Today to talk about an unpopular new drama, the heroine is played by the model sister "Jessica Chastain".
Classic remake, suffocating to watch—
Married Life
Scenes from a Marriage
The limited-definition short series produced by HBO has a total of five episodes, with an average of about 50 minutes per episode.
The drama is adapted from the 1973 Swedish film "Married Life", and the original work is extremely well received. Not only did she win the 1975 Golden Globe Award for Best Foreign Language Film, but the film's actress Liv Uman was also nominated for the Golden Globe Award and the British Academy of Film and Television Arts Award for Best Actress.
Douban scored 9.1, which is still better than 98% of romance films.
The adapted version of Kassi is also powerful.
Director Haiga Li Wei's representative American drama "Extramarital Affair"; the heroine Jessica Chastain, we are familiar with the model sister, a combination of beauty, figure and acting skills in one of the strange women;
The male protagonist Oscar Isaac, who won the best actor of the 73rd Golden Globe Awards for "Black Utopia", is also a proper strength faction.
It is reasonable to say that this lineup should be a big hit drama, let alone produced by HBO.
But there are too many good dramas broadcast at the same time, so that the drama is submerged in it, and there are only 8.5 points marked by 500 people on Douban in the two weeks of broadcasting.
The protagonists of the story are an American couple, Jonathan and Mira.
The plot mainly revolves around their lives, about love, hatred, desire, monogamy, marriage and other themes.
Jonathan is a philosophy faculty member with flexible working hours, giving him more time to take care of his family;
Ms. Mira is a vice president of a technology company, working long hours, traveling frequently and spending relatively little time with her family.
It can be said that this is a couple of "male inside, female outside" couple.
At first glance, their lives seem harmonious and happy, but in fact, they have long been in ruins.
The first episode begins with an interview they were given.
It's not so much an interview as an investigation. The investigator is a PhD in Gender and Psychology at Tufts University, specializing in how the development of gender norms affects monogamous marriages.
From this investigation process, the difference in the two people's concepts has begun to appear.
For example, Jonathan overheard the doctor's research and couldn't help but talk about it, and became her research subject on her own initiative, but Mira did not like this way of being explored;
When asked how to define himself, Jonathan mentioned men, fathers, teachers, and even asthma, but did not say that he was a husband.
However, Mira emphasizes at the beginning that she is married and a wife;
Another example is when asked about their definition of marital success.
Jonathan obviously felt that marriage was the process of forming a family together, having children and raising them together, and seemed to have paid no attention to the two people themselves.
However, Mira said that the two people were beautiful and hot at first, but over time they found that the relationship between the two people was actually fragile.
This sentence is also confirmed everywhere in the later plot.
The Jonathans are close friends of a couple with an "open marriage".
This mode sounds avant-garde and exciting.
But it is not simple to implement, as long as one party does not grasp the scale, the whole relationship will fall apart.
And the couple was in trouble.
The woman fell in love with someone else and has been in pain because of the breakup with the other person.
She has always wanted to get her husband's understanding and comfort, but his husband is always reluctant to mention it.
The man felt that this farce should be discussed when the two were alone, and he was reluctant to say it in front of others. However, in the woman's view, this is the man who only cares about others and does not care about her thoughts.
A hysterical quarrel, just like that, happened at the dinner table.
When the woman talked to Mela, she confessed that the reason why the two people decided to open marriage was because they had been together for too long and they had no passion for each other.
But after staying in relationships with other people, they rekindled their love.
So once the relationship with outsiders breaks down, problems will inevitably arise between the two of them.
In fact, it's not just them, Jonathan and Mira have been married for ten years and have been in love for more than twelve years.
In this way, they have long lost their former passion, and the days of respecting each other are like a pool of stagnant water, lifeless.
It wasn't until Mila became pregnant that this state was broken.
She had no idea that she would become pregnant without contraception, which was both a surprise and a burden for her.
Struggling to return to the workplace, she has been making up for the job she left behind when she gave birth to her daughter, and if she gets pregnant again, her career will be suspended.
And the time of production that year brought Meera too much pain.
The discomfort of the body and the fluctuations of emotions make Mera reluctant to repeat the same mistakes.
But as a mother, she could not bear to hurt this new life, and after much hesitation, she chose to tell Jonathan.
Jonathan, who learned that Mira was pregnant, was apparently delighted, and he understood Mira's concerns, but was also eager to keep the child.
The two comfort each other in various ways, giving reasons like "the second child has experience" to convince themselves to keep the child.
Together, they imagined a slight renovation of their daughter's room and a baby room.
However, the next second the camera pans and they arrive at the hospital, preparing for a medical abortion.
The plot progresses to this point, and some of the problems that may be encountered in the marriage have been shown.
For example, the bland period, the second child and the division of labor within the family.
Watching more cool dramas, at first glance this slightly boring and bland plot may not be adapted to many people, but this is also its rare point.
Marriage is like this, every day is faced with chai rice oil and salt.
Take off the cloak of passion, and all that remains may be emptiness and loneliness.
The familiar person next to you may gradually become a strange face, and the slightest movement will touch the sensitive nerves. From the joy of the two phases to the disgust, in the end, I didn't even bother to explain the reason.
Some viewers think that this is another depressing marriage and childbirth persuasion film.
However, the dean felt that this drama was very suitable for friends who were married or wanted to get married. Someone may find resonance in it, and it is also an opportunity to re-examine the marriage relationship and consider whether it should be married.
And the acting skills of the two protagonists really have nothing to say. Especially the model sister, almost just appeared on the dean to hold, that face is too story-like...
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