A popular phrase from previous years:
"Do you still believe in love?"
Now, this question should be replaced by -
"Do you still believe in love dramas?"
Because the current love drama is really getting more and more ugly.
Artificial saccharin, strong snorting by head, dog blood plot.
Even some episodes have caused physical discomfort.
but.
Uncle Fish wants a new drama from Amway today, which avoids all the above problems.
It perfectly explains what a "high-class" love drama is.
The second season of Modern Love
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="23">Modern Love Season 2</h1>
Like the first season, this season is still adapted from the New York Times' "Modern Love" column.
With a good text base, you don't have to worry about the plot falling into the cliché.
The ratings are flat with the first season and are currently stable at 8.7.
The reason why the word "advanced" is used.
It's not about how far away the love story shown in the play is.
Contrary.
It shows ordinary, ordinary love stories, but it can be very profound.
It aims to "explore the complex emotional lives of contemporary people, as well as the pain and joy of love".
The second season consists of eight separate stories, each with its own style.
Uncle Fish wants to share three of the most touching stories.
The first episode directly broke the defense.
Curran, a pediatrician, who has a worn-out classic car, has been driving for a full 40 years.
So often fail, anchored in the middle of the road.
The master who repaired the car would advise her every time, so it was better to sell it as soon as possible.
Curran joked, "This car is just suffering from a midlife crisis."
This line is very clever, a pun.
Because the "mid-life crisis" is also Curran's current situation.
There was a rift in her relationship with her husband, and there was a crisis in the family's finances.
The main contradiction lies in this classic car that is about to be scrapped.
The annual cost of repairs on it can be as high as 1200 euros.
And Curran loves the car because it's a relic of her ex-husband.
After thinking about it for a long time, Curran decided to break the deadlock with his own hands.
She was ready to sell the car.
The classic model was in high demand, and Curran quickly finalized a deal for 4,700 euros with a buyer.
Before handing the car over to the other side, Curran drove it for the last time on the winding road.
She suddenly began to talk to herself, as if her dead ex-husband was still sitting in the co-pilot.
Curran confessed, "I decided to sell the car" because I had to pay various living bills.
She kept explaining, fearing that Michael would blame herself for it.
Then I shared my life with my husband:
My daughter grew up, went to college, and began to fall in love.
He also reminisces about the old days, "I will never forget the day you appeared with it."
At that time, the two were still college students, and her ex-husband saved money to buy the car.
The car witnessed their graduation, witnessed their wedding, witnessed the birth of their daughter.
Also witnessed the funeral of her ex-husband.
On the way, Curran slammed on the accelerator and closed his eyes.
Then release the steering wheel with both hands.
It's like going through the first half of my life again.
After a wild ride, Curran drove to the buyer's side, and the dream woke up.
She knew very well that this was the last time she would drive the car.
Watching the moment the buyer drove the car away, Curran also "complained" in his heart:
"Why aren't you bad now?"
When Curran returned home, he told her husband about the car sale.
She originally thought that the other party would be angry, after all, she could not forget that the ex was also a kind of harm to the current.
But her husband comforted her:
"For people who have experienced bereavement, some people recover quickly, while others can't let go for the rest of their lives. That's love and sadness."
Apparently, Curran belongs to the latter.
The husband admits that Curran's behavior is love, but he doesn't mind.
That is the restraint and sobriety that belongs to adults:
"Love is embodied in moments like this. Hopefully, the sadness will fade and eventually become memories, but love won't."
He also shared a story of his own: He had been drinking water from a cracked cup.
Because whenever I see this cup, I think of my mother who is no longer there.
This remark touched Curran very much.
Perhaps in the initial stage of love, we always think that love must be absolute possession.
But over time, the weight and position of the partner will slowly change.
The understanding of love has correspondingly become relatively free.
Accept this change, accept that you are not necessarily the whole of the other person's life.
It's like the husband knows that Curran can't let go of her ex-husband.
Nor did he dare to have the luxury of being able to take all of Curran.
As long as there is a fixed corner that is left to him forever, it is enough:
"I also know how much space there is in my heart. If you can leave me a little space in your heart, it will already exceed my expectations for life."
The second episode is also wonderful.
A love story about how two people who are hugely different get along.
The setting of the character is novelty -
"Girl of the Night" and "Boy of the Day".
The heroine, Zoe, only comes out at night to work and move.
Her routine is reversed from that of ordinary people.
The moon is her sun, and the sun is her moon.
The male protagonist Jordan and she meet in a restaurant and fall in love at first sight.
But he was a man who longed for exposure to the sun.
On their first date, Zoe confessed her situation:
"I usually go to bed at 8 a.m. and then wake up at 5 p.m. This is called sleep phase delay syndrome."
Jordan liked Zoe, so he didn't care.
He can reverse his schedule, accommodate and adapt to Zoe.
They go on dates every night.
Kissing, running, dancing in New York at night.
Buy the cheap bread left over from the day and nibble on it until dawn.
They are very close, and the "Night Girl" and the "Day Boy" become each other's soul mates.
However, the two people's hugely different schedules are still an unavoidable obstacle.
Sure enough, the eruption of contradictions required only a candlelit dinner.
After dating for a while, Jordan invites Zoe to dinner.
Jordan also specially chose a high-end restaurant.
But at the time of night, for Zoe, it should be "breakfast".
So she ordered the most common scrambled eggs with bacon.
Ordinary to even the menu is not.
The scene was awkward at one point.
Another time, Jordan's mother came to New York and wanted to meet Zoe.
But because the meeting time was arranged at noon, of course, the pigeons were "released".
Finally, Jordan exploded in that instant:
"I hate that we can't do anything normal, and I can't imagine a future with you."
The two had a big fight and separated.
The sweetness of the hot love period, the unreserved pay, in the face of the pressure of reality, vulnerable.
For some time to come, they all had a very hard time.
Later, Jordan volunteered to text Zoe.
They arrived at about 6 p.m., just when both were still awake.
The meeting point is Jordan's newly moved apartment.
He chose this apartment because during the day there will be sunlight shining into the living room, and at night there will be moonlight pouring in.
Perfect home for two people.
"I think we were wrong in trying to occupy each other's worlds before, and we could meet each other in the crossover time."
Even night and day occupy a whole period of time.
But there will also be blends at dusk.
No matter how big the difference, love can always make them find a point of convergence.
Or maybe the essence of love is to be attached to each other and independent.
There is also a third episode, a story similar to "Love Before the Dawn Breaks.".
Wonderful encounters are the beginning and possibly the end of love.
When everyone on the train was holding electronic devices, the two people who liked to read looked at each other.
They sat down together and put down the book they had in hand.
From hobbies to family members, the conversation is very speculative.
Like Jesse and Selena in Love Before Dawn.
The brief exchange convinced them that they knew everything about the other person.
Since the girls are studying medieval history.
So after the train arrived at the station, they chose a medieval way of saying goodbye.
No phone numbers, no social media accounts exchanged.
Instead, it was agreed that two weeks later, the first train departure time, would meet at the station.
I thought two weeks would pass in the blink of an eye.
But when they went home, they found that they were living like a year.
In the days of waiting, they tried their best to dispel their thoughts.
The boy edited a paragraph in the memo, pretending that it was a message to be sent to the girl;
The girl turned on the mobile phone tape recorder and said a paragraph, also pretending to send a voice to the boy.
They seem to be communicating with each other, but they are actually talking to themselves.
The boy watched the movie to pass the time, just picked "Love Before the Dawn Breaks".
After watching it, I found that there were two sequels, which was even more uncomfortable.
finally.
The two-week wait was over, and on the appointed day, they rode their bikes to the station.
However, due to the special weather road blockade, neither of them was able to reach the station.
In fact, for the audience, it does not matter whether they can meet or not.
Because from the process of meeting, parting, and then to being alone, their mental activity is enough to explain what love is.
Love is heartbeat, love is tossing and turning, love is passing by.
Love is the projection of another ideal self on the other person.
According to the parties in the article, they really did not see each other again.
Perhaps, this is the best ending.
Life is like the first sight, they can retain the best image of each other in their hearts.
There are regrets, but there will be no disillusionment, and it is always difficult to have both.
In addition to these three most brilliant episodes.
In the remaining episodes, the reunion of old people many years later is also mentioned;
The exploration of sexual orientation by female students in adolescence;
and stories of marital infidelity and the same-sex community.
In short, every story is a slice of love.
Each has its own excitement and helplessness.
Did you find it?
There are no lingering love words in "Modern Love", no joy and red dust.
It's more of a place of life.
It's still very moving.
It is the appearance of love after the baptism of time and the polishing of life.
In so many movies and TV series about love.
The word "love" has been given countless definitions -
"This Killer Is Not Too Cold" says, "Love is no longer knotted in the stomach."
"Heartbeat" says, "Love is like a rainbow."
"True Heart Half Solution" says, "Love is the courage to approach and then fail."
Each time a new conclusion can be drawn.
Because "love" is a subject matter that cannot be filmed.
Therefore, if you want to make a good love drama, there is only one premise:
To express the complexity, diversity, and sincerity of love.
Bad love dramas often make "love" too single and make it into a pattern and routine.
Or that sentence: Not everyone watches a love drama, all of them go to "snort CP".
What moves people's hearts is always the inner emotion, not two empty but soulless bodies.
A good love drama makes people willing to continue to look forward to the various possibilities of love;
The poor love drama makes people gradually doubt all the rationality of love.
If you want to ask, "Do you still believe in love dramas?"
If it is the "Modern Love" series, you can believe it.