It's amazing.
The quality of sequels is not as good as the previous ones, which is a common phenomenon in film and television dramas.
But this drama is unusual, with a higher score than a season.
Season 1. 140,000 ratings, 9.3.
Season two. 92,000 ratings, 9.5.
After two years, the third season is coming.
The opening score rushed to 9.7.
My Genius Girlfriend Season 3
"My Genius Girlfriend" is adapted from the world-famous Neapolitan tetralogy, produced by the familiar HBO.
Since the original author and the heroine of the play are both named Elena, many people will mistakenly think that this is an autobiographical novel. In fact, Elena Ferrante is just the author's pen name.
As the most mysterious anonymous writer, he/she communicates with the world only through words.
However, he can skillfully use superb brushstrokes to blur the boundary between reality and fiction, and infinitely enhance the reader's sense of substitution.
Generally speaking, literary works and film and television dramas, as two different artistic carriers, will be more or less biased in the process of transformation.
However, "My Genius Girlfriend" belongs to a very small number of fine works that can be compared with the original after adaptation.
One season of drama is about one book, and now it's the third book.
(Left Elena; Right Lila)
Two small town girls.
They come from similar origins and have comparable appearances and intelligence. However, under various choices and encounters, a completely different life trajectory has been produced.
Elena, the daughter of the concierge, worked hard to improve her class and join the upper class.
Lila, the shoemaker's daughter, gave up school in the face of family difficulties, confined to the envy of others in marriage, and tore the status quo back to the bottom.
From the ignorance of the first season, the transformation of the second season, to the new chapter independently.
Elena returned from further studies in Pisa and not only published her own novels, but also entered into marriage contracts with families with a voice in academia.
It seems that the love career has stepped onto a new level, but in fact, there is an undercurrent.
She was pulled by conventional wisdom.
The few large-scale depictions in her works have made her the target of public criticism.
The townspeople cast a strange eye on her, her family called her a slut, and even people they had just met thought she had no bottom line and could do anything to her.
As a New Age woman, Elena agreed to her partner's request not to have a wedding at the church, but only to register with the Home Affairs Bureau.
Unexpectedly, he was strongly opposed by his mother.
Elena longs to escape the town, but this is contradictory.
The long struggle is fragile. Her knowledge is arrogant in the eyes of others, and her partner is just a university professor who is "ugly and not straight".
The backward town entangled with her, growing in her torso, squeezing every shred of her vitality and suffocating her deeply.
No matter where she fled, she could not eliminate this deep-rooted influence.
Meanwhile, her best friend Lila is also suffering.
Lila, who once had unlimited scenery, had to spend her days in a stinking sausage factory. She was accompanied only by the greasy flesh in her hands and the equally greasy yellow jokes of her male co-workers.
Day after day of hard work, Lila's appearance gradually changed.
But her outstanding personality and thoughts have not lost their charm with time.
Every man wanted to prove something in front of Lila, as if he had conquered this woman who was as proud as a lion and had ascended to the pinnacle of power.
But the stubborn shoemaker's daughter in Lila's bones. Even if the family is struggling on the subsistence line, they are not willing to give up their dignity to accept the pity of capital.
Lila was invited to a group discussion about working people, not only because of her unabashed intelligence, but also because of her current identity—
A real worker.
Lila's unfair experience at the factory made the organizers indignant. They responded by publishing her confession in the newspaper without permission, and called on the media to surround Lila's factory.
However, they did not consider Lila's dilemma.
Only those who live in abundance have time to think about the working class, and the real working class does not have that leisure.
The people of the upper class who participated in the parade would only use a self-righteous gesture of concern to look down on the lives of the people at the bottom to achieve self-satisfaction.
They claim to protect Lila and Lila's companions, but in fact they can't solve Lila's life embarrassment.
"Why not eat minced meat?"
Lila and Elena seem to be two styles, two trajectories.
But it's the same thing.
It's just that Lila shows her strength, while Elena chooses to deceive herself, struggling between reluctance and obedience.
Faced with marriage, both initially took self-interest as the starting point.
Lila chose the second richest man in town, and later rebelled because of her overly repressive nature.
Elena, on the other hand, was to raise her class. Although it is not explicitly stated, the play cleverly uses psychological montage techniques to tray out Elena's true thoughts.
They also have the same core when it comes to love.
Although there may be some viewers who do not understand, thinking that they have been deceived by the scumbag Nino. In fact, on the contrary, they all use Nino as a tool, as a "springboard" to get rid of the status quo.
Their complex relationship with Nino is only to find control of themselves, but also to alleviate the irresistible desire for danger in their hearts.
"My Genius Girlfriend" tells more than just a story of friendship spanning decades.
It is also a realistic portrayal of the intertwining of complex human nature, and it is also a microcosm of a group portrait in the context of social change in Italy.
"In this show, everyone can find themselves."
If five stars is the best evaluation for a work.
For this show, five stars is just the lowest score it deserves.