彩排第一季

Ep1结局，伴随着最不可思议和最具欺骗性的正反打镜头，缓缓响起一首老歌，爵士味，温柔、抒情，却又带着点奇幻色彩和感伤味道——多方查找，原来是来自老电影《查理与巧克力工厂》（不是德普演的新版）原声的Pure Imagination。

这首歌用的太恰如其分，不仅是因为歌词、气质与剧集的投契。看过Nathan for You的人，可能都难以忘记其中一个真人嘉宾对Nathan的评价或曰贬低：“lonely wizard”。孤独男巫——法力无边、想象力无穷，却被自己的孤独困住。他如真实世界里Willy Wonka，不开巧克力工厂却办起真人秀，有奢侈的经费，为嘉宾（也为自己）营造细致入微的幻梦，可再怎么细致，也不过是以现实为prototype，建筑在水晶罩子里的simulation。无法完全重建现实的复杂幽微，但在亦真亦幻间，已能掀起情感的阵阵涟漪。

我们或许不曾遇上Nathan，但我们都曾有那样的经历——在脑中一遍遍构想可能发生的所有情形，一次次为情势的不同走向打好腹稿，为的是不在所爱或者所畏惧的人面前张口结舌、期期艾艾，也是为了让自己在充满未知与不确定性的世界稍感慰藉。这是所有人都能共情的，而Nathan则将这种颅内推演极端成了大型的彩排。

Nathan（作为角色而非真实世界）是有精神洁癖的，唯有在有剧本的彩排中，事情的发展能够被简化为整齐有序的树状图，而不是纷繁杂乱的现实景象；即便如此，但凡彩排有现实中人的参与（演员、嘉宾，任何有人的情感的真人），便迅速滑向不可控的轨道。

这部剧的启示或许很简单——不确定性是不可能被消除的，人们只能采取行动，然后在痛苦的犹疑与幸福的期待间，等待不可抗拒命运的到来。这似乎已经带着宿命论色彩。无论如何，剧集过程的精彩，都已让结论的导出不再是那么重要。

Hold your breath

Make a wish

Count to three

Come with me

And you'll be

In a world of pure imagination

Take a look and you'll see

Into your imagination

We'll begin with a spin

Travelling in the world of my creation

What we'll see will defy explanation

If you want to view paradise

Simply look around and view it

Anything you want to, do it

Wanna change the world?

There's nothing to it

There is no life i know

To compare with pure imagination

Living there you'll be free

If you truly wish to be

If you want to view paradise

Simply look around and view

Anything you want to do it

Wanna change the world

There's nothing to it

There is no life i know

To compare with pure imagination

Living there you'll be free

If you truly wish to be

I don’t get what boundary of comedy Nathan Fielder pushed in the Rehearsal, I didn’t get it from the very beginning, for me it is a show of a guy who likes to manipulate people, and in the end no one except that poor kid (if they were not performing) in the last episode actually took everything seriously and was therefore intentionally hurt. For me watching this show was observing the process of a huge production crew loaded with money from HBO, working day and night creating fake scenes, that, I, as audience, feel extremely impatient and annoyed for all the participants, including the religious woman who was deliberately depicted as a retard, the guy she dated and took to the set who left obviously because none of the shit he saw made any sense, the parents, the actors, basically everyone: so why are those people still playing the ridiculous game? Nathan Fielder himself, as well, explained: because they’re going to be on HBO. Apparently everyone knew what was going on, no one was a 6-year-old. Nathan fielder himself deliberately let the camera point to a kid actor (adult) smoking in the yard; he re-enacted an actor’s role in a situation where the actor was forcibly asked to give Nathan the key of his house; … SO, what exactly is this cheap, dirty reflection game on the power and exploitation of television? What is funny here? No one cared less about those people’s inner thoughts than Nathan Fielder himself, he knew exactly what happened and yet he kept performing to be sad, surprised, lost… I really feel so awkward, not in a funny way

最近一直在看些和吸引力法则相关的东西。吸引力法则的宗旨是 “要想得到 必须先成为”。 今天在看第四集。神了 Nathan把这吸引力法则的宗旨诠释的出神入化。加上他自己在加精神层面的解释 让这部剧的高度凌驾于任何喜剧之上。

这是一部深刻的剧 一部寂寞的剧。一场能翻转人生剧情的彩排。

真是伟大的创意！

这是一部真人秀。节目的设定是帮申请者对自己真实人生中需要面对的一个重大事件进行彩排，以帮助他应对。节目的第一集是图四的高中教师想向自己非常在意的朋友坦白自己对学历的撒谎，他不想失去这个朋友，但又非常害怕对方在知道真相后可能会反应激烈且言语羞辱他。事情的走向是在精心的准备和反复的彩排后获得了完美的结局，朋友坦然地接受了他的道歉还安慰了他。但华点出现在了最后一分钟，图三的导演向申请者坦白为了帮助他顺利进行，提前向他透露了当晚智力抢答题目的答案。本来如释重负且欣喜不已的申请者，因为非常在意这个抢答游戏，当下对导演恶语相向，认为他是个可耻的骗子，毁掉了完美的一切。他所担心的朋友对于欺骗的反应，他自己做了。如果这一切都是真实的呈现，那么我想说，一个人对于他人的恐惧，其实是潜意识里对自己的认知的投射。

Emotions are a funny thing. They are not easy to engineer. After all, there are only so much you can do to deceive yourself. And even when you think of everything, there will always be things you forget.

Maybe when everything around you is so temporary, you start longing for something more permanent.

But no matter how deep I went, there were still parts of Thomas that were a mystery to me. But maybe that's as close as you can get. And that last step in understanding someone, it's always just a guess.

I often feel envious of others, the way they can emerse themselves into the world with so little effort, the way they can just believe.

They say reality is what you make of it, so in a world that's cruel and hurtful, who's to say mine can't be nice?

It's easy to assume that others think the worst of you, but when you assume what others think, maybe all you are doing is turning them into a character that only exists in your mind. The nice thing is sometimes all it takes is a chang in perspective to make the world feel brand new.

He's like the wizard of loneliness. You know? He's like his own self.

Nathan用人类学式的观察和纽约提喻法式的演绎，适时地提供了一个新的视角：为何不跳脱出自身的人物局限，尝试从一个旁观者的角度来观察“实验”中的自己？

The Final Scene of Nathan Fielder’s ‘Rehearsal’ Premiere (vulture.com)

结尾的委托人

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并不是kor，而是演员kor。

详情见采访。

so又是一个rehearsal，真实kor的反应，或是nathen是否真的坦白，观众就不会知道啦。