In the low and dark buildings of Naples, men, women and children impatiently shouted "Basta!" (Enough, shut up); the father threw his daughter from the window; the widow who was crazy about love shouted in the corridor like a heartbreaker; Walking down the corridor to the roof, the gangsters fired at the unarmed crowd as fireworks exploded on the cold New Year's night.
Here are some shots from HBO's remake of Ferrante's novel of the same name, "My Gifted Girlfriend." Two Neapolitan girls, Lila and Lenon, grew up in this dark basement next to the unstoppable Mount Vesuvius, as if they had been there since they asked "the local Voldemort" Don Archie for a doll. grown in the city. A whirlwind of restlessness and savagery, gang violence never stops, boys work for the rich, and girls should not have a junior high school education level or above.
Lila and Lennon are the challengers here. The journey started in the class where the boys were competing in geography and math, although Lila was deliberately deflated in a sure-footed place (she always did, as in the torrential rain when she made an appointment to go to the beach with Lennon and returned halfway through). afternoon), they still won the contest with the boy. The boys confronted them on the way home from school, and Lila bravely threw stones at them. A dark, skinny girl with a solid energy inside, Lennon is more introverted, siding with Lila in every confrontation, forming an unofficial alliance that seems to dissolve at any moment.
They are fighting against a world dominated by men. Here, the shoemaker Ruseiro can throw his daughter downstairs, while Lennon's father can slap his daughter at any time, and they decide whether or not her daughter should go to school and who should marry when. The men were always brutal, and they kept fighting: Carmela's father was beaten in the street by Azil, Carmen's brother Antonio was also beaten in the street by the Solara brothers, Reno and Pasquale were in the city. District was severely beaten by decent city kids. The nonstop fighting saw most fathers and sons enmity against others, and then hate each other. The only weak adult male figure is the cowardly and sentimental poet Donato, who ruins the life of the widow Melina. Men emerge as tyrannical life-breakers, using violence to maintain order in their hardened town, only to screw things up. So much so that on New Year's Eve, when Lila saw the peak of the violence: someone was on the verge of madness, someone fired a gun, and at that time, she said something was broken in her head.
And when Lila was thrown out of the window by her father, the women rushed out of the building and ran towards the poor child with concern. The scene that was empty one moment was filled with them running around the next moment, just like Laila Nong's dream of the reptile coming out of the sewer: The woman's anger never stopped, she said. But why is there so much anger? Because they live in the midst of a group of men who make violence, their lives are constantly colliding with wounds, and they are also soaked in poverty. Lila's precocity lies in the fact that she knew from a very young age the helplessness of having no money, and told Lennon to fight poverty, but she had her own rare difference: refusing to marry a rich villain, although it was the easiest way to break free way of poverty. Not only did she reject the marriage that her father was satisfied and insisted on arranging, but she also wanted to have a job. She would not be at home like her mothers did. After dropping out of school, she shut herself in her own shoemaker's shop and designed a pair of Beautiful shoes like Ferragamo.
Much of Lila's marriage to Stefano was about getting rid of Marcheno, or even about her dream of designing a shoe store, and rarely out of love. She told Lennon that Stefano seemed to love her, but that love wouldn't work if her decision threatened his real money. She is like a sly and practical man who chooses a marriage partner after weighing many aspects, but it is not out of romantic love. At the same time, Lennon is like a typical teenage girl. She has a vanity boyfriend, Gino. At the same time, she is deeply attracted to Nino, but she is talking about an indifferent love with Antonio. At Lila's wedding, she sees Nino. When he arrived, he couldn't help but walk over. At this time, Antonio stared at her, she stared at Nino, and Nino stared at Lila on the dance floor. Everyone's eyes radiated a one-way line, but they didn't look at each other or entangle.
Lennon is the buffer between Lila and this small town. She admires and wants to imitate Lila's behavior of escaping this dilapidated community, but in Lila's eyes, Lennon is the one who really went out. When choosing a wedding dress, Lila said: Lennon, you have to keep reading, don't stop, I can give you money. Lennon replied that there was always a head in reading; Lila didn't, in fact, she didn't say the act that both of them knew and practiced: read that you can get out of here. Their rivalry has always existed and was inspired by each other, my genius girlfriend, the author told Lila from Lenon's first point of view, but in the book, in the play, "Tu sei la mia" amica geniale (you are my genius girlfriend)" Lila said to Lennon.
The final episode featured an unparalleled wedding. First, a perfect wedding was shot by shaking with a DV: the happy couple, the two mothers who cried when exchanging rings, the smiles of friends, the disappointment of Pasquale and Enzo who loved Lila deeply, after the wedding, Lila La and Stefano rode out laughing, as if running towards an eternal bliss. At this time, a montage appeared. It was also a Mercedes-Benz car. Lila's good friends came down. The wedding had just started. At first, everything was fine. Cheering up, people started dancing, singing, and laughing wildly. Lennon said before the wedding that the wedding is the moment when everyone can wear the best clothes, indeed, except for her and Anton, everyone seems to be happy to show the most beautiful themselves, she is more and more miserable, she and Lila The alliances seem to be torn at opposite ends of the scale, but soon they are united again: Marcello, who Stefano had promised never to come to the wedding, shows up, even wearing Lila. The first pair of shoes designed. At this time, Lila and Lennon looked at each other with tears in their eyes. They thought their confrontation had achieved some results, but they had just begun.
This marriage, which was tragic to begin with, came from a betrayal of a promise, and the last episode is called The Promise, and there's actually a second promise in the show, and that's Lennon's promise to Lila that she'll keep reading. The first part is over, and this is the only weapon left in the hands of the two. They are still the challengers here, from the girl to the age of marriage, to the previous generation - the starting point of their mothers' descent into the family abyss, and the two of them swallowed an unbearable bitterness at the same time. Ci andiamo! Once again, they're back where they started, to the point where they go to find the dolls, go to the dark basement, and face "the local Voldemort" together. Forze bambine! Forze ragazze!
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