The Deuce tells the story of the rise of the porn industry on 42nd Street in New York in the 1970s, how people were drawn into it, and how the industry changed them. The porn industry has moved from a dark hourly room to a shiny "massage parlor", transformed from a small audio-visual workshop to the premiere of "Deep Throat", from shady to public, from illegal to legal, from individual cheating Want to go to a collective feast... When there are elements such as sex work, pimps, showbiz, gangsters, police, women's awakening, same-sex liberation, era changes, etc., the entertainment of this series is definitely not bad, But its more powerful place lies in its social criticality. It surprises you after dinner, makes you sigh with emotion, and makes you fall into the ground with emotion, and then sincerely praise it as a symphony worthy of money, power and color. masterpiece.
Although James Franco performed well in two roles, this show is more like a women's play, and the complexity of each female character is no less than that of the male characters in the play, so I would like to see it as a play. The song of a woman does not simply mean "praise". This song sings about sex and love, but also about independence and freedom.
The female characters in the play are almost identical, and each has its own characteristics.
Candy/Eileen is a self-disciplined personality. She works alone in the whole street, soliciting clients to make money by herself, although this means that when she is bullied by clients, she can only bear it by herself. Unlike Lori, who holds the position of "I will become lazy without a pimp", Candy is simply a model worker and workaholic in this industry. Her even a bit extreme spontaneous or self-disciplined character also sowed the seeds for her later transformation to "movie". , but also for her emotional outburst when she was robbed of money by unscrupulous clients and beat her to the point where she went back to the street to continue soliciting clients. Maggie Gyllenhaal's performance also makes the character more infectious.
The nature of the work of prostitutes determines their more open attitude towards the body, which coincides with the physical liberation and spiritual freedom pursued by avant-garde women at that time. Abby, a female college student, has a strong sense of self, she can't understand what prostitutes think, can't understand why they do this kind of work. Abby dropped out of school, took the initiative in a relationship, she defended the name of a woman, she ignored the dress code and wore an Ashley red dress to a dinner party, yes, she was free, she was free; Ashley chose to strike, chose to leave New York and fly away , she liberates herself; perhaps prostitutes consciously dispose of their bodies at will is also a kind of freedom? Eileen does not have the obvious sense of feminism as Abby, but she also has super learning ability, self-reliance, and firm direction, which is what these two characters have in common, and why they seem to be more "free" than other female characters.
In contrast, the male characters in the play appear a bit "boring". From the beginning, Vincent was innocently beaten up by gangsters, and then gradually became involved in the porn industry and gang activities. Bobby's workers and colleagues were taught a lesson. The basement of the bar became Tommy's torture site, and then he was backed by Tommy to the billiards room to retaliate and beat him. The gangster of the ex-wife; Bobby went from a justice union celebrity and a loving husband and father, to starting a "massage parlor" business, to wearing flowery clothes and hooking up with "female employees"; gangsters run businesses that are gradually legalized, while the police Acting like a gang to collect "protection fees"... Ironically, the pimps always put money first, only occasionally showing a little yearning for love and retirement. (The brutal and charming pimps really test their acting skills, the pimps are really good at acting oh my god)
Ashley said that the nature of fathers, husbands, and pimps is the same, and that the material and spiritual support and protection they provide to their daughters, wives, and prostitutes is the material and psychological dependence of women on them. So when Abby refused the living allowance from her father, Eileen refused her boyfriend Jack's car money, and Ashley refused CC's control, they began to become female pioneers on this revolutionary road, waving the banner of independence and marching forward gracefully. In the end, the liberation of individual females became the tide of the whole era.
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