



影片展现给我们就是一战时期的拉脱维亚历史画卷。通过拉脱维亚乡村的一家普通农户,主要是儿子阿图尔(男主)在一战过程的经历,展现了拉脱维亚人民为了国家独立民族自由反抗强敌英勇不屈服的精神,同时也描述了在此期间这个小国家的一个个小家庭和一个个所付出的巨大代价。
16岁的阿图尔生活在非常普通的拉脱维亚家庭里,有自己的梦想也有喜欢的女
影片展现给我们就是一战时期的拉脱维亚历史画卷。通过拉脱维亚乡村的一家普通农户,主要是儿子阿图尔(男主)在一战过程的经历,展现了拉脱维亚人民为了国家独立民族自由反抗强敌英勇不屈服的精神,同时也描述了在此期间这个小国家的一个个小家庭和一个个所付出的巨大代价。
16岁的阿图尔生活在非常普通的拉脱维亚家庭里,有自己的梦想也有喜欢的女孩,此时拉脱维亚隶属沙皇俄国,由于历史原因也受到来自立陶宛方向的普鲁士德国势利的影响,小国家虽然不富裕,但至少也算平静。
然而一战的爆发打破了这种平静,波罗的海三国的地理位置使其成为沙皇俄国和德意志帝国争夺的战略要地。阿图尔的母亲被意外到来的普鲁士军队枪杀,他和父亲还有兄弟要为母亲报仇,一起加入沙俄军队。
旷日持久的一战越来越残酷,阿图尔的父亲和兄弟相继阵亡,他自己也屡次受伤,但运气还不算太差。在和德军相持中,沙皇俄国被苏维埃政权取代,阿图尔的战友们纷纷被苏联红军枪毙。阿图尔逃离了红军,参加了争取国家和民族独立的军队,带领一帮学生军拼死抵抗试图入侵的苏联红军和德军。
最终战争结束,在盟友爱沙尼亚的帮助下拉脱维亚获得独立,多次负伤满脸沧桑的阿图尔也和心爱的女孩一起回归正常生活。
从近现代历史上看,拉脱维亚,以及爱沙尼亚和立陶宛,其争取独立的历史就是一部血泪史。
波罗的海三国是典型的东北欧小国,三个国家加起来人口也就600万左右,当地原住民种族人高马大金发碧眼,更接近北欧瑞典芬兰人种,就连语言也和瑞典芬兰接近,相互大多能听懂。最南端的立陶宛历史上受普鲁士德国和波兰影响较多,语言和生活习惯也更接近这两个国家。
对于早先吞并他们的以斯拉夫人种为主的沙皇俄国并没有太多的认同感,反倒是德国对势力影响的立陶宛实行相对宽松的民族政策,获得了不少认同感。
一战时期,夹杂在军事强国德国和沙俄(苏俄)之间的这三个小国家的人民也是很无奈的,两边都惹不起,只能是看谁厉害就跟着谁混,轮番给德国和俄国补充兵员当炮灰。
本来是没什么希望的,但是沙俄内部革命,新成立的苏维埃政权忙于对付反对派,德国在战争中两线作战元气大伤。于是三个小国家相互扶持,在一战结束的时候,一起为独立而战,并获得了二十多年的短暂独立。
二战早期,苏德秘密划分了欧洲势力范围,波罗的海三国被划入苏联的范围内,面对苏联红果果的武力威胁,三国被迫加入苏联。在德国入侵苏联后,三国民间的反苏势力纷纷联手纳粹德国对抗苏联红军。
德国投降后,苏联恼怒三国的反抗行为,对这三个小国家实行了种族灭绝式的迁移和屠杀政策,造成三国人口进一步锐减,至今拉脱维亚女性比例远超过男性。
在东欧剧变苏联解体时期,波罗的海三国也早早宣布独立,并且迅速与继承苏联衣钵的俄罗斯划清界限,不参加以其为首的独联体,专而直接加入北约集团。俄罗斯受国力所限,只能干瞪眼。至此,三国才算真正获得了国家和民族独立。
无论是在一战末期还是冷战末期,在普鲁士德意志帝国、沙皇俄罗斯帝国、纳粹德国、红色苏联的眼中,波罗的海三国从来不是三个独立的国家,而只是一块战略要地罢了,谁强就是谁的。夹在这些强大国家之间,也是三国人民的不幸。
即便世界残酷如此,也不能熄灭阿图尔们心中争取自由和独立的火种,也许他们的肉体会被消灭,但他们的精神必将永存!
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知乎上有一个问题“《花牌情缘》的男主是太一还是新?”有网友神回答:歌牌。
《花牌情缘:结》千早再次确认了这个回答:我的恋人是歌牌。
知乎上有一个问题“《花牌情缘》的男主是太一还是新?”有网友神回答:歌牌。
《花牌情缘:结》千早再次确认了这个回答:我的恋人是歌牌。
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一共25篇好评,写的有鼻子有眼的,连文带图,声情并茂,不知道是机器还是真人。我全程黑人问号。这部剧可以用两个字概括,沙雕。不是它的类型,而是对它的评价。多好拍的很老梗,多容易制造粉红的设定,拍成弱智,傻逼,硬凑,没有逻辑,让人智熄。我就想知道买剧评多少钱,刷五星多钱?公司的钱估计也就花在这个上面了,看得出演员拍戏没啥时间,都一遍过吧?这么烂,导演也不卡,随便拍拍走人对吧,反正花点钱刷五星,骗
一共25篇好评,写的有鼻子有眼的,连文带图,声情并茂,不知道是机器还是真人。我全程黑人问号。这部剧可以用两个字概括,沙雕。不是它的类型,而是对它的评价。多好拍的很老梗,多容易制造粉红的设定,拍成弱智,傻逼,硬凑,没有逻辑,让人智熄。我就想知道买剧评多少钱,刷五星多钱?公司的钱估计也就花在这个上面了,看得出演员拍戏没啥时间,都一遍过吧?这么烂,导演也不卡,随便拍拍走人对吧,反正花点钱刷五星,骗一个是一个。优酷爱惜一下羽毛吧,答应我别拍这种剧了,我会怀疑这个网站不适合10岁以上的人。
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还记得当年,《颤抖吧,阿部!》的结局是男主唐青风为了大义牺牲了自己,于是阿部便带着变成植物人的唐青风开始在宇宙中漂泊。阿部曾是个人口贩子,当然已经改邪归正,尽管生活艰难,她依然坚持每天送外卖,给唐青风按摩,对他讲话。朵喵喵说其实这世上有平行宇宙,那里有圆的,扁的,黑的,白的唐青风,阿部心不在焉地答应他等有钱了就去把那些唐青风都带回来,于是躺着的唐青风大喊“不行!”,着急地醒了过来。唐青风很成
还记得当年,《颤抖吧,阿部!》的结局是男主唐青风为了大义牺牲了自己,于是阿部便带着变成植物人的唐青风开始在宇宙中漂泊。阿部曾是个人口贩子,当然已经改邪归正,尽管生活艰难,她依然坚持每天送外卖,给唐青风按摩,对他讲话。朵喵喵说其实这世上有平行宇宙,那里有圆的,扁的,黑的,白的唐青风,阿部心不在焉地答应他等有钱了就去把那些唐青风都带回来,于是躺着的唐青风大喊“不行!”,着急地醒了过来。唐青风很成熟稳重,心系天下,有一腔热血,赤胆忠心,又偏偏对阿部情有独钟,每当阿部有需要,他手向上一举,便能手持大宝剑,护得她周全。阿部却不懂什么女子的温婉贤淑,她是一个外星人,只吃地球上的红烧肉,看谁不爽,手往下一伸,抄起一块大板砖就能打爆对方的头。---------------
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女主军装那套超美的 其他就一般 有几个配角的服装甚至可以说是丑……整体画面有点繁复艳俗我本来以为是胡桃夹子的故事 挺期待怎么展现各个王国的奇幻美景的 其实拍成歌舞片 加上梦幻的场景绝对好看啊 结果讲的是胡桃夹子女主的女儿 原女主已经死了……行吧 那女主去游历各国好了 也没 搁她妈宫殿里搞政治斗争 哎 芭蕾有一段 单独摘出来挺好看的 放在剧情里非常生硬……角色的话黑人卫兵和小老鼠挺可爱 不过也
女主军装那套超美的 其他就一般 有几个配角的服装甚至可以说是丑……整体画面有点繁复艳俗我本来以为是胡桃夹子的故事 挺期待怎么展现各个王国的奇幻美景的 其实拍成歌舞片 加上梦幻的场景绝对好看啊 结果讲的是胡桃夹子女主的女儿 原女主已经死了……行吧 那女主去游历各国好了 也没 搁她妈宫殿里搞政治斗争 哎 芭蕾有一段 单独摘出来挺好看的 放在剧情里非常生硬……角色的话黑人卫兵和小老鼠挺可爱 不过也就一般可爱 没到能拯救烂片的地步有两个一点也不好笑的搞笑角色也是惨 不懂为什么结局了要整他们 人家好好的 看他们无辜被整我不会开心啊?反而觉得很可怜 大概我跟编剧笑点不合其他真的没有太多可讲的 剧情很随便的 大人看了会无聊 小孩看了会睡着哦 女主的设定哦 集万千独宠于一身 爸妈都觉得她最特别 不知道小孩子看了什么感觉 是会把自己代入女主觉得很开心 还是会代入那两个被忽视的孩子觉得糟心 反正我看的时候觉得很同情那两个小孩 感觉这种偏心成这样的育儿方式简直有毒
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大家好,我是戴着眼镜拿着话筒的阿拉斯加,片片。
事实证明,不到这一年的最后一秒钟,都不能轻易下定论,到底谁真正配得上“年度烂剧”的桂冠。
前几天片片才本着神农尝百
大家好,我是戴着眼镜拿着话筒的阿拉斯加,片片。
事实证明,不到这一年的最后一秒钟,都不能轻易下定论,到底谁真正配得上“年度烂剧”的桂冠。
前几天片片才本着神农尝百草的精神以身犯险,试毒豆瓣4分偶像剧《蜗牛与黄鹂鸟》。
没想到,山外有山天外有天,烂剧之外有更烂的剧。
一部讲老少配爱情的《爱我就别想太多》横空出世,以豆瓣3.3分的优异成绩惊掉观众下巴。
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影片中的晓阳,其实内心世界有些封闭,所以跟徐梁闹变扭,有误会他也事后没有主动去解释,他不善于表达自己的情感;在他爸爸取消徐梁资格的时候,他明明很想在他爸爸面前替徐梁求情,却硬生生的只喊了两声爸爸,第一声里有他想为义气呐喊的勇气,第二声里有他对父亲的畏惧及他性格里根深蒂固的乖巧。后来终于遇见一个可以让他从禁锢的世界里感受新的世界的领家爷爷,他终于可以把自己的小秘密透露在空气下这样的毫无遮拦,这
影片中的晓阳,其实内心世界有些封闭,所以跟徐梁闹变扭,有误会他也事后没有主动去解释,他不善于表达自己的情感;在他爸爸取消徐梁资格的时候,他明明很想在他爸爸面前替徐梁求情,却硬生生的只喊了两声爸爸,第一声里有他想为义气呐喊的勇气,第二声里有他对父亲的畏惧及他性格里根深蒂固的乖巧。后来终于遇见一个可以让他从禁锢的世界里感受新的世界的领家爷爷,他终于可以把自己的小秘密透露在空气下这样的毫无遮拦,这也是他人生中的一次英勇,敢于违抗一直压抑着的世界的一次抵抗,但是带他呼吸这个世界第一口自由的气息的人终究还是离开了,他无法直面爷爷的离开,一直不敢面对分离,直到人离开他才奋力追赶,但是看着那辆黑色的轿车离去的那刻他却停留在那里,没有再追赶他只是目送,他节制的表达着不舍的含蓄,然后对爷爷说,其实更多的是对自己说,会等他回来。虽然不知道后来他们是否相遇,至少小阳遵循了自我的内心,最后也坚持了自己的足球梦,即便小阳又回到了一个人的孤单里,或许孤独最终会成就小阳的梦想,就像有人说梅兰芳的一切来自孤独一样。
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他们为工作奔波,为生活劳苦,为时运不齐,命途多舛而郁闷,但是他们始终相濡以沫,互相扶持。当陆文婷躺在病床上命悬一线时,傅家杰仍然握着她的手,留着泪,轻轻地吟诵“我愿意是废墟,只要我的爱人,是青青的常春藤,沿着我荒凉的额,亲密地攀援上升”。美好的诗歌,在平安顺遂的日子里,给人灌了蜜糖那样的甜蜜;在艰难的日子里,诗歌,是甜蜜,是爱,是把坚持下去的信念。唯有历经
他们为工作奔波,为生活劳苦,为时运不齐,命途多舛而郁闷,但是他们始终相濡以沫,互相扶持。当陆文婷躺在病床上命悬一线时,傅家杰仍然握着她的手,留着泪,轻轻地吟诵“我愿意是废墟,只要我的爱人,是青青的常春藤,沿着我荒凉的额,亲密地攀援上升”。美好的诗歌,在平安顺遂的日子里,给人灌了蜜糖那样的甜蜜;在艰难的日子里,诗歌,是甜蜜,是爱,是把坚持下去的信念。唯有历经生活的艰难,经历了挫折、拮据、劳累、无奈、烦乱甚至失去,才能得到那刻骨铭心的诗意,那种诗意便是,认清了生活的种种不堪,却仍然热爱她;那种诗意便是暂时脱离了生活的柴米油盐,内心的宁静;那种诗意便是无视世俗的蝇营狗苟,坚守心中的追求。这样的诗意,才是诗意,充满重量而又充满力量,继而充满幸福。
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对于电视剧版的《使徒行者》我只知其名。而当看到电影版的主演是古天乐和张家辉时我便知道这会是一个全新的故事——最少不会像电影版的《变节》。但说实话,最吸引我的演员并不是已经明显成为大妈级别却还要卖萌的佘诗曼,而是吴镇宇——想想,这好像是我第一次写的有关吴妈的影评。吴镇宇一直都是我喜欢的一个演员,当他只用脸部五官就能演出一副生动的表情时我感觉他比哥哥还帅。无独有偶,电影版和电视剧版都是同一个主题
对于电视剧版的《使徒行者》我只知其名。而当看到电影版的主演是古天乐和张家辉时我便知道这会是一个全新的故事——最少不会像电影版的《变节》。但说实话,最吸引我的演员并不是已经明显成为大妈级别却还要卖萌的佘诗曼,而是吴镇宇——想想,这好像是我第一次写的有关吴妈的影评。吴镇宇一直都是我喜欢的一个演员,当他只用脸部五官就能演出一副生动的表情时我感觉他比哥哥还帅。无独有偶,电影版和电视剧版都是同一个主题,即谁是卧底?这本应该是一个很好的足以吊足观众胃口的问题,但两大主角在身份动机上并没有给我们留下太多的思考空间。当古天乐区间吴镇宇时相信观众只是想了想:他是卧底。而当张家辉用子弹打出摩斯密码时,我们也只是脑筋跟着一转:哦,他是卧底。虽然影片解释了古天乐冒充卧底的原因,但影片却在整个叙述过程中没有给到任何支持这个原因的强有力的情节。以至于当你看完整部电影之后,你回头想想你会觉得古天乐冒充卧底的原因是如此的单薄无力,让人无法信服。但港片就是港片,上面我说的那些可能导演都考虑过,但却并不是他和他的这部电影的思考重点,影片中的兄弟情才是。那是香港电影自上世纪八十年代开始便一直延续到如今的“热血情怀”,《扫毒》是,《使徒行者》亦然。只是如今在情怀和故事叙事方面导演似乎很难做到两者兼容,相辅相成的境界。于是便出现了一个如今香港电影的现象——情怀总是大于故事。而在影片最后高潮的半个小时,你如果仔细梳理一下其中的时间线的话,你会发现它们是存在矛盾的。其实若古天乐的角色再黑化一点,这部电影或许还能有更多的惊喜——《危城》里古天乐好像就是这么干的。但由于这部电影我并没有看,所以不做太多赘述。如今的香港电影与其说是在重铸辉煌,不如说是在寻找一个走出两难之地的方法,在此我们也只能希望它能早日复兴——明天会更好。
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So I stopped at a Jack in the Box on the way here, and the girl behind the counter said, “Hiya! Are you having an awesome day?” Not, “How are you doing today?” No. “Are you having an So I stopped at a Jack in the Box on the way here, and the girl behind the counter said, “Hiya! Are you having an awesome day?” Not, “How are you doing today?” No. “Are you having an awesome day?” Which is pretty… shitty, because it puts the onus on me to disagree with her, like if I’m not having an “awesome day,” suddenly I’m the negative one. Usually when people ask how I’m doing, the real answer is I’m doing shitty, but I can’t say I’m doing shitty because I don’t even have a good reason to be doing shitty. So if I say, “I’m doing shitty,” then they say, “Why? What’s wrong?” And I have to be like, “I don’t know, all of it?” So instead, when people ask how I’m doing, I usually say, “I am doing so great.” But when this girl at the Jack in the Box asked me if I was having an awesome day, I thought, “Well, today I’m actually allowed to feel shitty.” Today I have a good reason, so I said to her, “Well, my mom died,” and she immediately burst into tears. So now I have to comfort her, which is annoying, and meanwhile, there’s a line of people forming behind me who are all giving me these real judgy looks because I made the Jack in the Box girl cry. And she’s bawling, and she’s saying, “I’m sorry, I’m so sorry,” and I’m like, “It’s fine. It’s fine.” I mean, it’s not fine but, you know, it’s… fine. And I would like to order a Double Jack Meal, and I’ve kinda got somewhere to be, so maybe less with the crying and more with the frying, huh? [inhales] And the girl apologizes again and she offers me a free churro with my meal. And as I’m leaving, I think, “I just got a free churro because my mom died.” No one ever tells you that when your mom dies, you get a free churro. [people murmuring] [clears throat] Anyway, I’m sorry, that’s not part of the… [clears throat] All right. Okay, here we go. Let’s do this. Here I am, BoJack Horseman, doing a eulogy, let’s go. Hey, piano man, can I get a, like an organ flourish? [organ plays] Nicely done. You know, I was a little worried I wouldn’t have the right accompaniment today. I guess it’s a good thing my mom was an organ donor! [rimshot plays] What happened to the organ? [horn ‘oogahs’] Okay, why just leave the comedy to the professionals? Okay? This is a funeral, sir, for my mother. Can you show a little respect? [trumpet whines] I’ll take it. Beatrice Horseman, who was she? What was her deal? Well, she was a horse. Uh, she was born in 1938. She died in 2018. One time, she went to a parade, and one time, she smoked an entire cigarette in one long inhale. I watched her do it. Truly a remarkable woman. [rustling] Lived a full life, that lady. Just, all the way to the end, which is, uh, now I guess. Really makes you think, though, huh? Life, right? Goes by, stuff happens. Then you die. Okay, well that’s my time, you’ve been great! Tip your waitress! No, I’m just kidding around, there’s no waitress. But seriously, that’s all I have to say about my mother. No point beating a dead horse, right? So… [inhales] Now what? I don’t know. Mom, you got any ideas? Anything? Mom? No? Nothing to contribute? Knock once if you’re proud of me. Can I just say how amazing it is to be in a room with my mother, and I can just talk and talk without her telling me to shut up and make her a drink? Hey, Mom, knock once if you think I should shut up. No? You sure? I mean, I don’t want to embarrass you by making this eulogy into a me-logy, so, seriously, if you wanted me to sit down and let someone else talk, just knock. I will not be offended. No? Your funeral. Sorry about the closed casket, by the way. She wanted an open casket, but uh, you know, she’s dead now, so who cares what she wanted? No, that sounds bad. I’m sorry. I-I think that if she could’ve seen what she looked like dead, she’d agree it’s better this way. She looked like this. [groaning] [mourners gasping] Kinda like a pissed-off toy dinosaur. The coroner couldn’t get her eyes closed, so now her face is forever frozen in a mask of tremendous horror and anguish. Or as my mom called it, Tuesday! Tuesday! My mom called it Tuesday. [woman coughs] Hey, Mom, what did you think of that joke? You like that? You never did care for my comedy. [clears throat] Here’s a story. When I was a teenager, I performed a comedy routine for my high school talent show. There was this, uh, cool jacket that I wanted to wear because I thought it would make me look like Albert Brooks. For months, I saved up for this jacket. But when I finally had enough, I went to the store and it was gone. They had just sold it to someone else. So, I went home and I told my mother, and she said, “Let that be a lesson. That’s the good that comes from wanting things.” She was really good at dispensing life lessons that always seemed to circle back to everything being my fault. But then, on the day of the talent show, my mother had a surprise for me. She had bought me the jacket. Even though she didn’t know how to say it, I know this meant that she loved me. Now that’s a good story about my mother. It’s not true, but it’s a good story, right? I stole it from an episode of Maude I saw when I was a kid, where she talks about her father. I remember when I saw it, thinking, “That’s the kind of story I want to tell about my parents when they die.” But I don’t have any stories like that. All I know about being good, I learned from TV. And in TV, flawed characters are constantly showing people they care with these surprising grand gestures. And I think that part of me still believes that’s what love is. But in real life, the big gesture isn’t enough. You need to be consistent, you need to be dependably good. You can’t just screw everything up and then take a boat out into the ocean to save your best friend, or solve a mystery, and fly to Kansas. You need to do it every day, which is so… hard. When you’re a kid, you convince yourself that maybe the grand gesture could be enough, that even though your parents aren’t what you need them to be over and over and over again, at any moment, they might surprise you with something… wonderful. I kept waiting for that, the proof that even though my mother was a hard woman, deep down, she loved me and cared about me and wanted me to know that I made her life a little bit brighter. Even now, I find myself waiting. Hey, Mom, knock once if you love me and care about me and want me to know I made your life a little bit brighter. [owl chirping] My mother did not go gentle into that good night. She went clawing and fighting and thrashing, hence the face. [groaning] [mourners gasping] If you’d seen her, I swear to God the only thing you’d be thinking about right now is that I am nailing this impression. [woman clears her throat] [chairs squeak] I was in the hospital with her those last moments, and they were truly horrifying, full of nonsencial screams and cries, but there was this moment, this one instant of strange calm, where she looked in my direction and said, “I see you.” That’s the last thing she said to me. “I see you.” Not a statement of judgment or disappointment, just acceptance and the simple recognition of another person in a room. “Hello there. You are a person. And I see you.” Let me tell you, it’s a weird thing to feel at 54 years old, that for the first time in your life your mother sees you. It’s an odd realization that that’s the thing you’ve been missing, the only thing you wanted all along, to be seen. And it doesn’t feel like a relief, to finally be seen. It feels mean, like, “Oh, it turns out that you knew what I wanted, and you waited until the very last moment to give it to me.” I was prepared for more cruelty. I was sure that she would get in one final zinger about how I let her down, and about how I was fat and stupid and too tall to be an effective Lindy-hopper. How I was needy and a burden and an embarrassment—all that I was ready for. I was not ready for “I see you.” Only my mother would be lousy enough to swipe me with a moment of connection on her way out. But maybe I’m giving her too much credit. Maybe it wasn’t about connection. Maybe it was a… maybe it was an “I see you,” like, uh, “I see you.” Like, “You might have the rest of the world fooled, but I know exactly who you are.” That’s more my mom’s speed. Or maybe she just literally meant “I see you. You are an object that has entered my field of vision.” She was pretty out of it at the end, so maybe it’s dumb to try to attribute it to anything. [woman sighs] Back in the 90s, I was in a very famous TV show called Horsin’ Around. [man coughs] Please hold your applause. And I remember one time, a fan asked me, “Hey, um, you know that episode where the horse has to give Ethan a pep talk after Ethan finds out his crush only asked him to the dance because her friends were having a dorkiest date contest? In all the shots of the horse, you can see a paper coffee cup on the kitchen counter, but in the shots of Ethan, the coffee cup’s missing. Was that because the show was making a statement about the fluctuant subjectivity of memory and how even two people can experience the same moment in entirely different ways?” And I didn’t have the heart to be, like, “No, man, some crew guy just left their coffee cup in the shot.” So instead, I was, like… “Yeah.” And maybe this is like that coffee cup. Maybe we’re dumb to try to pin significance onto every little thing. Maybe when someone says, “I see you,” it just means, “I see you.” Then again, it’s possible she wasn’t even talking to me because, if I’m being honest, she wasn’t really looking at me. She was looking just past me. There was nobody else in the room, so I want to think she was talking to me, but, honestly, she was so far gone at that point, who knows what she was seeing? Who were you talking to, Mom? [sighs] Not saying, huh? Staying mum? No rimshot there? God, whatever I’m paying you, it’s too much. Maybe she saw my dad. My dad died about ten years ago of injuries he sustained during a duel. When your father dies, you ask yourself a lot of questions. Questions like, “Wait, did you say he died in a duel?” and “Who dies in a duel?” The whole thing was so stupid. Dad spent his entire life writing this book, but he couldn’t get any stores to carry it or any newspapers to review it. Finally, I guess this one newspaper thought he was pretty hilarious, because they ran a review and tore him to shreds. So my father, ever the proud Mary, decided he would not stand for this besmirchment of his honor. He claimed the critic didn’t understand what it meant to be a man, so he demanded satisfaction in the form of pistols at dawn. He wrote the paper this letter, saying anyone who didn’t like his book, he would challenge to a duel, anyone in the world. He’d even pay for airfare to San Francisco and a night in a hotel. Well, eventually this found its way to some kook in Montana, who was as batshit as he was and took him up on the offer. They met at Golden Gate Park and agreed: ten paces, then shoot. But in the middle of the ten paces, Dad turned to ask the guy if he’d actually read the book and what he thought, but, not looking where he was going, tripped over an exposed root and bashed his head on a rock. [murmur] I wish I’d known to go to Jack in the Box then. Maybe I could have gotten a free churro. It would’ve been nice to have something to show for being the son of Butterscotch Horseman. My darling mother gave the eulogy. My entire life I never heard her say a kind word to or about my father, but at his funeral she said, “My husband is dead, and everything is worse now.” “My husband is dead, and everything is worse now.” I don’t know why she said that. Maybe she felt like that’s the kind of thing you’re supposed to say at a funeral. Maybe she hoped one day someone would say that about her. “My mother is dead, and everything is worse now.” Or maybe she knew that he had frittered away all her inheritance, and replaced it with crippling debt, which is a pretty shitty thing to leave your widow with. “Bad news, you lost a husband, but don’t worry, you also lost the house!” Maybe Mom knew she’d have to sell all her fancy jewelry and move into a home. Maybe that’s what she meant by “everything is worse now.” Is that what you meant, Mom? I gotta say, I’m really carrying this double act. At least with Penn and Teller, the quiet one does card tricks. Hey, piano man, when I say something funny to my mom, how about you give me one of those rimshots? [rimshot plays] Yeah, but not now. When I say something funny. Like, okay. What’s the difference between my mother and a disruptive expulsion of germs? One’s a coughin’ fit and the other fits a coffin! That’s an example of a funny thing. [rimshot plays] Thank you. Let’s try again. Hey, Mom. What’s the difference between my mother and a bunch of Easter eggs? One gets carried in a basket, the other gets buried in a casket! [rimshot plays] Ready for one more? Last one. What’s the difference between a first-year lit major and my mother, Beatrice Horseman? One is decently read, and the other’s a huge bitch! [woman gasps] [murmurs] Yeah, might have gone a little too far with that one. That one might’ve been a little too “my mom’s a huge bitch” for the room. I’m sorry, Mother. You’re not a huge bitch. You were a huge bitch… and now you’re dead. [woman sighs] You know, the first time I ever performed in front of an audience, it actually was, uh, with my mom. She used to put on these shows with her supper club in the living room and she used to make… [inhales] She used to make me sing “The Lollipop Song.” [organ playing tune] Those parties, they were really something. There were skits and magic acts, and ethnically insensitive vaudeville routines, and the big finale was always a dance my mother did. She had this beautiful dress that she only brought out for these parties, and she did this incredible number. It was so beautiful and sad. Dad hated the parties. He’d lock himself in the study, and bang on the walls for us to keep it down, but he always came out to see Mom dance. He’d linger in the doorway, scotch in hand, and watch in awe, as this cynical, despicable woman he married… took flight. And as a child who was completely terrified of both my parents, I was always aware that this moment of grace, it meant something. We understood each other in a way. Me and my mom and my dad, as screwed up as we all were, we did understand each other. My mother, she knew what it’s like to feel your entire life like you’re drowning, with the exception of these moments, these very rare, brief instances, in which you suddenly remember… you can swim. [flashback] [partygoers laughing] [classical music playing] But then again, mostly not. Mostly you’re drowning. She understood that, too. And she recognized that I understood it. And Dad. All three of us were drowning, and we didn’t know how to save each other, but there was an understanding that we were all drowning together. And I would like to think that that’s what she meant when we were in the hospital and she said, “I see you.” You know, the weird thing about both your parents being dead is it means that you’re next. I mean, you know, obviously it’s not like there’s a waitlist for dying. Any one of us could get run over by a Snapchatting teen at any moment. And you would think that knowing that would make us more adventurous, and kind, and forgiving. But it makes us small, and stupid, and petty. I actually had a near-death experience recently. A stunt went bad and I fell off a building. I’m an actor, I do my own stunts. I’m on this new show Philbert. I’m Philbert. Star of the show. It hasn’t come out yet, but it’s already getting Emmy buzz. Oh, speaking of buzz… [inhales] I’m supposed to take two of these every morning, but my days are so screwed up ‘cause of the shooting schedule, I don’t even know what morning means anymore. There’s a joke in there somewhere, about a guy who’s been to so many funerals, he doesn’t even know what mourning means anymore. Let you guys figure that one out for yourselves. [gulps] Anyway, you know what I thought, when I was falling off the building and I went into panic mode? The last thing that my stupid brain could come up with before I died? “Won’t they be sorry.” Cool thought, brain. [rimshot plays] No, that wasn’t… would you just… dial it back, all right? I don’t even know what “they” I wanted to be sorry. My mom, even before she died, could barely remember who I was. And of course, my dad’s dead. The last conversation I ever had with him was about his novel. He was so certain this book was his legacy. Maybe he thought it would vindicate him for all the shitty things he ever did in his stupid worthless life. Maybe it did, I don’t know. I never read it, because why would I give him that? I used to be on this TV show called Horsin’ Around. Seriously, though, hold your applause. [man coughs] Well held. It was written by my friend Herb Kazzaz, who’s also dead now, and it starred this little girl named Sarah Lynn. And it was about these orphans. And early on, the network had a note, “Maybe don’t mention they’re orphans so much, because audiences tend to find orphans sad and not relatable.” But I never thought that the orphans were sad. I-I always thought they were lucky, because they could imagine their parents to be anything they wanted. They had something to long for. Anyway, we did this one season finale, where Olivia’s birth mother comes to town. And she was a junkie, but she’s gotten herself cleaned up, and she wants to be in Olivia’s life again. And of course, she’s like a perfect grown-up version of Olivia, and they go to the mall together and get her ears pierced like she’s always wanted and—sorry, spoiler alert for the season six finale of Horsin’ Around, if you’re still working your way through it. Anyway, the horse tries to warn her, “Be careful, moms have a way of letting you down.” But Olivia just thinks the horse is jealous, and when the mom says she’s moving to California, Olivia decides to go with her. And the network really juiced the cliffhanger: “Is Olivia gone for good?” But of course, because it’s a TV show, she was not gone for good. Of course, because it’s a TV show, Olivia’s mother had a relapse and had to go back to rehab, so Olivia had to hitchhike all the way home, getting rides from Mr. T, Alf, and the cast of Stomp. Of course, that’s what happened. Because, what are you gonna do, just not have Olivia on the show? You can’t have happy endings in sitcoms, not really, because, if everyone’s happy, the show would be over, and above all else, the show… has to keep going. There’s always more show. And you can call Horsin’ Around dumb, or bad, or unrealistic, but there is nothing more realistic than that. You never get a happy ending, ‘cause there’s always more show. I guess until there isn’t. [chuckles] My mom would hate it if she knew that I spent so much time at her funeral talking about my old TV show. Or maybe she’d think it was funny that her idiot son couldn’t even do this right. Who knows? She left no instructions for what she wanted me to say. All I know is she wanted an open casket, and her idiot son couldn’t even do that right. I’m not gonna stand up here and pretend I ever understood how to please that woman, even though so much of my life has been wasted in vain attempts to figure it out. But I keep going back to that moment in the ICU when she looked at me, and… “I-C-U.” “I… see… you.” Jesus Christ, we were in the intensive care unit. She was just reading a sign. My mom died and all I got was this free churro. You know the shittiest thing about all of this? Is when that stranger behind the counter gave me that free churro, that small act of kindness showed more compassion than my mother gave me her entire goddamn life. Like, how hard is it to do something nice for a person? This woman at the Jack in the Box didn’t even know me. I’m your son! All I had was you! [inhales] I have this friend. And right around when I first met her, her dad died, and I actually went with her to the funeral. And months later, she told me that she didn’t understand why she was still upset, because she never even liked her father. It made sense to me, because I went through the same thing when my dad died. And I’m going through the same thing now. You know what it’s like? It’s like that show Becker, you know, with Ted Danson? I watched the entire run of that show, hoping that it would get better, and it never did. It had all the right pieces, but it just—it couldn’t put them together. And when it got canceled, I was really bummed out, not because I liked the show, but because I knew it could be so much better, and now it never would be. And that’s what losing a parent is like. It’s like Becker. Suddenly, you realize you’ll never have the good relationship you wanted, and as long as they were alive, even though you’d never admit it, part of you, the stupidest goddamn part of you, was still holding on to that chance. And you didn’t even realize it until that chance went away. My mother is dead, and everything is worse now, because now I know I will never have a mother who looks at me from across a room and says, “BoJack Horseman, I see you.” But I guess it’s good to know. It’s good to know that there is nobody looking out for me, that there never was, and there never will be. No, it’s good to know that I am the only one that I can depend on. And I know that now and it’s good. It’s good that I know that. So… it’s good my mother is dead. [gulps, sighs] Well. No point beating a dead horse. Beatrice Horseman was born in 1938, and she died in 2018, and I have no idea… what she wanted. Unless she just wanted what we all want… to be seen. Is this Funeral Parlor B? —— from Reddit
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First of all, it brings some feelings back to me when I am feeling nothing. I appreciate that. Always think a relationship is like “I got issues and you got’em too.” And we live with them together
First of all, it brings some feelings back to me when I am feeling nothing. I appreciate that. Always think a relationship is like “I got issues and you got’em too.” And we live with them together as a partners. Mae and George have their issues. They tried to cover or deal with them in the series. Maybe there’ll be no ultimate solution. It’s just a process in daily life.
As for Mae, who is always go with the feelings and chase the feelings, which is to find the approach to FEEL GOOD. George is more tend to be traditional and hard to open up utterly. They are vivid characters and I can relate from some plots.
It’s a huge world. There are various people and perspectives. Sometimes I just watch it and think: it’s ok to say that??? Just embrace the diversity and try to be more open minded.
Talk to people who care about you or just try to be these people.
It’s ok to be passionate or just want to save everything for oneself. Accept everyone’s tendency.
George said: “I just can be an island. That’s how I operate.” ???? It could happen. I’m more relaxed now. Thank you guys:)
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