My Brilliant Friend 看不下去

去年我的least favorite booklist之一就是 my brilliant friend by Elena Ferrante.   This book is about two best friends growing up in a poor neighborhood in Naples, Italy. 本來很期待這部書的火花，可實際上讀得相當咬牙。當時在book club我寫的有點毒：Her writing is incredibly choppy, extremely tedious, repetitive — the same responses from parents and the competitiveness between the girls in different school stages — it just goes on and on and doesn’t seem to go anywhere!  And the impoverishment and violence of the neighborhood are totally disturbing... even amongst kids!!  The characters are unlikable, love starved, too flawed and too hard on themselves and on others... their lives are defined by deprivation, grittiness, and brutality.  

這本書改編的hbo series好評，因為老公買了hbo, 這兩天我看了五集。拍的真的好，灰色調，忠於原著，immersive... 但我還是看不下去，那麽joyless, 就算短暫的快樂裏仍舊逃不開嫉妒、紛爭、陰暗、殘酷。。。 今天看到第五集，我決定棄劇。 實在太多負能量，也不能理解Lenu好容易脫離那個吃人的社區，為何仍舊對來自童年的渣男obsessed甚至拋夫棄子？ 然後整個社區女生都在搶老公，搶男朋友，搶水果男，搶肉店老板，狗血啊！ 男主角那個渣男還長得一點都不帥！ 蒼天呐！ 都上大學都成了名作家還是來來去去的就那麽個小圈子，逃脫不了重組回爐的那些個人互別苗頭和狗血分合。 如今外麵的世界正經曆著紛擾焦慮，我還是去看歡喜正麵的劇集吧。

意大利是我最喜歡的國家，每次去都很喜歡，特別是dolomites，未來還會回去。 然而Naples是我們最不喜歡的地方，滿地的垃圾在風塵中打滾。