It's like watching a four-hour movie in two nights.
At first I wanted to mark it with four stars, thinking it was just a standard American drama with a very high start but no core, but watching it slowly, it has a bit of philosophical meaning in it.
The heroine has her own way of treating people and doing things, and she feels that according to her own experience, it is "morality". Thus, there are often, in two perspectives, different moral outcomes. In the end, the heroine finally realized this and apologized to those who had hurt her.
The heroine has always lived in the countryside, and the people in the town are also experiencing "happy events" and are very familiar with each other. The heroine is also famous for her meanness, and she disciplines her students, children and husband. When she suddenly came to New York, she was disciplined instead. She needs to take off her shoes at the airport security check, can't park at the airport exit, the parking space is overcrowded and even hit the car behind, etc., which makes her uncomfortable. She was surprised when her son didn't know her tenant. "My son doesn't like him."
There is no difference between the two, and the director inadvertently compares the two. Country life is fixed, city life is fluid. Living in the countryside, people are more free in space, and there are fewer restrictions on rules, and it is not surprising that the "weird" in our eyes is born.
We come to this world in the hope that this world can be understood. If the world is incomprehensible, the more we know, the more we misunderstand. Like the world, people are more understood and misunderstood.
At the end of the American TV series, a "perfect" Yale graduate appeared. He could see through the mind of the heroine at a glance, and his knowledge of himself can be said to be meticulous, which can be used as a standard for the director's moral evaluation.
The heroine argued: My son will not call her if he has children, why should I care about him?
"God" saw through her mind at a glance: she wanted to give others room to make concessions to her.
The son did not call, but the daughter-in-law called: telling the child's birth date and birth date.
The reason for the heroine's persistence also collapsed, and the only excuse she made for herself couldn't support it anymore.
The heroine tried to commit suicide, but found that the children in the park were more tolerant than him (can't think of any Chinese instead), she broke down. The last sentence of the American drama: I hate this world. She also made an excuse for her not daring to commit suicide. It can be found that the heroine is still the heroine, and has been looking for excuses to support herself.
The reasons for the collapse cannot be listed in three points like Chinese reading. The first point is still the most important, and it must conform to the correct values. The answer that is most in line with the director is the four-hour full story.
My understanding is that there is a shadow of each of us in the heroine. When each of us does something, we have to find a reason for it to be legitimate. Even though we are doing it unconsciously, we ourselves cannot consider ourselves unreasonable. "Existence is reasonable", has always supported us to live. "I think therefore I am" provides free will for us as individuals. But man, is it so simple to describe?
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