This article is a plot analysis of the third episode of the first season of "My Genius Girlfriend", "Transformation". I will interpret each episode analysis article in detail in combination with the first part of the original "Naples Four Parts". The number of words is too much, and the readers are sorry for the bad writing.
"In my years of high school, we watched a lot of things change, but we were in it day by day, and we didn't feel it was a real change." - "My Gifted Girlfriend"
The first two episodes told the childhood life of Elena and Lila. From this episode, they lost their innocence and gradually grew up.
Compared to before, everyone in the community has more or less transformed.
After graduating from elementary school, many of her peers around Elena entered social work early, and only Elena, Giyola and Alfonso were able to continue their studies in junior high school.
At the beginning of this episode, it cleverly used Elena's dream to complete the handover between the adult actors and the young actors.
In Elena's dream, there is a scene of community residents mourning for Don Achille.
Lila did not appear in the funeral procession, but stood aside and laughed loudly.
It suits Lila's personality, she never hides her emotions and seems so out of place.
The grown-up Lila and the childhood Elena looked at the Solara brothers' luxury car with a bewildered expression on their faces.
The old forces represented by Don Achille have disappeared, and what awaits them will be new evil forces.
Facing the unknown front, they experienced the pains of growth along the way.
[Warm reminder: There are spoilers below! 】
01
Lila in the dream had a nosebleed, and Elena woke up from the dream to find that she was bleeding from underneath.
At this time, Elena's mother was playing with Elena's sister Eliza with a doting face.
Elena, who was still in junior high school, did not know that this was her first period, which was a normal physiological response.
She ran out of the house in a panic, drawing her mother's attention.
Although Elena's mother is usually more fond of her younger daughter, she is actually a knife-mouthed tofu-hearted person, and she still cares about her eldest daughter Elena.
She went to Elena's room and saw blood on the sheets.
Elena thought she was going to die, and the first thing she thought of was to ask Lila for help.
The dialogue between the three girls Elena, Lila and Carmela accurately shows the psychological state of adolescent girls.
Lila didn't understand this normal physiological phenomenon, but Carmela next to her clearly told Elena that she was coming to auntie.
Elena asked Lila if she had her period, but Lila scoffed at it. Not only did she find it disgusting, but the person who said it was disgusting.
What Lila said hurt Elena deeply, and she thought she had lost Lila as a friend.
Since Elena entered junior high school, Lila has been trying to distance herself from Elena out of jealousy. She was getting closer to Carmela, who also didn't go to school, which made Elena sad.
In addition to physical discomfort and pain, growing pains can mean estrangement and departure from friends.
02
Following the death of Don Archil Karachi, the Karachi family lost its influence in the community. However, the skinny camel is still bigger than the horse, and the property and family business left by Don Archie are still there. His wife and son Stefano run the family's butcher shop, and the business is booming. They are still in the community. rich man.
The Solara family became the most powerful and wealthy people in the community at this time. Their bar expanded and became a thriving dessert shop. Giyola Spagnuolo's father was the pastry chef in the shop. .
Silvio Solara's two sons, Marcello and Michele, drive around in their new luxury car all day. They often harass beautiful girls from poor families in the community, and even take these girls out for a drive.
One day, several girls witness the mad widow Melina's daughter, Ida, being forcibly pushed into the back seat of their car by the Solara brothers.
For the rude behavior of the Solara brothers, Jiyola and Carmela did not care, and even thought that Ada was lucky.
They are all impressed by the charm of the Solara brothers. In their eyes, the Solara brothers are simply representatives of the rich and handsome in the community, and they are the ideal destination for poor girls.
Lila directly in front of them pointed out the shameless behavior of the Solara brothers abducting the girl.
Although Elena had the same attitude, she did not express her true thoughts to Jiyola and Carmela, but Lila expressed the feelings that Elena did not dare to express at this time.
"Can we be dragged into their car by being handsome?" Lila's every question pointed to the point and essence. If they didn't realize the weakness of the female group and the seriousness of the matter, then the next one would be dragged into the car. It's them.
At this time, Lila was more concerned about making money than reading books. She expressed her desire for wealth to Elena:
Even though Don Achille was dead, the Solara brothers did not harass his daughter Pinocchia, but dared to bully Ada because Ada was born poor.
Only by making more money can we escape from this place.
Ada's brother Antonio, who works in an auto repair shop, tries to stand up for his bullied sister, only to be beaten by the Solara brothers.
Antonio, in the mouth of Manuela Solara, is an ant who is beyond his own power.
The crowd of onlookers were silent, they were all afraid of the powerful Solara family. In the end, only Carmela's brother Pasquale stood up and helped Ada help the injured Antonio back home.
The pain of growing up is that suddenly one day, you see the cruelty of the adult world.
03
Although Elena graduated first in elementary school, her grades in junior high school were not ideal at the beginning, and she was even in danger of failing her Latin course.
What's more interesting is that the father, who was originally a firm supporter of Elena's study, was a little shaken this time. He began to think that Elena was not a material for reading, and he did not want to ask Elena to tutor her homework at the cost of debt.
After watching this episode, viewers will have a different impression of Elena's mother, who doesn't seem to be as bad as Elena herself thinks.
Originally, she firmly did not support continuing to enroll Elena in middle school, but this time, she encouraged Elena to improve her grades through self-study. She believed that her daughter was no worse than Jiyola, and Elena's ingenuity could do it. .
The reason why Elena's grades did not meet expectations is that all her enthusiasm was not on learning.
Going to middle school was originally something she was proud of, but without Lila by her side, she felt that everything became boring and even dirty.
Lila occupies an important place in Elena's heart. When Lila is not around, Elena always imagines how she would handle things if she were Lila.
For example, when faced with the obscene request from the pharmacist's son Gino and another classmate to see her breasts, she was not afraid to back down, but more boldly and presumptuously bargained with Gino, because she thought Lila would do it.
That day, Elena realized for the first time the attractiveness of her growing body to men, and more importantly, she felt Lila's unruly soul.
Then Elena came to the Solara family's pastry shop, and Marcello took the initiative to waive the order for her, which further confirmed the attractiveness of her body and beauty to men.
In addition to the drop in grades due to lack of interest in Latin, Elena's learning methods also went wrong. The only person who can make her progress is Lila, who desperately needs this friend.
It is mentioned in the original book that Lila took the initiative to find Elena, tutored Elena in her homework on the grounds of learning Latin together, and gave her a lot of homework. Although Lila did not go to school, through self-study, she mastered Latin even better than Elena who went to school.
In the play, the improvement of the relationship between the two is handled like this:
Elena found that Lila went to the library of their elementary school to borrow books. When Teacher Ferraro asked her to hand over the Latin grammar books to Lila, she realized that Lila had been secretly learning Latin.
When Lila asked Elena to get her grammar book, she called Elena by the way.
From then on, Elena suddenly got enlightened and achieved the first grade in the school.
Elena was both happy and miserable, knowing she wasn't really No. 1. If Lila's family continued to support Lila's studies, Lila would definitely get the first place, and the teacher would give her full marks. Elena never got a 10.
"They didn't give you ten points?" Lila also hinted to Elena in words.
Elena's parents don't plan to continue her studies. They want to find a good job for Elena after she graduates from junior high school.
At this time, even though Elena received an invitation from the elementary school library, she was not in the mood to participate in the annual award ceremony for the best student readers held by the library.
Looking at the pimples on her face in the mirror, she felt that she had lost her purpose in life, and her future could even be seen to the end, and finally turned into her mother's slanted eyes and lame appearance:
"I gradually felt that the novels I read were useless at all, my life was very pale, and in the future I would become a fat, acne-prone salesman, selling things in the stationery store opposite the church, or becoming a marketer. A government clerk, an old girl, will sooner or later become a cripple with a slanted eye." - "My Gifted Girlfriend"
Elena attended the library's awards ceremony, with her elementary school teacher Oliviero sitting in the audience.
Teacher Ferraro announced the top five outstanding readers, in addition to Elena who ranked fifth, the top four winners were the Cerullo family (Lila and her parents and brothers).
It turned out that Lila also borrowed books in the name of her parents and brother, so she had a total of four library cards, so that she could borrow four books a week.
Although Lila has given up writing, she still insists on reading, reading far more than Elena.
Pasquale also guessed it. After all, he and Lila's brother Reno were at the same table in elementary school, and he knew the real situation of Reno best. When the two of them went to school, they didn't even know a few big characters, let alone read literary works.
In the original book, he also made up some quite absurd and funny scenes, which made people laugh:
"Pasquale told me in his dialect that Rino's eyes were broken by reading books; Fernando the shoemaker stayed up at night and kept reading; Mrs. Nunzia stood by the fire, cooking potatoes and noodles while reading, a With a book in one hand and a ladle in the other. The things he said made me laugh even more." - My Gifted Girlfriend
Perhaps because of Lila's previous experience, Mr. Oliviero was shocked when he heard that Elena's Latin was excellent, but she planned to go to work.
She may regret that Lila's talents were not given the opportunity to display, and she was also bitter about her failure to convince Lila's mother.
Teacher Oliviero insisted that Elena continue high school, and said she would make sure Elena continued to attend school.
She also hoped that Elena would stay away from Pasquale, because of his bad background, he could only be a mason in his life, and if he followed him, he would have no future. What's more, he also has a father who is in prison, and his father is accused of murdering Don Archie.
Teacher Oliviero really did what she said. After Elena went home, she found that the teacher had successfully persuaded her parents to allow her to continue to high school.
Even if you can't agree with Teacher Oliviero's concept of class hierarchy, you have to admit that she is indeed a very responsible teacher.
Before leaving, she asked Elena about Lila's situation, and she also specially asked Elena to tell Lila the news that she had achieved high grades and was about to study Greek in high school.
This move is really well-intentioned, and she hopes that Lila can continue to learn by herself under the stimulation of Elena.
Elena's mother was angry at Oliviero's self-assertion and imposing her will on others. She had to send Elena to a rich school for high school, otherwise Olivier Teacher Luo will spread her anger on her youngest daughter Elisa, who is still in elementary school.
Elena's father focused on another thing Oliviero said, and he used a threatening tone to force Elena to stop interacting with Pasquale Peluso.
You may have fallen to the bottom of the valley one second, and the next second will usher in a turning point. The world is so impermanent.
The pain of growing up is this huge psychological gap before and after. It is not easy to look at it with a correct attitude. You may need to experience tearing pains to understand that lows and highs are just the normal state of life.
04
After the award ceremony in the library, Elena and Pasquale agreed to go to the shoemaker's shop to give Lila a prize.
Elena was happy at the time, because she naively thought it was the first date in her life, and she was also attractive to boys.
Pasquale was actually a drunkard, not drinking. He asked about Lila along the way, which was enough to show his affection for Lila.
After arriving at the cobbler's shop, Elena tells Lila about the crazy widow Melina who recently started going crazy again.
Originally, Melina seemed to be in better shape, but the behavior of the railway worker and poet Donato Saratore stimulated Melina again.
Saratore recently sent Melina a collection of poems, which he wrote himself, with a signature on the front that it was dedicated to her.
Elena found this way of expressing love romantic, and she was honored that Saratore had been neighbors. Elena thinks her desire to make money from small books has been fulfilled by Saratore.
However, Lila didn't think so. She thought Saratore's act of sending the book was selfish and made things worse.
It is also mentioned in the original book that Elena's parents and Lila have similar views, and they are very angry about it, thinking that the railway worker and poet is a bastard.
"She wants to change the status quo, and it's the same topic: We should go from poor to rich, from nothing to everything." - "My Gifted Girlfriend"
Lila gave up the dream of writing a book to get rich that she had told Elena as a child to focus all her energy on doing business and starting a business.
She shares her and her brother's secret with Elena, which brings them one step closer.
Lila and her brother Reno are secretly making a pair of beautiful high-end shoes according to Lila's design drawings, in order to convince their father that the scene they envision is just as Lila herself said:
"Make two pairs today, four pairs tomorrow, 30 pairs a month, and 400 pairs a year. In the future, you can open a shoe factory, employ at least 50 workers, and use machines to make shoes. The name of the shoe factory is It's called Cerullo Shoe Factory."
Reno was even more excited that once they realized this wish, they would make a lot of money and live the same life as the Karachi family and the Solara family.
Although Lila is a rare talent, she also has her own limitations. For example, sometimes her ideas will be a little unrealistic, which will also lay hidden dangers in the future.
"In order to drive away the unhappiness in my heart at that time, in order to emphasize my value and my irreplaceable place in her life, I suddenly said to her, I'm going to high school...I say this because I Make her realize: I'm unique, and while she might make a fortune with Reno, she'll never be without me, just as I'll never be without her." - "My Genius" girlfriend
The original book mentioned that Elena had a feeling of worrying about gains and losses: Lila devoted all her energy to making shoes and making a fortune, and her own existence seemed to be less important to Lila.
Elena wanted to brush her presence in front of Lila and prove her excellence, so she told Lila that she would go to high school and learn Greek.
Lila didn't know the meaning of high school, she just realized that after elementary school and junior high school, there are high school and college.
Then, Lila suddenly said that she was coming to Auntie too. Recalling that when Lila came to Aunt Elena, she said that she didn't want to come here, and felt that this and the people who came here were disgusting.
It can be understood that Lila was out of jealousy before, and she actually hates people who come here before her.
Now, Lila can only use this to fight back against Elena, expressing her attitude of not losing, which is in line with Lila's strong character.
This episode of the two fighting each other is subtle and real, and the feelings between women are so complicated.
At this time, the Solara brothers drove over and interrupted the conversation between them.
There is no need to respond to the harassment of the Solara brothers. However, Elena politely expressed her gratitude and politely declined their request. If you look closely at the plot of the play, you can see that Lila looked at Elena in surprise at this time.
The original book mentioned that Elena's reply to the Solara brothers did not use a dialect but deliberately spoke standard Italian.
This is to continue to show her superiority in front of Lila and prove her cultivation and charm. Not only can she calmly reject the Solara brothers, but she will also go to the high school where the rich go to, and know more richer than the Solara brothers. boy.
However, in the eyes of the bully Solara brothers, this kind of politeness is a sign of cowardice, which is why Marcello Solara's progress has been made.
When Marcello wanted to continue harassing Elena, Lila put a knife to his neck without hesitation, warning him not to hurt her friend.
Lila, a weak woman who dares to stand up for her friends and threaten powerful bullies in the city, is admirable for her courage.
She probably wouldn't have thought that this move would bring more trouble to herself, thus planting the seeds of love in Marcello's heart.
Elena and Lila have never been perfect heroines, they each have their own limitations and shortcomings.
They will be jealous of each other, will compete with each other, and will also consume each other's energy, forcing themselves to mature in the constant tearing, which may be the price of growth.
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