The influence of the original family is passed on from generation to generation, but Patrick's parents used such a bad way to add his misfortune to their children, and Patrick is desperately trying not to pass it on to his son, but this still can't stop Robert from being like when he was a child. Go jump the manhole cover. Maybe that's why the show is called Melrose, not Patrick.
While watching I was thinking about how we are going to be parents and protect our children. Even Mary, who is a strong mother and wife, has a mother who doesn't look good. It seems to be a consensus to blame the family of origin, but whether the children themselves are sensitive and vulnerable because they are not enough to understand the joys and sorrows of adults. For Pat, it's sexual abuse and indulgence, for Robert, it's just an out-of-control father and a depressing atmosphere.
Maybe everyone will encounter their own "abuse" on the road of growth, but some people suffer far more terrible, and some people are more fortunate.
Many people say that the whole show is extremely dark, did they all only watch the first two episodes. What I saw in the whole play was Pat's super vitality. Death was a habitual idea of his. Sitting in the psychiatrist's office, he thought about how high the window was and whether it would be enough to jump out of the window. But even so, he did everything we could expect from someone who has had this experience. He has the desire to take the initiative to seek help, and bravely takes one step after another. Drug addiction, alcohol, and abuse have not brought him down. In the end, his son and wife welcome his return... I watched "Want to See You" before, and my friends expressed their hope that they would finally What I saw was Chen Yunru's own power to promote his awakening, not through reconciliation with Huang Yuxuan. With Patrick, then, all reconciliation is entirely in his own power. This makes me in awe.
Maybe life itself is bad. At this moment, I can only think of the sentence that I didn't like very much before, what life is a gorgeous robe covered with lice. But in such a life that is more or less bad for everyone, what kind of meaning can we seek, and how can we deal with it, it is a question that everyone has to face. If you succeed, you can continue to live, and occasionally feel a little joy in life; if you fail, like a musician's wife, "she overdose and died."
The novel is said to be darker, and I'm afraid I'm not ready to read it. From the perspective of the play, the final result is very happy, which is a great comfort from watching this play in pain.
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