Feminism has been an important theme in film and television in recent years, and My Genius Girlfriend, adapted from Italian writer Elena Ferrante's "Naples Quartet", is one of the most popular works.

Recently, the first photos of the fourth season of My Talented Girlfriend were released, and the creator list was revealed: Laura Bispuri, director and writer of the Virgin Oath and My Daughter, will serve as the director of the season; Italian actress Alba Rohrwacher, who was in charge of narration in the first three seasons (" Miracle, "" Happy Lazaro," "Perfect Stranger," etc.), takes over as middle-aged "Lenu," and Irene Maiorino plays middle-aged "Lila."

Speaking of Elena Ferrante, many of her works such as "Annoying Love" and "Dark Daughter" have been adapted into movies and TV series.

Maggie Gyllenhael will make her directorial debut in 2021's Dark Daughter, starring Oscar-winning actress Olivia Colman and Dakota Johnson.

All of these works focus on mother-daughter relationships, and Ferrante continues to shed light on mother-daughter topics that make her feel intimate, painful, and difficult to understand.

The Neapolitan Tetralogy, on the other hand, deals with the rarely touched topic of female friendship in literary history.

Unlike friendship between men, which has been shown in previous novels, movies and dramas, it is usually described as a heroic, sturdy, simple emotion.

Female friendships are more nuanced, mixed with "good and bad feelings" and constantly changing.

Therefore, after the broadcast of "My genius Girlfriend", there are even platforms to play "plastic sisterhood" gimmick, in fact, neither read the plot, nor understand female friendship.

Ferrante said in an interview about the relationship between Lila and Lenu: "Competition and mutual affection, inseparable emotions, although mixed with jealousy, jealousy and other negative feelings, but overall is a strong emotion. It would be difficult to sort out the relationship between women, but that's right."

But if you've seen "My Genius Girlfriend," you know that the show explores more intense and disturbingly realistic female topics than female friendships and mother-daughter relationships.

From the debut of Lenu and Lila, the impression is left: good kids and bad kids.

Lenu is quiet and well-liked by teachers and other students.

Lila is mischievous and rebellious, daring to openly disrupt the classroom, but talented enough to beat the best boys in math competitions.

In Lenu's eyes, Lila is her "genius girlfriend" and the chaos maker who dominates their friendship.

Soon after they become friends, Lila throws Lenu's doll into the basement and convinces her to get it back from the bully Karachi, using the "compensation" money to buy Little Women.

Lila encourages Lenu to skip class to see the sea, and instills in her the idea of studying, writing a book, and becoming rich.

But just like in their childhood, when they really fled Naples for the sea, it was Lila who first feared and suggested returning home, while Lenu wanted to move on; After adulthood, Lenu really persevered and became a writer.

However, whenever Lenu thinks that Lila is "smarter" and "one step faster" and wants to give up, it is always Lila who makes her return to the right track in various ways, so that she can go to high school, university and enjoy a good life.

They are each other's "genius girlfriends".There is a lot of footage of Lenu's psychological activities, and she was not satisfied that Lila had married before her and become a rich woman.

But when Lila is betrayed at her wedding and raped by her husband on her honeymoon, only Lenu can understand and empathize with her pain: the plight of women has nothing to do with whether she has money or not, but with her unreleased self, which is always under the weight of male power.

It can be said that Lila is the initiator of Lenu's female consciousness.Many people don't understand the reasons behind these conflicting feelings.

For example, Lenu's husband Pietro, a university professor born in a well-educated family, is keenly aware of Lila's difference, but he is unwilling to acknowledge her intelligence and vanguard, but tries to belittling her in front of his wife.

"I don't understand how your relationship has lasted so long, maybe you have carefully hidden things that could ruin it." I think she hates you. '

He is used to accepting traditional, straightforward male friendships, but he does not want to seriously consider the subtle feelings of affection and dependence, jealousy and competition between women.

On the one hand, this is caused by the different feelings of men and women in emotional cognition.On the other hand, it is because in a male-dominated world, there are not many works that portray female friendships in a positive and positive way.

The bottom reason is that as the vested interests in the patriarchal world, when the favorable situation is broken, they often feel afraid, and then turn to anger, slander, and even violence. Because they don't want to change the status quo.

In the years of relationship with Lila, Lenu has been deeply aware of the difficulties of women.