Introduction: To say what is the most popular drama recently, it is "My Genius Girlfriend" produced by HBO, which has been well received almost as soon as it was released. "My Brilliant Girlfriend" is adapted from Elena Ferrante's novel "The Neapolitan Quartet", which exhausts the friendship between two women and explores the extreme shaping of friendship...
"The Neapolitan Quartet" has attracted countless readers, which is why it was adapted into the TV series "My Gifted Girlfriend", which is also currently in theaters. The Neapolitan Tetralogy is one of those books you can miss the subway in order to read it, one of those books you can open regardless of the morning's start, or even stay up all night obsessed with it. When the fourth book is finished, there will still be a strong feeling of wanting to continue reading.
First love always evokes the same feelings, and so does friendship between women, both of which are more or less similar. Elena Ferrante masterfully captures the depth and complexity of friendships between women by describing the relationship between Lila and Lennon, the protagonists of the Neapolitan Quartet.
We take romantic love very seriously because we listen to and dream of romantic love stories from a very young age. But relationships and friendships between women, especially in childhood, are equally emotional. It's like at school, even though we've been with our friends for a day, we still have to talk on the phone when we get home because we still have a lot to say; Little problems joking around in bed, and even talking late into the night. Later, when we separated for various reasons, we would write rambling letters about the details of our respective days after we separated.
When we grow up as teenagers, it is the same-sex friends around us that inspire us to move forward. We quarrel with each other, compete with each other, and encourage each other. Sometimes we take the opinions of our female friends as our own, what books they suggest to read, what books to listen to, who to love, whether it’s good or bad, we all accept it, and it will affect us even as adults. The impact is still there. And the relationship between women is like being on a team, and while it doesn't have mature, healthy boundaries, it's an emotional romance.
"Friendship between young women is full of emotional romance"
Friendship between young women is full of emotional romance, but friendship between women is not always beautiful. There is jealousy, competition, and cruelty, all of which exist objectively. When we were kids, teenagers, and even in our twenties, we didn't know how to rationalize the impact of female friends on us, because there's a good chance that a person is both our best friend and Our worst enemy. Lila and Lennon are such a female relationship, full of jealousy and competition, and sometimes even find the cruelty of friendship between women terrifying. "My Brilliant Girlfriend" unfolds from sixty-year-old Lennon's autobiography, and as we read, we're eager to find out what happened to her dynamic, talented girlfriend, Lila. It also reminds us that we will never lose the love that our dearest friend once gave us, even if sometimes a friend's love comes with jealousy.
The story unfolds in the Naples region, which is full of poverty, ignorance, and violence. Lila and Lennon met in elementary school, and they were both very smart. Compared to Lennon, Lila is more attractive because of her wild charm. After graduating from primary school, teachers encouraged them to continue to junior high school, but poverty and the influence of their family of origin forced them to take two diametrically opposite paths. Studies, love, and work have changed the trajectory of their lives. But their friendship is deep and incomprehensible. As the author Ferrante puts it, "She ignited my brain... I ripped the words apart from their mouths, creating an overwhelming sense of excitement, like an electric current going through it. generally."
But the story doesn't follow an obvious trajectory either: Reiner doesn't just disappear into the sunset just because she's better educated, leaving Lila with an empty life from then on, and ultimately breaking her down. The rivalry between them continues - Reiner feels like Lila's "Pale Shadow". Even when she finally becomes a writer, she still seeks Lila's approval. Lila grew up marrying a local grocer and repressed her love of books, but she still defied convention in her own way. They grew up together, pursued a better version of themselves because of competition, and at the same time were inseparable from each other, and they inspired each other to bring out the worst and the best in each other.
Just like in our daily life, we will be jealous if the good friends around us are beautiful and good, but at the same time, it must also inspire us to make ourselves better. But in fact, we rarely talk about the influence of our female friends, so Ferrante's novel can especially inspire our sympathy, the delicate relationship between two women, and how the wonderful women around us inspire We move forward.
As Ferrante wrote in the Guardian column, "The Italian word 'friendship' (amicizia) has the same root as the verb 'love' (amare), and friendship between women is also full of richness, complexity, Contradiction. Lennon and Lila, no matter what jealousy they are, they are attached to each other and grow up with each other.
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