"The Queen's Chess Game", the feminist meaning of this show is not very strong, but it is very worth watching.
The story tells the story of a talented girl who lost her mother (suicide) and became an orphan when she was young. She entered an orphanage, and she accidentally saw the janitor who became interested after playing chess. The orphanage at that time once required the children to take sedative drugs. After the heroine was exposed to chess, she took the sedative drugs that she had hidden during the day before going to bed and fell into hallucinations. Her hallucination was that a chess board appeared on the ceiling, and she was in a hallucination. Study chess.
Later, she was adopted, became a chess player, and finally defeated the Soviet national player to become the world champion.
To be a chess champion among men in those days naturally had to face a lot more sexism than now, but this show doesn't focus on portraying that part.
In my opinion, it's mainly about the growth of a talented teenage girl who finally became an independent and complete person in the last episode.
Here are some of my thoughts:
The heroine herself does not suffer from mental illness, but she just relied on sedative drugs prematurely.
In the later stage, she was decadent. In fact, she became famous at a young age and suffered few failures. After those failures, she always managed to defeat her opponent through hard work, such as losing to him (the former American champion) in fast chess. He went back to New York to train her, and it didn't take long for the heroine to beat him at fast chess.
After a period of training and hard work, she failed to face the Soviet champion for the second time. This kind of failure after continuous efforts was something she had never experienced before, so she obviously questioned her career and felt that No matter how hard she tried, she couldn't make progress, and she should have questioned the meaning of "birth", because at this stage, she kept thinking of her biological mother. I think she even suspected that she had the same tendency to self-destruction as her biological mother, so she kept thinking about her biological mother. self-destruct, sink.
This kind of psychology is actually understandable. Humans will inevitably think that they will have similarities with their biological parents, especially the bad parts.
Later, her friends from the orphanage came to ask her to attend the funeral of the school worker who taught her chess. During the funeral, they went to the RV where the heroine lived with her mother, and also saw the orphanage and That basement (where he played chess with the janitor) was the final farewell to his childhood.
During childhood, children's ability to bear things is very low, so we always take the memories of childhood pain seriously and terribly, and even use this to define our later life, as if we will never get out of that circle. But the heroine went back and watched everything after many years. She found that those painful memories, the pain of her mother, etc. were no longer incomprehensible and unbearable as an adult like her. Naturally, she could let go of it all and move towards Go with your own life, without the traces of your mother.
Of course, her black friends in the orphanage also gave her a lot of courage. Just imagine that a black orphan girl in that era could save so much money by herself, work in a law firm, and think about studying law. It is an image full of indomitable spirit.
Under the influence of her black friends, she was naturally inspired, and she could naturally start trying to enjoy life.
And the blue capsule tranquilizer that appeared from beginning to end was not the key, but a line. That drug gave her a hallucination, allowing her to escape from reality and immerse herself in the fantasy of chess. When she really grew up, accepted herself, became herself, and got out of the vicious circle brought by her mother, she naturally gave up? No need? She can also see the picture of chess appearing on the ceiling by focusing on it. In the 7 episodes of this season, in the last episode, the orphan girl finally stood up and grew into a real person who can rely on herself and love herself. This show has a deep meaning, it's really good, and it's suitable for people who are in a downturn to watch.
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