Because of my personality, I haven't watched the drama for a long time. The public account I often watch tweeted about the sci-fi drama "Ring Story". When I saw it was my dish, I looked for it without hesitation, and I was not disappointed.
The law of development of things is always simple to complex, single to multiple, and the same is true for science fiction. The first keyword of the subject matter itself is imagination, so most of these film and television works show the imaginary future world through visual spectacles, and most audiences also like to judge the quality of the work based on sensory stimulation. In fact, the connotation of a work is the basis for judging whether it is a classic or not. For example, works such as "2001 A Space Odyssey" and "Blade Runner", which are well-received, are still discussed by sci-fi fans in forums, APPs and public accounts. They are regarded as classics because they show not the vision of exploring space, nor the future trend of science and technology, but the return to self-the development and inner exploration of human beings. In fact, in recent years, the proportion of young sci-fi and connotation-heavy sci-fi works has become larger and larger, and the reputation is good. For example, in 2017, "Arrival", which discusses family affection and choice, and "annihilation" in 2018 on the theory of human insignificance.
This "Ring Story" has greater ambitions, and the human emotions she wants to express are richer and more comprehensive, while science fiction - just a shell that wraps these grand emotional connotations, wants to be like "The Matrix". "It doesn't seem to be easy, so the screenwriter of this film (also the screenwriter of the famous brain-burning drama "Large Group", only watched the first season, and his brain cells died in battle) Nathaniel has done enough to be worth it. Praise, the rational use of sci-fi props in the play continues to promote the development of the plot. As for where these retro and wasteland-style props came from, they were cleverly hidden. Maybe the initiator of all this is the most in this small village. Striking building - that black sphere under the lab, or maybe not, but who cares? Eighty percent of the rationale is enough for the audience to focus 100 percent of their attention on the emotional core that the show is about to explore. Below, I will talk about the plot of each episode and my understanding of the emotions in the play.
Episode 1
Content: The story of a little girl looking for her mother who was obsessed with experiments and mysteriously disappeared. (Oops, I am astonished by the ability of generalization)
Keywords: affection, helplessness
The girl feels that her mother loves experiments more, so she ignores herself. So she was determined not to treat her children like this. But when she met her future son, the boy complained the same. It turns out that everyone can become what they hate.
Episode 2
Content: The story of a little girl's eldest son swapping bodies with his friends when he grows up.
Keywords: friendship, desire, selfishness
When the eldest son became his friend, he felt that he had a handsome appearance, a strong body, and the coveted female relationship. But in the end, the one who didn't want to change his body turned out to be a friend. What did he want to have? Human desire! (I sigh here)
Episode 3
Content: The story of Mei, a woman whom the eldest son has a crush on, using a time-stopping machine to fall in love with a lame man.
Keywords: love, beauty, short-lived
May's love at first sight with the man and their perceived solid relationship is so fragile, the good is short-lived - it sounds negative and pathetic, but what about the other way around? Can we understand it as "it's short but beautiful", so that we can calm down!
Episode 4
Content: The story of the little girl's youngest son and grandfather when she grows up.
tags: death
This is my favorite episode. I cried a few times. When the tenderness is no match for the passage of time, let us face it calmly! Dad asked Grandpa: "How can you talk about this so plainly? (He is about to die) Grandpa can still answer safely, but when he sends his grandson into the dark, he can no longer stop crying. No matter how wise and calm he is, he can't let go. Grandpa can't let go, except for his grandson, and his wife who has been with him for a lifetime. When he loses his mind, he will always look like his grandma when he was young... Crying again...
Episode 5
Content: The story of the father of the eldest son's friend protecting his family.
Keywords: fatherly love, expression, helplessness
When the family may face danger, the father wants to carry it all on his own shoulders. Maybe his method is not clever and the effect is not ideal, but such a father is brave and competent... Although life is always full of hardships and helplessness, as long as someone wants to protect you desperately, that is hope Are you happy?
Episode 6
Content: The story of a laboratory security officer encountering another himself in a parallel world.
Keywords: self, perfection, imagination
Everyone feels that they know themselves, but if you meet another self, do you really know what he will say and do? As long as man is an individual - then there will always be variables. And his admiration for the lover of his dreams is just his own imagination. This imagination adds a filter called "perfection" to the other party, which makes him lose himself in this relationship. In fact, who is not? In the end, he finally understood: what suits him is the best, and at the end of the bar, he met people with similar interests.
Episode 7
Content: The story of the little girl's grown-up husband as a child. (confused around)
Keywords: difference, fear, reconciliation
When he was a child, the nightmare caused by encountering a terrifying robot grew up with him. With a robotic arm, he gradually felt the fear of difference is the real nightmare. When the one-armed man finally reconciled with the same one-armed robot, my heart was filled with deep sadness - fear of difference is the original sin that human beings can never undo!
Episode 8
Content: The story of the little girl's grown-up son who travels through time.
keyword: time
The distance between time and space is always haunted, and in the play, the little boy crosses the river of time, and suddenly things change, leaving a full of vicissitudes and boundless sighs.
It's really human, cruel and full of warmth. These eight stories are independent of each other, but echo each other, foreshadowing and cause and effect, making the whole story form a complete "loop" structure, which is not new but ingenious. Coupled with the cool Nordic tone of the picture, the soothing and complete camera narrative, and the soundtrack dominated by violins and pianos, if you can sink your heart and immerse yourself in it, you will definitely be like me, and you will have an endless aftertaste. Of course, if you've read this far (and listened to my serious nonsense so much), you're going to stick with it and love this show, trust me!
Finally, shout out my slogan: always support science fiction! ! !
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