广告狂人第六季

没写过评，因为不会写。从第一季开始就是mad men的饭，所以当陌生人评论我有感而发的微博说don不爱孩子只觉得他们是负担时，我的表达欲被激起了。

"I dont think i ever wanted to be a man who loves children. But from the moment they're born, the baby comes out and u act like u r proud and excited and u hand out cigars...but u dont feel anything. Especially if u had a difficult childhood. I want to love them but I dont...and the fact that u r faking that feeling makes u wonder if ur own father had the same problem. Then one day they get older, u see them do something and u feel that feeling u were pretending to have...and it feels like ur heart is going to explode."

我非常喜欢这段台词，它交代了很多东西。

第一，它解释了我个人的疑问：为什么编剧很少描写Don和孩子的互动？因为在这一集之前，在Mr.king的死发生前，Don不爱他的孩子，恐怕一点都不爱 （ "I dont think i ever wanted to be a man who loves children. But from the moment they're born, the baby comes out and u act like u r proud and excited and u hand out cigars...but u dont feel anything.）。

第二，一个人不爱自己的孩子难道不奇怪吗？这段台词接着就像我们解释了Don为什么不爱自己的孩子："Especially if u had a difficult childhood. I want to love them but I dont...and the fact that u r faking that feeling makes u wonder if ur own father had the same problem." 他缺少父爱的童年让他缺少这种能力。就像病了一样。无法给予孩子父爱又让他想到自己的父亲，是不是也有这样的问题/病所以才不爱自己。

“Then one day they get older, u see them do something and u feel that feeling u were pretending to have." 这里的时态变了(were pretending)，说明Don以前假装爱他们，但是那是过去式了。这一集里Don带儿子（忘记名字了）去看电影，间歇时一个黑人工作人员在打扫，小孩子对他说”everybody likes to go to the movies when they're sad". 黑人工作人员和Don交换了一个有些惊讶又有些悲伤的眼神。我想，Don在这段话里("u see them do something")的something指的是不是儿子在电影院里的行为呢？

“...and it feels like ur heart is going to explode.”最后这半句更加证明了Don不爱孩子已经是过去式了。之前的"feeling"由假装出来的演变成了真实的、从心底往外溢出的，所以才会觉得心像要explode了一样。这样无法抑制的感觉不就是爱吗。

听完Don的独白，Megan含着泪靠在他肩头，想给他一些安慰。我当时的心情和剧中的Megan大概差不多，终于明白了他的心情，说不出话，只有同情。

我相信大多数喜欢madmen的观众都不会认为Don是人渣，因为这并不是作者真正想要表达的。虽然说一百个人对同一部作品会有一百个理解，但是这当中必然有一些更加贴近作者在创作时的用意。如果细心地去感受剧中的细节，便不难找到许许多多证据。之所以写这篇东西，是因为偶然看到一些观众坚定地认为Don是人渣。我想说，剧中的人和我们是一样的，今天的自己的模样和昨天总有点渊源，而昨天的许多事，比如出生的家庭，比如父亲爱不爱自己，都不是在我们掌控之内的。今天的人们不断不断地和昨天较着劲，这不就是剧中想要表现的自我挣扎么。

这集里Peggy的男友说的那段也很喜欢，因为表达欲在Don身上就不多说了。最后，又一次被Don的扮演者Jon Hamm的演技吓到。当然其他的演员也都非常棒。希望艾美能给他们一点甜头。

乏善可陈，请大家原谅。

他自己盗用别人身份，逃离战场，却不能容忍合伙人盗用他的签名。


他因盗用身份让公司损失几百万的生意，却不能容忍合伙人提前擅自领取7500元分红。逼死了合伙人。

他对自己所冒充身份的妻子充满温情，却对自己弟弟极其冷默，间接导致弟弟自杀。

他在很多人困难时帮助他们，却在平时给他们很多的冷漠和苛刻。

他在办公室像打了鸡血，回到家总是一滩泥。

他对婚姻从不忠诚，却质疑别人的诚信。

他搞了几个秘书，却强调公私分明。

他对有能力的下属总是要求秩序规则，他在上司合伙人面前总是不讲规则。

他自己乱搞的女人数不清，却让两任老婆严防死守。

他总是用一幅君子面貌看待风流的罗杰，却不知罗杰是真正的有情有义的人。

他把每次约会都搞得像交配，罗杰把每次约会都变成恋爱。

他总是放任自己的冷漠傲慢自大，却不能容忍下属和别人的骄傲。

他总是将一切归罪于自己的童年，却不肯给孩子温馨的童年。

他总是贬斥皮特，却不知皮特是个动力强劲，判断准确，很讲原则，极为上进的人，一个忠实的达尔文主义者，一个道德标准比唐高的人，一个追求公平的人，一个很像乔布斯的人。

他总是打压皮特，却又在其最需要帮助时候默默帮了他。

她可能以为joan轻浮，实际joan毫不轻浮，而他自己极其轻浮。

他身为广告创意人，却对文学艺术不感冒。

D: What are you thinking right now?

B: I'm thinking about how different you are, before and after, I love the way you look at me when you're like this. But then I watch it decay. I can only hold your attention so long.

D: Why is sex the defination of being close to someone?

B: I don't know, but it is for me. It is for most people.

D: Just because you climb a mountain dosen't mean you love it.

B: Climbing a mountain? Is that what making love is to you?

D: If we'd lied here together with you in my arms, I would have felt just as close. Not the rest of it. I don't know. It doesn't mean that much to me.

B: Is it the same with Magen?

D: Why do you want to talk about that?

B: That poor girl. She doesn't know that loving you is the worst way to get to you.

最好的剧集将细节抓得最仔细，确保每一件道具、戏服、台词不仅都能符合史实，更能推动剧情。这种火眼金睛（或是过度阐释）不是一下子练得出来的，但一旦练出来，绝对能提升不少观剧的感受——前提是这部剧能保证给你这一番感受。

《广告狂人》就是这样一部剧，禁得起剖析、解读，不断有惊喜，有新发现。观看《广告狂人》就好像在同时上美国历史课、电影课、写作课，收获绝不亚于一部优秀的电影能带来的收获和思考。

MM丰富的观剧体验离不开精彩剧评的点播。在这里推荐两个recap网站（没有看完S6的建议打开这些地址时迅速下拉，迅速找到你看到的那集的评论，目不斜视，不看任何其他集的标题和图片）：

Vulture：http://www.vulture.com/tv/mad-men/
Nelle Engoro: http://open.salon.com/blog/silkstone

Vulture是个很棒的MM信息平台。Matt的剧评除了深入挖掘和分析MM里对照（mirror/doppelganger）的角色经历，对MM本身他常毫无保留的持批判态度(如他把乱来一气的第8集比作怀特大神写剧本时会遭遇的灵感枯竭和混沌状态）；对Don批评起来也绝不嘴软。

他在第7集痛骂Don：
Speaking of Don, the guy’s a horrible, horrible, horrible asshole, just horrible. Horrible! Did I mention he’s horrible? A hollowed-out shell of a handsome man. A tyrannosaurus rex among bastards. Sick. Hateful. A selfish prima donna and reflexive user of other people. Toxic beefcake. He should have a warning label on his forehead.

除了挖掘和分析MM里对照（mirror/doppelganger）的角色经历，Matt经常妙语连珠，比如在第13集中，他指出：
The preacher's line in the mandtory whorehouse flashback really stuck with me.'The only unpardonable sin is to believe God cannot forgive you.' Substitute 'the viewer' for God and you've got cable's philsophy of drama.

在Nelle的博客中，可以发现，她很早便开始写MM的剧评，她对于MM第四季的recap大受欢迎，出书成册。

她的剧评很有个人特色：紧扣台词。Nelle的recap以各种明显的punchline与不易察觉的台词串成一幅很有逻辑的画面。Nelle的另一个特色是她经历过60年代，常常拿出自己的亲身体验做参照和对比。

Nelle的解读非常细致，也有一些自己独到的理论（把Don落水解读为Don经历的一次重新改过、埋葬the false self的洗礼），很妙的是，Nelle的评论本身就极具文学性，在写到Don在第13集里讲述自己的童年经历和好时巧克力棒（Hershey's bar）的苦甜交织的记忆时，指出“bar”的一语双关：

A bitterness not alleviated by the other kind of bar we’ve often seen him hitting, especially this season


将Matt和Nelle的剧评放在一块儿看，可以发现两人对一些情节的理解和猜想的差异，Matt认为Bob Benson是一个良性的sociopath，并认为在Bob&Pete的膝盖戏后，Bob走出时是一种平静的姿态，而Pete可能是一个深柜gay，最后发现并接受自己的这一身份能帮助Pete重新lovable。
Nelle则认为Bob在膝盖戏后走出Pete办公室是很不安的，因为他猜错了，Pete并不弯，并担心Bob是否保得住饭碗。

最后揭晓，两者都有猜对的，和猜错之处。而两者早早看出Bob和Don的mirror，则是两者都猜对的地方。

Nelle在S6的recap外，还每集录制了一集 Mad Men Talk（http://www.blogtalkradio.com/madmentalk）,可以晚上睡觉听。


MM美轮美奂的戏服也是一大看点，推荐两个评论MM戏服的网站：
http://www.tomandlorenzo.com/category/television/page/3 （其中的Mad Style系列）
服装设计设Janie Bryant讲解MM的戏服：http://blogs.amctv.com/mad-men/fashion-file/

Mad Style有着丰富的截图，将戏服对人物性格、剧情推进的作用挖掘做到了极致：绿-蓝象征的adultery，黄-红为SCP的公司主色调；黄-蓝象征unconnect的人际关系；波点VS条纹；不详的Sharon Tate的暗指…

两个戏服评论一起看，也能看出一些相同的或是不同的见解：

对于E13里Megan在早上与在监狱了呆了一晚、决定改过自新的的Don谈话、拥抱的一幕，Janie动情地写道：“她穿着白裙，他穿着西装，清晨的阳光照进来，这就像一个婚礼。”
Tom&Lorenzo则刁侃“Megan就缺一对翅膀和一个光环了！”

对于后来Don改变主意，决定留在纽约，Megan穿着海军蓝的毛衣愤怒摔门而去的一幕，Janie说，Megan的蓝色毛衣切合着本集sink, boat, water的motif，暗色调也与早晨的白裙相反，可以从一个角度上解释为Don&Megan婚姻的死亡。

但是，Tom&Lorenzo则有着相反的、乐观的推断，他们注意到Megan的海军蓝、灰色、白色和Don西装、衬衫、领带的三色完全匹配，Megan的三角形领口对应Don的西装领口，他们是connect的、有未来的一对。

另外可以加强观剧体验的当然就是看怀纳大神以及众卡司的采访，这些都可以在AMC和Vulture的MM页面上找到。


最后，最能提升观剧感受&能力的，就是自己动手写一篇剧评！没有什么更能比在观剧后写recap，对照自己的recap和Matt&Nelle的recap，更能提升自己的观察、梳理以及英语能力的了。

这一季我写了五篇recap，后三篇比较像样的放在了豆瓣上：

【607 Recap】Above the Cloud http://movie.douban.com/review/6187903/
【609 Recap】A Traumatizing Experience http://movie.douban.com/review/6187908/
【613 Recap】‘If you wanna run, I’d do it now.’ http://movie.douban.com/review/6187912/

当然和Matt&Nelle&Tom&Lorenzo的评论的洞察力还远不好比，但至少形式上慢慢地比较有章法了（偏向Nelle的台词摘录法）。



看到这里的Mad Mania们，送你们一颗（需要翻墙的）彩蛋：
Peggy十年奋斗史：
http://nymag.com/thecut/2013/06/watch-peggy-olson-break-the-glass-ceiling.html



图文版：http://www.douban.com/note/292004705/

Netflix上对Mad Men的介绍是，this show is: dark, emotional, understated. 这部剧淋漓尽致地展现了人的复杂：人究竟有多少欲望，又如何在生活中与这些欲望共存以及自处，是一个永恒的难题。

Mad Men中的父母与子女：

最同情Sally，一个出生在富裕家庭却不得不过早接受成人世界的女孩，在父母离异之后带着两个弟弟过着毫无安全感的生活。他们从不缺乏物质：父亲在纽约叱咤风云地做着广告生意，大名鼎鼎；母亲美丽优雅再嫁给议员，继父和继母都很和善。然而Sally却没得到过爱。Betty在和Don的婚姻里从郁郁寡欢无所事事，到痛苦怨恨，没有一刻真正快乐，她将一个女人所有的神经质和痛苦都倾倒在孩子身上。这样一个毫无耐心只会严加管束的母亲只得压迫得孩子沉默，甚至险些人格发展走上歧途（Sally曾在父母关系频临破裂时在公共场所自慰），幸而被有经验的儿童心理学家引导才重新回到正路。然而父母关系越发紧张，Sally和两个人事不懂的年幼弟弟只能被动接受大人所赋予的一切。Betty与Don离婚后带着孩子们再嫁，生活依旧富足，但其实并没有人真正在乎孩子们的感受，作为父母，betty和don甚至连一点点靠近孩子内心的行动都没有。Sally和弟弟们像球一样被踢来踢去，而Betty和Don为着周末谁该看管孩子吵得依旧不可开交。每个人都有自己的事要处理，有人要参加宴会，有人有工作要做，孩子似乎只要被接过去就算履行了义务。

Don是一个不负责任的父亲，他不曾得到过父爱所以也不懂得给予。"I'll pay everything for that(Sally's boarding school)"，他已自顾不暇，自然没有能力关心子女。在第五六季，Sally逐渐长大，她越发对父母失望，特别是当她亲眼目睹父亲的好友和继母的母亲在宴会上私相媾合，以及意外目睹父亲和邻居的妻子偷情时，Sally只得落荒而逃。"How is New York?" "Dirty." "I'm so sick of you!" Sally以极快的速度成长，在去寄宿学校的路上，她对Betty说:'He(Don) has never given me anything."

Sally只是一个例子。Mad Men里到处是父母子女关系冷漠到极致的例子：Peter和哥哥对父亲空难身亡毫无悲伤，反而打算着财产将来如何分配；第六季里Peter的母亲已近精神失常，出身名门曾经优雅的女人如今年老疯癫，两个儿子却无一人真心在乎，在她同样意外身亡后两人所关心的只有财产分配，最后各自把母亲公寓的名贵家具搬个了空。

或许子女对父母的这种冷漠令人寒心和诧异，为何出身名门的上流社会子弟都如此不孝？看看Sally的成长恐怕答案就渐渐清晰。Roger是一个更好的例子。第六季的结尾，我为roger难过，甚至有些可怜他。这个衔着金钥匙出生的豪门少爷，如今已经是年近60岁的老人，他依旧风度翩翩，英俊潇洒，言谈举止俏皮幽默，但满头银发和眼中的落寞无不透露着他那空虚孤独的生活。他有过两次婚姻，一个女儿，剧中很少描写他的家庭生活，但他的前妻曾提醒他:"You should spend more time with her(his daughter)", 而Roger从始至终的花天酒地风流无数使人们很容易想象他究竟花过多少心思在女儿身上。他可谓晚景凄凉，女儿婚后和女婿一起计算着他的财产，以各种投资名头要他出资。他自己也心知肚明，因为他对自己母亲的去世也同样麻木不仁。

本季的结束，所有人都和孩子在一起：Peter即将和Trudy离婚，他临走前回到家中，看着熟睡中的女儿；Roger被女儿拒之门外，最后来到Joan家，终于得以和他们的私生子度过感恩节；Don带着三个孩子回到他曾经长大的房子，那曾经的妓院如今破败不堪，门口一个黑人小孩坐在门口，手中拿着棒冰。也许所有人都想重拾和孩子的关系，都想回归那唯一的温情，只是这温情里夹杂着无数苦涩和遗憾，或许还有悔恨。

MM 613 'In Care Of' Recap


The last episode of season 6 of Mad Men encapsulated runaway of all forms besides showing all the serious and casual commitments being made and broken.

‘If you wanna run, I’d do it now.’ - Pete

S6E13 wrapped up the whole season of the mad late 1960s showing the aftermath of being casual at decision-making whilst tagging the whole period as ‘not serious’.

‘Hershey’s isn’t serious’ about advertising. Teenages were not serious about drinking and law; men were not serious about their families and children; people were not serious about making promises. Don, the most notorious among all, breached work taboo and were considered not serious about clients and campaign presentations (Hershey’s, Sheraton, newspaper and tabacco, to name just a few). All they wanted was run.

Ted promised that he would leave his wife and escaped to Hawaii with Peg. Don told Megan they would move to L.A. and be happy again. Sally went to a boarding school to stay away from her always-occupied-and-couldn’t-pick-her-children mother and her ‘immoral’ dad. Even Pete’s mother ran away and got married with Manolo, both of whom ended up disappearing into thin air. Trudy said to Pete, who lost his mother, left his families and moved to the south, ‘You are free from everything.’

The men made decisions easily. To shoot two not one presidents, to start a war, to kill civil rights leader and innocent people on a foreign land. They were the decision-makers. And those who were being made the decisions were voiceless and vacant in the pictures.

‘You probably dictate the memo right to her and had no idea she’d be affected.’ - Stan

Stan’s remark was not just about Dawn, whose appearance and subplots in the whole season were disappointly scarce and had no punchline whatsoever, it also rang true for Peg and Ted.

Though I was for a moment believing that Ted would leave his wife and be with Peg and got really excited for the next season of this couple-to-be, I felt punched in the face when the guilty-look Ted showed up in Don’s office asking Don to put three hundred miles between him and Peg. But you must admit, what Ted did was right. Nevertheless, whatever he decided to do, the memo of divorce or breaking up would still hurt the other woman in his bed, badly.

The words were broken. The women were left to be disappointed. Yet as Roger pointed out, ‘you learn more from disappointment than you do from success’, will the women whose husband, lover, dad failed them, stood up and learned something? Looking at the silouette of Peg in Don’s office, I knew she would (and Peg&Elizabeth Moss was never an disappointment on the screen). Sally was looking at her father in the eye before the deserted two-story house that had once been a brothel and home to her father. I hoped she would pull her young self together and saw something big from the experience that her father went through, from a ragged boy to a man in clean suits and tie and hat. As Meg darted out of the flat, I was fingercrossing and wished she would not be written off the show(as what was done to her part in her show). The scenario of Don taking away Stan’s opportunity bore a resemblance to what Megan did to her European friend in the last episode of season five, yet we failed to see more dark and manipulative side of Megan this season. I hoped to see the independent-minded Megan of power return next year.

SC&P decided that they could survive with a casual vacancy. And indeed, it would not be too much to ask that this casual vacancy could remind Don of his responsibility since he would sure see the firm run normally, if not perfectly, without him.

Take a break.

‘Don’t you always go home, though? ’ - Peggy