The original name of the skin is skins. The domestic translation is very apt to restore the meaning of the film: youth is a delicate skin. This is a film made by minors for adults, an elongated version of "Trainspotting", a British drama full of modernist literature about youth, psychedelics, desires, and scars. Different from "Gossip Girl" and "The Vampire Diaries", which are booming at the moment, the former is based on the luxurious and corrupt so-called love game in which men and women are arranged and combined in Manhattan high society. Gorgeous, pale and empty; the latter is based on the purpose of everyone being the Virgin, relying on the heroine's indecisive love triangle as a selling point, and the screenwriter's forgetful and nonsensical stinky bitch-like nonsense talent, and constantly staged boring bridges such as heroes saving beauty. Duan, the story of a few words and a few words has been pulled into a masterpiece of seventy or eighty episodes, attracting a large number of fans around the world. After watching several American dramas, I deeply felt that there was nothing to find fault with, and something went off the air, so I turned to short and powerful British dramas.
The skin has ten episodes in one season, and two seasons tell a complete story. The first two seasons recounted the high school lives of seven teenagers, Tony, Michelle, Sid, Cassie, Anwar, Jal, and Maxxie, with each episode centered on one person.
Tony, the handsomest and smartest boy in town, couldn't give him all the compliments. His sexy and beautiful girlfriend, Michelle, couldn't trust him. Tony has a sweet smile, red lips and white teeth, and a slender body. His outstanding appearance gives him the innate advantage of looking for flowers and asking willows and showing mercy everywhere. He likes chasing others, and also longs to be chased by others, enjoying the taste of different women, and getting satisfaction from the obsessive gaze of others, completely ignoring Michelle's jealousy and anger. Even when he is tired of the sex life between the opposite sex, he turns to his same-sex friend maxxie for stimulation. As a result, his excessive indulgence and conceit eventually led to the alienation of his friends, which led him to reflect on his own practices. At the end of the first season, Tony had a car accident that directly caused his physical damage, from a lively and beautiful heartthrob to a dull and demented idiot.
Chris is not a likable person. When he was young, his brother died of illness, his parents divorced, and he lived with his mother. In his father's eyes, he was just a piece of garbage, a big waste fed by drugs. Taking drugs, skipping classes, having sex with a female teacher, screwing up work, cheating on Jal, and being naughty. He ended up suffering from the same disease as his brother, ending his young life at the end of the second season.
What makes Skin Sac different from ordinary youth idol dramas is its superb artistic expression skills and deep understanding of the pursuit of life. The whole play tells the joys and sorrows of every young man in an absurd way, full of black humor everywhere.
Chris throws a rave party, only to wake up in the morning to find that his mother has left, and all the money left behind has been used up at the party, and then, naked, he is kicked out of the house by a homeless man in his 50s. And after that, no legal measures were taken, but instead ran naked on the street while wiping her nose.
The trip to Russia borrowed a plot from Milan Kundera's "Life Elsewhere". A group of people went to Russia to study. They stayed in a crappy hotel and visited a dilapidated factory building. Anwar, a self-proclaimed devout Muslim boy, thought he had met the goddess in his heart. After Chunxiao, he was caught by his husband. Only then did he find out that the police and the bandits were complicit. After a large amount of money was corrupted, a group of people returned to England in extreme embarrassment.
Tony is no longer as smart as he used to be after the car accident, and he is dumbfounded. To make matters worse, he found himself unable to get an erection and fit Michelle. What prompted him to regain his self-awareness was an intense sexual intercourse with an imaginary woman in black during a university visit.
There are many such plots in the play, crazy, absurd, ridiculous, and equally sad, pitiful, and deplorable. Maybe it doesn't happen in real life, but it is often said that art originates from life and is higher than life. Skins take real-life episodes to extremes, darks, and drama. With a kind of perverted exaggeration and irony, it mercilessly mocks the irrationality of reality and the warmth of human feelings. It is realistic and cruel, but also slightly warm in the absurd. The adult world is filthy and chaotic, and the teenage world is lost and confused. Without the responsibilities of an adult, running forward in a hypothetical utopia with an irrational passion. This group of young people who are eager to love and be loved, collide randomly, squander cheap youth time, and grow up in lessons and pain. Chris's streaking stemmed from the despair after being abandoned and hurt; Anwar's sexual hunger and thirst defeated Allah, and he gave his innocence and sincerity in the joy of fish and water without regret. His homophobia and unrepentance hurt good friend maxxie. In the end, he was deceived, toyed with, but also pathetic and childish to the point of sympathy. Tony has always been heartless, and just as he was determined to reflect, a sudden car accident interrupted the process. The deprivation of his sexuality in the play forced him to accept everything and change himself. Tony has become stupid, well-behaved, innocent and harmless, and he seems ignorant and doesn't know how to deal with it, and he can't even be called a healthy person. The appearance of the woman in black is very characteristic of stream-of-consciousness novels. She is Tony's fantasy, and through sexual intercourse, Tony wakes up. Tony's fascination with sex and his ignorant attitude towards feelings made him flawed in personality. The car accident changed his body but could not persuade him psychologically, and finally solved it after breaking through the obstacle of sex. So, why does it arise, and why does it end. In fact, this also shows a truth. In fact, any force from the outside cannot really have a decisive influence on people. Only the inner cultivation and strength can influence people's thinking and destiny.
In the whole drama, although Chris is not the male lead, he left the deepest impression on me. He is very "anti-hero" type of character. Chris is smart in some ways, so he's appreciated by his boss, and in other ways, he's extremely ignorant. From the point of view of Chinese parents today, he is a typical example of a bad student whose mind is useless on the right path. In the end, Chris was terminally ill, his mother's car was parked downstairs, his hands were clasped together, he just said dumbly, "I could'nt stand it.", and turned away decisively. The screeching sound of the car's engine starting, the milk slowly flowing down the dark and dirty stairs in the field of vision, Cassi's bright red coat, fluttering blond hair, and returning to the room, Chris sobbed softly. It was his torn emotion, his broken heart. The guitar strumming was sobbing and chanting "be good or be gone". Maybe chris's mom really couldn't stand her second child leaving her in the same way, whether or not it was the less important one. Chris was despised by his father, abandoned by his mother, and abandoned by his favorite teacher. He was traumatized time and time again. Maybe he didn't know it, but it was deeply imprinted in the psychology of every moviegoer. Chris is a line in the whole play. As his life changes, skins gradually become heavy from the frivolous erosion of British middle school students. It opens a big hole and magnifies and exaggerates all kinds of ugly acts in the adult world. In the end, the whole drama reached its climax when Chris died. His father's indifference was chilling, and his friends' behavior of stealing and returning the coffin was touching and helpless. In stark contrast to the pretentious recitation of the priest at the funeral, Jal silently recites, with tears in his eyes, the story that belongs to Chris's hero and why they love Chris, who always lives every day without fear. A funeral is not sad, a friend from the past is buried, tomorrow is another day. Gorgeous fireworks were lit in the sky, and intense rock music sounded in time. After opening the envelope of the college entrance examination, the old man has a new beginning.
There is a lot of sexuality and foul language in Skins. The protagonists are fanatically pursuing sensuality, obsessed with alcohol and drugs, jealous of heavy-duty lines, and large-scale nude erotic scenes scare away a large number of small and fresh moviegoers, and they have also received a lot of criticism and controversy. Most of the parents in China are more conservative, and there is a kind of meaning of "talking about sex and color change". In Western stories, human beings are the crystallization of Adam and Eve, and love is the union of soul and body. From time to time, fierce intercourse between men and women is staged in Skins, using sex as a carrier to express their anger, compromise and love.
The skin is complex and intriguing. It is not a typical character in a typical setting, just as there are a thousand Hamlets in a thousand eyes, and a thousand skins in a thousand moviegoers. Look at it slowly, the detailed products actually have no deep meaning.
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