Each episode has a new feeling, so that the reviews have changed and changed, and finally decided that it is better to write a drama review.
In fact, it was a bit against the youth pure love drama at the beginning. To be precise, this drama should not be labeled as such. Regarding love and marriage, I prefer films such as "Eclipse" and "Marriage Scene". I think that those products that subvert the cultural industry type, heavy, painful, and unbearable are good works. After seeing the sixth episode, I think Sally Rooney's "Pure Love" is actually really advanced. Although there is a shadow of romantic love, it is not the usual comfortable/"cool" reading/watching experience for soap operas, just like "Chat Log". , and the repeated confession of the characters' hearts is Sally Rooney's specialty (based on everyone's evaluation of the TV drama's restoration of the original).
The romantic part is the part that I'm a little dissatisfied with. Both are true first loves, people who have always loved each other and close friends, with excellent grades, good looks, and ideal sexual relationships. But it doesn't hurt, what Sally Rooney is saying: Even such a perfect relationship brings them pain time and time again.
This kind of pain has the shadow of class, and in "Conversation with friends", the author also pays attention to the influence of class on relationship. In Ireland's supposedly better society, class is not degrading and humiliating, but it can still be a social, psychological and romantic barrier. The subtle shifts and mirror-like transpositions of the two people's relationships in high school and college clearly illustrate this point.
Connell was reluctant to disclose his relationship with Marianne in high school, partly because Marianne was not popular with his classmates, and partly because of class differences, who would joke that he was the housekeeper of the wealthy Marianne family. Marianne chose to endure this underground relationship in middle school, and eventually was hurt, and it became a hidden danger in the relationship between the two in college. Connell's reluctance to rely on Marianne when she can't pay her rent, as well.
Connell has low self-esteem due to poverty and is not very assertive. When he started the relationship in middle school, he said that he didn't know what he felt about the other person, and even the major was chosen by Marianne (she really made him). Marianne is the more active one, but she is also very vulnerable, and her relationship with her mother and brother keeps her from getting any warmth in the big house. In her relationship with Connell, she always tries to give more, but Connell is gentle and unsteady, he can't accept her love completely and directly, and even looks scum, which is the opposite of his tenderness. Two people who are both extremely fragile, often do not say a word, you take a step back, I take a step back, split and close.
It's understandable that the audience would want to see this show as sadistic, because God's perspective will make you feel that it's not good to say it directly. But in fact, a lot of things are really unspoken in a relationship, or you think it's not that important but you don't say it's actually important, or people just have all kinds of weaknesses that make the relationship impossible to perfect. Sally Rooney shows all the weakness of people. This gave me a very strong sense of substitution, because of my own experience as well.
There are also many details that are extremely substituting. For example, in the first episode, Marianne watched Connell play football in the audience, and waited for him to sit beside her on the bus. The two were speechless all the way. Later, Marianne recalled that she was thinking of watching Connell have sex. When I watched the show, I felt that this scene was really familiar.
Because of her personality, Marianne is also prone to fall into an inexplicable and unconscious sub-dom relationship. When the photographer dom said you're worthless to her, she did not seem to be playing, but a recognition of worthless. And Connell has become her savior here, telling her that she is worthy of love, and that neither family nor childhood experiences can detract from her value.
In addition, all the plots focus on two people, which makes their separation and connection extremely important, and can especially affect the viewer. But spread it out, other people around them also suffer from both happiness and pain because of their relationship (especially when they get angry and date other people, they really feel sorry for their other partners), as well as people they don't want to do of happiness and pain. It is indeed the story of ordinary people in this sense, the epitome of the pain of a more general love.
Finally, let’s share with you: love cherishly and cherishly, and don’t leave any regrets.
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