In early August, I set myself a rule. In the future, I will write a review, after reading or listening to the works that give five stars by myself.
Once this decision was made, I rarely give five stars to works.
Even so, when I watched the first season of "THIS IS US", I gave it five stars. So let me just say a few words about how this work made me feel.
People love to say "time is quiet", but it's a wish. Most people's lives after the age of 30 tend to be trivial and noisy. Hair loss, obesity, marriage fatigue, children's education, not only can't be quiet, but even a little dejected, many things are like greetings at the beginning of letters , without it, it feels disgraceful, and it is not really caring if it is written. Urban people like to engage in some sense of ritual, and it is useless to toss.
Therefore, the story chooses the node of thirty as the beginning. I must also feel that thirty years old should be the best time to redefine life and rethink life.
I remember that when I was about to turn 30, looking at the present moment, what should have come didn’t come, I couldn’t hold what I wanted to keep, my heart was depressed, and my tongue was sore. Thinking that my life is not enough, if I haven't started at the age of 30, I am afraid that I will have no chance in the future. So I keep convincing myself to indulge myself in the evasion of new tricks, just like Kate can always find an excuse to avoid losing weight, or dodge before opening her heart, she can't face her own problems bravely.
Of course, not entirely. When Kevin encountered a career bottleneck, he chose to give up the stable and comfortable but boring life of a screen star, and "surrendered himself" to go to New York to engage in stage plays and accept new challenges in his acting career. But in the same way, in the process of accepting the challenge, there will be doubts about ability and hesitation about love. This is his problem.
Randall's existence is a point of contradiction for the entire family, and the entire show. As a black adopted son of a white family, how did he face the pressure from the family in the process of growing up, the discrimination from the outside world, and the cultural estrangement from his "own" ethnic group. He has learned the right way to rely on others since he was a child, and when he grows up, he still only knows how to accept everyone's requests unconditionally. So when he knocked on the door of the person who abandoned him in the first place, he didn't expect that the person who missed the first half of his life would change the second half of his life. When that person left quietly, he realized which aspect of life should be the most beautiful by feeling the flexibility of death. So he made a choice, maybe a little abrupt, but it seems to me to be a logical thing.
The hero and heroine of the story are of course Jack and Rebecca. Their presence makes the show "This Is Us" so surreal. They, especially him, were able to cultivate a saint-like family view in their cramped growth environment. Jack is a near-perfect being who is considerate to his children and caring for his lover. But it is inevitable that no matter how good a marriage is, there will still be difficulties. So how to break this situation, the first season did not give me the answer, but I believe that Jack can do the best.
The predicament of the thirty-year-old is an illusion that the dungeon is a prison. The thirty-year-old is just one of many time nodes, nothing special. Even if you are useless at the age of 30, you still have a lot of time in your hands, whether you use it to make a comeback, or use it to squander it, or give up struggling, in short, there is nothing worth taking carelessly when you are young. draw conclusions. As this show shows, reflection, redemption, and transformation are just beginning at the age of thirty.
The beauty of this show is its sheer size. It explores life and death, love and hate, solves all the difficulties we are accustomed to in life, and freezes those precious moments of happiness. Some people come and go, and some things stay in our hearts all the time, so we are like every line under Kevin's brush, twisting and twisting, without any rules, and randomly appearing at a certain node in a certain life. You will leave, but your line will stay there forever, forever becoming a part of the painting.
Maybe life is not like Raymond Chandler said, every goodbye is a little death. Those who are important to us will more or less leave some imprints on us, and it is with these imprints that we go forward. So no matter how many goodbyes they say, they won't go far.
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