However, the plain life in reality always disappoints me time and time again with its too long perseverance and calmness. Every time I look at the scene where the older gentlemen and seniors lament that the deceased is so powerless, many doubts arise in their hearts. For example, why do most people choose a mediocre life?
Because of Zhang Yueran's recommendation, I watched an American drama: "Olive Kitterridge", and many doubts in my heart were relieved. This show easily reminds me of the movie "Boyhood", the former is almost like "middle-aged and old age", but the latter still has a lot of vigor and brightness in it.
The content of the short four episodes has a consistent black and dark blue tone, and the cold picture always reveals a sense of loneliness and loneliness. Probably because of the small number of episodes, each episode has a movie-quality sense of picture, but the entire viewing process is quite depressing. In the long shot, the waves are surging and the cold wind is hunting. In the close-up shot, people have a cold and disappointed expression. The occasional fierce debate between characters is often intertwined with large blank spaces. It seems that something is going to happen in the undercurrent, but there is no movement. , this picture and rhythm seem a bit decisive.
What's really disappointing is its characters and plot. There are so many characters in the play that I almost feel a sense of terrifying realism, especially Olive Kitterridge by Frances McDormand. The protagonist Olive is a middle-aged woman. She seems to be in the same state as many middle-aged menopausal women. She works diligently outside the home, and she has to work on her husband and children when she gets home. She is often dissatisfied and angry because of the small things of cooking and laundry. When I saw Olive, I seemed to see my own mother washing a bucket of dirty clothes with a cold expression, often entering an inexplicable high pressure state.
Olive is mean to others, and she is very hard in communication. Even children don't like her, and she keeps calling her "witch". She doesn't care, this meanness and hardness make her feel comfortable, and even become a weapon she uses to repay this equally mean world.
The scene where her son got married was her most extreme performance. She stole her daughter-in-law's shoes and earrings and threw them in the trash. I couldn't help but marvel at the power that made her do such a thing. Her son's second marriage didn't even let her know. When she rushed to her son's new home alone and was at a loss in the unfamiliar environment, the hypocritical harmony between mother and son was finally torn apart, and what was devastated was hatred and complaints.
Later, many things happened, and the beloved people left one by one, and she had nothing to worry about anymore, as if she was knocked down by life. But by chance, Olive rescued an old gentleman who fell to the ground in the park, which gave her the obsession to live. In fact, it was she who saved herself. Since she gave up the idea of suicide in order to save the drowning girl, as well as her concern and redemption for Kevin, there are some beautiful things in her heart that can make her forget about life plus He saved his life from all his suffering and suffering. The meaning of all these hardships and encounters is that she finally achieved a deep understanding of life.
There is also a translation of this drama called "Insignificant Life", which seems to be the whole truth of life. It turns out that we did not choose a mediocre life, but the so-called great sorrow, great joy and great ups and downs that people pursue is not the truth at all, these desired ups and downs are just a final fantasy that exists to whitewash the rough and hard real life, We have no choice at all. Just like the phrase in "Boyhood" when the mother cried when she said goodbye to the children who left home for school, "Is this the case? I thought there would be something else..." But there is really nothing else, life That's all.
And seeing the painful truth of this life does not make us feel depressed and choose to escape, nor does it make us curse resentfully, but gives us a reason to live well in the ordinary.
When we don't talk about ideals, when we are in hardships and suffering, we can still make fun of them. When the old age was dying, when the breath was dying, there was no regret or embarrassment.
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