Character relationships that make people laugh or cry, all kinds of fucked up things, and continuous cannon-fire jokes that hurt others and not oneself are the three elements of family comedy. Like the Big Bang Theory, several leading actors are exhausting their lives from the beginning to the end. There is no need for a sudden indentation of the camera to enhance the drama, and the screenwriter is showing his genius in every second. Unlike tbbt, who has basically relied on selling porn to make jokes in the next few seasons, plm's yellow jokes only account for a small part. They make the audience laugh because of the characters' tangled psychology and the environment they are in, not because of the bad jokes. vulgar. Why do you say that the jokes in this play are all without a trace, because there is no pause at all, and every sentence is a joke. If you think this play is not funny at all, or it is boring, then you can say that you don’t really understand European and American humor. (I know it's an Australian drama). This show won't make you laugh, but it will keep you smiling until the end.
The tone, scene props, soundtrack, and characters' clothing in this play are fresh and fresh. Except for the night, other shots are like being immersed in the golden sunshine of Australia all the time. The seemingly messy furniture, the food arrangement in the kitchen and the dining table seem to have been pretended to be homely through the lens of a food photographer.
After talking about the surface of the play, let's talk about the director's ideals.
Family, friendship and love for life, the director wants more than these, it is a daydream about the individual and about an ideal world, they hope to unfold gently under the camera and spread to our hearts . After all, a bunch of people hugged with tears in their eyes and said I love you and I will always support you. This kind of thing doesn't happen easily in daily life, that kind of scene is too heavy makeup, it's a bit out of reach like Modern Family, and plm just wants to Put this ideal in front of you quietly and let you think for yourself. It doesn't care how you choose to live, or whether you think the same as it. I like this attitude of self-confidence and self-respect.
Because it's so free and easy, the easier way to show this ideal is to cut through the characters in the play.
Mae
Mae is the first one I want to analyze, because this role is so bright. Although she is a supporting role, she is most responsible for conveying the highest spirit of the show, yes, most of it.
Except for Mae, the other characters are all white people. If you want to put her in tbbt and the bankrupt sisters, she has long been complained about, but we seem to be used to "non-white people are full of slots". Setting, maybe secretly glad to be able to show a little racial characteristics in white TV series by taking advantage of their own racial groove.
Mae is Thai, Josh's father, Alan, and Josh's mother, Rose, have been living with her since the divorce. She has a healthy dark complexion and a warm-hearted personality typical of Southeast Asians (a bit swaying in the middle of a group of calm white people. Jump down, but we don't have to act like everyone else, after all, cold doesn't mean noble and enthusiasm doesn't mean inferior, right?). It's worth noting that she had obvious makeup in the first season, and she has been nude since the second season.
(This reminds me of one thing. After the birth of Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg's child, he announced the good news on social networks, and his Chinese wife was also frequently exposed. Chinese netizens asked Mark a lot of questions about this matter, The most frequently asked question is whether he donated his shares to avoid tax, and the second most frequently asked is why he married an unbeautiful wife. Personally, I think the second question is very rude, as if asking why someone bought it A useless thing to go home, as if to announce that women are worthless if they are not beautiful. People seem to think that the rich have nothing to lose, so his or her partner only needs to be beautiful, and if his or her partner is even "the most beautiful" It's very strange that there is no "basic" beauty. Many people seem to regard "hunting women" as the norm, and to marry a woman as "marry a woman and go home", and regard it as a trophy, ignoring the relationship between men and women , The more important soul communication and IQ collision in the marriage relationship, the matching of brain power is the real matching.)
Mae and Alan gave birth to a daughter, but when Alan proposed, she rejected him because she did not want to get married, and when she was pregnant, she had a one-night affair with another man because of confusion, she confessed to Alan and asked for forgiveness, Later, I found that even if I confessed, I couldn't make myself happy, so I broke up, but they were destined to be each other's other half, and finally they got back together.
I was a little surprised when I watched Mae's drama, because in European and American dramas, the new wife of the white father is either full of slots, or is going to this man who is much older than himself in order to gain citizenship. I'm ashamed of my surprise because plm taught me that you can't look at people with tinted glasses, an asian stepmother can also be an independent woman who lives with a man for love, not for marriage (and It's not that marriage is wrong, but whether or not to get married should be a personal choice. Some people feel that married life is not the way they want to live.) If she doesn't want to get married, she has the ability and confidence to refuse for her beliefs. Moreover, a momentary confused affair is not a man's patent, and if you dare to do it, you must be brave. You don't brazenly ask others to forgive your betrayal (even if it's a momentary confusion), and you just want to be an upright person.
Mae is completely a model of an independent woman who, according to Alan, also has a very high-paying career.
Plm tells us: Look, women can live for what they believe in, just like men! I just showed it to you so naturally, you should be ashamed of your stereotypes about women!
Josh
is a pale, thin talker with sparse blond hair.
Although Gui is the male protagonist, his will to survive is much weaker than Mae's. He became the protagonist entirely by relying on his exaggerated image like a cartoon and a somewhat chaotic and unlucky life.
But I want to say something else about him. Josh is the center of the relationship between the characters in the play. Not only did he not become a lubricant for interpersonal relationships, but instead, he was always picky with his nature of ignoring other people's feelings. When he talked, he didn't open it, and often concealed his friends from each other. The embarrassing secret was exposed in person. And he is also very unfilial. Whenever his father Alan's family or his mother Rose have problems with his love life, he calls him to ask for help and company. Sometimes he is not even busy at all, just with friends. fooling around.
But even so, his parents and friends are safe and sound, and everyone still loves each other.
So ideal!
You might think I'm heartless to think this way, but it's the ideal situation. Life is like driving a boat that never comes to shore in the vast sea. It makes you feel confused all the time, and the surrounding wind and waves are constantly, often wave after wave, you can't predict, and you can't. Avoid, even if it is predicted that you will have nowhere to run. In this case, it is very important to maintain a normal mind. If there are people you love around you, you might as well hold them tighter. Even if you are angry with them and drive them away, the next storm will come as scheduled. You understand that many problems cannot be solved by others. Many times anger, shame, resentment, etc. are just manifestations of your efforts to unravel the painful knots in your heart. Others have their own lives, even if they are your children. , and there is no obligation to help you clean up your bad mood. It is unwise for you to use your own difficult situation to test the feelings of those around you, because you are not qualified to test others. Plm tells us that everyone's duty is not to take care of all the moods of the ones we love, but it should be our duty to be strong. Not that you should break your teeth and swallow blood when people are indifferent to you, Josh showed up when he really needed him. Every time Josh was absent from Rose to clean up his mess, Rose said a few Fucks, and Alan used the phone ring to interrupt Josh's relationship with his lover every time. Blame, under what circumstances should not. In the face of chaotic life storms, there is always no harm in keeping a few more people who love you around.
When it comes to the question of which one Josh can't open, the embarrassing affair between his best friend Tom and the girl can never be hidden, and several times of breaking up are because Josh stabbed the matter out. Plm tells us: your secrets are worthless. If Tom can hide the secret, and when it finally causes a catastrophe and the paper can no longer hold the fire, there will be a catastrophic end, this drama will not be plm, but some other emotional ethics drama. Tom himself should also understand that what he did is not a good thing, and that hiding is just for his own peace of mind. At this time, the positive harm caused by Josh's exposure of the matter is more just than his selfishness. Josh is now playing the role of Tom's conscience. The secret feels solemn when it is still in your heart. Your selfishness and self-righteousness wrap it up for the sake of others, but you know how vulgar the literal meaning of it is when it is exposed, so your secret is worthless at all.
Claire
is a pretty crazy little girl.
The abortion scene is the pinnacle of Claire's role. After everything is done, she takes a shower and rests on the bed. Josh brings a plate of fried chicken, and the two eat on the bed. Eating and eating Claire cried, she said she found out that this kind of thing is really happening to us, we are adults responsible for our actions, we are past the exercise phase, what we have been through Everything is so real that there are consequences. She really showed the confusion of a young man. If it were a normal drama, it would have made Claire feel guilty for killing a small life, but plm excels in unconventional and real. At that time, the child in Claire's belly was just a lump of flesh, not yet differentiated in all aspects. She did not panic, but made a choice when her life had not yet been formed. As a young man in his early twenties, they would not really. I feel that I have killed a life, and the idea of killing a life is vain, you and I both know that you just feel that not feeling guilty for "killing a small life" is a little vaguely wrong and unethical, so In this case, first ask others to have the guilt of being a murderer.
So what Claire thinks most about is the weight of being an adult, and for the first time she feels this raw reality hitting her.
In a world where plm is open to all hearts, all anger, suspicion, and narrow-mindedness hide in shame.
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