皮囊 第七季

有一句话送给导演编剧们，来形容我看了第七季的心情：
不作死就不会死。

第七季真的很烂。可是我还是没忍住给了四星。

我说它烂，不是因为它把我最喜欢的两个女人设定成一个送进监狱，一个永远孤独。也不是因为cook大王最后两集还要作死，搞了个让无数人忍不住骂鸟东西的结局。我当然知道成长是必须的，不是每个青春期少男少女都会永远喝酒抽大麻读萨特光屁股一堆烦恼又无忧无虑无所畏惧。我也理解最终季拍成这样的纪念意义和良苦用心。

我只是觉得它搞砸了。它的前六季是靠着青春，靠着叛逆恶心凌乱，靠着纯洁自由而让人穷追不舍，可是这一季，它只剩下无奈了。它的故事讲得衣冠楚楚却乱七八糟，完全不符合英剧气质，失去了最大的优点。

给四星五星的，有几个不是因为脑补能力足够强，怀旧情绪太泛滥？


但是至少，它给了Eff，Cass和Cook一个完整的成熟世界。它表达了一种成长和妥协，同时给人物设置了新的弱点和矛盾，一种成人式的困难和成人式的解决方法，但却仍然保持青春期的视角（主人公内在的视角）去理解这些问题。从这个意义上来说，第七季似乎也总要拍成这种样子。因为我们都想不出来更好的样子了。

无论怎样长大，无论变成什么样的人，人总是会后悔的。

无论Skins最终季拍成什么样子，我们总是会一边叫骂一边流泪。

五六季只强忍着看了一集，受不了爆炸头和异装癖这些小losers的中二生活，觉得简直是蠢。
无比想念爱翻白眼儿的Michelle和到处打架的Cook，想念Tony的裸体床单，想念Cassie说「lovely」时候的笑，想念第二季结束时葬礼上的礼花，想念Cook的小虎牙和Effy的蓝色眼睛。

然后有一天，听说你们长大了。

【DUST】
开头，Effy被女主管吆来喝去盗用idea的时候，我一丁点也不同情她。因为我知道这是Effy，她会用她的方式让所有人payback。
于是我十分欣慰并且不出所料的看到了Effy利用追求她的小矮子的数据倒卖股票当上了优秀交易员，并且成功的搞上了大boss搞走了女主管。
长大了的Effy一如既往的所向披靡四处通途，似乎能让人忘记了她曾崩溃在阳光下的草地上，把自己反锁在浴室里手腕上的血铺满半个地板。
她有了车有了司机，有了租伦敦大公寓的钱，Naomi看着她陪客户赌博时年老的客户搭上Effy肩膀的手说「你竟然不觉得恶心」时，Effy终于融入了这个成年人的世界，金钱，股票，期货，债券，伦敦金融街，男上司，老客户。
只是Effy的眼睛还是那么蓝，她不明白这不再是那个她仅凭自己就能压倒一切的世界，这个世界里，有欺骗和利用，也有法律和规则——尽管可笑，可是你得遵守它。
其实我没想到这个故事会这样结尾——我是说从金融街开始——没有想到那个谁都瞧不起的女孩会乖乖的变成一个交易员，我有那么一丁点儿想念曾经cares about nothing的Effy，尽管我知道这可能才是合理的结局。
至于最后Effy的熟悉的笑容，虽然看起来没什么不同，但是总有些什么是再也找不回来了的。这话是废话，但是我找不到更好的表达。
这次她没赢，真令人沮丧。那个queen一样的Effy竟然没赢。
flame to dust，好像游戏里的利剑拿到现实世界只是一串代码，这另人沮丧。

【FAME】
如果说有什么比Effy成为交易员更让人哭笑不得的，那大概就是Cassie成了咖啡厅女招待吧。
她穿着暗蓝色的工作服，头发梳了起来，住在一栋乱糟糟的公寓里，甚至跟别人说「我不怎么抽烟」。
不知道为什么，我一直对Cassie在刚出场时手腕上当作手链来戴的一个大兔子塑胶发圈念念不忘，好像是粉色或者橘色，款式就是中国的街边小店里最常见的那种一个塑胶的兔子脑袋。Cassie戴着那个发圈，胡乱的往嘴里塞illegal的药片，她站在长椅上，假装要飞起来，她冲所有人笑，说「Safe」和「Lovely」。
那是我在头两季中最喜欢的角色，我不知道她为什么能那么美好而无辜，就像她衣服上的小鸭子和手上的发圈一样。
虽然如今，她只是将「我曾经试图将自己饿死」一笔带过的当一件奇闻异事讲出来。
而她在想要逃离海边的狼狈的父亲的同时，也在逃离曾经那么狼狈却美好易碎的自己。
于是再没有听到她说一句「Lovely」。
也开始有男人为她打架了，也开始有人注意到她的美了，我不合时宜的想起来Sid，Sid你还记得Cassie么？
我总幻想着Cassie在街头能遇到谁，Tony，Michelle，或者Sid。
或者Sid。
我大概还是那种学不会明白旧日情怀都是档案馆里的碎纸片的人，拎出来看可能会沾一手灰，并且并不能够继续。
Cassie一句话带过的东西太多了，好在她还是会站在窗口，假装要飞。

【DOWN】
Cook是我一开始特别讨厌的一个角色，不知道为什么，就是讨厌他，看见他就想按快进。
后来有一集我忘了什么前因后果，Naomi跟Cook说「You just live a bit harder than everybody else does」，于是我很没出息的又看剧看哭了。
可能讨厌Cook是因为我在他身上看到了自己的影子：因为太在乎所以怕遭遇伤害与背叛所以装作什么都不在乎，最后搞得大家都讨厌他的什么也不在乎而让他陷入新一轮循环那就是索性把事情搞得更糟糕，到最后明明全身心的碎的七零八落却还是一副so what的样子。
a bit harder，哈，a bit harder。
我唯一觉得让我满意的结局，竟然在Cook身上，终于看到他露出了「I care」的神情，终于看到他选择了一次逃避，然后是闷闷的英腔画外音。
我知道你不会再把事情搞得更糟，我知道你终于有了恐惧。
其实想说一句特别矫情的话，有了恐惧，也就有了爱的能力了不是么。

于是血肉横飞的现实世界，狠狠地甩给中二病们一记响亮的耳光。

写的第一篇影评居然是这，关于这季的评价，多半不爽与失望。它没有按你们以为的那样去发展。它不会按你们以为的那样发展。因为你们根本以为不出它是什么样的。

 
你把它当部普通电视剧看，会觉得它多牛逼闪闪。你把它当一部牛逼的神剧看，它就是一电视剧而已。剧情脑残无聊到你了么？到底是不能忍受它的这么无聊平淡，还是不能忍受它的无聊平淡就像你自己的生活一样。不知道是要拍出多诡异奇特的剧情才能满足这帮看客。谁tmd都20多了还整天整天的荷尔蒙过剩激情燃烧。给你英剧不是美剧，你想看哪款的给你拍成哪款的 不管你咋yy 你看的就是它显示看的。作为一部收尾作品 它只要保留它的完整性 它不用给后作留卖点 也不用用新奇特来博眼球。这部显然就是拍给老观众看的。如果是新追剧的会觉得第七季风格突变，毫无道理。剧中演员都是时隔几年后回归。距最长的cassie已经隔了4年之久。所以这部没有跟前作衔接。很多人想用这部剧来怀念过去，可里面一点过去的影子都没有，没拍你们想要的结局。是让你看到一个几年后的人物状态。 这中间几年的留白新观众没有这样一个经历过程，不理解也就算了。不是我不失望，我是失望的是他们果然变的跟现实一样操蛋了。你越老你发现日子越过越没意思。我惊讶的是英国是社会医疗体制是有多好！一个20刚出头、无业青年得了癌症谁也不告诉自己一人抗着默默治疗！！！


这季更细节化，对于effy这样一个在skins算比较传奇的一个角色，最终季让她发生什么好像都显得不够，而且时间只有2集这么短。所以编剧干脆弱化剧情了。这两集台词很少，对手戏很少。前两集注重的人物内心的塑造，给了无数近景与特写，编剧没有编写一个完美的故事桥段，只用镜头记录一段变化过程而不是展现一个完美故事桥段。。effy为什么会爱上她的无能老板。二集里面至少不经意间有十几个镜头是effy偷偷在门缝看jack。effy入狱前也有不少提示。naomi看出来了，dom看出来了，前女上司看出来了，特别是某男同事mark，给足了镜头。特别是庆功宴上那几秒镜头。无比讽刺effy曾经如此冷静聪明。而effy对公司女好友和对dom的态度又跟以前对pandora和jj如出一辙。effy还是那个effy只是在没有当年的傲气，因为你在那帮老鸟眼中连个屁都不是。

非常喜欢dom，演员是以前演潜水艇的。喜欢演员也喜欢角色。更喜欢他最后骂effy那句bitch。这么多年，effy就是一被惯坏的即自私又幸运的bitch。习惯了身边的男人都跟她亲爹似的爱着他照顾她。 总算有人爱她但不骄纵她了。
Emily给了她一巴掌，算是帮Naomi一起打的。 naomi也越来越直白的表现出对effy的不满，“我爱Emily，我不能告诉她，我不指望你能理解。” “你活在自己幻想的世界里，那个世界还不怎么样。” “ - 我以为我迟到了。- 你是迟到了。”
naomi这条线才是传达skins的最终精神的，skins本来没什么精神，都是被后来赋予上的，skins的精神也就是它的感情。她们这对couple是所有人中唯一一对坚持到最后的。
然后无能老板也算是帮现实狠狠的扇了她一巴掌。宝贝，你只是被利用了，还顺带捎上了一个dominic。你没有很特别，你只是在关心你的人心里才是特别。年轻气盛的时候充满傲气，在自己圈子里面又显得那么优越。然后你会发现自己傻逼不是一两点。以她的性格到现在才碰见这么一个人渣，可以烧高香了。
现在effy终于可以学会部那么自私开始关心身边的人与事了，就算她只是因为愧疚和罪恶感。最后在去监狱的车上笑了，终于意识到自己才最可笑，以为能像当年一样轻松的叱咤风云，结果彻底傻逼了一把。也可能早想到有这么一天。终于松了口气。

还有那三个月房租，从第一集effy就担心naomi交不上房租，果然连续3个月都没交上。怪异文艺女naomi，没有像effy一样走进社会，继续在边缘圈子里混，说起三俗的单口相声，很受欢迎，但只是无报酬演出。好朋友得了癌症，为什么我还想着我那三个月房租，人死没办法，活人要吃饭，要付账单，要付房租 ，还要嗑药和party，我不能不想你欠我的那三个月房租。但我后来发达了，我升职加薪还给配了车。我带你住新房，租了一套冷冰冰，空荡荡，毫无人情味的现代化公寓。对与癌症病人，一个比医院还冷寂恐怖的地方。

 不知道英剧是咋做到如此乐而不淫 哀而不伤。死个人都能如此云淡风轻。虽然每2季必死一人 但死的毫不拖泥带水 一般撑不到2集就死了。

额外惊喜是这季摄影指导大概换人了。虽然不很懂 但这镜头运用明显大胆灵活多了，以前摄影美则美矣 力量不够。
这季的光影效果和镜头切换我都大爱。
最爱镜头就是这幕effy去公司总部开会，抬头那么一刹那。世界那么大，你最多也就这么一小点。你以为你渡过了灰暗苦涩的青春期之后发现 哇靠 外面才是一片黑暗。出来混的 果真是要还的。。

2集之内搞定从秋天第二年冬天，剧情发展干净利落（看衣着能看出2集内的四季变化）
这种火箭速度的剧情发展够韩剧拍上个小一百集了吧。够大陆拍出一部xxx升职记了吧

最后又是开放性结局，不过作为最终季改交代的也交代了，naomi死了，但有emily陪她。effy是喜欢dom的，不然不会白给2镜头她看dom工作，然后心情变好。虽然dom很像JJ但effy绝不会主动上JJ，她对dom的感情肯定不是像以前对JJ只把他当成一个爱慕者。就像之前她喜欢freddie，却是跟的cook滚床单。说不定effy出狱会把dom当成想freddie一样可以依靠的人。

在病床上跟naomi的对话总结了这2集，what else have we got? what we are going to do ?

吐槽一点，编剧把他们写的成熟的有些刻意，独立的吓人。还有天才effy的理解能力，dom仅用一个天台就让教会她金融界交易规则，搞笑了吧。这tm是补习数学吗

这一篇评论仅仅，也完全是关于Cassie一个人的。

如果她不曾答应Sid，你不会了解她的未来会怎样。或许Tony那样的人精不是每个人都能做到的，所以几年后，一个工作在餐桌前的Cassie就是一个必然了。

再没有Wow，没有Perfect...

只有欠饱和的画面，一种暮光初起，还带着雾气的氛围始终贯穿着整段故事。比起青春期时的Cassie，那种亮丽清晰的画面变得朦胧又冷淡。

仿佛人生就是如此的不确定，青春的色彩已经退去，如Cassie自己说的那样，一直在等待，曾经拒绝了一个要求，No or forever。

面对着也曾等待，已经堕落的maddie说出的，life is fucked up，Casseie忍不住落下泪来。

是啊，被偷拍又怎样，被偷窥又怎样？只要留下美丽的回忆，仿佛一切都没有白过。

“女人就不能只跟男人做好朋友么？”Cassie问，“当然可以，上过床之后...”maddie吐着烟说。

回到那个曾经响起wild world的场景，Cassie静静的坐在椅子上，接受了同事的鼓励，转身回到家中见了父亲，接过抚养弟弟的重担，接着她继续等待的未来...

没有什么青春不可以被忘，唯有不清不楚的未来才是最让人痛苦的。



PS. 吐槽
EF 24-105mm f/4L IS USM这镜头绝不是个可以偷拍而不被发现的镜头，至少在5D mark III上不行；此外，镜头的价格只是机身的三分之一...好吧，我又脱线了，但是照片拍的真心好，比后来的中画幅拍的强一万倍...

Effy the same, others the same. As skins season is back, the same somehow is and isn't the exact description giving the circumstances do change as they always are.

 

There's always an Effy and the other in one's hearts. This is one thing doesn't change. Effy sits quite deep in thought in the middle of a room of the wasted, indifferent, independent the Effy who is observant and insightful of nature of things, and always sides with the truthful ones: friends with Naomi of the justice, with Pandora of the innocent, when everyone shuns in one way or other JJ's honesty, Effy is the only one that embraced it and returned with the same. Now though grown up, Effy still Effy, accasionally rises in defence for poor dom, spitting fire to the mean malice forces. She always stands up in moment like that, moment that a rightful decision need to be made, and on behalf of others and herself, she always made it right. Or she thought she did, with so much convinction that bring us all on board.

 

The others around her are necessarily complimentary reflections of the multiple facets in the same person. It's no surprise Naomi's now in a bad shape because she stays who she was, after all she's never been the normal kind of smart anyway, she's smart the way Effy is, her judgment piercing through the essence of things, tearing off masks faked by Effy and Cook, and love for who they really are behind the walls, the vulnerable Effy and tender Cook. She even shares Effy's fear, fear for true love that would hurt and kill, therefore she cheats on Emily the same way Effy fucks Cook instead of Freddie. For the unmistakenable alikeness, no wonder she and effy becomes close.

 

Yet it is their distinction that sets them apart. One of unyielding, the other flexible. The real world tends to favor the latter and leave the former beaten down, as it turns out. I am not sure which one should be accounted more lucky though. Probably sharing my doubt, there is Effy struggling in deep water, shifting between dreams and reality, between crazy dancing floor and big bad world of work. The fancy dance sequence is just a form of ideas, not necessarily happened for real, given that it's highly unlikely that she would still have streighth to go clubbing after an exalting day of work. But we have to give it up for that gesture, a hint at where she came from and still wanna be. Same old Effy, still the same, never change. But the brilliant of the show is how the inside struggle is subtly concealed. Instead of the cliche of pouring out emotions to appeal to the audience, it only suggests to mass of a turmoil underneath a tip of iceburg that being shown. "No one breaks my heart" is what Effy used to say. Rather it could be rephrased: no one sees my heart's breaking. The girl who thinks she knows it all but at times gets herself in situations she couldn't possibly handle. And this time again, she's slipping into a sprialing down without forseeing it.

 

No matter how Effy's story ends, it is about time. Time to have an end. Those young crazy and rebelious kids, full of attitude and character, coming to age, face their ends. It's better to end them tragically. After all, skins is all about dark and twisted. What is more beautiful than the beauty being ruined. The ruined beauty lives forever. Effy Stonem and the other, under one's skins. My skins.

Effy's going to jail, Naomi's going to die, Emily's going to be even worse than death. Most of the viewer of the last episode of skins, cannot cope with tragic endings like that, including me at least for a while. For me, personally, it's not the death or prison that bothers the most, it is the non-dramatic way of telling almost nonchallently, of the most tragic ending that one can think of is happening right in front our eyes while pretend not a big deal of it. Instead of showing meanings to us, all is simply impled by. Those viewers seek for some kinda closure of the whole skins series aren't gonna get it, for there left so many lose ends; those who hope for drama aren't gonna get it, disappointed by its realistic telling of dramatic event and its anti-clamax of an ending; Those who expect twists and turns would surprise and flip at the extreme lack of it. Despite all that, we should decide to love it, after all that is the end we get in life.

The first thing needs to be clarified is that television becomes no less inferior than literature these days, at least for some good television shows like Skins, it is true. A fact we need to come to terms with. And as no sensible readers would curse the writer and demand him to rewrite an ending that he doesn't like, television is not an negotiation as well. For those who think it is, well you are so self-involved to hook on the delusion of it. That's the sole lie the life-shows nowadays are depending on you to believe, a conviction that the power's in your own hand. For Christ sake, what a convenient flattering that is! As sensible viewers, we see right through it, we accept what we got and try to appreciate the beauty of it.

After all, Skins fire. As the title suggests, it is about lights, destruction and rebirth. And a terrible beauty is born. Adulthood is such a terrible beauty. Especially for Effy, once aloof, indifferent, omniscient goodness in her little circle, washed by fire, and reborn into human. Of course, there's some sacrifice along the way. So walking out of paradise full of drugs, parties and hormones, here she is, taking three steps of becoming human as we know it.

Step one, compassion.
"I want to feel something, I want to be hurt! Come and hit me!" The girl ran into the middle of the street and exclaimed a death wish in front of world. That's near the ending of Effy's teenage years, almost the last we see her. Since then, apparently, the wish has come true. In fire, we see Effy's feeling, invisible as it always is, all over the place. The way she bites her finger nails watching Naomi on stage doing shitty comedy and being laughed at, the way she cries when being yielded at the truth of Naomi's illness, the way she goes blank hearing the doctor said the drug doesn't work and the way stares Naomi lying on the CT scan thereafter runs out of room, and the way she panics holding Naomi in her arms puking all over the place-- we never have seen Effy going through all levels of emotions before, not merely for herself, but for her best friend, for Naomi and Emily. With herself, she can be tough, takes it on her own: "I am fine", when Naomi asks she used three words as such to conclude it, even if she's not. Far from doing nothing, as Naomi accuses her to be, she's doing everything she could to hold it together, being tough for her, can't stop feeling for her but has to conceal it for her. That is not sth she told us, That's sth we sense. For those who love Naomi and Emily with such a bias to take in everything they say, myself included, might look beyond the surface and see they are blocked by own individuality as well. In fact, compassion is all Effy is in fire, "she has such big love inside of her, just needs to be let out, and the possibility to let out scares the hell of her" Effy's mom knows her nature well. Well, at least she smiles at the end, typical Effy smile, as if to say "you don't know me at all", or maybe this time, it says: "I can feel after all, i feel something". Compassion we know that is what makes us all human, and from the moment she feels it, Effy is no longer mysterious and inappoachable fairie, she is one of us, human.

Step two, mortality.
Naomi's death really provided an occasion for mourning, mourning for the beauty being tragically destroyed. It is sad, true. But it is sensible, as we consider it. After all it becomes a tradition of skins, to kill one favorite character at a time of generation. And for generation 2, Freddie is definitely not the most favorite one. It is the thing had between Naomi and Emily that makes the most wonderful thing that the make-believe world of skins had created for us. And let's face it, the most beautiful thing as it always, is irreplacable. There's no carnation for that, no reborn in it (as they are lesbians) therefore, it is immortal. This is the reason they can't survive the mortal world of adulthood. One of them has to be destroyed, and the other along with it. And as if killing our favorite couple isn't cruel enough, Effy needs to witness and learn from the tragic of all this, to see the only positive unyielding love that exists in her past world being worn out by an incurable disease of mankind. From the moment her best friend told her the illness, Effy knows it's gonna go down like this, she knows it too well, so she can't stand watching Naomi pretend like nothing and make fun of herself in a comedy, yet she complains in the most minute ways, pissing Naomi about the rent which essentially means the burden all weighs down on her- she needs to be the rock, and it's fucking hard. Neither can she offer comforts to her like innocent Dom, cause she knew it better, the truth hurts so much that she can't fathom a way to act it otherwise. Again, like I said, Mortality takes its toll, for Effy, it is the farewell paid to the old world of her past with Naomily in it, a burning ritual she has to experience descending to the world of works in her fantasy, a brave new world of men. And Naomily is the sacrifice, given that Homosexuality implies in literature a longing for death in itself. The poet and beauty must die, so the rest of us can keep on living.

Step three, helplessness.
At times we can't help but wonder why things always go terribly wrong with Effy, no matter how fucking together they all seem in the first glimpse! The onmiscent soul of this childhood circle stumbles way out of their idealistic small world and find she's merely a tool used by more onmiscent forces way sophisticated than she is. Helplessness is the condition of humanity. It breaks her charm, make her helpless. Emily says: "We idolized her." Cook's fucking Dad: "You are too pretty for your own good, that's why you destroy everything you touch." Such are the contrast between surface and core of Effy. Lights and destruction all sealed in one, waiting to be born. And in skins fire, it burst alive. It is interesting to note that in retrospect, everyone around Effy ends in various tragic ways: her parents separated, her brother got hit by a car, Freddie got killed and Cook went down for his revenge, and we thought Naomily is the only exception for they are special, how naive we are! There's a certain helpless gravity for tragic in Effy that makes her so appealing and at once so heartending. It almost seems nothing stays with her, under circumstances like that one almost certainly can't help but hold itself to blame. God knows how she serectly took the fault herself for all lost in life! In front of the mass of life, for the first time, we see her had no clue about what to do? It is Naomi in sick bed push some sense in her again, "Seriously what do we got, Effy? Well, I am going to die, what you gonna do? " That probably reminds her who she is and should be. After that, we see her picking up Emily at airport, possibly she called her up and reveal the truth as she should in the first place; then she made deal with victoria to tell on boss under sole condition that dom is untouched. She made the right choice eventually, as she used to be. Better late than never, taking responsibility for what she did like a fucking adult. It takes her edge off, which still makes me angry, not at her, but at the fucking real world of ours that rounded with such a flame in the first place. Yet the most helpless as it always was in Effy is the fact that she has to play the help all her life, which means no one helps Her, that she is truly THE most helpless one. That leads to off-putting love affair with her boss. But seriously cut her some slack, please. Leave aside the fact that boss is adulthood look-alike of Freddie, probably an unintended happy coincidence, she's lonely, and extremely so after a load of pressure landed on her, taking care of best friend mentally and financially, watchig them being happy and all that. What do we expect her to do, instead of cutting herself and going mental in the bathroom, isn't it much healthy distraction to find a man to love and entertain a little fantasy that somebody got her back? Dom and Boss, she picked the one who pays her rent, so that Naomi didn't have to. And that, for me, makes character of Eff, most lovable and lamentable beyond all.

The Effy who used to smile her mysterious smiles that says "you don't know me at all", still smiles at us in the end. Is it sort of mock or self mock? for many a thousand viewers shall this, her mock, mock out of their retardness after seeing all she went through still don't see who the hell she is; mock herself from dreaming our world to be hers therefore making effort to it; mock grown-ups down, and others yet ungotten and unborn that shall have cause to curse the city that bereaves her Eden and beloved from earth.

Skins fire comes to an end. The followings, in this order, comes pure and rise. It is interesting to note that in the trailor the order has been rearenged: it should be rise, fire, and pure. That is to say the actually serie begins in the medres, classic order of story telling. And it should be expected to return to rise in a circle, suggesting to a eternal reoccurrence of the proccess. Therefore, we have reasons to believe fire is the brutalest one, perhaps things would pick up tone a bit: in pure, it might smooth out a bit, going for depth; rise probably going to be full of struggles but worth it. But eventually, as the trailor so artisticaly hints at: three individual under one skin, going through phases, transforming into one another's life. Step by step, we walk out of ourself, into hers, into his then eventually back to our own skins. All change and changed utterly, a terrible beauty is born.