Most people keep pets and try their best to keep them around. To some extent, it is a kind of imprisonment, but the animals around the heroine in "London Life" have always been On the run. The guinea pig entrusted with friendship and sorrow ran out of the cage time and time again, no matter what, she couldn't lock it; she went to her father's house, but on the day of commemorating her birth mother, she had the expected unhappiness with her stepmother, so she picked it up. He took the expensive cat that had been forbidden to go out, and helped it escape the window.
This has become two secret and cruel metaphors. The little animals with no brains are rushing to freedom, but she herself has been trapped in life. No one can help her release her life.
As a miniseries, the format of "London Life" is unassuming, telling a small story neatly and faithfully, the unbearable and trivial of a heroine and four or five people around her, but this seems unambitious. The setting unexpectedly detonated people's general emotions. As a standard comedy, it is vulgar, funny, and unscrupulous, but it also makes people silent, sad, and tears. In this sense, it is a standard tragedy, and life itself is not a tragedy. Is it too much to say? Therefore, it has become a repetition of our lives. This story that happened in London, the girl who lived lonely and worked hard in London, became the mirror image of everyone struggling in the metropolis. When we look at her, we also see ourselves. The good and bad life in London, the friendship and estrangement, every young person living in Beijing, Shanghai and Guangzhou can empathize with each other. We pretend not to care about everything, smile at every half-baked person, and then turn around and crash into our own life. Feelings of self-knowledge. This daily routine without drama is enough to make us hard to resist.
The translation of the title of "London Life" is too boring, far less powerful than the original name fleabag. Its original meaning is sloppy, bad life and so on. You can imagine what kind of picture it is-unable to clean up and overwhelming. , The one that is disgusted by others. This is a true portrayal of the heroine. She is always very sad, but she has good looks and always pretends to be very cool, so Wei Wei is also very sad.
She is the kind of "self-service" girl who never shows her heart to anyone. She runs a café with a guinea pig theme that is almost unattended. She has a cowardly and boring boyfriend. Several of them have everything from beauty to temperament. A very different patron, she is obsessed with sex, she doesn't say a word when she faces love, and she doesn't know why. Later, you will understand that it is just a kind of concealment, concealing the true feelings, concealing the weak heart. Only with such a dick can she avoid being hurt, even if she still can't escape the injury in the end, she can still Pretend not to care. You see, isn't this the way many urban girls around us look like. They look carefree and stubborn, but in fact they are helpless and innocent, but how is this life of three nos forged?
Some dramas are fictional halo from the original trivial life, cast into a dazzling scam, such as those Korean dramas full of plastic feeling, while some dramas disassemble the details of the halo metropolis to you Look, there is no halo, there is endless dust. "London Life" obviously belongs to the latter. In this drama, there are quiet and peaceful suburban houses, and there are also pretending mid-life, but you always feel that there are some sadness, frustration and broken things that cannot be concealed. That is the truth of life.
From the narrative point of view, "London Life" seems to be a play with a single protagonist. The characters and stories of the supporting actors are all unfolded with the heroine little by little. But slowly you will find that everything is not that simple. People originally thought that only the heroine was very mournful, and everyone else was living like a fish, but in the end, everything began to be exposed, and everyone was unbearable. People are holding on hard to prevent life from falling apart.
The sister of the heroine is a typical middle class, with vain arrogance and prejudice, and a husband who looks like a divorce. This woman with a double degree and a Burberry trench coat is actually far less beautiful than it looks. She dare not leave her husband for her own career. , Even if she knew that the man was hypocritical and wretched. And their father is caught between the second wife and two daughters, at a loss; there are also a bunch of men surrounding the hostess, a group of male animals driven by hormones. These people are also maintaining a certain dignity, but after observing for a long time, they can see the cracks all over.
"London Life" is full of the kind of harsh and sharp jokes that can only be obtained after looking down on life, but it has been incessantly used flashbacks to play some sad passages. The moment when the heroine's brain is chaotic and short-circuited, it is herself that always appears. The moment of lingering with your girlfriend and boyfriend, and the tacit time when you and your girlfriend were preparing to build that cafe, and the last moment of your girlfriend's collapse and death.
That memory is like a fuze that has been burning, always reminding her insidiously that one day will eventually collapse. At this time, you may be able to understand the frenzied and self-defeating private life of the heroine, which is a temporary way to forgetting, and fear can be resisted by carnival. Girlfriend Xiaobo was almost the only person in the world who made her feel close. At the time, although life was full of holes, but after all, there were people who could comfort him, but she personally bored the pillar that she could rely on. A night between her and her girlfriend’s boyfriend , Let the best friend collapse, cruelly speaking, she killed the best friend, and at the same time killed her own future.
When a person who is always laughing and smirking really falls into grief, that kind of emotion is almost out of control. So, at the end of the moment when she cries bitterly, you will see that all the glossy surfaces she strives to maintain are no longer meaningful, and there is nothing more desperate than the sound of life fragmentation.
The presentation of "London Life" is very interesting. It comes with a Tucao soundtrack. When the heroine speaks her lines, she also confides her heart to the audience on the screen. This trick is not new. It is also in "Modern Family". It has been used in the same way, but it is very effective. It will make people feel that the hostess has spoken words for themselves that are so depressed and never dared to say. In this way, people have a kind of hatred for this depressing life with the hostess. Empathy.
She is ordinary and unwilling, but frustrated with her efforts. After everything is broken, she needs to rearrange the smirk, clean up the fragments of life, and paste it back into its original state. Who is not so?
In the end, her father stayed with the second wife, even though he knew how the pretentious and snobbish woman treated his daughter; her sister still lied to her husband to be trustworthy, and would rather give up promotion for this reason And went abroad; her boyfriend never returned to her after breaking up like before, but walked with a little Asian girl who was a little birdy; the handsome friend told her that he fell in love with someone , Decided to leave her...So, she still has to be alone, holding everything alone.
There is a detail, funny and sad. When the heroine and sister first appeared together, it was at a weird lecture. After the end, the two wanted to hug like a normal person, but each other slapped each other because of their guard. What kind of alienation is needed to understand an intimate hug as a potential threat? That may be the cruelest scene in this play.
Fortunately, the hostess was rescued by a stranger, and the loan approver who had had trouble with her finally settled with her. That is also a person crushed by life. Their reconciliation is also mutual salvation. Just like those little pets that escaped, the hostess finally has a chance to rush out of the cage of life.
In this play, the heroine has no name. Because she is the shadow of each of us.
(This article first publishes a column for the drama division of Tencent TV drama channel)
View more about Fleabag reviews
