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In 2018, HBO launched an 8-episode series, "My Gifted Girlfriend" (season 1). The show currently has a Douban score of 9.3 and an IMDb score of 8.5.
This play is directed by the Italian male director Savirio Costanzo, and is adapted from the first part of the "Naples Tetralogy" by the most mysterious Italian writer Elette Ferrante.
"Naples Tetralogy" tells the story of two poor girls, Lila and Lennon, who grew up in Naples in the 1950s. Although this novel is popular all over the world, the author of the novel was selected by Time Magazine in 2016. " 100 most influential people in the world today " list, but some people still think that this is just a set of second-rate novels.
, as the HBO that guarantees the quality of American TV dramas, just made the first of this second-rate novel into a first-rate series. After a lapse of 16 months, this series finally launched its second in Italy, which is the second novel "The Story of New Name" adapted series-
"My Gifted Girlfriend" the second season
(" L&39;amica geniale"Season 2)
also has 8 episodes in the second season. Currently, only the first two episodes of the Italian version (the US version will be broadcast on March 16, 2020) have been obtained on Douban. The high score can be called the fictional drama with the highest score in the world since 2020. The cast of
in the second season has not changed, but the director except Saverio Costanzo, has newly joined the Italian female director Alice Rolvacher, who was in 2014 With the film "Miracle", won the Grand Prize of the Jury in the main competition unit of the Cannes Film Festival. The Chinese audience is most familiar with her work, which is the best screenplay film "Happy Lazzaro" in the main competition unit of the Cannes Film Festival in 2018 .
"Happy Lazaro" stills
"Happy Lazaro" is one of the purest movies of 2018. The protagonist Lazaro's pure and almost divine character is impressive, so Alice The joining of Rohrwahl may make "My Gifted Girlfriend" a different flavor. The two episodes currently aired in the second season of
still continue the rhythm of the first season. However, the two episodes have a total of 107 minutes (59 minutes + 48 minutes), which has been released for the audience in terms of art, mood, and characters. It’s very informative.
in the second season of the heroine Lila's wedding photos
before talking about this information, may wish to briefly review the content of the first season:
girl Lennon is still in school, and indulged in the love of the poet Nino, at the same time , She and the widow’s son Antonio established a relationship; the girl Lila dropped out of school, and after refusing the courtship of Marcello, the son of the rich man in the small town, she married Stefanello, who is the dead Don Archie Son of Le, for Lennon and Lila, Don Archile was the most oppressive evil spirit in childhood.
Childhood Lila and Lennon stand in front of Don Archie’s house
First of all, the opening of the second season is more attractive than the first season:
is retro, bright and grainy, accompanied by rush and Like emotional music, the vivid Neapolitan group portraits and the suddenly captured facial close-ups blend with each other, indicating that the times and individuals meet with each other, flowing into the depths of the years. At the same time, the sceneries such as balcony, street, staircase, etc. are full of Italian retro The style reproduces the elegance of the "Roman Holiday" era. The first two episodes of the second season of
still revolved around the precious and dangerous friendship between Lila and Lennon, but radiated by this friendship, and also from the rebellion of the girls in the first season, gradually turned to be that men and women The very different way of living in this small town in Naples-
What role is a man? In the eyes of a man, what role should a woman be? How can women step by step accept the cruelty that men prepare for them physically and mentallyLife, and all this, together with the heavy dust on the street, enveloped that era.
Only Lila is still in marriage and suffering, resisting with a contemptuous attitude. The so-called "new name" of
should refer to Lila's new name-Mrs. Karachi (the wife of Stefano Karachi). Obviously, this is not only Lila's new name, but also the new names of all married women in the town.
Lila and Lennon, men and women, the new city where Lila lives, and the old city where Lennon lives, how do these distinguished people, things and things interweave the "second passage in Naples"?
1. The first gaze
In the first episode, there are two contrasting plots with obvious intentions, namely the gazes of Lennon and Lila when they had their first physical relationship. Both eyes were close-up for a long time.
Lennon and her boyfriend Antonio prepare to have a relationship in the ruins of the night. What drives Antonio is the love and desire for Lennon, but what drives Lennon is the "chase" of Lila: Since Lila is married, Then Lila will no longer be a virgin. As Lila’s closest friend, Lennon desires to keep the pace of his body in line with Lila in time.
However, "unfortunately", the monotonous Antonio refused Lennon's "invitation" on the grounds of being "unmarried". In the end, the two did not have a physical relationship, even though Lennon had taken the initiative to remove his underwear. At this time, with the gaze of a black cat on the ruins, the picture gradually moved closer to Lennon's eyes in the darkness: a desperate and firmness contained in it, making it like a pearl in the night.
Because of the Ceruro leather shoes worn by Marcello at the end of the first season, Lila hates her new husband Stefanello so much, so on the honeymoon night, she refuses to have sex with Stefanello, Stefan Luo Ze forcibly had a relationship with Lila after beating Lila. At this time, Lila's eyes changed from fear, anger, and weakness to a kind of "desperate determination."
Lennon (top) and Lila (bottom) had their first relationship between men and women
Lennon and Lila's eyes were "given" by men, but their desire for sex is different, and in the end, the two People do not have the right to treat sex freely, so their eyes are similar, but the two eyes point to each other instead of the man beside them. From this, you can feel the relationship between Lennon and Lila, so close and complicated, mixed with sincerity, jealousy, dependence, so fiery, yet hiding obvious repulsion.
2. Group portraits of men
In the first season, Don Archile is the eternal shadow of Lila and Lennon, and Marcello Solara is the man Lila hates and hates most. At that time, young men such as Stefanello, Nino, Antonio, and Alfonso had not yet presented themselves in a three-dimensional aspect. Therefore, the audience would follow Lila’s love and hatred and think that Marcello is shameful. But after the first two episodes of the second season, the audience may change: Perhaps, for Lila, Marcello is the friendliest man.
Come and see the man in the play.
Stefano ——
"You are Mrs. Karachi, you should do what I told you", this is Stefano's marriage logic, full of the stench of machismo; "I also hate it Marcello Solara, when he looks at you with his eyes, when I think of what he said about you, I really want to stab him in the stomach with a knife, but when I think about making money At that time, , , he became my best friend again.” This is Stefan Luo’s survival logic, full of hypocrisy, flattery, and class concepts.
The most terrible thing is that since Stefano gave Lila a slap on the seaside road to her honeymoon, Lila’s face was always covered with so-called "reef hitting" scars, which completely proved " There are only zero and countless domestic violence in , which is the unbreakable "truth of marriage".
The two returned to the town after their honeymoon, and a meaningful scene appeared: In the living room of the family gathering, everyone was talking and laughing. Lila’s father and brother didn’t care about the obvious scars on Lila’s face.La, was scared and lost by the black and white photos of Tang Archile in the living room, because she knew that the terrifying shadow of the dead Don Archile had been completely reborn in his son and her husband Stefan Luo.
Don Archie's posthumous photo
Nino -
Lennon was deeply attracted by Nino's freedom and poetry, but Lila "hit the nail on the head", thinking that Nino is a man who is not worthy of attention at all.
This makes Lennon and Lila fundamentally different. This difference does not refer to the two men’s vision of choosing men, but their attitude towards men: In the small town of Naples, Lennon has always maintained closeness with men, while Lila has never really been close to any men. It proves that there are always more important things in Lila's spirit than men. This may also be one of the meanings of "gifted girlfriend"-Lila's understanding of the realm of life has far surpassed Lennon and any other women in the town. In the first episode of
, Nino faces Lennon, and there is a series of continuous actions that are quite meaningful-
sees Lennon walking towards him, Nino walks away first, and waits for Lennon to stop himself (taking the initiative in gravity) );
Lennon returned Nino’s article to him, praising that the protest against the school was written very personally and realistically, but it was quite powerful to describe Italy as a ruin, but Nino immediately rubbed the article At the same time, he used the teacher’s comments on the article to prove that he was not good enough (sneered at his talents to further occupy Lennon’s heart in the free and easy temperament);
Then, he kissed Lennon gently (directly and Fatal blow);
Finally, he left and kissed another girl in Lenon’s gaze (of course he knew Lennon was looking at him, so he wanted to prove to Lennon that he was the son of the poet , The unique nature of freedom flows in the blood, and kisses are just gentleman’s etiquette).
walk away, self-rejection, the first kiss, and the second kiss. This is a set of fluent movements, and every movement is sincere. Nino treats women with contempt in trust, and enthusiasm in contempt. This kind of literary and free emotional attributes is full of temptation and harm to women like Lennon.
Antonio ——
is the son of a widow Melina suffering from mental disorders (Melena was deeply injured by Nino’s romantic father Saratore, but she still loves Saratore deeply), Antonio is both poor , And have a dangerously fragile self-esteem.
He was monotonous and insisted on keeping his first night until his newlyweds, but he asked Lennon to solve his sexual needs in other ways. After Lennon begged Lila to plead with Marcello to exempt him from military service, Antonio’s self-esteem was immediately broken. Then, he broke up with Lennon, whom he "deeply loved".
Antonio is like a typical man living in a small eastern town, face is everything to him.
Alfonso ——
Alfonso is a young man with a simple face and a simple mind, but when Lennon asked him why he didn’t ask his brother Stefano’s domestic violence against Lila, Alfonso still Speaking a shocking sentence, " women should be educated "! The sentence
hides two cruel signals: First, although Alfonso confessed that he will not beat women, it is difficult to guarantee that all the originally innocent men in this town will not be patriarchal. Assimilation; Second, the young Alfonso himself is already in the shadow of male power. He used this terrifying and sonorous remark to deal with Lennon’s interrogation, essentially because he did not dare to question the power of the family over his own. brother.
Therefore, in the second season of "My Gifted Girlfriend", almost all young men are dangerously and quickly "evolving" in a direction that is not good for women and the times.
3. Group portraits of women
Lila wears gorgeous red lips, wears a black, low-cut long one-piece dress, uses a yellow hairband to tie her thick black hair high, and walks towards Marl with Lennon Cielo's cake shop. entireThe women in the small town stared at her meaningfully, and even Lennon kept begging Lila to return (the true meaning of Lennon’s words: don’t be so ostentatious in your dress).
The whole town is gray, only Lila is like a dazzling light. At this time, the series shows the distance between Lila and other women in the town (including Lennon)-she will never be tamed, just like the old Lila's departure in the first season, she is always rebelling.
This is also reflected in her attitude towards "female pregnancy". Lennon believes that having a child after marriage is justified, but Lila claims that "as long as I think of pregnancy, I feel disgusting". At this time, Lila's "gifted girlfriend" characteristics are reflected in a high latitude-she does not want Pregnancy is not physical resistance, but after observing the fate of women in the small town, there is a kind of spiritual resistance-
she observes Melina (I can’t eat anything, I will eat it Vomiting), Giuseppina Peluso (because of heart palpitations, can't sleep, every time I go to prison to visit her husband will cry bitterly, no one can comfort), etc., and understand the sadness of women's fate through observation.
Lennon left Lila's house and stood in the middle of the town, learning from Lila to observe women.
So far, the most exciting and pitiful scene of the second season of "My Gifted Girlfriend" appeared-the lens is like Lenon's naive, confused and enlightened eyes, looking around all the women in the town, they: in their arms The baby, the worried expression, the wrinkled face behind the vegetables, the bargaining tone, the weakness of catching naughty children while shopping, the anger and panic when chasing the son, the hysterical cursing of the husband, the sharp scissors but full of calluses His hands, dark to horrible skin... The lens of
lifted off. From the perspective of God (like Lila's perspective), all women in are no longer independent individuals, but are completely confined to marriage and childbirth, and how to deal with it. The arrogant power of men is too heavy to breathe. In Lennon’s heart, there was such a cruel voice:
Suddenly, I could not help convinced myself that I mixed Lila’s feelings with mine, and she was raped on that night that cannot be mentioned. She was raped by Stefanlow. She didn’t want to become like our mother, neighbor, or relative. Their bodies were consumed, and their bodies became more and more like their husbands, and then used by fathers and brothers. It ends in a vast and complex family root system.
Lila who was raped by her husband on the honeymoon night
started from pregnancy? Is it because of housework? Or did the beating start? Lila's delicate face will also show her father's characteristics, and my body will also show the appearance of my mother and my father.
From the perspective of this "gifted girlfriend", Lennon is still in the middle of fate, while she and Lila may have become those unrecognizable women, floating around her like dust.
4. The Naples story in art
One of the most infectious ways to create is to show the audience a fully conscious image, even if it is just an empty mirror, it is artistic (narrative art and visual art) The purpose should also be very strong (Bong Junhao's "Parasite" is a movie that is extremely conscious every second).
Compared with the first season relying on the sense of chaos to create a mental impact for the audience (such as the fireworks and gunfire in the fourth episode of "Boundaries Disappear"), the second season of "My Gifted Girlfriend" obviously has a lot more artistic consciousness Lens.
The "Boundary Disappears" in the first season
For example, on the first night of the honeymoon, Lila hid in the hotel bathroom with no excuses. Stefano, who couldn’t wait, came to urge her. In Lila’s eyes, Stefano’s face of prey Enlarged on the water-grained glass of the bathroom door-
accompanied by the threat of "I'm going to break in", this face became more and more huge, and in the end, it turned into the eternal imprint of Don Archile in the heart of childhood Lila Shadow;
Another example, the train that never appeared in the first season, inThe second season heralded the change of times. When the train roared past the edge of the old town, the whole old town trembled violently in the sound of the train. This tremor corresponds to the difference between the old town where Lennon lives and the new town where Lila lives. , The kind of abrupt change in the external living environment.
In these art scenes with clear meaning, the story of the new name flows on the women who are imprisoned by Naples time, and the mysterious and strong emotional and destiny connection between Lila and Lennon will make readers and audiences always remember Can't give up exploring.
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