The first season of "Melrose" is over, there are five episodes in total, and I like it very, very much. Aside from the plot itself, the photography composition is beautiful and extremely OCD friendly.
And the story is cruel. In more than five hours, it tells about a long period of time, a scar that cannot be healed. The father abused his son all the year round, the mother knew it but ignored it. The child has repeatedly asked for help and confessed, but she just escaped, never really protected each other.
In this environment, Patrick grew up. He was willing to fall and struggled to get up, trying to live a normal life, but childhood nightmares always reminded him that the most intractable evils in the world came from his parents, his past, his surname— —Melrose.
This surname, which represents the once infinitely glorious family and class, as well as the little-known evil deeds, will accompany Patrick until the end, making him unable to escape and making him unforgivable.
In the last episode of the mother's funeral, one person after another walked up to Patrick and told him, "How kind your mother is, she helped me so much." Patrick was strangled and said not a word.
It turns out that you have protected so many people, but why have you never protected me?
The story of the entire first season is like a knife, and it cuts through my heart one after another. Teacher Benny's acting skills are indispensable. It's really amazing. In particular, the first episode is entirely his one-man show, explaining the confusion and pain of an addict from beginning to end, unable to survive or to die.
The story ends with the scene where the protagonist Patrick pushes the door and goes out. Where he goes is unknown, maybe it is a happy ordinary life since then, maybe it is hell. Of course I hope it's the former, but...is he really qualified?
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