"Queen's Chess Game": Talent is the best weapon to break into the world
What "Queen's Chess Game" wants to discuss is the growth of genius and the price behind it.
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"The best drama in history" and "must see in this life"... The high praises flocked to Netflix's new drama "Queen's Gambit", which was launched at the end of October.
More than half a month after being on the shelves, Douban has been rated by more than 80,000 viewers, and the current score is as high as 9.2.
"Queen's Chess Game" is adapted from Walter Tevez's novel of the same name. It tells the growth story of a talented chess girl in the 1950s.
Some people call it the "Shuangju of the Year". A little girl who was thrown into an orphanage learned chess from an old school worker by chance. From then on, she entered a life of open play, fighting monsters and upgrading all the way, invincible.
To sum up this drama with "Mary Su Shuang's drama", it is too narrow to attribute success to different talents.
What "Queen's Chess Game" wants to discuss is actually the growth of genius and the price behind it.
Beth Harmon had a gloomy background as soon as he appeared.
Mother committed suicide in a car accident and she was sent to an orphanage.
With a rigid life, Harmon became addicted to the tranquilizers distributed in the orphanage.
Fortunately, she met Sabe, an old school worker who knows chess, and showed an amazing talent in chess.
The gloomy life tore a small mouth open, and Harmon ran forward in the light of the light.
However, it is not easy to break into the male-controlled world of chess.
The old school worker refused at first, "Girls can't play chess."
The people in the club praised Harmon's chess skills and gave her a "surprise"-a doll, and Harmon threw her directly into the trash can.
Including participation in the competition, but also to be despised: there is no women's team.
What can an orphan with nothing use to fight back?
win.
Harmon has a fanatical pursuit of winning chess. She rushes and strikes firmly, even if her opponent raises her hand for peace, she will never compromise.
Talent is the best weapon to break into the world, and victory after victory has gained respect from the industry.
When Harmon won the National Championship, who would dare to use gender to restrict her progress?
"Genius is passionate, dedicated to career!" The audience applauded.
As ordinary people, we are very envious of genius.
For example, Harmon, she can stare at the ceiling during sleepless nights and set up her own chess game in her mind; she can grab chess books at all times and read it obsessively; she never stage fright, no matter how famous the opponent is, the situation will be exhausted. In mastery.
Even when the adoptive family suffers a change, Harmon can also use his genius to solve the economic crisis-winning prizes by participating in the competition.
These seemingly relaxing scenes make people ignore the price that geniuses bear when they run wild.
In fact, the old school worker had warned early in the morning: "Everything has two sides, you are a genius, but genius has to pay the price, you have to be careful, you have too much anger in your heart." Friends also advised her that playing chess is not the whole life.
But Harmon was immersed in her own world. Victory concealed her withdrawn stubbornness and impulsive arrogance, and the tranquilizer made her escape self-examination.
"Your life will be flat, but how long will it last?" When the adoptive mother's sudden death and the frustration of the master were both combined, Harmon fell into the darkness.
She was addicted to smoking and drinking, became addicted to tranquilizers, and then severed her contact with the outside world and chess.
Fate arranged for Qiao Lin, Harmon's friend when he was in the orphanage, to appear in due course.
She warned Harmon not to dig a hole for herself, persuaded her to join the memorial service of the old school workers, and used her savings to sponsor Harmon to participate in the Soviet Union.
"I am not a guardian angel. I am not here to save you. I cannot protect myself. I appeared because you need my company. This is what the family has to do."
There is not only one Qiao Lin.
In the process of growing up a genius girl, she and the ordinary people behind her have always achieved each other.
The old school worker led her to get started, and she became the pride of the old school worker. The adoptive mother is her best partner and agent. She helps her adoptive mother get out of trouble and enjoy life.
And her boyfriends, we played chess with each other and bumped through different stages of life together.
The long-term attention and love of so many people put Harmon's life back on track.
She quit drinking and got rid of her dependence on tranquilizers.
In the final episode, the duel with the world's number one master Bogov was thrilling.
But when Harmon fully recalled the scene of his mother's car accident, we knew that winning was inevitable.
Success or failure, love and hate, loneliness and warmth, Harmon healed the pain caused by childhood shadows and reconciled with himself through various experiences in life.
At the end, the queen who won chess walked on the streets of the Soviet Union, walked into a group of old people playing chess, smiled and sat down and said, "Let's play chess."
This gentle and sincere smile reminds us that the title "Queen's Gambit" is actually a chess term "rear-wing abandon pawn", which is the opening method of abandoning the queen's flanking pawn in exchange for an advantage.
It also reminds us of the conversation between the adoptive mother and Harmon.
"Knowledge is not absolutely important." "Then what is important?" "Life and growth."
Lin Wei Source: China Youth Daily