Each era has its own emotional theme.
The previous generation of "Friends" was a young man who ran away to New York, telling the story of young people who are eager to leave their families to get support in friendship, learn to take responsibility, and build their own families.
This generation is "Modern Family", and the strange coffee is unconditionally accepted in the family, accumulating strength and eventually traveling.
"Modern Family" filmed eleven seasons, two hundred and fifty episodes, and won five Emmy Awards, but the audience still felt that it was not enough, and they were in love when they said goodbye. To this day, when I think back to the last shot, it seems that the lights in those three houses are still on for me.
Based on the story of the Pritchett family, Modern Family tells the story of three families: the head of the family, the Hemingway-style tough guy, Jay Pritchett and his second-married Latin wife and stepson, living in a mansion and shouting about cultural and personality differences every day.
Poster for the first season of Modern Family
Gay lawyer Mitch Pritchett and his partner Ka, with their adopted Daughter of Vietnamese descent, live in a well-tended small apartment, Mickey loves nervousness, Ka loves gossip, and their lives revolve around anecdotes from family and friends.
And Claire Pritchett, who was raised by her father as a son, and her husband Phil, and the family is crammed with three children who often make a fuss, Claire is a natural leader, while Phil is the opposite, a natural optimist, and few things can really annoy him, playing trampoline contests with his son all day long, pulling tightrope between the houses and performing magic tricks.
Modern family relationship diagram
This group of people can be said to be a collection of Zhang Fei, Li Kui, Tomand Jerry all the slots, each episode will have their own personality shortcomings caused by the embarrassing things happen, put on me, about minutes to collapse, but they will eventually solve, with understanding, tolerance, concessions, compromise, even if many times the solution is just everyone embarrassing together - but some people share, warmth is more than frustration.
Jay's stepson, Manny, is precocious and sensitive, though he will teach the golden phrase "Let me give up being myself for a second." But his heart is still a little boy who longs for his father's love.
But his unreliable biological father repeatedly disappointed him. Once, he promised Manny to take him to Disney, only to break the contract because he was addicted to gambling. Manny sat outside the house waiting for him with a small bag on his back, from early morning to sunset, from excitement to excitement.
The tough guy Jie, who didn't like his biological father very much, couldn't see it and made up a lie to comfort his stepson: "Before your father got on the plane, he met an old lady who needed a ticket very much, and he gave her the ticket." You know, he asked us to take you to Disney. He was a prince. ”
I saw the cold reality very consciously, but I didn't want it to hurt you, so I swallowed ice and frost for you and let you see the gentle light of the sky.
Because of this love, Manny did not have to give up being himself, wearing a robe and blowing pipes, writing poems that no one read, and making movies that no one watched. No matter what kind of criticism he encounters, the accumulation of love in his heart allows him to accept himself.
This tenderness of the tough guy Jay is given by experience and time, when Claire and Mitch were young, he was a strict father who was not good at expressing emotions, and he had a fight with his ex-wife, so a pair of children were sensitive and competitive.
But behind every tough guy, there is actually helplessness that is not allowed to express emotions. They are taught to keep their mouths shut even when they are eager for love, so that when they are lonely, they only know how to lose their temper.
Jay was remembered after seeing his old friend die, and his heart was touched, and he deliberately picked a total solar eclipse to take the whole family on vacation, but everyone had their own thoughts - granddaughters thinking about love, daughters thinking about being alone, yin and yang mistakes were missing, and the old man was so angry that he had to sail alone. The family quickly reacted, he wanted to create some good memories of getting along with everyone, so they surrounded him and talked about the touching things he had done for them in his memories.
Poster for the eighth season of Modern Family
Everyone needs to be seen and understood, even if he seems to have experienced the world, and seems to be invulnerable.
Cam, Phil, and Gloria are my favorite characters in the show, and their addition gives the tight Pritchett family a bright color and a loose sense of humor.
Card grew up on the farm, when he first arrived in California, he was a literal farm boy, exaggerated and hilarious, whether it was adopting a child or going to the first music class in middle school, he had to stir up the atmosphere like a historical drama, and he just made up for Mickey's cowardice, liberated Mickey from all kinds of disguises, and began to show his true self.
Phil is affectionate, and the competitive Claire seems to be a reversal of traditional gender, he understands the Proud and Indifferent temper of the Pritchett family, and always relentlessly expresses his love for them - performing silly magic tricks, telling jokes that only he knows, tearful confessions at the first opportunity, and the Pritchett family, although they laugh at him from time to time, he makes up for the lack of warmth in their hearts. When he was sick, they would also encourage him, and he held a hospital sports contest.
Although I think your hobby is silly, as long as it can bring you happiness, I will.
Gloria was initially unwelcome when she joined the Pritchett family, and Claire suspected that she was a "gold nugget girl" who had come for Jay's money. But as time went on, she brought the Pritchett family far more than they expected: she encouraged Jay when he was embarrassed to express affection to the children. When her family was embarrassed because of different values, she said: Good language is warm in three winters, and bad words hurt people in June. With her hearty, sharp and exaggerated love in a loud voice, she cured the family's years of apathy.
Every family has scars, everyone has their own unique personality that is not understood, in the stormy world, no matter how hard we try, we will always have failures, loneliness, aging, and weakness, but the existence of home is to tell us: it doesn't matter, you are not good enough, but you are also worthy of being loved.
Love is not a demand, not an expectation and a sustenance, not a tight bondage, but an understanding, a tolerance, a fulfillment.
In the episode, Jay has a narration: "When I was sweeping my hair in the barbershop in '68, I fantasized about what the family would look like in the future, and if I was lucky, I would have the perfect wife and the perfect child." As a result, I didn't have the luck to end up with such a bunch of second goods, but I am full of gratitude for this every day. ”
Poster for the eleventh season of Modern Family
At the end of the story, the children grow up and want to leave home. The Mickey family also adopted a new life and decided to move to Ka's hometown.
But love doesn't disappear because of the distance, and I believe that outside the camera, they must somehow continue to talk, gamble, and gossip to convey the continuous love.
Chen Mo