守望尘世 第二季 The Leftovers Season 2(2015)
简介：
- A town that seems to have no disappearances becomes a new Lourdes and attracts lots of tourists. But all may not be as rosy as it appears to be.
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影评：
- “It all makes sense now. Virgil (the older Black man in the trailer), was actually Erika's father, and not John's. Virgil sexually assaulted Evie when she was around 10 years old, and her mother Erica did not want to believe it was happening (perhaps she was also abused by him as a child, and so she was in denial about his predatory nature). Still in denial about the abuse, Erika did not do anything to protect Evie, and this is why Evie felt detached from her family and resentful towards her mother... and eventually why she decided to join Meg and the Guilty Remant, because she bonded with Meg for having a similar hatred for their mothers. This is also why Evie wrote on the bridge that her mother understood why she was doing all this (because of Erika's apathy and denial during Evie's childhood abuse). 6 years ago, John found out about Erika's father abusing Evie and then shot him, and so then John went to prison for the attempted murder of his father-in-law. John had been filled with rage ever since... not just towards Virgil (his father-in-law) for the abuse... but also towards Erika (his wife) for not doing enough to protect their daughter from Virgil. Erika was so detached and disallusioned from that tragedy, that she was going to leave her family and take off because she just couldn't deal with everthing (she told Nora about this during her departure interview). Meg initially joined the Guilty Remnant last year because she was disallusioned with her life and just totally lost... but during her time there, she saw the truth, in that the Guilty Remnant was actually a bullshit cult and wrong about everything, and that the loving bond of family was the ONLY thing that truly mattered. Laurie, indirectly, helped Meg see this by the strong feelings she couldn't hide that she still had for her daughter Jill (the G.R. was teaching everyone the opposite, in that they said nothing mattered, as the world had ended on 10/14). Meg figured out that the G.R. was a fraud and decided to take control of her branch of the group and do things her own way, and it was then that she planned this grand gesture in Jarden Texas to get people to wake up and see what really mattered to them... and she did this thru the bomb scare on the bridge...and by doing so, she also enabled all the lost people trapped in the campgrounds to have the freedom to move into the town as they had been so desperate to do for as long as they had been there (she hated the hypocrisy of the privileged town's people). She made a similar gesture towards Tom earlier in the season, as she tried to scare him back into caring about what really mattered to him (his family), when she raped him (to get him "pregnant", by planting the seed of realization of the truth), and by scaring him to death, by pretending to douse him with gasoline. She did all these thngs to scare people out of their tortured misery and apathy, and back into the reality of what really mattered - the love for the people most close to them in their lives (their family). If the series is renewed for a 3rd season, then I fully expect it will focus primarily on the Murphys (John, Erika, Michael, and Evie), and less on Kevin and his family, as his demons have been vanquished. He literally went to Hell and back again (twice) to find his way back home to his family, and so his story is finally resolved. Kevin finally feels grounded and at peace with what happened on 4 years earlier on October 14th, and so he is no longer suicidal or afraid... and finally able to allow himself to love, and be loved in return. He has been reborn.”
- 第一季的结尾，几张饱经风霜的脸上终于都露出了笑容，已经碎成无数片的生活，终于又一点一点被粘合了起来，新的一季，新的故事，就将在这个被称为miracle的小镇开始。
从这个小镇的名字，以及种种细节，我们不难推测出，“十月四日消失事件”对它没有影响，所有居民都留了下来，这也让它成为了又一个精神上的符号——就如同黑先知、GR等等。外界的人们一批批地进入，只为一个纪念品、一个护身符，甚至连水也可以成为商品。一个个被消失事件深深伤害的人，都渴望从这个圣地抓住一丝一毫的安全感。
然而，这个小镇并没有表面看上去那样和善光明。John只因认为别人咒他倒霉，就直接烧了他的房子（而且他没有什么朋友来参加他的生日聚会，他还能直接地，若无其事地对一个陌生人说自己蹲过监狱），从他们对level的分级上看，这样的事情他们已经干过很多次，很熟练了，而且Issac并没有报警之类的意图，居然就这样让这件事过去了。
小镇里还有其他许多的奇怪之处：一个一直住在塔上的老人；一个人很不礼貌地打断Matt神父的讲话，好像不想听他讲他的经历；路上的裂缝（可能是频繁的地震的结果）；穿着婚纱浇花的人；以及最诡异的，一夜之间干掉的池塘和Evie的神秘失踪。
还有两个细节，一是John听到的蟋蟀或蛐蛐之类昆虫的叫声，可能类似于第一季Kevin一直看到的鹿。二是Evie和她的朋友裸体在林间奔跑以及她的癫痫，可能与她失踪的原因有关。
至于开头那很长的一段史前人类的情景，每当鹰击长空之时，就有转折发生：第一次，山崩，母亲与她的族人分离；第二次，母亲因蛇毒而死，孩子在她怀中无助地哭泣，另一个人走过来，抱走了孩子......
不管有什么艰难险阻，生命就这样延续，人类，就这样，代代相传。
最后一点，也许是为了呼应第一季结尾那看似团圆的结局，这一季的BGM，除了那首忧伤的钢琴曲，风格总体还是偏向欢快类型的，然而，更欢快的音乐，企图掩盖的，是不是更深、更痛的悲伤呢？ - 不要让宗教的外衣，让你将《守望尘世》拒之门外。
这里所讨论的，更多的是，除了衣食住行的物质需求外，为何唯有信仰才能支持我们度过余生。
当遭遇生活剧变、及面临由此带来的恐惧时，你会作何反应？试图去解释、去理性化，又或者是将其抛诸脑后？
有人在这种剧变里找到了自己的使命感，有人只想忘却一切重新开始。
生活突变本身并没有对错，我们据此所作出的回应也没有对错之分。
但在剧变面前，我们早前所以为理所当然的希望，全部都变得虚渺和不现实。
希望，变成了一种我们可望而不可求的奢侈品。
剧变所带来的不仅仅是对未知的恐惧，同时还伴随着某件事/某个人逝去的悲伤。眼前的悲伤如此之强烈，以至于坚信这种悲伤在未来仍然是无法消除的无力感，让你觉得只有活在无法挽回所失的悲痛当中，才是继续与所失温存的唯一出路。
很喜欢 Holly Wayne 对 Nora 说的一段话：
You believe that you will always feel that pain
And it starts to slip away, you seek it out again
Didn't you?
You won't let it kill you, but you won't kill yourself.
坚信，痛感常在
但当悲伤渐行渐远
你却不自主地，撕开伤疤
悲痛，不会令人致死
受苦人却总难自断
or whoever is joined with all of the living, there is hope.
Surely, a live dog is better than a dead lion.
Hope, is your weakness.
You want it gone because you don't deserve it.
Nora, you do deserve hope.
孕育于生命
活狗胜死狮
隐含着脆弱
无求即失去
凡人皆可得
希望
此时，能够提供一个使命感给你的人，都可以轻易地控制忙于疗伤的你，这就是为什么剧里 Guilt Remnant 可以大行其道的原因。
他们为所有失去亲人、面对剧变前不知所措的人提供了一个明确的使命感，这种使命感是对还是错，对于迷茫、一无所有的他们来说，并不重要。
G.R.为他们提供了一个信仰去相信、去坚持，即使这个信仰在外人看来是多少的可笑可怜。
甚至你们可以将这种行为以宗教来解释，只不过后者经历了千年的磨炼，有了系统的准则、故事和事例去完善这一份信仰。
目前有两个情节非常震撼人心，第一个是第一季末 G.R. 所发起的“集体回忆录”行动，将所有 Departed People 在现场还原成人偶，Nora 的演员演技大爆发，直到最后的全民围攻G.R.总部，他们的这种坚信“悲痛不可忘”的信仰令他们已完全忘记自身行为的对或错，以及对于别人造成的伤害。
你会诧异于为何人会无情至此做出如何残忍之事，“集体回忆录”行动所带来的伤害，某种程度上比 Departure 本身更大。
疯狂只是假象，正是剧中多次描述的“丛林疯狗”一样，你觉得它们是因为 Department 而发疯，但其实也许仅仅是外来的野狗而已。
你若悉心照料与培养，一样还是能够与你共存。
重点是，你选择走什么样的道路去继续生活。
另外一个是第二季第3集末 Laurie & Tommy 的对话，Laurie 问了一个终极的问题：
Why are we losing?
当你将人的原本信仰清空而不灌输新的信仰，就会发现，失去生活重心的人是最为危险的，你也没有办法让他们重新回归正轨。
人若没有了信仰，要不如行尸走肉般生活毫无生气，要不寻求终极解脱。唯有以信仰抵抗信仰，才能在这场迷茫的人生战场上紧握胜券。
若第一季的主题是信仰迷失混战，第二季的主题就是新信仰的燃起。
这剧真的需要慢慢看~~~~~
#部分评论来自公众号 DramaMatters# 父母尽心竭力在孩子面前表演夫妻甜蜜，一切都好，在孩子眼里一切都已经那么明显，Jill跟哥哥说，我觉得爸爸要走了。早上他们一家还一起说着我爱你，哼着歌去上学，给爸爸展示彩虹屁小猫的游戏。尽力尽力的扮演着那个乖乖女的样子。Jill和哥哥Tom一直有短信交流，父母都不知道。Evie和Michael五岁的时候曾经把家里水漫金山，妈妈Erika一直把这个当做笑话，在各种场合讲，所有人都知道。可以真实的版本呢？Michael最后在教堂里面说，那是因为Evie不明白为什么爸爸会离开，她那么伤心的大哭，我为了掩盖她的哭声，才打开了水龙头。
从什么时候开始，孩子开始对父母隐瞒，开始认定父母肯定不会理解我们呢？Evie在离家前还是开心可爱体贴的小棉袄，一旦走出父母的视线，才恢复她想要的样子，面无表情。那是因为我们被迫藏起了父母不想看到的我们的那一面。你不想看到我的负面，每次我表现出来，你就要批评和阻止，那我能怎么办，我只能装啊。
父母伪装，还自我感动，我为孩子做出了多大的牺牲，都是为了你们，我才忍辱负重，别感动自己了，你只是为了自己，成年的孩子对感情的理解可能比你们还要丰富和深刻，如果是五岁以下的孩子确实需要保护，孩子马上都要成年了，没有隐瞒的必要，给孩子平等尊重和讨论的机会，开诚布公撕裂伤口虽然痛苦，但沟通的桥梁还存在。
如果父母有一个偶尔消沉偶尔发火偶尔伤心的孩子，恭喜你，孩子在你面前还能表达自己真正的喜怒哀乐，这是一个正常的孩子。如果你有一个人人羡慕的别人家的孩子，什么都好，那么你要提高警惕了，除非你上辈子拯救了银河系，这孩子天生慧根对这世界的各种苦难都习以为常，否则这孩子心里就住着一座活火山，一旦爆发，后果都是灾难性的，对别人或者是对自己。
这部剧涉及到的东西真是非常多，而且很多根本无解，不是你努力就可以解决的，也不存在最好的方法，只能靠每个当事人自己去摸索去受伤，结果如何不确定。结婚之前是Meg这一对的问题，未婚妻非常想跟她结婚，她开始怀疑退缩，到现在我也不知道Meg想干啥…真气质独特。孩子还小的时候照顾孩子和家务如何平衡，两个孩子都读幼儿园了， Nora找工作，看看老公做了啥，根本不帮助。等孩子长大了要离开家了，夫妻之间出问题，这是Laurie主角一家以及John一家，看起来其乐融融的一家，暗地里已经暗流涌动，只等某一个时机分崩离析。结婚多年没有孩子，自己的事业拼尽全力也没有保住的时候要怎么面对，这是Matt一家，真是超级坚强的人。
这世界的苦难这么多，要不独自坚强，要不组团对抗，不管选择哪一条，希望保持勇气，勇往直前。