After chasing after Sex and the City over the weekend, I found that this is really a good drama. This drama depicts almost all the problems of urban men and women: about love, about affairs, about breaking up, and in the last season even about children, about mother-in-law, about women's cancer and other topics. I don't think there is a more realistic textbook on relationships between men and women than this show, or a less realistic guide to love.
The most realistic thing about this drama is that it is estimated that there are hundreds of love stories in the drama, but there has never been a perfect love story in an idol drama-a handsome man and a beautiful woman fall in love, and the lightning and flint are happily ever after. In any relationship, there is a very realistic part, and there is a real human nature. For example, Charlotte, who wants to marry the most among the four, has her first marriage with a doctor who has a bright job and a prominent family background. A scene where a romantic prince and princess meet. But after marriage, there are chicken feathers all over the place. Charlotte insisted on not having sex before marriage, and finally found her husband impotent, and even faced various interference from her mother-in-law after marriage. The true love he finally found was a bald lawyer who even gave up his religion in order to marry Charlotte. For example, the longest love story between the heroine Carrie and a very attractive man, Mr.big. In the play, Mr.big suddenly realized that life was fragile when he had heart surgery. He should cherish the carrie in front of him, but in the morning Waking up and cold again, Carrie finally realized that this man was something she could never keep. Samantha, the most confident and unrestrained in the play, finally faced chemotherapy hair loss and lost the feminine charm she cared about most. The most independent Miranda was the first to have children. After marriage, she even lived with her mother-in-law and took the initiative to take care of her elderly mother-in-law. But these godlike transitions are so in-line with the characters, so unexpected, and in these transitions, I expanded my understanding of relationships. It turns out that there are really no assumptions and ought to be in the relationship, and nothing should be taken for granted. Relationships are resilient.
The most unrealistic thing about this show is that the four heroines are actually out of the gravity of reality, and they don't have to aggrieve themselves for material restraint. Even this American drama filmed nearly 20 years ago in 1998 made me feel that even contemporary China does not have the open and accepting social environment of the United States. In the United States in 1998, a single mother was still an attractive woman who could fall in love with a handsome doctor, and 35 was still an age that could be dated at will, not a person who would be removed from the market by someone on the blind date market. A couple of 35-year-old women still have set times a week where they can get together for lunch and gossip, and a couple of people can still go on a date every night at the newest club in town. But the economic base determines the superstructure. Without these economic bases, any person’s story may become a drama of suffering. Samantha may need to borrow money for treatment after she has cancer, and Miranda may not have so much money to hire a nanny to take care of her children. And exhausted, Charlotte became a full-time wife after the divorce. If there is no villa sent by her ex-husband, she may also face financial pressure, and when Carrie urgently needs money, she can only regret her moonlight lifestyle with a cabinet of shoes. But after all, this is an American drama that mainly discusses the relationship between the sexes. The title of the drama is just sex and city, and the screenwriter is not ready to write an all-encompassing sex and money and city. Whether it is the United States or China, money is the freedom of casting, giving us the right to choose.
The four female characters in this play are also very distinct, and even the domestic "Pink Girl" and "I Want to Fall in Love" and other series of four women's one drama stories are similar to the character setting of the protagonist of this play. For example, the heroine Carrie, a highly controversial character, can see a lot of comments scolding Carrie. But in my opinion, she is a very real character. What many people hate about Carrie is that he once betrayed Aden and reunited with Aden but broke up again. Many people think that Carrie is just a vain green tea image, and even getting along with friends is very selfish and only considers himself. But I think first of all, the screenwriter did not plan to portray Carrie as a perfect female image. The biggest characteristic of Carrie is actually authenticity, humor, casualness, loyalty to herself, idealism for feelings, and a little vanity. So if you accept this setting, you will understand that Carrie and Aden are really stable and comfortable together, but this is not Carrie's definition of an ideal relationship. By yourself. Of course, you can disagree with her view of love. She herself cannot love Mr. Big because of her pursuit of emotional purity. She has already suffered the price of her choice. This is a self-contained script. As for Carrie's friendship, I think she's the soul core of the four sisters, the glue. Imagine that there is no Carrie, only the serious and sometimes nervous Charlotte, the bohemian Samantha, and the Miranda who is like a man and a wife, such friendship is really difficult to maintain, I can't even imagine the three of them eating and chatting together. look. So we always see Carrie and the other three have a separate chat, walk and date, but the remaining three are combined alone, also because Carrie is the most tolerant, she can accept Miranda's extreme rationality, and Charlotte's extreme naivety, It is also acceptable to accept Samantha's extreme freedom. So she can get everyone to gather around him. Those who say Carrie is selfish, don't forget that Carrie is the godmother to Miranda's son, the only person Miranda called when she gave birth, she was the first person to tell Samantha's cancer, and she was the only person to talk to when Charlotte wanted to escape marriage on her wedding day. She is trustworthy.
In fact, there are more and more older single women in China, and there is a lot of anxiety about relationships. I think we all need this Sex and the City, we need Charlotte's faith in marriage, we need Samantha's loyalty to self, we need Miranda's acceptance of love, we need Carrie's emotional resilience, never stop thinking, have SEX AND CITY for each of us.
View more about Sex and the City reviews
