I watched five episodes of "Doctor Foster" in two days. This is the first British drama I seriously watched. I watched the first three episodes on the first day, and the progress of the plot was depressing and suffocating step by step, and it happened to be stuck in a desperate and tangled place.
Gemma Foster, a senior partner at a clinic, had a perfect life. With a successful career, a loving husband and wife, a handsome son, and a close friend she trusts, she kisses her husband and children goodbye every morning before going to work. In her clinic, she is prestige, well-paid, and trustworthy.
But life still can't make her perfect, and through a lipstick and a long blond hair on her husband's scarf, she senses that her husband may be having an affair. Through step-by-step testing and deciphering investigations, she discovered one fact that made her despair. Life gradually fell into chaos. Except for her husband's betrayal, she found that almost all her trusted friends were deceiving her together, and she was the only one who was kept in the dark.
The heroine suddenly realized that all the people she trusted around her betrayed her. She was breathing heavily and curled up in pain, on the verge of collapse, and I almost felt chest tightness and shortness of breath. The next day, I had this drama embedded in my heart all day long. I finally waited for the baby to fall asleep at night, and quickly made up the last two episodes. The heroine was desperate and wanted to commit suicide by throwing herself into the sea. In the end, she landed on the shore soaked all over, and said "No" with a determined expression.
That's right, why should you use your own sad and angry death to fulfill them? The scumbags may just feel guilty and continue their happy life, and they can't be cheapened like this.
Her revenge begins, and the Jedi counterattack is often easy to achieve satisfactory results, because there is much less hesitation and apprehension in a desperate gamble. With a smile on her face, she looked at her husband's panicked expression and took him to the feast of Hongmen that ripped apart the truth. Telling the truth step by step at the dinner table, watching Xiaosan collapse, the scumbag husband is silent, and Xiaosan's whole family is in chaos. Although she was hit by Xiaosan, she shook her hair like a phoenix and walked out with her head held high. , leaving a bunch of people with astonishment, anger, and collapse.
Everything seemed to be under her control, but something happened that made her even more desperate.
When she said that she also cheated on the accountant for revenge, but she couldn't change her husband's reaction; when she saw her husband get into Xiaosan's car and leave; when she realized that her husband cared about her son the most, but the son said that he did not I don't like my mother very much, she must feel the despair of falling into the deepest abyss, the despair of being betrayed and abandoned by the whole world. Through the screen, I can feel a deep chill and unstoppable heart throbbing from her expression. I can only say that the heroine's acting skills are too unbelievable.
She had a showdown with her husband, but when she heard that her husband was unwilling to leave the house, she had to make another bitter plan. Using the son that her husband cares about most, to create an illusion to make her husband think that her son was hurt by her, only then did she finally see her calm husband collapse. Seeing his son come back, he realized that Gemma was playing with him, and then he beat her bloody in anger. This scene gained many witnesses, including his son, mistress, and neighbors, so Gemma successfully stood in a favorable position in the law. , won custody of her son and a restraining order from her husband.
This battle is tragic and tragic, no one is the real winner, just to see who loses less.
In a turn of the camera, Gemma regained her position in the clinic, and later went to pick up Tom from school, with neat hair and a blue shirt and khaki trench coat looking smart and fresh. In the last few minutes, the atmosphere of the whole play also became relaxed, and it seemed that a ray of sunshine finally shone into the haze.
She sat on the street and sipped a cup of coffee slowly, looking around at the ordinary and busy people, showing a long-lost smile. Even if he caught a glimpse of Xiao San with a big belly and a shopping bag, he still said hello calmly. Watching her husband and the mistress drive away, she should have only the ease of rebirth in her heart.
When her son finally came out, she offered to let him sit closer and kissed him. I saw that Gemma's motherhood was back, and that Gemma, who even her son felt nervous about her husband's extramarital affairs, was gone, replaced by Gemma, a strong mother who yearned for a new life. In the end, she rescued a passerby who fainted on the street. Tom handed her the medicine box, and his eyes showed admiration and pride for his mother. Gemma smiled and said "thank you". She knew that she had regained her child's approval. I also sighed in relief.
When she was in despair and pain, she was lacking motherhood and tenderness towards her son. Every time she picks up her son with something on her mind, she always strides in front with a sad face, and Tom follows him with his head down and lifeless. This precocious boy seems to be full of worries, lonely and sensible. When she finally got out of the bloody prison of the past and began to observe life seriously, her smile began to become warm, and the look in Tom's eyes was full of motherly love again, and she had to sigh again that the heroine's acting skills were simply too puzzling.
Maybe a man can't change his stealing, especially Gemma's ex-husband who has cheating genes, so even if the scumbag and the mistress are together, even if they have a child again, there may not be a happy ending. Maybe the bloody cheating drama will be staged. . But it doesn't matter anymore, at least Gemma has taken back what belongs to her and put her life back on track.
Some commented on why the screenwriter didn't let the scumbag and the mistress die, but started a new life together instead. If they really died, it would be too much like a "made-up drama" and would lack a certain degree of authenticity. Most of the domestic dramas are heartbroken who left a third party and returned to the family. The original spouse accepted it with tears, and the family seemed to be happily together again. Can you really be happy from now on? It seems that the dignity and happiness of women are not important in it, and it is more important to maintain the surface harmony of the family, but whether they are truly happy or not, these domestic dramas will not tell you. In the real world, bad people don't necessarily have bad results, and good people don't necessarily end well. Both bad people and good people will continue their lives.
The reason why this drama makes so many people sigh and sigh is that the story it deduces is so similar to what really happened around us, you and I may have experienced or heard about it. Similar plots are staged every day. As soon as the scumbag turns around and spends the rest of his life with his new love, the original partner either moves on like Gemma, or like many women, he can't get out of the shadow of being betrayed all day long, and he becomes an abandoned woman while constantly strengthening his identity as a victim. Upgraded version, self-destruction for the rest of your life. Maybe it also distorted the child's concept of marriage in the day-to-day complaining, treating the child as the sustenance of his own feelings and a substitute for his spouse, and wantonly venting his emotions, thereby destroying himself and the child.
Mother’s emotions have a great influence on children. If mothers are often immersed in their own emotions and turn a blind eye to their children’s feelings, children will not be able to gain a sense of existence. This is true for infants and adolescents as well. Especially after becoming a mother, I will pay special attention to the relationship between mother and child in reality or in the play. When I see Gemma fighting alone to discover the truth, I don’t pay much attention to the child, especially when I see Gemma walking in front of her full of worries and Tom trotting. Following behind, I feel sorry for this child. As he said, he really rarely gets the chance to talk to his mother.
It's hard to say that Gemma is a perfect mother. She is easily immersed in her emotions. She dares to drive with her son when she has something in her heart. At home, Tom always stays in his room and rarely chats with his mother. No wonder He prefers his dad who always plays with him.
But who is the perfect mother? We all have times when we can’t handle our emotions. What’s more, when Gemma was betrayed by her husband, deceived by her friends, framed by her career, and “I don’t like you” said by her son, who should change? The body will collapse, unable to adjust emotions immediately, and be a perfect mother who always responds positively to her children. The heroine also expresses Gemma's various emotional changes and the suffocation when she is about to collapse very well, which is exactly how we may react when encountering this kind of thing. So I think this drama is very real, which is why I have a lot of aftertastes after watching it and like it more.
If you are not married and have children, you may not be able to understand some of the details and feelings revealed in this show. Different people will have different perspectives and opinions on the show, and men and women will definitely have different feelings. As a wife and mom, Gemma is not perfect, like every one of us moms and wives. But she knows how to protect herself, wake up in time, stop her losses in time before things get worse, and strive for as many favorable conditions as possible. The most difficult thing to do is to maintain the yearning and enthusiasm for life after being ruthlessly ravaged by life once. If life is already bad, don't make yourself worse.
In contrast, many Chinese mothers would rather endure the betrayal of their husbands than divorce for the sake of their children. There are also mothers who are willing to divorce their cheating husbands, but would rather leave the house for the sake of their children.
The maternal love of these mothers is indeed great, but they sacrifice their own happiness to curl up in an unfortunate marriage to survive, or go out of the house and take their children to live hard, saying that it is for the children, but I don’t think it adds much to the children. . Children will not grow up easily and happily in a family with a strange atmosphere, and it is difficult for a resigned mother to maintain a stable mental state in this situation, and the lack of material conditions cannot give the child any sense of security.
An unhappy complete family is better than a quiet and peaceful single-parent family. Even if divorced, you can have a complete parent-child time, because the end of the marriage only means the termination of the relationship between the husband and wife, not the parent-child relationship. If you want to get a divorce, you must also strive for material conditions that can provide a sense of security for yourself and your children. It is better for a mother to maintain a sense of happiness by herself, which helps the child to establish a sense of security and a stable mentality. Even if the divorce is painful and difficult, it is better than twisting herself in grievances and unwillingness for the rest of her life. So I agree with Gemma's approach.
Feelings are broken, can no longer let their own schizophrenia. Most mothers love their children unreservedly, but not all mothers love themselves enough. Living a wonderful life will also make the child live in a relaxed atmosphere, feel more love from his mother, and his temperament will be less twisted and tangled. This is a virtuous circle of love.
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