No god, no parents, no judging fingers.
Would we be like, more aware of the consequence of every decision we make and more willing to take the responsibility?
It's like, I made a choice, I live with it.
Just as simple as that.
Would our lives be simpler & easier?
Compared with the Chinese translation, the play title itself, Transparent, can more intuitively express the core of the whole play, and Trans means sex change People, Parent refers to the father who decided to change gender in the play.
Sexuality is a common but easily misunderstood concept.
For most audiences, it is easy to tend to look at this show with a curious mentality, everything is so fresh and unreasonable.
During the entire viewing process, you will always be in a state of waiting, waiting for the emotional explosion, questioning, helplessness, confusion, and unacceptability of the three children, but until the end of the first season, in fact, nothing.
Because life for his three children, Sarah, Josh, and Ali, looks worse than Mapa's (mama, their new name for dad), relative to his decision to be his own father.
Relative to the three emotionally unstable children, the patience and perseverance of mother Maura (formerly Mort) is the main reason why the whole thing does not go into hysteria. Overwhelmed, but his inner certainty and desire for freedom are the forces that keep him moving forward amid the voices of doubt.
People do not exist independently in this society. The change of identity means the change of social identity. In this drastic transformation and adaptation process, either the transformation process is blocked and aborted to return to the old social structure, or the social structure adjusts to adapt to the new identity.
The latter time may be quite long. If the parties do not have absolute belief in freedom, there is no way to successfully reach the end in the long-term passive confrontation.
This confrontation may not be dramatic and intense, but time is the weapon that truly distorts human nature. Fortunately, our Maura already has quite a lot of confrontational capital in her life-long preparation.
There are many tears in the whole play, but the most touching ones are brought by Maura's ex-wife and her husband Ed. The contrast between Ed, who has Alzheimer's, when people don't care, when people talk about his euthanasia and when he says "I'm just here to make you happy" in flashbacks, is really sad.
For the first time in Trans' Got Talent, Maura's three children all left the scene one after another to deal with their own troubles, and the only one who could stay by her side was her divorced wife.
The core of Transparent's opening drama itself has a natural fierce contradiction and confrontation, but the director made the whole drama light and clear, and the ending song of each episode is the first classic, and NetEase Cloud Music has it. The special song list, if you are interested, you can search it.
Finally, I also want to talk about Queer Theory here, because basically the whole show is based on this theory. You don't need to be LGBT, but a diverse and inclusive heart can give you a different perspective on the world.
Queer Theory originated from two cornerstones:
1. Feminists' challenge to the theory that "gender is part of who I am"
2. The study of the nature of homosexuality and sexual diversity and identity in the construction of social relations
So, Queer Although Theory has a very close relationship with LGBT, a large part of its origin is actually closely integrated with feminist liberation, which is consistent with women's emphasis that gender cannot be the basis for the division of individual social functions and the desire to liberate women's status of.
In addition, transvestites, transgender people and other groups are also included in a wider range, and the core is placed on the discussion of the mismatch between sexual behavior, gender and desire.
The main theory derived is that people's sexual orientation is fluid, sexual behavior and sexual orientation are diverse, and there is no two-dimensional, black-and-white division; same-sex sexual behavior at this time, and heterosexual sexual behavior at that time. , will exist independently of each individual.
Li Yinhe published a collection of translations in 2003, which was compiled and translated from the materials he collected during a seminar on gender issues at the University of California in the United States. If you are interested, you can buy it and see it.
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