To be honest, this is not an ugly work, and I finished it in two days. The mini-series is set against the backdrop of the Great Depression in the United States. It can be seen that the pictures in the film are quite styled, and Fei Wen's more skilled acting skills also play a big role in the play. As for the content of the plot under this exquisite package, it is a test of everyone's patience. Stripped of the star halo, exquisite shooting and other technical decorations, this is actually a family ethics farce with a bloody plot, and anyone who sees it will complain. It is the scenes that the director has been shooting slowly, the unique style and art of period dramas, and the film's focus on the mature, calm, yet emotional performances that add a touch of literary and artistic flavor to the drama, making certain places The farce is less exaggerated and contrived, and more real and aesthetic.
In addition to the bloody content, the portrayal of the characters in this play is also very inadequate. Although it is a female perspective, the focus is on the heroine and many female characters, but I believe that most of you will not have too much impression on other female characters except for the dispute between a mother and daughter. The male characters are even more on the verge of being a dragon, and the description is very far-fetched and very thin. Even the main male character Monty is like this. Apart from setting him a noble and decadent image of a declining nobleman, he can hardly feel the emotional depth excavated from this character, so that his betrayal in the end is inexplicable. wonderful.
And the daughter, alas, is really a bloody character. . . It should have won everyone's unanimous disgust. To a certain extent, the depth of emotion can arouse the emotional fluctuations of everyone, and in this play, this depth is Mildred's blind maintenance of the eldest daughter's self-esteem. It can be seen that she is very proud that her daughter has always maintained a noble temperament and is engaged in the aristocratic art industry. A projection of the unrealizable aristocratic life. Watching her daughter play a famous brand piano, perform on high-end occasions, and live a life of luxury and splurge, she seems to be able to escape from the low-level reality of the common people. In the final analysis, she herself, like her daughter (or she unconsciously raised her daughter to be like this), actually despises the common people who are actually earned by labor. This is just another example of maintaining a superficially high self-esteem that stems from low self-esteem.
It can only be said that the HBO mini-series chose the right director and the right actors to remake a story that is not very suitable. 2 stars for the director and screenwriter, 1 star for Fei Wen.
Although I have been complaining for so long, I finally wish this drama a success in this year's Emmy Awards. After all, I'm still a diehard HBO fan. . .
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