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by Jun » 2004-07-07 14:33
Nip/Tuck is a typical example of excellent character studies without a likable (ie, 可带入)character. If you feel you need to like, identify with, and root for a character to enjoy a story, forget it, it's not for you. The story is about two private practice plastic surgeons in their middle age, one a playboy and the other a family man. Everyone in the show is a flawed, frail, pathetic human being struggling in various lifestyles. They are so screwed up, that it captures me. In a way I feel good watching them, realizing how less screwed-up my life is.
The story line is often outrageous and crazy, but somehow realistic psychologically. From the merciless portrayal of the mistakes and "issues" of these people, we see the mistakes and "issues" of our own and people we know if life.
The show is graphic in sex scenes and surgery scenes. I feel the same amused horror and sick curiosity for these explicit scenes as the psychological nakedness and brutal honesty.
此喵已死,有事烧纸