and telling the truth is not a manifestation of a person's mental health, but for marianne, it is a manifestation of psychological problems. A very important point of bdsm is control. I feel that marianne likes bondage play not because of pain or stimulation, but more because she wants to experience the feeling of losing self-control and submitting completely. It's not a shameful or dark thing to like sm, but I think marianne still feels inferior for her hobby. Here I have to mention two differences between the book and the play. The first point is that the domestic violence suffered by marianne in the book is much deeper than that in the play. Both her brother and her father have severely abused her, and her mother has been verbally humiliating and suppressing her. . The second point, in the play marianne and lukas broke up because lukas forced her to play a binding game and she was unwilling. In the book, marianne agreed to lukas' binding and even further agreed that lukas covered her eyes with cloth strips. The reason for the outbreak is actually because lukas suddenly said i love you, and i know you love me. That said, losing control isn't something marianne can't stand, it's love. The deeper reason is that because of the past experience of domestic violence and the desire for love, marianne may subconsciously associate love and violence together, and she herself feels that this connection is pathological and shameful. When lukas didn't mention love, although she also felt disgusting and numb, she was willing to continue. Only after lukas mentioned love did she suddenly feel panic and fear like being woken up, she was not afraid lukas, and is afraid of this morbid idea in my heart. But marianne's request for complete submission is urgent, so she will make this request unconsciously in the process of having sex with Connell, but Connell's refusal makes her more convinced that she is morbid and weird, that is The reason she broke down and fled. From Connell's point of view, he doesn't actually think sm is morbid, he just thinks that hitting someone is wrong because of his family education, and secondly, he thinks that marianne's request is a manifestation of psychological trauma, and it may be caused by him that makes him unable to Faced with things, this can be clearly felt when Peggy at the bar mentions to Connell that marianne likes bondage. Later, Connell finally found a way to make marianne lose control and completely surrender without violence, and marianne also learned to no longer rely on violence and no longer be ashamed of her own needs. The shortcut to a woman's soul is the vagina, and this sentence seems to be quite appropriate here.
The last thing I have to say is the ending. In my opinion, this ending is not a forced tragedy, and the character growth must go through the link. If it is not written like this, the complementary growth of marianne and Connell will not be reflected at all. Indeed, in the last year of college, they finally resolved their conflicts. Marianne can open up about her family history. Connell no longer worries about money and being out of place, but their relationship can also be interpreted as co-dependent. If one person cannot live without the other, then the relationship is still unhealthy. Only when Connell chooses to leave and marianne chooses to stay can it really show that they have finally gotten over the problems of the past. It is absolutely impossible for Connell, who has low self-esteem in the past, to go to New York by himself, and it is absolutely impossible for Marianne, who is sensitive and humble and centered on Connell's ideas, to choose not to go with Connell. So even though the ending is suspected to be be, I am still very open to the two masters.
All in all, normal people is the most delicate and touching TV series I have watched in recent years. I really hope that more people will come and watch this good story.
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