阿尔比的动物人间 (上)：与山羊偷情，就能解决中年危机？
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From the surface, Martin's life is very complete. He and his wife have a very good relationship for more than 20 years. They often joke around and are very happy. When his wife, Stevie, is not at home, he will lie on the bed and think of Stevie in his head to make fun of himself.

Martin describes his 17-year-old son Billy as a "smart gay" in the 90s. For his son's sexual orientation, he is not a "sweet guy who you will like once you meet a suitable girl", but a "never-ending accept". He also has a friend who has known him for 40 years, whose name is Ross.

This week, Martin is even more excited. First, he became the youngest winner of the Nobel Prize in Architecture, and then he was selected to be the architect who built the world's largest building with $2 billion invested in electronic technology in the United States. Finally, he just celebrated his 50th birthday. At this moment, Martin is sitting in front of Ross for an interview. But his state looks so strange. It seems like he has something on his mind, but he can't be like anyone else.

Ross couldn't stand it, and ended the interview. And Minrui realized that Martin was troubled by the situation. After a fight, Martin finally told the truth about his unspeakable secret. That day, Martin was looking for a house in the countryside. Stevie and he had long planned to buy a house in the countryside. But his wife was busy, so he drove to the suburbs alone.

There were farms everywhere. After discovering a place with traditional gardens and a large piece of land, he left the town and went back to the highway, stopped at a mountain top. He enjoyed the real smell of farmland brought by the white clouds, and the scent of apples floating around. The scenery was beautiful. And when Martin was about to get back to the car, he looked again. At this moment, Martin saw him.

Of course, the Ross who heard this was extremely excited. He imagined a beautiful woman with a golden hair, a high-heeled breastplate, a belly with a belly button, and a pulse in her teeth. But Martin just laughed and laughed, saying he didn't understand. "That's not it. She's there, looking at me with that pair of eyes." "That's right, that's love." But he didn't know at the time. Later, under the pressure of the Ross, he admitted that something had happened. They had done everything.

He started to cry, "Yes, I do love her. Oh, God! Oh, Silveia!" Who on earth is Silveia? Martin stopped his painting, took a picture of the house, looked at it, hesitated for a moment, and then threw it to Ross.

Ross took a picture, looked at it again, and looked at it again, and began to laugh uncontrollably, and finally started to cough. "Stop laughing," Martin said shyly. And Ross was still holding the picture, saying directly: "This is Sylvia." Martin nodded. Ross asked again, "This is the Sylvia you're fighting with. You have a relationship with her." Martin nodded. "How long?" "Six months."

"Oh my god," Ross said in shock. "You have to tell Stevie. This is a sheep. You're having an affair with a sheep. You're making a sheep." Just like many other comedies by Edward Arby, he still explores the cold-blooded relationship between the sheep and who is Sierra Leone. In this play, we observe this cold-bloodedness through Martin.

When his friend Ross heard about this news, he didn't listen to Martin and let it go, but wrote a letter to Slytherin and told everyone what happened. Because of this, Martin, Slytherin, and Billy, who were once a happy family, began to collapse.

When Ross first appeared in front of Martin after the storm, his reaction was extremely intense. Not only did he let the other person roll out, but he also scolded him for being a Jew. Martin was so angry because he believed that he could immediately end this trouble after his release.

Actually, before he told Ross, he had really confessed to Stevie. He was about to take the interview, and was chatting with Stevie. Stevie found that Martin was in a bad mood, and asked him, "Did something happen?" The two started to talk in the form of a performance. Martin answered politically, "Yes, I'm in love." "Oh, you're so poor, honey." "His name is Silveira." "Silveira? Who is Silveira?" "He is a sheep. Silveira is a sheep."

Yes, I've fallen in love. I knew it.

- Hopelessly. - I knew it. - I fought against it. - Oh, you poor darling. - I fought hard. - I suppose you'd better tell me. - I can't. I can't. - Tell me. Tell me. - Her name is Sylvia. - Sylvia? Who is Sylvia? She is a goat. Sylvia is a goat. She's a goat. You... You are too much. I am? You try to tell them, you try to be honest with them, and what do they do? They laugh at you.

You're too much. Well, I suppose I am. But I think that Arby didn't make Martin into a divine observer again. The coldness in other characters in the play is also reflected in him.

For example, at the beginning of the play, when he was thinking about how to get back to his upcoming friend, he couldn't help but think of his son's name. Sidiwei repeatedly reminds him that it's "Tode". But he's always talking about "Old Tode", and he can only let his wife correct him. But when the conversation really started, he still said it wrong. He called his son "Little Tode" and called him "Old Tode". Ross couldn't figure it out. Look, such a person who feels very wronged when communicating with others will also ignore things around him for his own reasons.

Since people are so cold to each other, the true heart is naturally not moved by others. As for this statement of the host, the example used by Arby is the spiritual-harmful escort team that Martin participated in. There are a total of 10 of them. Most of them have problems and have a long personal history.

The leader had recovered, but had an affair with a pig. He was a farmer, and he did this with his brothers when they were young. Naturally, this became a habit, and he became comfortable and familiar. A woman was once with German shepherd dog. She was raped by her father and brother when she was 12, and it lasted for a long time. After that, she became like this.

As for the man with the goose, he is ugly as hell. Martin said he couldn't look at him, maybe because he felt like he would never find anyone. But even in RB, I just want to say that it's too weird. Everything he wanted to express, in the love that he finally kept mentioning, seemed too hypocritical. Throughout the whole play, the character's psychology and emotions were put on the side. Male characters have become a container of desire.

For example, when Ross was holding Martin to remember his college life, Martin had already started dating Steve, and one night he suddenly wanted to have a relationship with Steve. So the two of them fell in love. Although in the end Martin could not have a relationship, when he was facing Steve, Martin took his so-called loyalty as a bargaining chip.

He wrote, "All the men I know have a love affair, dating other women, and having sex. I feel like I'm an unethical person. You say you only love your wife. What kind of man are you?" And this desire for the highest level occurred in the confrontation between Martin and Erzsibir.

When the two of them are done arguing, Billy comes to his father, first warning him not to hurt his mother, then he starts to get angry, and then he cries for a while, complaining about how happy and happy their family was.

At the upcoming school meeting, he had prepared a speech. There was normal life, harmonious parents, and a beautiful house. As usual, it may never change. But when he got home today, he found his parents' good friends wrote him a letter saying that their good father had been going to the birth control center to make a living.

But he still loves his father. He couldn't help but tell Martin that he loves him. He opened his hands and hugged Martin, who was in a daze. He started to kiss his father's hand while crying. Finally, he turned his lips. That was a deep, smug, sexy kiss. Billy was so attracted to his father. Until Ross came in, Martin pushed him away.

I have to say that RRB really used the setting of "single-minded son" to its maximum. But this climax is not over yet. Seeing the tense Ross expressed further disgust to Martin, but the latter just said that it was no big deal, and told a story. One day, a friend of his hugged his child on the knee, the child made a brotherly laugh, and he was also playing with the child. Suddenly found himself in a fight, no excitement, not a sexual desire, but just appeared.

The friend's organ is holding the baby in his arms, his child, and he realizes that the body is changing, and he almost fainted. But he suddenly realized that this was only natural, without any meaning. After that, his wife came and he smiled and handed the baby over. And that's how it went. And when he heard the proportion of this story, he was shy, scared, and looking forward to it, and he asked Martin again and again, "Is that me, dad? Is that baby me?" Martin gently told a lie, "Of course not."

So we can see that when Martin and Ross fought, Billy laughed at himself and regretfully said, No, of course not me.

Because of this subtle characterization, desire has become a more seductive existence among these people. As for Steve, compared to these male characters, he has become a more objective and superficial existence. I can even say that there is a little bit of a disgust in the process of Steve and Martin's confrontation in order to purge the anger of the audience. Albee has used the expression "pig as low as a monkey" on animals more than once. Even Steve's way of inventing is to smash a piece of furniture into pieces by machine.

There is another female character, Sylveia, who has never appeared before. She is a mountain goat. The image of a mountain goat is often considered a devil in the West. Especially she is a mother goat, which is more interesting. In the past, many crew members would meet their sexual needs by forcefully interacting with the mother goat when they sailed out of the sea. And then they would call it the devil's return. I think this image was also established in this play.

Although she never showed up, compared to the faithful Martin in her previous marriage, Sylvia seems to be the one who should be condemned. And that's why there's such a cruel ending. Waiting for us is another self-murder between women.