There was once a chain of contempt for drama chasing on the Internet, and the status of British drama fans was completely higher than that of American drama fans.
Profound as "Black Mirror", reflecting on the contradiction between scientific and technological development and morality and ethics.
Elegant, such as Downton Abbey, presents the human situation of the British upper nobility and their servants under a strict hierarchy.
Refinements such as Sherlock set the perfect example of capitalist brotherhood.
But British drama can bring you far more than this, it can also use exquisite images to show you sexual immorality and strange feelings, the scale is not lost to any American drama.
Recently, this "carnal drama" has finally returned.
"Famous Sisters"
"Famous Sisters", the English name is "Harlots".
Literally translated as the meaning of prostitute, and the name of the Chinese changed to "Shu", is it once again lamenting the profundity of chinese.
Last year, the first season was launched, and nearly 30,000 people on Douban scored 8.4 points, which is quite good for the new drama.
Yes, the original team gathered again, brought us the second season, the rating was as high as 9.0 points, hurry up and code it.
"Ming Shu" is a period drama, and all aspects of fu hua dao show the characteristics of the times in london in the eighteenth century.
This drama has shown real strength in terms of hardware and software, and it is not worth the high score given by the majority of fans.
Let's take a look at how this drama is told.
At the beginning of the first episode, the director introduced the background of the times.
Let's first review the history and understand the background of the times at that time.
In 1763, london rose to prominence, and one in five women in the city lived off prostitution.
In 18th-century Britain, the whole country was in the era of small farmers, and the first industrial revolution was only in its infancy.
Most women in this era have no social status.
Moreover, in 17th-century Europe, puritans were prevalent, and they promoted abstinence, which suppressed people's normal desires.
When Charles II was restored, the previous worldly style was swept away, people were no longer suppressed, and this industry appeared.
Of course, the nobles are still drunken fans of paper and gold, spending money like dirt.
Women at the bottom of society are still working as maids, laborers and other lower-class jobs.
Their annual income is only five pounds, and the remuneration for prostitution is indeed attractive.
The story of the play is based on the struggle of two brothel bustards.
One of them is in a rich area and the other is in a slum.
The slum bustard (Margaret Wells) is bent on moving the brothel to the rich area in order to make more money.
And this touches the interests of the old bustard (Lydia Quigley) in the rich area.
The two clashed and smelled of gunpowder.
Let's briefly review the plot of the last season.
The slum bustard has two daughters.
An aristocratic man who is madly infatuated with his eldest daughter has adopted her eldest daughter.
At the same time, a groom also fell in love with his eldest daughter.
One day, the little daughter went to the home of the noble man to find her sister, but she did not expect that the little daughter was taken in by the noble man again.
The nobleman wanted to have sex with his little daughter, but the little daughter did not want to, so he was stabbed by the little daughter with a fruit knife.
In order to prevent the nobleman from denouncing them, her mother strangled the dying nobleman and threw away the body.
After the judge found the body, he believed that it was a nobleman who had been killed by Groom's crush on his sister, so he sentenced Groom and his sister to prison together.
At this time, her mother's approach was so surprising that she did not exonerate her eldest daughter.
Therefore, after the old bustard in the rich area heard about it, he spent money to save his eldest daughter.
The eldest daughter, in gratitude and wanting to leave her cruel mother, went to the brothel of the old bustard in the rich area.
The above is what I think will affect the plot of the second season, I want to see the full plot, seize the time to make up lessons.
The second season continues the story of the previous season.
The plot is more fleshed out, the contradictions escalate, and the opening scene is a "miserable" word, and the old bustard in the slum is driven away by the prostitute who has an affair with her husband.
At the same time, other prostitutes could not stand that she did not care about the life and death of everyone for money, and watched her eldest daughter go to prison but did not save each other.
In the face of her evil deeds, everyone discussed leaving her.
On the side of the old bustard in the rich district, the new judge came to the door, thinking that the judge was here for fun, but she did not expect that the judge arrested her on the grounds that she had opened a brothel.
In court, the judge sentenced a prostitute who stole money from an alcoholic to the Americas, while the rich quarter bustard was punished with a fine of huge sums of money.
It can be seen here that the sentencing standards of the poor and the rich in society at that time were different.
The old bustard in the rich area was put in jail because he could not come up with so much money at a time.
In prison, she does not hesitate to betray her dignity and contact people from the outside world to redeem herself.
With the help of the oldest daughter of the slum bustard, she was finally released from prison.
During his imprisonment, her son disregarded his mother's life and death, bent on seizing his mother's property, so instead of trying to find a way to redeem his mother, he went to his mother's home to find valuable property certificates.
At this time, Kitty in the slum brothel was slit, and everyone suspected that the old bustard in the rich area had done it, so they went to the judge and wanted her to go to jail again.
The judge, on the other hand, found that there was not enough evidence.
As everyone celebrates Kitty's funeral, Nancy encourages everyone to go to the judge and theorize that only the poor are killed inexplicably and that no one will do justice for them.
Everyone was poor, indignant because they had been encouraged, and went to the judge's house overnight to theorize.
During the disturbance, Nancy was arrested.
The next day, Nancy was humiliated and flogged.
The eldest daughter came to see Nancy, but her mother thought she was a white-eyed wolf and drove her away.
At the door, the eldest daughter recalled again what her mother had done.
When the sisters were very young, they auctioned off the first night, and at the same time let their daughter step by step go down the path of a prostitute.
The mother thinks it's for their own good, otherwise they have no money and can only be trampled under their feet.
The eldest daughter left in tears, and the mother also had tears in her eyes.
This season, slum bustards will choose each other in the dual roles of mother and bustard, thus revealing the warmth and coldness of human nature.
This drama looks like a drama of carnal desire, but in fact there are not many shots of selling meat, mainly to reveal the gap between the rich and the poor in society at that time and the weakness of human nature highlighted by the social environment.
In that bleak era when women were as lowly as dust, they worked hard to live and pursue what they wanted.
Only economic independence can have a free life, a free love.
One in five women in a city is a prostitute, so they are not voluntary.
Everyone yearns for freedom and independence, and does not succumb to the present.
It was the rebellious spirit of women in the old society and their yearning for a better future.
In this city of love, there are no absolute decent and villains, some are just small characters in the big era, perhaps this is the uniqueness of this drama.