It is no longer difficult to be honest with yourself.
What is rare is how to deceive this society cunningly.
The two protagonists in the script are "sister" Tracy, who just came to campus in her twenties to report, and "sister" Brooke, who is in her thirties and rolls around in society. This relationship came suddenly because each other's parents met through online dating and wanted to get married.
How fun the city is, my sister will not understand. Roommates who rolled their eyes in college, rejected literary clubs, and unsuccessful otakus who were flirting with one another were frustrating. And my sister full of life, like a fighter, keeps alive, keeps busy, keeps catching up with the city.
The relationship between people is always very abstract, and most of the time, it is established in the environment of need. Being captive in the same space gives us some common labels. Dancing together, drinking together, living on the fifth floor of a commercial building together, and experiencing the city's day and night together can make relationships dangerous and fascinating. Having a bond does not mean that there is no parting. Just like later, when the collapsed "sisters" became "strangers" again, it was because there was really no nominal label, or because there was no essential demand.
In this world full of choices, the only thing that cannot be chosen is kinship. With a kind of domineering, above all reasons, it cannot be refused or resisted. This fateful choice reminds me of those relationships that can be chosen, whether they are lucky or powerless.
This is a fact, just like Dou Wei's "Advanced Animals", great and small, moderate and pitiful.
Besides, the urban women Brooke represents are not like the elite representatives who charge every day in high heels. She lived a bright and beautiful life by herself, but she was overwhelmed by the helpless failure. An amateur interior designer, a part-time tutor, an exercise bike instructor, and the occasional lead singer is a life built on skills that never become anything.
As for Tracy, who received a high-level elite education, she wanted to join the literary club, she wanted to be a writer, she wisely looked for materials from the people around her, and became the protagonist of the novel, quietly promoting the plot. Anyone who writes must have sleepwalking. Pick up inspiration in this city and be awakened by reality.
She is indifferent to her own failures, she is unaware of her own failures.
But
the world is still full of expectations.
- Fin -
New York Notes
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