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    city ??of girls

    Author: [US] Elizabeth Gilbert

    brief introduction:

    Every woman has a flame in her heart, dangerous and dazzling.

    Some people extinguish it, some ignore it, and they see it as a beacon.

    In 1940, at the beginning of World War II, Vivian, a 19-year-old rich girl, dropped out of Vassar College and went to live with her aunt Peg who ran the Lily Theater in New York.  In this gorgeous but crumbling old-fashioned theater, Vivienne discovered her talent for designing costumes and met a group of women who influenced her life: Celia, a dancer who indulged in lust and dreamed of conquering the world with her beauty; serious from head to toe  Olive, who is mediocre, but is the lover of her aunt who is unique; the British actress who regards drama as her life, and Edna, the godmother of style who is always beautiful;  Marjorie, an eccentric girl in a clothing store.  Through them, Vivian experienced a liberation from body to mind, and fully experienced the charm and freedom she understood in New York.  Until an unexpected sex scandal happened, Vivienne fled New York in a hurry, and thus began her journey towards maturity

    70 years later, 89-year-old Vivienne used a long letter to tell a feminist named Angela about her life experience: New York in her eyes, the shining and intoxicating day in this "their city"  Day and night, her love for sewing and clothing, her shame and pain, the love and freedom she realized Throughout her life, she never became the "lady" that that era expected her to be, but this  The world now has a real Vivienne Morris who has lived her life following the fire within her.

    The author¡¯s own experience is very similar to Mary Sue¡¯s. The debut novel "Eat, Pray, Love" was very successful from the very beginning, and even became a cultural phenomenon. I only watched the film version of that adaptation, but never read the book. This is the first time I read this  The author's book, and then I can understand why this person was able to achieve great success in the first place. This is a rare author who is particularly talented in writing.

    The first half of this book is really enjoyable from the perspective of Mary Su Shuangwen. It is obvious that the protagonist has a lot of shortcomings, such as narcissism, vanity, frivolity, love of beauty, ignorance, drifting with the crowd and a little love brain, but the author  It is to be able to write in a way that makes you feel good, and the protagonist is cute and cute, and even some plots that should be thunderous based on the pure description of the plot are a bit pink and bubble-like.

    However, unfortunately, this author likes to challenge himself very much. He must elevate the theme and start to abuse in the middle to make the protagonist grow up. In fact, this abuse is not abuse. The protagonist grows into an independent, career-oriented, soul mate, and many P friends.  , women with girlfriends and freedom, purely from the plot point of view, the second half is a series of refreshing points for girls to reach the peak of life after waking up, but it is very boring and mediocre, just like all novels with similar themes.

    You should have watched a lot of brainless chick movies when you were young, such as Legally Blonde, Mean Girls, Dominatrix, Princess Diaries, etc. The style of the first half of this book is the kind of brainless female pornography we had when we were young, early women  Many heroines in comedies are just silly and sweet characters. Their only dream may be to find a prince charming. Their values ????are not progressive, but who knows why, they just look good!

    The level of good-looking of this author is even higher than those. It is still good-looking to look at the "backward" plots with our awakened eyes. This kind of ability is really rare. It is easy for someone else to write such a character setting and plot.  Want to complain.  It's a pity why the second half of the plot that should bring us something refreshing is so boring?  ?  ?  ?

    It reminds me of the Disney movie "Magic Godmother" I just watched a few days ago. A fairy godmother came to the world to help the girl realize her dreams. It turns out that the girl is already a 40-year-old single mother. After that, there are a series of careers and how to balance career and family.  , parent-child relationship, etc., uh, the filming was very, very boring. In a few years ago, there was also a "Magic Romance" in which characters from the fairy tale world passed through the real world.  Really good looking too much.  Although I gave both three stars, the former got three stars because I thought the theme was okay, and the latter, although I enjoyed watching it, lost points because I thought the plot was useless.

    Why are so many things that should actually be cool when they are presented so boring?

    Hey, readers who miss the chick flicks of the past, the kind of relaxed ones that are just for YY to take a rest for a while, recommend reading the first half of this novel, and give up immediately when the heroine is there.  The following plot is very "correct", but happy, excited, envious?  Not at all.

    It¡¯s so sad, the author is very rich, so he definitely doesn¡¯t need to make up some simple Mary Sue stories to please readers. Even if he does, according to the current film adaptation idea, he will add a lot of positive energy such as ¡°awakening¡±. I am definitely not disgusted or  Hate this, but I really haven't seen that kind of in a long, long time ?I've got a single popcorn chip, I want to eat popcorn!  Don't want to eat any sugar substitutes, sugar-free popcorn!

    This is also the reason why I recommended "The Queen's Chess Game" to you before. She is a very simple genius and smooth film, and even the shadows are very simple shadows, without adding too much value.  Too many film and television works nowadays really put values ??first. I watched Zhou Xun's "Imperfect She" before, and the idea was very good, but if the idea is good, don't we need to tell a story?  I really can't stand those golden sentence declaration works.  Including online articles, why don't many high-minded works pay attention to storytelling?  And it¡¯s really not necessary to talk about all the topics separately. Is it okay to tell the simple story first and then talk about other things?  If you want to talk, talk a little bit, solve one problem at a time, and don't let the protagonist go through all the things in the hot search by himself.  (Remember the site URL: www.hlnovel.com
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