Finally had the time and the mood to drag the first season of Life in London off the list and brush it off.
Sharp, sharp, and more straightforward than expected. Fei has a sarcastic smile, just like this show. It’s like a mirror that reflects the worst aspects of our intimacy, and despite our different cultures, it’s hard not to think of ourselves.
On one side are the male characters covered with the entire spectrum of character flaws, wretched, obtrusive, promiscuous, egoistic, pompous, frivolous, fragile, hesitant, headstrong, pretentious, hormone-driven, and you can always catch a glimpse of a part of yourself in it.
On the other side, the heroine lives cynically, and exposes her desires so plainly that the last layer of disguise that is most difficult for people to reveal is gently removed.
The heroine is a collection of contradictions in modern life. Family, intimacy, friendship are her spiritual backbone and the source of her pain, just like everyone else.
Those who are bound by both desire and morality can only give up one of them in the end to make the other perfect.
But there is no moral critique in this show, people make mistakes, the difference is the size of the mistakes. In any case, we must live with the consequences of our mistakes.
In fact, I have tried this drama before when I was in a low point. But no, it was too painful, embarrassing and straightforward, every second felt like sitting on pins and needles.
It's better now, and it took some cigarettes to finish it.
This show will make you recall the past, some dark times that you don't want to recall.
How can you not feel nauseated when you know what a person is all about, all the ugliness, all the cowardice, all the stupidity and lust - I don't see how anyone doesn't hate themselves.
Laziness and unwillingness to be ordinary, hypocrisy and longing for sincerity, cravings and self-imprisonment, pain but self-paralysis, loneliness and self-isolation.
Who does not live in such a contradiction.
People feel so much the same about loneliness, but so different about love.
So we searched, but still alone.
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