The English play title of "Hang Fen" is Euphoria. According to the interpretation of "Longman Dictionary of Modern English", Euphoria refers to a very short duration of extremely strong feelings of happiness and excitement. Yes, every protagonist is experiencing this feeling.
This play is not long, with a total of 8 episodes. In the first few minutes of each episode, some other protagonists’ experiences from childhood to childhood are introduced from the perspective of the protagonist Rue, and then the protagonists are told about their campus/spare life.
Rue had mental illness since he was a child. He started taking drugs when he was a teenager. At the age of 16, he almost died from excessive drug use. He went out of the hospital and went to a drug rehabilitation center for a year before returning to school.
Jules is a new male-to-female trans girl in town. She has been injected with hormones but has not undergone surgery. She looks like a girl with long hair, breasts and jj. After she appeared, she and Rue became good best friends. Rue fell in love with her and wanted to be another person. Although Jules had a brief admiration for him when he chatted with Nate online, and later had a special affection with his new friend Anna, I think Jules fell in love with Rue in the end. Rue also loves Jules, but Jules is like a life-saving medicine rewarded by God to her. Jules makes her happy like drugs. She is afraid that piercing the window paper will lose Jules and she will return to the darkness, so Jules is behind. She was a little cowardly when hinting at her. And finally when Jules was about to flee the town with her, Rue flinched. Maybe she cared about her mother and sister, maybe she didn't need Jules anymore. She chose the latter between her obsession with Jules and staying with her family, and Jules left alone.
Nate is the school grass, the man of the school football team, and his father is the richest man in the area. Both father and son are handsome and rich but they have hidden secrets. Jules had an appointment with Nate's dad Carl when he first arrived. Carl is actually Gay. He has been dating all kinds of young trans young people (male to female) and filmed videos and turned them into discs and locked them in the study drawer. These CDs were all read by the young Nate, but his dad, who seemed to have a successful family career, was so dirty behind his back. Those sex videos brought a strong visual and auditory impact to the young Nate. He was very violent when he grew up, and he also chatted with trans on the same-sex dating software and saved each other's bird pictures. I think it is inseparable from those videos.
There are Maddy, Cassie and Kat in the best friends group. Maddy is a school bachelor. The family is not happy and the family conditions are average, but he wants to live the life of a rich girl. She and Nate are entangled and inseparable, even if she knows that there are more than 40 other people’s bird pictures stored in Nate’s phone, and Nate pinched her to threaten her not to tell her, and her neck is full of The bruise was reconciled later.
Cassie is the No. 2 school girl. She has been in love and has always been hurt. Even if she is unwilling, she will still agree to her boyfriend to shoot her a sex video and send nude photos to her. After the breakup, these will be leaked by the man. Later, she met McKay. She thought McKay was a different one, but for McKay, she was just a comfort he sought when he was down. The front foot told Cassie that he loves her, and Nate on the back foot asked them what their relationship was. He said that it was just to play together. He said that he loved her again and again and Cassie became pregnant and he was extremely irresponsible. Finally, his mother and sister accompanied her to an abortion, determined not to be in love again for the next 3 years.
Kat was originally the fat girl who was responsible for comforting others in the girlfriends group. She is the gangster who writes fan fiction online, but she is not very popular in real life and has no spark with the opposite sex. One day she began to change herself, from dress to formal style, becoming a vicious girl with a sexy and revealing mouth, and began posting soft pornographic videos on the Internet, wearing a mask to pay for old men to chat. Her deskmate Ethan likes her, and she likes him, but because of a small misunderstanding, they are not developing smoothly. I think Kat is inferior. I think Ethan is playing with her feelings, so she is very vicious to him, but fortunately Ethan didn't retreat, and finally Kat went back to apologize to him and the two reconciled.
Fez is a dropout who sells drugs to Rue. He should like Rue, but he treats her more as his family and his sister. Fez is a great boy. He has no parents. He takes his younger brother to ask for a living. He takes care of the unconscious grandma who is paralyzed in bed, and he always covers Rue. I think he and Ethan are the only good boys in the whole show.
The whole drama shows the various problems that young people suffer, such as love, friendship, sex, sexual orientation, sexual violence, early pregnancy, drugs, alcohol, parties, depression, bipolar disorder, dark web transactions, etc. The content is bold A lot of light and color are used in shooting. Many of the pictures look very artistic. The protagonists’ styles and costumes are very attentive, the music is also very good, and the visual and auditory effects are very good.
In addition to the proper control of the overall content, there are many small details that also convey a lot of useful information. For example, after the school knew that Nate was related to the bruise on Maddy's neck, he invited his parents to come to the school. When his father Carl arrived at the school gate, the police opened the door for him. Then Carl walked in front, and the police and mother walked side by side behind. This position well reflects Carl's status and prestige in the local area, and is in line with the information that half of the entire town belongs to him.
In addition, the play also discusses what true love is, and the sexual orientation is fluid.
In the past two years, I have watched a lot of dramas focusing on teenagers/adolescence, such as "SKAM", "Everything Goes Not Going", "Sex Education", "Fuck the World", "Normal People", and "Excitement". The content is similar, "SKAM" also involves the conflict between religion and love. I think it is good for young people to have films and TV dramas that discuss these issues. Young people watching dramas may also encounter the same troubles, and these dramas may inspire them. Some people may say that the children are being taught badly, but it is better to block them than to worry about the bad influence of these works of art. It is better to worry about the killing of women, domestic violence, rape, hit-and-run and other social news.
The final ending is a bit like a stage play, and I was a bit surprised to see this ending form for the first time.
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