1. Paula, a college classmate of Olivia, a rich second-generation college student, an american girl, was brought by Olivia to enjoy family vacation together. Paula will help the aboriginal Kai essentially because she does not think that she and Olivia are in a social group, on the contrary, Paula is more able to identify herself with the subordinate aboriginal group, and is more able to empathize with the unbridled sabotage of the privilege group. Paula continued to live in the identify crisis in this friendship. She hated Olivia, but she stayed with Olivia out of compliance with social rules and yearning for the upper class. Paula's self-awareness, dignity, and how she beheave were all reshaped by rule maker aka priviledged group. In the last five minutes of the whole film, when the whole family boarded the plane, paula stood sleepy holding a book, because all her actions in this friendship, even reading edgy's book, were part of the performance. Telling Kai the password to the safe is what she thinks is confrontation and self-salvation, but in the final analysis, she got high education and was promoted to a friend of the power class, and she still retreated completely.
2. After Kai was arrested for burglary, facing Olivia's questioning, Paula said directly, we have never been friends, and you and your family are the source of the crime of robbing the aborigines. And Olivia cried and hugged her mother in the toilet after being betrayed by Paula. This scene, epic, is her tribe in the final analysis. She belongs to and can only get real love and understanding in this group. This is her last resort forever, and the cornerstone of all her rebellion behaviors. Olivia is the most "left" person in the whole film, and all "left" views are only reasonable for her. The root of "left" is that olivia belongs to the upper class, and only through the class to which critic belongs can she make herself appear woke and different. Performative wokeness means that universal empathy for all classes is just an adornment for Olivia's "class-awakened" personality, and Paula is her adornment too. Oliavia taunts all privileges, but all taunts are reasonable only if she has privileges. After all, she won't give up these privileges no matter how much she wakes up.
3. Rachel, the vase girl who married Shane, a rich second-generation mama boy, is another Paula. She was misplaced into a marriage relationship where one party has absolute control. During the process, she continued to awaken to self-consciousness and realized that she could not be Shane's plus one forever. , decided to file for divorce. Rachel was portrayed as an untalented, crappy reporter. Such a setting fundamentally denies self-consciousness: self-consciousness must yield to money, self-consciousness is unfounded, unlucrative, and a castle in the air. When proposing the post-divorce dinner, Rachel, as the proposed party, could only cry on the side of the table, or sob non-aggressively, while Shane could smash the table directly because she felt that her honeymoon was ruined, and the wine glasses on the table shook. This is his absolute right to continue in the relationship.
4. In the end, Rachel and Shane inexplicably hugged and reconciled at the boarding gate. How Rachel overcame her identity crisis and how she accepted the "affiliated life" she resisted is not described, because of this self-conscious confrontation It has no energy, it will vanish in a blink of an eye, and it cannot stand.
5. Tanya, a multi-dollar single, left a wad of money when she told Belinda, the waitress, that she would not fund her business. Tanya's behavior is basically because she feels that her indifferent money can make up for Belinda's disappointment. What else, you just chatted with me, I remembered to give you a wad of money before I left, and remembered to say i will call you, so incredibly generous of me.
6. Quinn, the youngest son of a wealthy family, stayed in Hawaii and seemed to have found the meaning of life and returned to nature. This is just to tell the story of olivia again, one day in the near future will return to his upper class social attributes and It doesn't matter how the canoe team trains and competes without him in city life.
7. The portrayal of the poor has a deep-rooted, class-scrutinized stereotype. The biggest revenge of the hotel manager after Shane's complaint about losing his job was to poop on Shane's clothes. This kind of characterization and setting basically means that from the perspective of the privilege group, from the inside and outside, the poor are still monkeys, even if revenge is monkey beheavior.
8. At the beginning, it was obvious that the life of every guest who came to the hotel was a mess. The strong woman Nicole and her husband Mark had a marriage full of crisis, her daughter Olivia despised her parents, and her son Quinn lived under the control of her mother and sister. The trash child who is addicted to the Internet; the problem of Shane's mother's treasure, the new wife Rachel's struggle in self-identification and unequal marriage; Tenya, who has been abused since childhood and grew up alcoholic, everyone's life seems to be so fucked up. But their problems were easily solved, because all the troubles on the basis of the economy seemed to be in a bubble and could be blown away lightly.
On the other side, the perfect sunny aboriginal hotel staff ends with endless mess at the end of the play. Kai's burglary brought Nicole and his wife back together. Paula's final disdain for friendship pushed Olivia back into her parents' arms. Belinda accompanied Tanya through the most devastated time. Tanya reconciled with her inner trauma in a flash Find a cool man to go to aspen to experience the wild life together, Rachel cried and dumped emotional garbage on Belinda and returned to a perfect marriage. Each family leaves looking more decent. All the problems of the privilege group are like the wrinkles on the clothes, which can be easily ironed out by squeezing the bottom of the society; not to mention that after Shane accidentally killed the manager, it was never mentioned in the whole play, because in the white centricity The world is just a little thing, your life is my fault. The aborigines were robbed of their land, living environment, jobs, money, ideals, and lives, and finally they smiled and waved goodbye to their distinguished guests. Everything about the people at the bottom is not worth mentioning. Physically and mentally squeezing and plundering are justified.
In the end, I really just want to say that the most important thing in making a TV series is to tell the story well. It’s good to shoot a medical drama that treats a disease or a legal drama that involves a lawsuit. If you want to raise your mind to reason, and use too much criticism, you will end up in the perspective of your own criticism, which is not good-looking and boring.
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