第148章 愤怒可能让一切变得美好
'Beef' Review: Mad in America
《怒呛人生》剧评
By James Poniewozik
“I'm so sick of smiling，“ says Danny Cho (Steven Yeun) in the first episode of Netflix's “Beef.“ You may have noticed that he's not alone in this. Blame it on the pandemic， the culture， the economy， but people are mad right now， on planes and on trains and— like Danny and his car-crossed antagonist， Amy Lau (Ali Wong)— in automobiles.
“我实在是笑够了”，在网飞剧集《怒呛人生》的第一集中，Steven Yeun所饰演的角色Danny Cho这样说道。你可能已经注意到了，他不是唯一一个有这种想法的人。我们大可把它归咎于疫情、文化或者是经济，但无论如何，当下人们都很愤怒：不管是在飞机上、火车上，还是在汽车上；剧中，Danny与Ali Wong所饰演的对手Amy Lau也是因开车结下梁子。
“Beef，“ a dark edy about a road-rage incident that careers disastrously off-road， has good timing， but that's not enough to make a great TV series. What makes this one of the most invigorating， surprising and insightful debuts of the past year is how personally and culturally specific its study of anger is.
《怒呛人生》是一部黑色喜剧，故事由路怒而起，两人一路横冲直撞，矛盾以灾难性的方式从公路蔓延到了其他领域。这部剧适逢其时，但光凭这一点还不足以成为一部优秀的电视剧。它之所以成为过去一年首播剧中最令人振奋、最令人惊讶又最具洞察力的作品，是因为它对愤怒的诠释，既关照了个体的处境，又反映了一种特定的文化。
That nearly all of the major characters in “Beef“ are Asian is both a casual fact of the setting and integral to its themes. These are characters given less social permission for anger in America， in part because of “model minority“ stereotypes of docility. But they're also shaped by their family and upbringing. Amy describes learning to repress her emotions from her father—“Chinese guy from the Midwest， I mean， munication wasn't his forte“— and her mother， a Vietnamese immigrant who “thought talking about your feelings was the same thing as plaining.“
《怒呛人生》中几乎所有的主要角色都是亚裔，这不仅是这部剧一个不经意的设定，而且对主题表达来说也是不可或缺的。这些亚裔在美国社会中没有被给予足够的“社会许可”来表达自己的愤怒，其中部分原因是社会对他们带有“模范少数族裔”的顺从性刻板印象。不过，除此之外，他们也是被家庭和成长环境所塑造出来的。剧中，Amy描述了自己从父母那里学会压抑情绪的经历：“来自中西部的中国男人——我是想说，沟通不是他的长项”，而她身为越南移民的母亲则“认为谈论自己的感受就等同于抱怨。”
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