I'm enjoying these episodes. I'm not sure what the writer and director intended, but the allusion to "Barbie" suggests that she is playing the role of a sophisticated doll, and if he's acting like "Ken," it could show that he's playing an idealized version of a perfect romantic partner, while behind that role there's emptiness and inauthenticity. If you've seen The Matrix, it's a question of choosing between illusion and reality. If Shen Haoming does something that makes him seem like a ridiculous or exaggerated "Ken," it reinforces that he's out of place and that his public romantic gestures feel more theatrical than sincere. Now that he's bought the Vespa… Princess Ann goes from being secluded, controlled, and bound by royal rules to riding a scooter for the first time; she is in control of its direction, literally and figuratively. How will Xu Yan react to that? The scooter scene makes me very anxious, lol.
"Roman Holiday"...before they even mentioned it, when she's waiting for Jiang Liang, it reminded me of Audrey Hepburn; her hairstyle and dress looked amazing on her. The camera zooming out from the posters for "The Kid" with Charles Chaplin got me thinking...is that a clue? Great episode.
Xu Yan is so polite, sensitive and kind, as she gently behaved like a loving wife all I could think about was what jerks her parents are and what a great job her grandmother did raising her. She's making progress, "unpack your own stuff", Lol.
She keeps acting high and mighty whenever she talks to him...
They both act so confident, as if one never hid a child and chose a wife on demand, and the other never hid a family (a terrible one, by the way) or failed to bring the person she loves most to her own wedding. After everything, they really need to come down a few notches.
Quiao Lin... She's not thinking straight.