I expected to see the same in this short drama as Scenes from a Marriage movie version. Regarding gender roles/parenting obligations and the multiple subtle conflicts about religion/parenting/value "ideologies" shown in the opening title, it turns out that there are subtleties and conflicts, and the plot and characters are inexplicably deadly.
I understand that the starting point of many high scores is "everyone can somehow see themselves in this drama", and I also admit that I see myself as part, but I can't be moved by a work of art that is more like a collection of "Marriage Tangled Moments".
The conflict in this drama makes me unable to see meaningful layers, just clichéd to tired repetition-the breakup gun is "I love you I don't feel it anymore", and four years later, my father's funeral cannon became "Aren't we all ordinary people, how fragile I am at this time". I don't think this difference is getting better, I just think it's ridiculous.
What kind of works about marriage do I expect to see? About the pervasive subtle troubles after the freshness fades, and the love inertia after losing patience with each other, and still maintaining respect because of the inertia of love, trying to solve the troubles, and making up your mind if you don’t solve them, of course, I know the theme of this drama is "The essence of marriage is complicated, Not making any decisions easily", but what if my marriage was a torturous one like this one, and my partner's ups and downs with me affect my life (and throw me down the stairs with books?), Imma gonna get outta this shithole at light speed.
I have to admit, I watched this show with some private expectations. My personal relationship is not all smooth sailing, and my detachment process is also full of self-doubt and repetition. I know that these emotions cannot be covered by one or two key events, so I look forward to more in-depth discussions. But this show is like creating conflict for the sake of creating conflict (to borrow a comment: not "scenes from the marriage", more like "making scenes out of a marriage").
The beginning of the article said that the series makes people triggered, but in fact, many plots and words of the heroine reminded me of the terrible scene when people can see it was controlled by ex-boyfriend/girlfriend. "Don't say things you don't mean", the hero's desperate fight back when being pushed to the ground by the heroine and flirted with naturally by the heroine - and that's all I've ever experienced, just not in such a straightforward form Sex and the sobriety of the male protagonist clearly calling out the female protagonist's lies.
At that time, I clearly knew that this isn't right and I need to get out, but the other party kept covering up this relationship with their own fragility, confusion when they first came to the United States, and anxiety when getting along with their first girlfriend (me) Even when I made up my mind to break up with him, I said the natural manipulation of "but I am in love with you" for the first time. I wish I had said, "Don't say things you don't mean" (jokes on me, this sentence was said to me by a later term), but how much I hate this capricious, natural and smooth "love" To prevent the horrible move of leaving, I have no intention of being re-triggered on a Sunday night. After this relationship was in a different place + I fell in love again, it ended with the other party angrily blocking all social media. I rarely regret a relationship (or any) experience, with the very exception of this one - and going back to the film, I don't understand how much pure smearing can help a complex character.
Let’s talk about the plot. What I don't understand the most is the arrangement of the career development of the heroine in the later stage-in short, this is a female protagonist who supports the family and the male protagonist takes care of the baby. As a result, the female protagonist cheats, and she dumps her husband who doesn't know anything " Guess what I'm going to Europe with my lover tomorrow for three months" and can't wait to finish everything" I've been in pain for half a year" "There's no way we can go back" "I'm so happy to be with him" "How dare you this It's time to use our children to kidnap me morally" This kind of painful words, and then a year later, the heroine came back, dressed up beautifully and glamorously, seeing her ex-husband finally came out gradually, she immediately became unwilling and vulnerable clingy needy, and then the plot took a turn for the worse, lost her job, lost her boyfriend, the group PM in Europe can't afford $2,000 for dance lessons, and the child's mother is arguing with herself over a toy. The heroine is now all about getting back together, the male host was sober, but somehow slept with his ex-wife, Ended up staying in someone else's Airbnb, breaking into someone else's locked private room and fucking and posting "I've only ever loved you" "My wife and I just had sex and she's pregnant again and I'm not even scared of her finding out we fucked ". The film played its final note in such a climax, and I just looked at the chicken feathers in this place and was dumbfounded.
Nowadays, we can see those domestic youth pain films that must have high school abortions and gangsters. They are hard and conflicted, but the core is pitifully shallow. The trivialities and self-doubts of married life are often just undercurrents. I’m not interested in the scenes where adults torture each other repeatedly after being affectionate and both become bad people (I’m not even talking about moral superiority). The world is already a mess, and there is no need to repeat it on the screen in vain.
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