And she doesn't want, for a number of reasons, to tell him it hurts that he doesn't acknowledge her at school. But it is good sex by high school standards, and they are good company to each other. It isn't a declared romance in fact, it's a secret, which is his idea. One day, quietly, they decide that they like each other, and they make a plan to have sex, and then they do. Her mother's status is above his mother's, but for them to be seen together would be bad for his standing, not hers. She, meanwhile, is smart and opinionated, the kind of girl around whom a generally accepted lore of plainness flourishes even though she is, objectively, beautiful. He's one of those high school boys who is understood to be the nicest one in a group of adolescent jackasses, always acting a tiny bit embarrassed by his friends, but never quite telling them to knock off their various acts of jackassery. But on the other, he's good-looking and popular. On one hand, Connell's mother works for Marianne's mother as a house cleaner. When we meet them, Marianne (Daisy Edgar-Jones) and Connell (Paul Mescal) attend the same high school in Ireland, but they have a complicated, crosswise dynamic. And Hulu has made a genuinely beautiful 12-part adaptation, all of which is available Wednesday, April 29.īook Reviews 'Normal People' Appeals Across Genders And Generations
Sally Rooney's 2018 novel, Normal People, is about one of those relationships, the ones where we hurt and we get hurt and we try, perhaps unwisely, to hang on.
Not the ones that are casual and simple, but the ones with people who break us open in the best ways but also cut themselves on our rough edges and bump their heads on our limitations. Perhaps that's why so many of us lose some of those relationships in time. Your odds of making a mistake with them are high. Of course, on the other hand, as you make and probably break your bonds with them, you will still be dumb, and you will still be young. You'll get older either way, but without them, without how hard you will try to deserve them, how will you ever get less dumb? It's a blessing to meet very special people when you're young and dumb. Paul Mescal and Daisy Edgar-Jones play Connell and Marianne, the two closely bonded characters at the center of Sally Rooney's novel Normal People.
0 kommentar(er)
