小时候看的动画,小蝌蚪找妈妈。蝌蚪本身是没有父母概念的,看到别的动物和父母在一起,产生了对自身来源的疑惑,于是开始了它的寻找路程。在一路上,一边接受各方给予它的关于母亲的信息,一边变态发育,最终,与母亲相遇,完成了自我。
而真正的人生更具有张力。人类自出生起,面对父权与母权便展开了一场逃离。逃离是否是另一种回归。
一面追求自我、自由与尊严,作为生命的反抗;离婚、出柜、变性,挑战命运;另一面,滋养与慰藉,诉诸家庭与宗教,无法避免地渴望来自古老的共同的联系的拥抱;规训、爱与安全感。
一种永恒的矛盾。
The Pfeffermans are out of their minds. They literally shed themselves, heaps of souls on the floor, and out stepped the carefree, fun-seeking, trans-formed Pfeffermans. We can now binge-watch how they live their crazy to the fullest in Amazon original series, Transparent, thanks to the wonderful Jill Soloway.
First, it was crazy of a natural, familiar dose, like bickering over dinner while chewing Canter’s Deli barbecue ribs, but as the show spirals, it keeps bringing the game to new jaw-dropping levels. Former “poppa” of the family, Morton came out as a transgender, and has been reborn as “moppa” Maura; Sarah, the eldest sibling, divorced her husband for a dalliance with her college girlfriend; Josh, her younger brother, kept on impregnating women and losing his jobs thanks to numerous panic attacks; and Ali, the youngest and the craziest, dabbled and dived in drugs and lesbianism. The off-the-charts crazy detailed in sometimes too sexually graphic ways can be startling, but their crazy never rang hollow. It usually precedes irredeemable screw-ups in parenting, break-ups, sobbing in the restroom stall, or outbursts of road rage, and lives on a dangerous amount of egocentrism until there isn’t any.
I recognize some of their crazy. I live some versions of their crazy. I shivered when Maura acquiesced that she blackballed female applicants in grad school, and despite her gender identity, still refused to let go of the entitled, sexist Morty she was born as, or when Ali tried to talk her girlfriend into polyamory just to act on her infatuation towards her teacher (“What is being queer if not questioning everything?” she said, and by “everything” she meant, and I quote, “knee-jerk hetero-normative”), for I react just as badly towards ugly revelations, and bear the same lingering inconsistency. Even more frequently do I stumble to discover that I often feel lonely, from either getting my heart broken more than it should, or a lack of companion to help me stride forward, as do the characters, chugging tumblers of vodka, exchanging static eye contact with Chinese takeout in the microwave. Jill paints the life of a daring family where the audience could cull out and contemplate over their worst nightmares, but feel safe getting vulnerable along with the Pfeffermans. I, apart from all that, find her works rather intimate from where I stand. She’s trying to explore life’s infinite mutability through her feminine gaze. So am I.
处理的比第一季还要细腻 每个人的情绪都被放大了 但是不得不说 这个家庭的每个人是不被人爱的 每个人都有心底创伤 敏感的老小很受周围人的影响 矫情任性的大姐觉得可以随意伤害别人 到处跟别人说自己是缺乏母爱的祈求可以被原谅被爱 这是最不讨喜的角色 Moppa从心底里害怕外界对自己的看法 一点点小事情都会被放大成对自己的偏见 既然做出了改变 却不敢走的更远 很喜欢很喜欢片头 每次看都会觉得回到那个时代 每个时代都在追求自由 权力 但是 希望是在不伤害他人的基础上吧
Just some notes and thoughts of the series after the binge-watching.
Since I did not watch the Emmy Awards ceremony last year, I had no idea of the show before and didn’t expect all this either. Generally, it's wilder and more independent and natural than other TV series.
Get quite impressed at start and finally, touched. Just as one critic says: it’s groundbreaking.
As for the title, certainly it refers to the journey of coming out, secrets revealed. But gradually you’ll break it down to “trans” and “parent”. What a clever use of pun! Must be a challenge for translation.
The creator of the show describes it as “funny, dirty, and sad”. It’s more than accurate. For instance, I really didn't mean to laugh but it just gets hilarious, even hysterical at some point.
It’s an Amazon original series and according to the series creator, the reason of choosing Amazon instead of HBO or Showtime is that there’s more openness of procedures. For example, too many adjustments of the original transcripts can be avoided and it will be on air in a short time.
Key Words: LA, religion, gender, sexuality, feminism, marriage, family, identity, secrecy, relationship, boundary.
1.Judaism
Before the series, the only thing I might know about Jewish customs is the Passover and Seder, a festival to commemorates the story of the Exodus. While the series just offers a great chance to get to know the Jewish customs.
<Bar Mitzvah is the coming of age ceremony in which boys become the son of the commandment at 13 while girls at 12. So when Ali said she didn’t believe in God, her Bar Mitzvah was cancelled.
Yom Kippur is the holiest day of the year also known as the Day of Atonement coming with fasting and prayer. The appropriate greeting on this occasion is good Yontif.
Shiva is the week-long mourning period in response to the story in Genesis in which Joseph mourns the death of his father Jacob (Israel) for seven days. At the funeral, keriah is a ritual to tear an outer garment, which explains why Ali cut her necktie after the funeral of Ed. In the household, mirrors are covered during the Shiva, which is also a tradition shared by many nations.
The traditional Jewish wedding includes a ketubah (marriage contract) which is signed by two witnesses, a wedding canopy (chuppah or huppah), a ring owned by the groom that is given to the bride under the canopy, and the breaking of a glass. All of these are vividly depicted in the show and the Jewish songs and dances just appear to be really exotic. This wedding scene at the beginning of the second season is genuinely epic.
A rabbi is a teacher of Torah and the skullcap they wear is called kippah or yarmulke in Yiddish.
Sabbath is the seventh day of the Hebrew calendar week, which in English is known as Saturday.
Jewish Shabbat/Shabbath is a weekly day of rest, observed from sundown on Friday until the appearance of three stars in the sky on Saturday night.>
BTW, it’s the first time that I have found Jewish people so adorable and lovely on the screen (no offence). And when Sarah shouted "those WASPs" on her wedding day, the great rift between religions suddenly become obvious than ever, while I just couldn't help but laugh.
2.Family
The Pfefferman is a complicated family. They do not appear to be likeable, but you just cannot deny they are special and have a big heart. Just as Ali says, there is a great chasm in her family and it’s a house full of secrecy. It has three self-absorbed adult children and the parents also seem to be irresponsible despite their wealth and social status. They fight constantly but in the end they always get together. They are in the middle of family reconstruction.
3.Gender
It’s worth mentioning that It’s Jill Soloway who created this brilliant show. And she is a Jewish, a feminist and a lesbian, or rather, just being Jill Soloway. The story of the show is also partly based on her own family and her father coming out as a trans. Jill takes it as her “creative destiny” to display the experience of her family on screen.
The show is basically a lively community of LGBT, and people may dislike it because it’s full of drama or simply too unrealistic, but the incredible part of the show really lies in the potential possibilities it presents us. We have the choice to be a male, female, or gender-neutral; we are free to be asexual, bisexual, heterosexual or homosexual; we can just decide who to marry and remarry.
Since we all hate to fall into the situation of stereotypes or over-generalization, it’s very hard to make definitions or pin someone down with a label sometimes. Hence the definition and relation of gender, sexuality and marriage is simply not limited by one set of rules or modes. It’s kind of a discussion of power, rights, and possibly the morality. And in my opinion, from the standpoint of an individual, it all comes down to the point that we should have the freedom to choose and become who we really are, and to do what we really like without asking for the permission from others.
Having too many alternatives doesn’t always lead to wise decisions, but still we have to admit diversity is the essential part of the evolution of nature as well as our own development.
As I watch it, I’m in the same process of confusion and trying to understand them. But it’s really hard to imagine and put yourself in their shoes if you haven’t shared their experience before.
<Transvestism is the practice of dressing and acting in a style or manner traditionally associated with the other sex.
Cross-dressers are men who wear female clothing and often both admire and imitate women, but self-identify as different from both gay men and transsexuals, and generally deny having fetishistic intentions.>
BTW, too much nudity might be one of the few uncomfortable parts of the show, and Jill herself also acknowledges it’s meant for the commercial reasons.
4.Identity
It’s never a complete story without sadness. Here, the death of Ed is sad, and seeing grandma sitting in the nursing home is sad. I guess it’s always sad to witness the loss of memory. It feels like you are losing yourself piece by piece and there is merely no way to fight against it. Still, without any doubt we spend all our life trying to find who we are despite the frustration and disappointment along the way or in the end. Just as Maura says, it’s OK to be sad.
LA is the ideal place for dreaming and becoming, living in the breeze under the sunshine. The feisty and vulnerable Pfefferman are stepping on a journey of healing and becoming, of learning and growing, and of experimenting and loving.
On this long road, probably the best thing we can say is: "I've always known you; I've always loved you; of course I still love you."
Reference:
http://www.npr.org/2014/10/30/360116374/funny-dirty-sad-the-holy-trinity-for-transparent-creator-jill-soloway#http://www.imdb.com/title/tt3502262/?ref_=nv_sr_1//en.wikipedia.org. Some new words:
limerence
sinsemilla
bidet(oscillate, pulsate)
mercury retrograde
hermaphrodite
scallop
wonky
speck
turret
absolve
heathen
vagabond
pariah
gander
mahogany
tangy
lupus
shingle
palisade
cantaloupe
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Is getting old already
Audacious!【最愛第九集。
情事和这部剧是我如今在追的最赞的美剧 第一季一口气看完的 第二季第一集以婚礼开场 结尾的长镜头太棒了!
Too much drama 但停不下来啊
一个连几百集的电视剧都非得从第一季第一集开始看的人,下了这部剧看到最后一集才发现自己下错了资源直接从第二季开始看起了,大家体会一下这种崩溃的心情
角色性格的发散和给三兄妹的配对让第二季比第一季更完整,到最后三个人躺在床上一起失恋的时刻很甜很柔和。围绕“Maura”在选择性别的讨论之外,Michaela Watkins牵起的往事线也在本季的最后一刻和主线故事交融。跨越时空跨越情境,那种抉择的勇气和表达自我的权利早已在Pfefferman一家的血液里流淌和贯穿始终。
Her name is fey , It's a boy.
性别是一条流动的河,活在当下,五味杂陈。强推给所有人!
结尾似乎一切明了,又似乎刚刚拉开帷幕。
每个人都是抑郁的个体
太多精彩的地方,最喜欢第九集,两条线都棒到不行。
第九集最高,其余平平,这季整体有些狗血,Jeffrey Tambor依旧精彩,但我真是很不喜欢她的三个儿女啊,全是神经病,情商为负。
这下好了,一家人都喜欢女人了。。。
第九集的时空交错简直神!电子版的waiting好好听啊
这季感觉真是又姬又犹。我自然是不介意她那么姬,不过不知道普罗大众的回应会怎样。maupa跟妈妈开始像是lesbian couple,大姐第一集来了个lesbian wedding,小妹也直接弯了。carrie brownstein好多戏份,好开心。Cherry jones也很重的角色。
这一季偏心理层面了 每个人的创伤 围绕这个家族的人 每个人都有各自的特点和缺点 而每个人都值得原谅 依然喜欢艾丽
没有第一季那么幽默,越来越sad,让人有点看不下去,但是很鼓励这种TV auteurism。个性一点对电视来说要比电影难很多
第一集婚礼拍得好赞,carrie brownstein的房子装修风格太帅了!
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