皮囊第七季

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...

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。

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.

预告片很好得误导了观众，竭力把大伙往成长与改变的路子上引，再加点煽情段落混淆视线，于是我觉得有必要在青春的脸上抽一巴掌，然后揭发一下皮囊这一整个系列意图教导大家的一个基本指导理论。

最初看Skins是被什么吸引了？“青春靓丽”的演员，“英式忧郁”的气质，别骗人了，明明就是发现里头的人到处乱搞，没事就露屁股觉得很刺激，然后就入坑了吧！
那我们就节省时间把目光聚焦到故事里几段重要的床戏上：

Effy操老板，害了Dom
Cassie操同事，害了Jokob
Cook操Charlie，害死了Emma，一家

而这种主角作死，炮灰陪葬的桥段在skins里也屡见不鲜
Cassie饿死，是因为Sid操Michelle
Tony被撞，是因为Michelle操Sid
Effy注射过量，是Tony作孽搞了Michelle高富帅蓝盆友的妹妹
Thomas暴走，因为Panda操Cook
Effy暴走，因为Freddie操Katie
Freddie暴走，因为Effy操Cook
Cook暴走，因为他可以操所有人
你以为搞拉就不折腾了么？
Naomi也害死过一夜情妹子，Emily操JJ
Fred被变态医生打死，Effy终于操到自己想操的人但是操太多操不下去了
皮三代里唯一清新可人的Grace，是被大脑充血的Franky婊害死的
Chris是片子里唯一操对人的，可惜他还是死了，为什么呢？因为编剧要破坏Cassie和Sid之间最后一丢丢可能性。

所以，勒紧裤腰，没事不要总是下半身先行，即使为了环保，也要少用几个套。可能再过几年都遇不到这么糟烂的剧本了，但又高度浓缩，一网打尽你能见到最纠结的性关系网，终于完成了普济世人的目的。
Skins是很多人的一个念想，因为我们大部分人都没敢那么疯过，但很遗憾的说，不是抱着必死的决心就不要尝试了，你看里头有一个是好下场的吗？没有吧？
加紧腿好好学习，早早上大学做个有用的人，另外还要记得远离给老板送逼的贱货，整天做白日梦的傻妞，和有前科还搞老板女人的惯犯。






最后还是要表达一下本人对于Cook大王的敬仰，不愧是skins中最有影帝气质的，眼神气场和结实的胸肌，都非常到位。而就事业发展和作品质量上也一直都证明我的眼光是不错滴。
相对而言，Effy和Cassie的进步就很微弱了，前者上一次闪光是在Robbie Williams的MV中客串高贵冷艳的Effy2.0，后者的highlight应该是Tim Burton的烂片Dark Shadow里一掠而过的嬉皮士小妞（不要和我说独立电影，一部都没看到怎么评论）

一天兩季的節奏，刷完了皮囊，停不下来的想要看完。

第一二季的時候喚起了好多關於大英國的回憶，依然像藏在心底的真愛一樣，對其無法釋懷。

第三四季出現了全劇最愛的一對couple，Naomi和Emily，經歷了出柜以及後來的各種shit，最終還是毫無懸念的在一起了，只是吵闹分和的过程实在让人揪心的虐。特別讓人安心的一對兒，覺得不管發生什麽她們都不會分開。尤其是第四季第二集裡面的兩機車少女簡直是全劇最愛的一段！

第五六季不太喜歡，第三屆小孩裡面，Franky的逆襲簡直不能接受，太突然轉變太大。Mini簡直就是美劇誤入。男生們也很pussy，Cook就是American Pie里面的Stiff。

第七季，孩子們長大了。後媽編劇讓Naomi得了cancer。。。虐哭



过了两天了，还觉得陷在剧情里面无法自拔。虽然高中生活没有剧中那么颓丧的drugs啊叶子啊party啊，但是也够混乱了。比起美剧中那些高中生，skins孩子们的高中才是真正的青春！

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。