Just the day before yesterday, I saw the high school Chinese teacher I admired and said: "In your temperament, there are the paths you have traveled, the people you have loved and the books you have read." I immediately liked it. As a boy who likes to read books and watch dramas since he was a child, after being exposed to all kinds of story themes, I define myself as an emotional audience. My favorite books are "A Dream of Red Mansions" and "Ordinary World", and my favorite Korean dramas are "Reply, 1988", my favorite British drama is "Downton Abbey". These works all have a common feature: they tell about the shortness of parents, but reflect the warmth and coldness of human nature. Gladly, at the beginning of 2017, I can add another American drama "this is us" to the back of this list.
I am not an exploratory audience. I will not start chasing dramas when new dramas start airing. Instead, I will wait to see everyone's summary recommendations before deciding which dramas to watch. Therefore, I only started chasing dramas after entering the winter break. That means I can watch 10 episodes in one sitting, maybe with more emotional coherence than my friends who watch one episode a week.
When I first saw "this is us", I thought it was the American version of 1988, and it played a warm card that is not common in American dramas. Perhaps this is one of the reasons why this drama can stand out among other dramas. The first six episodes of the story unfold from the perspectives of parents, twin brothers and sisters, and black adopted sons. The pictures are fragmented but interrelated. The family situation is broken apart through a small story, and it is smashed and spread before our eyes. At this time, the contradictions between the characters have not yet erupted, and the main thing is warmth. We can see that parents get along with each other warmly, brothers and sisters support each other, and Randall's happy family. A harmony, although occasionally unpleasant, but this is life. The first six episodes are what resonated with me the most. After all, warmth is the heart of all mankind.
When the story came to Thanksgiving, the atmosphere took a turn for the worse. Randall discovered the deception of his adoptive mother, Kat broke up because of losing weight, and Kav still seemed conflicted and unconfident about his feelings. At this time, the difference between the way of doing things in the West and the East is really reflected. The eighth episode was watched on station a. The content of the barrage was divided into two groups. One was scolding Randall for the white-eyed wolf. Here, I want to give a black question mark face, is filial piety and reward unique to Chinese people? Isn't the Western Thanksgiving a decoration? Fortunately, in the ninth episode, this matter was explained from the perspective of the mother and Randall respectively. Even if it is careless, the only Westerner who is the only one loves his son, and is afraid of losing his affectionate son because his biological father is too good. And the reason Randall was angry with his mother was not simply that he felt deceived, but that for thirty-six years, he had always felt that he was a substitute for the third child who died, and that he could not find his place without a biological father. Think about it, this kind of blame is not so much mad at the mother, but rather the grievance that has accumulated for 36 years of growth erupted at that moment, and when people lose their minds, the first thing that comes to mind is to vent on the people closest to them. body, because even if you lose your mind, subconsciously, you still know that this is the safest. (Actually, this habit is also very sad to think about. Really loving someone gives him the right to hurt you. Looking back, fortunately my adolescence was not particularly rebellious. Fortunately, my mother has a strong personality and is not so easy to be attacked by me. Hurt.) Although the next few episodes were a bit depressing, there were still many small details that were very touching. During the kat appendicitis operation, Kav had been standing silently beside the car. Although he didn't speak, he wanted to accompany him into the operating room. During the operation, kav, who was still talking about Jesus stuff during the day, held his appendix and looked for Jesus to pray. This is blood is thicker than water.
The sophistication of this drama is also reflected in the choice of actors. The childhood of the three children, the juvenile and the adult actors are very consistent in appearance and temperament, which makes me think, yes, he (she) will look like this when he or she grows up. . Another thing worth mentioning is the music, which everyone has been bragging about, but what really reminds me is the two verses that my mother sang at the frog bar and the rehearsal when she gave birth to a child, and kat sang at the nursing home. That section, with the taste of American jazz and country music, is lazy, casual but very comfortable.
There are so many things that good works deserve to be praised, and it is impossible to list them all. For me, who is poor in words, I just want to say that some things can only be understood and cannot be expressed in words. ?
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