"Legend of the Fallen Street" ended its first season with its eighth episode. Familiar ending, very familiar ending. That's really the style of the screenwriters David Simon and George Pelecalus. Because of the American drama they once created together, the American drama that ranks first in my heart - "The Wire", the end of each season is this style: everyone gets what he deserves, and everyone has to continue with new ones. Life. It is to depict the final scene of all beings in the dust, so that the first season and the second season are perfectly connected. The second season will start a new story with many years later, each of the beings continue the work they did at the end of the first season.
Candy: Keep going.
When Candy and porn director Harvey talk about the premiere of a new movie "Deep Throat", when it comes to the topic of homosexuality, Harvey makes a gay joke, Candy says he has a brother, Harvey immediately I understand, that means I have no ill will. This is the first time Candy has taken the initiative to bring up her family, and I think there will be more stories about Candy's family in the second season.
Candy goes to the nursing home to visit her brother Patrick, who is being treated in the nursing home, yes, for gay men. Candy's father personally signed to send his son to electric shock treatment, and now he has stopped electric shock treatment and switched to medicine treatment.
When I saw this dialogue, I was reminded of "A Clockwork Orange", in which the male protagonist was also treated with electric shocks, and in the last clip shouted "I'm healed". Rarely, I still remember this sentence.
I found an interesting point. The season's story time takes place in 1971-1972, and a Clockwork Orange premiered in New York on December 19, 1971. According to the release date of the movie "Deep Throat" that Candy and Harvey talked about, June 12, 1972, was also the day Candy went to meet her brother. I can speculate that the show "A Clockwork Orange" has influenced public opinion to a certain extent on the use of electroshock therapy to treat special patients, such as homosexuals, sex addicts, and the like. I believe A Clockwork Orange has something to do with Patrick's cessation of shock therapy. The younger brother himself said, "They don't seem to be receiving electric shock treatment anymore."
Back to Candy's conversation with her brother. Candy talks about how quickly Barbie signed the deal at the time, and how some dads reacted to Patrick's erratic behavior. When Candy encouraged his younger brother to be himself and accept that he was such a person, his younger brother began to show vigilance, shied away from disliking him, just to play with everyone, and to cover up the thoughts of the doctor and father for himself. Candy begins to enlighten her brother that no one cares what Dad thinks. The world has changed, and Dad will definitely hate this world. Hearing this, the younger brother was very moved. He felt as if he had seen hope, and his eyes were moistened, but he immediately seemed to have found something, and he became alert again. After swallowing, he became another person, and his hands started again trembling. This is the sequelae of electric shock therapy, a conditioned response to the process of electric shock therapy. If you've watched A Clockwork Orange, you know what I'm talking about.
Candy talking about Dad's signing reminded me of another thing from before. When Candy takes the money and leaves after filming the prostitute Lori, Harvey wants to ask something that shouldn't be asked, how did Candy end up in such a life? Is it the father's problem? Candy says it's not what you think, you're thinking like a scum. From my superficial psychological understanding, in this family, the son is a homosexual and the daughter is a prostitute. It is not the fault of the godfather that the child becomes like this, which is related to the family environment and has a significant relationship with the father. I think these things will be left in the second season and slowly revealed.
Candy has worked by Harvey's side for a while. She also slowly felt that the porn industry could slowly let go of its hands and feet, and people's needs for sex were no longer as secretive as before. It is no longer necessary to solve physiological needs through the body of the opposite sex or the same sex as before. Now, individual physiological needs can be solved through movies and screening rooms, and people with special tastes can also be met.
The world has changed.
Farewell - Li Taixiang, Tang Xiaoshi
(If you can, I hope you can click on this song and read a little bit of text below.)
The sisters who used to stand together on the street are still picking up customers on the street. Tragically, this is the last time they meet.
I am deeply moved by this picture.
In this show, only Candy and Ruby are of a similar age. They are also good friends. In the fourth episode, Candy was serving a customer who suffered a heart attack and died. Candy couldn't let go of the shadow in her heart for a long time. She went to Ruby's house to chat with Ruby for a while. Chat about a prostitute named Nikki, whose clothes are draped on Ruby's chair. Nikki also died, but for some unknown reason, it was not revealed in the show. It was also in this room, in the eighth episode, after this scene, that Ruby picked up guests in her own room and left Degenerate Street forever for her own dignity.
There is no way. It seems that Ruby is destined to be eliminated from the market immediately. People with special tastes will always have other solutions to solve their physiological needs. For example, if you can’t eat Lanzhou ramen, it’s not impossible to eat Noodle King and Fanfan ramen in a different flavor.
Furthermore, when two sisters who haven't seen each other for a long time meet, there should be a lot to say. Candy called out a lot, but Ruby didn't hear it. The driver asked if he wanted to stop, and Candy said: No, no, keep going.
Candy continued to run into the new world, too late to say goodbye to the past. This is life.
Then Candy leaned back in the back row, as if thinking about something.
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