Compare to "Gossip Girl" or "Sex and the city", the HBO original series "Girls" has more caught my interest in amount of women target series.
In this series, no one is born in rich family, living in the fancy house, wearing the luxury brands and sitting in the limo while they go out. They're nothing like supermodels that you would see in the Abercrombie & Fitch store or at the Victoria secrets runway shows. They don't have the privilege in their life, they're just a group of ordinary, young people, try to survive and struggle in the big city.
The real world is not a fairytale.
There are always a list of crap things bothering you, such as couldn't' find a nice job that you are passionate about, boyfriend & complicated relationship situation, don't know what exactly you want in your life, having a fight with your best friends or awful misunderstanding issues with your parents.
Like most of the rest people, we always try to make the difficult life much more easier, we might worry about the rent, look for a job, deal with the conflicts with people. All these things that we experiences from life, no matter is good or not, you can find all in the show.
Nowadays, we live in the rapid, advanced development information technology world. The social media are surrounding among us which have become a very important part in our life. Especially Facebook, a platform which people used it to post what they would like to show off. You can easily observe somebody else life whenever you want, even a stranger. Then you compare your life to others. In Facebook, you only see the good part. Who went to travel again, had a fancy dinner in town, bought a luxury bag, had an amazing wedding...all of these, like a nightmare and never stop haunting you down. It brought you nothing but tons of anxiety. After a while, you have that kind of illusion in your head, that everyone is living in the happy wonderland, like a king and a queen.
Watching Girls, reminds me what the real world looks like. It's not perfect, instead, life is full of disappointments, arguments, sadness, anger, jealousy...all the kinds of emotions appear in the series, sometimes it would get your nerve on edge, because it forces you to face your life, especially the ugly part that you try to escape from.
No one can know what's the best for you, also watching Girls won't give you any advice or answer. Neither way is good or bad, you can only find out by yourself. Just like every actresses and actor in the series, they made mistakes, regret their choice, even blow things up at the end, but at the end, they still need to take the responsibility and accept the consequence.
So we make mistakes, and we learn.
Perhaps next time we won't make the same mistakes, or we still follow our old path.
No matter what, that's how the Girls series taught me, how we live our life, even it's not perfect.
在眾多以女性為市場的電視劇裡，相較於欲望城市或是緋聞女孩，Girls反而比較吸引我，在 Girls 裡，沒有人是出身富二代豪門，住在漂亮的高級住宅區，身上沒有精品名牌，出門沒有跑車代步。演員不是 Abercrombie & Fitch 的帥哥，也不是擁有維多利雅秘密火辣身材的模特兒， 他們沒有先天獨厚的環境可以揮霍人生，而是一群再普通不過，試著在這充滿競爭的大城市裡，為生活努力奮鬥的年輕人。
但現實人生不是童話故事。
生活裡總是有一大堆鳥事困擾著你，感情不如意，找不到工作，或是工作不順心，不知道自己要什麼，繳不出房租，帳單一大堆，和好姐妹吵架，和父母溝通不良...還有好多小事...一點都不完美，不像愛情電影裡那麼美好，或是只要為談情說愛煩惱這麼簡單，在這部戲裡面，說得是任何人都會遭遇到的故事。
在這個資訊大爆炸的媒體產業裡，以及每個人在Facebook呈現出來的完美假象，讓現代人產生了無比的焦慮，看似大家都過著完美無暇的生活，怎麼好像全世界只有衰事發生在自己身上，然後看著台灣的綜藝節目，怎麼好像買一雙3萬鞋的是再普通不過的事？
故事裡的各個主角都不是所謂的人生勝利組，他們總是遇到很多挫折，要很努力的克服生活上遭遇到的困難。人生不是這麼完美，但這才是我們的日常生活。
Girls讓我重返真實的世界，它甚至會讓你產生煩躁的感覺，但那個煩躁，不是因為焦慮，而是它逼你檢視自己的人生，要你面對或許你平常在逃避的問題。
Girls不會給你答案，沒有哪一個選擇或是做法比較好，你只能靠自己去摸索，就像裡面的演員一樣，他們只能不斷地靠自己去闖蕩，也許會犯錯，就算最後把事情搞砸，後悔了當初的選擇，還是要硬著頭皮承擔結果，然後從中再學習，再進步。
並且期待下一次會更好。
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