I've requested to be buried because I want my body to be given to nature.
I want it to be snacked on by plants and animals the way I have snacked on plants and animals throughout my life.
You don't love the people you love because they do want you want, but because of who they are.
上班时间的罅隙,看完了一季的澳剧《Please Like Me》。很短,六集,且每集只有二十多分钟,这样算下来,全篇加起来也不过三个小时,真的只看了一下午就看完了。第一次看澳剧,没想到却很是惊艳。这不到三个小时的过程中,很温馨也很惬意,没有大悲大喜,但泪点和笑点都很丰富,消磨时间都能让人通体舒畅。
其实在一部六集的电视剧中,本篇的人物已经算很多了,但没想到编剧竟能把每个人物都表现丰满,不得不承认他是一个才华横溢的人,Josh Thomas。据说他还是主演之一,那个夹着胳膊一扭一扭“Josh”的扮演者。
而让我惊艳的除了剧中那个名叫Geoffrey的帅哥之外,还有它的故事。豆瓣在剧情的描述中写道:“Josh希望带Geoffrey回家和家人出柜,可偏偏姑妈是个虔诚的天主教徒、老妈有吞药的习惯、老爸另结新欢。Josh到底会不会收获幸福?”但看到最后,你会发现这个故事想表达的已经远远不止能不能收获幸福,而是怎么体会幸福……表达的很笼统,但细细想来是这样的。剧中的Geoffrey爱Josh爱到不行,可是也许是应了那句“爱也许是有时差的”老话,当Josh提了两次分手之后,想要重新复合,要面对的却是Geoffrey想做回好朋友的委婉拒绝。故事的结尾,Josh回到家,安抚嗑了药的妈妈,然后拖着床垫睡在母亲的床下,睡得安然。似乎是体会到了幸福,然后继续面对生活。
因为生活就是这个样子,就像故事中描述的老爸和老妈,离婚之后各自寻找幸福,但也许生活的并不十分如意,但却还要继续向前。看到这个结局似乎也能理解了编剧和导演的用意,即便是你认为应该要获得幸福的两个人没有最终走在一起,你也没办法左右它,毕竟生活还要继续。
最后,期待下一季。
The reluctant activist stands up for himself
Giles Hardie
Apr 13, 2013
Josh Thomas has become an accidental icon for the gay community.
Josh Thomas is back doing stand-up. It's a relaxing change for the comedian, as he has finally stepped off the promotional circuit for Please Like Me, his first foray into writing and acting for television, and a show that has helped him become an accidental icon for the gay community.
On Monday he will appear in the Sydney Comedy Festival gala after a month-long run at the Melbourne International Comedy Festival.
"If I do the whole month [of comedy] then no one can take me to a different city," he says with relief.
"I get a whole month at home and I can just hang out with my dog and my chickens."
But it wasn't quite a perfect escape. On April Fool's Day he was flown to Sydney to appear on the ABC's Q&A on a panel that otherwise sounds like the perfect set-up for a joke: an archbishop, an imam, a Buddhist nun and a Jewish atheist. He soon found himself the presumed spokesman for homosexuality and atheism on topics ranging from gay marriage to creationism.
"It was such a divisive show, where you've got religious leaders that dedicate their life to the conversation we had, but to me it's a hobby," Thomas said.
He was also the default target for the religious leaders' comments on homosexuality.
"They were offensive," he said. "Like: gays are sinners. An imam compared gays to alcoholics. [The archbishop said] I was a warp in God's plan.
"It was just a bamboozling hour really, because I'm an atheist. So my response to everything everybody says is 'oh that's nonsense, that has no basis in reality'."
Thomas had agreed to appear on the show as an artist, hoping to provide an "everyman" opinion, but found himself berated on social media for not going on the attack.
"A lot of atheists were like, 'You represented us badly.' And I was like, 'Oh no, I don't represent atheists. I didn't represent you in the way I didn't represent people who don't do ballet. We're not a team.'"
It's not the only community now embracing Thomas. Though not quite biographical, Please Like Me, the show he wrote and starred in on ABC2, featured a central character, Josh, who came out at the start of the first episode.
"Since that show happened, gays have sort of realised that I'm gay," Thomas said.
"I don't get invited to do things during Mardi Gras or to talk at rallies. They always get Ruby Rose. They don't realise I'm a homo. Which is good. I often think with gayness, it's enough I have to deal with homophobia - do I really have to spend my weekends going on about it?"
His position is possibly best expressed through his approach to the development of the show.
"We had these meetings with the ABC where they'd talk about how we're dealing with homosexuality. I was like, 'That's just my life. I haven't thought about how my life plays out as a political statement.'"
The show had no gay themes to begin with, for one very simple reason. "Well, we started writing it when I was straight," Thomas said.
Once Thomas came out, so did his character Josh, and it was the ABC that pushed for the script to deal with the issue. "It became one of the over-arching themes, which I didn't really want, to be honest …
''I had such a dull coming out experience. I didn't know how interesting it was to straight people."
While the show didn't set ratings records, ranking 215th in its first week, it was critically well received. Thomas was happy with the numbers. "It tripled the ABC2 time slot," he said. "It's really popular overseas. My Tumblrs and my Twitter now has a lot of Spanish."
Having pitched a second series, Thomas is relying on DVD sales "so we can give the ABC some money back - and then hopefully they will make it again."
Read more:
http://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/comedy/the-reluctant-activist-stands-up-for-himself-20130420-2i6u1.html#ixzz2RBqGCmIH
剧情清淡,意外的看得下去。1.呆到深处自然萌,男主性格像徐国(担心你哟)2.澳洲英语很有趣啊,既有BE的撇呛,又有AE的卷舌,还挺好听的。
MY NEW FAVORITE SHOW!!!!!!!!!!
虽然长一副50岁巨婴的脸,但是男主真的是越看越可爱,每次看到就散发出姨妈般的痴笑,想冲上去揉头发。剧情松散,集数篇幅也短,整部片子不强灌鸡汤,要说的都在影片细节里。
又可爱又真实 又好笑又伤感。请拍第二季!!!!!!!!!快点拍快点拍快点拍(敲碗~~~)!!!!!josh和geo请在一起!!!在一起在一起在一起(敲碗~~~)!!!!!!姐姐告诉乃们!乃们这个样子是做不了朋友的!!!!!!
生活会慢慢露出它的獠牙.开初只觉幽默,总嫌没厚味.后半则诸矛盾上浮碰撞变形再沉没,依然懒散气,却让人目不转睛.回头看看整个故事结构平衡巧致,角色在其中空虚着不清醒,又因诚挚而实在地活着.伤感轻轻漂浮.调度用心,漂亮细节很多.叙事节奏也有意思,尤其每个"漏看一集?"的开头.音乐不错,竟听到久违的5678
说温情喜剧的你们绝对都是阳光明媚好少年。明明色彩明亮,但看得人就是一股子孤独和无可奈何。疏离、隔膜、感情匮乏、无处安放的心,就像G最后说Josh的话——你只有在alone的时候才会想起我。生活里有那么多矛盾凌驾于爱之上,又总是输给爱。这也许就是为什么我们一直唾弃人生却又总是努力振作活下去。
4星半 突然发现散漫的结构+轻戏剧性完全是我的那杯茶 看似零碎的故事和时而蹦出的精妙台词 有些设定虽然解释不通 Geo这么就会喜欢上Josh呢 但一切又不疾不徐地发展得合乎情理 Josh对Geo确实没那么动情 他懒散被动自私逆来顺受缺乏判决力又害怕寂寞 可我又在Josh身上看到无数自己的影子 才觉得格外贴切
好喜欢Geoffrey!!!好可爱!!!傻傻的!!!Josh真令人讨厌!Geoffrey deserves a better man!这个就这么结束了?!G做了一个还算明智的选择!
戏不错,男主很可爱,Geoffrey不错,拍得相当幽默,很写实,相当喜欢
没想到这个清新温暖治愈的故事拍摄地竟然在猫本,好喜欢Josh萌萌的澳洲口音还有他的心态,六集看下来真的觉得蛮美好的。。也不知道会不会有第二季了,不过会一直持续关注Josh Thomas这个人的。
台词写的很棒,幽默感就像在看一场脱口秀,情节松散,小男友太萌。★★★
好好看啊
我需要/想念/理解/支持/想干你,都不是我爱你。
All I want to have and want to be. Josh Thomas自编自演的这部剧很容易让人想起Simon Amstell的在外婆家,希望也能像在外婆家一样推出第二季。
又干净又温暖,真的棒死啦。
澳洲版“分手后”,只是各方面都略逊一筹,没有足够的代入感,也没有合理化的剧情让人信服,男主的外貌和性格都让人生厌。
结构过于散慢的喜剧,很多地方都想快进。不过男主和小男友这条线真是太亮了,现实里哪儿去找这样一个又帅又专情、体贴加超MAN的男友啊?结局很唏嘘,但又似乎必然如此——我想我可能不会爱你...
josh个白眼狼!!!!就会欺负geoffrey!!!
Josh的脸就像那本畅销书名字:《我是个年轻人,我心情不太好》。他那种两手像企鹅翅膀一样翘在腿侧、跳跳蹦蹦的走路姿势蠢萌蠢萌的。Geo是无死角美男。第三集的小细节:Geo和Josh在Tom家过夜,然后一大早全家人去教堂。Geo穿的灰格子衬衫很眼熟,进度条拉回去一看,咦,那衬衫就是Josh前一天穿的
amazing! 前三集又软又萌后三集笑点泪点萌点虐点大乱炖 josh太棒!