HBO20 17' s new drama Little Lies and Big Things naturally got comments from Amway, a domestic American drama review website.
I have to say that the super-luxury lineup starring Nicole Kidman, reese witherspoon and shailene woodley has captured a group of fans of American TV series, because celebrities who go in and out of the big screen rarely have pity for American TV series. However, it is rare for this drama to have two Oscar winners and a post-90s rookie at the same time.
Starting with the cloak of the crime scene, and then through the testimony of all the witnesses at the scene, the whole case is pieced together in flashback-this is a mystery drama?
No!
At the freshman party on the first day of school, weak girls were bullied, and the son of a new single mother was accused of being the principal offender-is this a school play?
Wrong again!
As the story unfolds, every female character who appears has her own aura and jealousy, watching the tear fuse be lit-is this a modern harem drama?
All wet!
If you think that this work only uses these hot topics to arouse the audience's desire to watch, then you underestimate the taste of HBO.
This mini-drama, with only seven episodes, focuses on the life predicament of modern urban women-family, career, social interaction and self-worth that touch the core most. When everything is about to get out of control, people feel how the power of control tears the spiritual space of women, and even put bloody scenes in front of the audience, which makes people have to face up to the deprivation of women by reality, which is more serious than this drama.
As one of the producers of this play, reese witherspoon plays a divorced and remarried housewife.
Losing her sense of professional value, she constantly brushes her sense of existence in various community activities; Losing the happiness of her first marriage, she kept brushing her sense of value on her daughter's upbringing; Even, she would rather give up her puppet show than lose the pleasure of cheating.
She talks a lot in the play and constantly shows her position and attitude, but unfortunately, no matter where she is, it is difficult for her to really express her inner fragility. Even in the face of her ex-husband, who has been divorced for 15 years, she still maintains resentment, which she and her daughter got from her ex-husband, and she has never paid attention to and cared for her like his current wife and daughter.
Such a misplaced contrast made her unable to let go. As a result, the feeling of being deeply "abandoned" was activated when the daughter showed closer to her stepmother.
She longed for everything to be under her control, but the feeling of losing control made her suffer from anxiety.
She completely locates her self-worth in the eyes of others, and her calm and indifferent appearance is only a manifestation of her inner anxiety but strong depression. However, when she learned that her daughter was auctioning her first night online, the emotion that she could no longer suppress, the green water that gushed out, and the spit were the most real and morbid self in her heart.
When she faced her daughter frankly and exposed her betrayal of marriage, she got her daughter's understanding and acceptance, won her favor and stopped her daughter's auction.
Unlike many glamorous women, this single mother came to this rich area with her son alone.
Instead of constantly asking her why she came to the rich area, it is better to ask her why it is this island. And the answer was finally revealed in the last episode (I won't play, let's see for ourselves! )。
Behind this young mother lies her tragic past of rape and pregnancy. And she has been living in a nightmare-constantly working, tossing and turning, just to find the man who was gently deceived but cruel; Constant shooting training, just to find the heartbreaker of the year, a shot to the head; Running on the beach is to catch up with the disappearing figure of that man.
However, her son was accused of bullying on campus and was subsequently notified of "sexual assault" by the school!
Violent tendencies, sexual assault charges, marginalization, and her son's experience on campus have brought her to the brink of collapse step by step. As in the play, she flew into the sea and stopped at the edge of the cliff, but in her own image, she jumped.
Sexual assault and abuse have become the darkest and most unbearable pain for women, and it is also the most difficult to seek social understanding and assistance.
Especially in the face of her son's questioning of her biological father, it is difficult for her to restrain her almost desperate anger towards men. Under the comfort of her girlfriend, she told her story, and she regained her desire for love and even skin-to-skin dating.
Finally, when my son played the music "Don't ask who Dad is", he provoked a dance to show his kindness to his mother, and finally let people see her heartfelt smile. At the same time, she also accepted the pursuit of a man.
Finally, I have to praise the film queen. Every smile, every movement and even a look are full of drama.
High flyers, a law major, gave up her future for love and marriage. Twin son, Gao Fushuai's husband, mansion, husband and wife, she lives a life envied by many people. However, just behind all the aura, there is a shameful ugliness-domestic violence.
Abusive husbands always run away without saying a word. Then, the two wrestled and made love, with angry sex and venting, which gradually rationalized the physical conflict into "excessive passion" by her.
However, all this has not escaped the eyes of the consultant.
In the first consultation between husband and wife, it has already begun to take shape. Later, when she walked into the consulting room again and faced the gentle and firm question "He is hurting you" in the consulting room, she first denied it, and then her eyes began to blink. No matter how hard her thoughts forced her to deny it, her body began to feel uneasy.
The counselor once again stressed that "he is hurting you"! She is still stubborn and covers up the truth with distorted beautification.
Until the counselor asked her, "Did you ever think that he might kill you?" .
Finally, the danger of the past panicked on her. At that moment, she escaped, but she couldn't escape her inner fear of death.
Until she learned that it was her son who bullied the girl on campus. She suddenly realized that because of her silence, not only her body and mind were abused, but also her son's mind was poisoned-the son was treating the girl in the way that his father treated his mother and threatening each other. Once exposed, he will double the abuse, just like his father.
Finally, she couldn't bear it, and decided to really escape, escape from this hellish marriage that made her life hell, and even help her son escape the poison of his father's heart.
This drama is so uncharacteristic that it abandons the virtuous and gentle female role in film and television works, and truly and directly shows all kinds of problems that restrict women's independent self-development. The background setting of the play is full of metaphors-the closed island reveals the closed self-space; The events pieced together by passers-by show that women's values live in the framework of external comments; One beautiful lie after another was woven into the cage of bondage.
The roaring and running of three actors at the seaside in the play may be the message that the director is eager to convey through this play:
Only by relying on your throat can you make a real cry for help!
Only by relying on your own feet can you run out of a real life!