Euphoria means euphoria. In this series, high school students spend their time through drugs and sex. The usual method of American drama films is to make a historical review of the character and use the method of psychoanalysis to explain her motives and mood. In this play, behind each character's indulgence is the pain caused by trauma, and the means of escape is to temporarily gain euphoria. Behind the euphoria is the struggle.
It is Rue's life that is being zoomed in on. Because of the trauma of 9•11, her life seemed to be dominated by gloom from the beginning. She was diagnosed with obsessive-compulsive disorder, anxiety and other mood disorders since birth. By puberty, her father had terminal cancer and her mother worked several jobs to cover medical bills. After experiencing panic attacks, she started using tranquilizers to escape anxiety and distress, stealing, lying, violence because of substance abuse, and forced detox because of overdose.
what a life. But in the second episode's montage of flashbacks, "Fly Me To The Moon" plays, and Rue drives out with his mom and sister after getting off the drug, as if the trauma left no trace on them. Even for a brief moment, they were happy. This is also one of the moving parts of the show. On one side, there are substance abuse, lies, quarrels, and injuries. On the other, there is the constant optimism and love in the family. So many wrongs, and in the end she was not abandoned; her mother still believed in her daughter and was not ashamed of her.
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Rue's image is flamboyant, almost comically claiming time and time again in her narration that she doesn't plan to quit drugs. As if this life was not hers. But the plot of the first season proved the opposite. She was almost caught by her mother and relapsed after quitting for three months; when she was with Jules, she even thought the clean state was acceptable. But the departure of her girlfriend made her fall into a spiral of depression. In the special episode she finally admits that she was a failure, not that she didn't want to in the first place. Her mother's expectations and disappointments brought her enormous guilt, which was the origin of her decision not to smoke. Jules decided to use her risky side to confront her doubts and anxiety, denying her hard work and dedication, self-pity and self-blame that made her unable to bear, and lost the confidence to continue to work hard. She slipped into the arms of the drug.
After the relapse, she felt guilty about her parents every time in the hallucinations, as if she wanted their forgiveness. In the fourth episode of the second season, she hugs a priest who she imagines is her father. Although her fragility is not acknowledged by herself, in her consciousness, disappointment, heartbreak, guilt, self-pity and self-hatred are the facts she does not want to admit.
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