I really like the female group portraits in this play. Each girl is an independent individual, and their hearts are both strong and soft and fragile. The feminism embodied in this is unique and profound.
CASSIE: She is so gentle and kind. I have had many boyfriends, but she loves them wholeheartedly and unreservedly, just like she tolerates Mckay's cowardice and avoids being irresponsible. After learning that she was pregnant, she was not panicked like most girls, but the phantom boyfriend would agree to give birth to the baby and be a good mother. She has an irresponsible father and countless irresponsible boyfriends, but she is a responsible girl. It's a pity that scumbags don't understand her, and countless scumbags secretly filmed and made sex videos, and uploaded them to the Internet. She watched the video and cried. For a moment, she felt that the world was gray, but she walked out firmly. She comforted herself that this is something every girl would experience, in order to ignore the humiliation of her slut by boys. She is still confident and cheerful, wearing sexy clothes to show her perfect figure, and still bravely to love and be loved. But those pains were always there, she just told herself not to think about it.
When she was lying on the hospital's operating table doing abortion, she was thinking of her dream of becoming a skater when she was a child, the dream that was finally stifled by her father. The men said they liked her, all they liked was her face and figure. No one had ever asked her what was in her heart, and no one wanted to listen. But she really didn't express herself for a long time. What she showed was a simple-minded, boring and stupid girl with only good looks. But she is not. In the last episode, she decided not to have a boyfriend for at least three years. Staying single will probably make her listen to her own voice. She will no longer be a role of giving love, but learn to love herself more and pursue her dreams.
MADDY: She looks confident and strong. I have been beaten by nate many times, but she will not be loyal to nate because of this. She is also very smart. She will pretend to be petite in front of Nate, and pretend to enjoy his sexual ability during intercourse. In fact, this is just to use Nate's self-esteem to get the gift she wants. Moreover, she has never been fooled by nate's rhetoric a little bit. But she couldn't help but love nate. "The most painful thing is that even though I was treated so cruelly, I still love him."
Cassie and maddy are actually the kind of girls who are very popular because they are very beautiful and cheerful. But perhaps because of this, they are also deeply oppressed by patriarchy. Because they grew up being praised by men, as if their value is to be liked and liked by men, and gradually lost themselves. I don't know if maddy can escape the persecution of nate in the second season. (But I feel that the emotional complexity of maddy and nate is far more than this. The relationship between quarreling you to death, but reconciling quickly and immediately entering another sweet peak, I don’t understand.)
KATE: It is a person who combines the self-confidence of fat girls with inferiority complex. Because of her fatness and being ignored or even despised in real life, she chose to become a queen online, from a fandom to a porn queen. It is also because the United States cannot body Shame's political correctness, so she has the means to protect herself. Even afterwards, she is no longer afraid to show off her flesh, plus size girls can also wear low-cut short skirts and sexy shorts, and they are the most beautiful when they are confident!
At the same time, she frequently has intercourse with men after breaking, but unlike Jules who has intercourse for abuse, she is happy to see the ugly state of men reaching orgasm under their good sexual ability. That is, she did not reach the orgasm, but looked at the ugly state of the men in the orgasm with a very calm attitude. This is also like a kind of resistance to patriarchy, because her figure is the object of being scrutinized and despised by men in life, and in sexual intercourse, the ideal state of the male-female relationship is the watching man and the watching woman. , The man who dominates happiness and the woman who is dominated by happiness, and KATE reverses this in practice.
However, the inferiority complex for her figure is still a hurdle that she cannot easily cross. She uses meanness and frivolousness to protect herself. She can't believe that there will be a boy who really loves herself. But after being scolded by maddy, she finally confessed to the little milk dog bravely, this pair is really wonderful~~~
JULES: She is a brave and maverick girl. The identity of trans and her hobby of Japanese anime are undoubtedly the non-mainstream among the non-mainstream among American teenagers. When I was young, girls were deceived by their mothers into a mental hospital because of their gender recognition. When I grew up, I could still choose to be a beautiful girl. She was really brave. But her self-harm tendency seems to have existed since then. In the psychiatric hospital, blood vessels were cut with a can, and when he grew up, he was abused through casual sexual relations. Perhaps it is precisely because they are used to casual unhealthy sexual relations that are not responsible, so they can't take rue's sincere love seriously, and can't start a stable and strong relationship.
Another very special point is Jules' pursuit of femininity. In order to make herself a completely complete woman, Jules said that she is gradually and constantly working hard to reach the next level. She also regards having sex with men as a key part of possessing femininity, which may be understood as being feminized by being inserted and becoming a sexual object. This is actually the subconsciousness in the patriarchal society. Later, Anna also told Jules that it is not necessary to rely on men to embody her feminization. At the same time, this subconsciousness made her never think that she would like girls, so that she could not accept Rue's love immediately.
RUE: I think rue and lexi are the two coolest girls in the show. They are the ones who can get rid of the shackles and constraints of the society and think about themselves the most, especially lexi. Rue has been unable to reconcile with himself since he was a child because of a natural psychological problem. Coupled with the death of her father, she was even more shocked. Rue's dependence on drugs, and later turned into dependence on Jules, is a manifestation of being unable to be alone with himself. Rue suffers from bipolar disorder and depression as soon as she is alone. What she needs to learn most is to solve her own psychological problems independently.
LEXI: I wrote a review specifically, so I won’t say more here~(￣▽￣～)~
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