In " Three Billboards ", Cohen's sister-in-law Francis McDormand challenged the sturdy middle-aged women in the small town with her "old age" of 60, and used her explosive acting skills to express the stubbornness, loneliness and impulsiveness of a mother who lost her daughter. It is rich and moving with warmth. It also won her a Golden Globe Award and is expected to take home a Golden Man again.
In fact, to challenge the 40-year-old role, Francis had a successful attempt as early as 2014 and won an Emmy trophy for her. It is the four-episode miniseries produced by HBO that will be launched for you today:
"Olive Kitteridge"
In fact, the first time I heard about this drama was because a group friend who lost his temper said that he felt like her.
After reading part1, the biggest feeling is: isn't this just writing me? And my colleague exclaimed: This is my mother!
How did this American drama, which was adapted from the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel of the same name, use Western stories to resonate with so much of the East?
Let's see together:
An old woman with disheveled hair walked into the woods lonely, she slowly rolled out the blanket, turned on the radio, and with the melodious music flowing, took out a pistol from her bag, loaded the bullet, and finally looked up at the sky. At that moment, the heaven and the earth are long, the wind is gentle, and the people of Sri Lanka will die ...
For those of us who are used to reading García Márquez, this start is actually not surprising .
But the scroll of fate of a woman who chooses to end herself also unfolds.
On Valentine's Day 25 years ago, Olive's husband excitedly prepared Valentine's Day cards for her .
And her response was indifference .
A day later we found out she had thrown the card in the trash.
The reason is: the cards you have seen are waste :
Coupled with the unpleasant communication between the family at the dinner table, we couldn't help but sweat for their marriage.
Then, more unfavorable factors emerged .
A silly white sweet who is completely different from Olive came to her husband Henry's pharmacy . Her frailty, stupidity and full of positive energy made Henry's eyes light up from time to time:
And Olive is obviously having an ambiguous relationship with his colleagues. Unlike the warm old man Henry, this is a cool old man , and his communication with Olive seems to be more...
Yes, it's puzzling...
However, for a woman who is a middle-aged woman, perhaps this kind of obscurity and incomprehension is the good medicine to relieve the dull and rigid marriage life .
After all, she was born into a depressive family. My father committed suicide by suicide, and my mother was severely depressed .
Although her husband Henry is kind and passionate about everything, he is obviously not on the same channel as her:
The son is also not worrying:
Olive herself suffers from depression, but her approach to depression is interesting:
Yes, she doesn't mind !
Because depression makes her more sensitive to things, and her insight is stronger than ordinary people.
It's really a whole new perspective.
Her characteristics make her not have high expectations for human nature, and she has always maintained a slight alienation from the whole world. The specific performance is about loneliness and meanness.
In fact, behind the indifference and meanness, there is a steady stream of kindness and warmth.
She ruthlessly refused to detain the child's mother's request, but escorted Kevin, whose mother was depressed, home; she mocked Denny's like a mouse, but acquiesced in Henry's response to Denny's husband after the accidental death of her husband. Dan's bottomless help:
She sees the world from her own perspective and treats the world her own way.
When she sensed that the past student was going to commit suicide, instead of instilling big truths, she pulled home and told him what to do if the children saw it?
She is afraid that the little girl will be stung by bees in the flowers, but she is called a witch because of her bad attitude :
Hearing her future daughter-in-law's slander, she didn't feel sorry for herself, but quietly destroyed her new clothes and took her a shoe and an earring (cool, isn't it?)
When Henry confessed to her, she was indifferently despised by her, but he took care of him tenderly and thoughtfully for four years after his stroke, and said I love you to the unconscious him:
Mean, more just not good at expressing. It's not that I don't understand it, but I just can't do it, I can't say it.
There is a huge monster between her and the world , so that others can't see her goodness. In fact, the meanness caused by this giant beast hurt other people, and it hurt herself more deeply.
Who has the right to evaluate her point of view, right? Is her way good?
In fact, even Olive herself didn't know it .
Because, in the end, she let go of the giant beast that she had held tightly in her arms for so many years-the huge self-esteem, and took the initiative to come to Jack's house, who was also widowed and lonely:
After all, The world baffles me, but I don't want leave it yet .
If so, then keep going .
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