From the fourth to the ninth episode, the more and more magical and maddening sci-fi fantasy is just watching the TV series version of "Inception" and "Red Pepper" (the high-tech sense is much better than these two movies , At the same time involving artificial intelligence, psychoanalysis, dreams, the conflict between science and morality, etc.) But in these dream-like plots, settings, and even the ultimate crisis, the director and screenwriter are not showing off their skills Lost themselves, they attributed such a big question about how to deal with human minds and major psychological traumas in people’s lives to the simplest and most powerful topic-love (just like "Interstellar") and review the whole after reading it. This drama, there is more and more the illusion of watching love comedy...
He finally turned the technological elements into the beautiful shell of family affection and love. After using visual desserts to raise us up, he poked sharp questions into our hearts in a relaxed way.
This drama is always discussing how we will deal with all kinds of intimacy in life : Dr. James’s strange family relationship with his mother, Owen’s relationship with his family, Anne and her sister... these are all important in our lives. "Normal issue" in response. At the same time, these plots are all related to the childhood trauma of the protagonists: Owen's dead eagle, Annie's childhood memories of her mother's departure, and Dr. James's mother's words to him when his father left when he was a child. "Mad Men" also reflects the less glorious part of our lives. Some of the painful things we experienced when we were young appear like ghosts in the most depressing moments of our lives. Some people choose to escape (Owen moved out of the house to live in an apartment). Some people have been letting these pains hurt themselves (Annie's addiction to drug A), and some are lucky to come out.
Obviously, this drama was filmed for those who can't get out. The audience is like getting a sugar-coated plum and savoring it, slowly feeling the sadness that makes the cheeks aching in the sweet eyes of Sister Stone and the cute laboratory.
"Madman" is the redemption story of Annie and Owen. You may not see the cool superpowers and complicated brain-burning scientific principles, but you can learn to reconcile with the past from this show, and know that you should be right. What are your expectations in the future, and what kind of intimacy is recognized as normal, healthy, and mutually beneficial.
I wish you can meet your "Owen/Anne"
***The following part has spoilers***
Let’s talk about Irving first. What I am concerned about is that in the ninth episode, it was interrogated by the United Nations why it killed the aliens it picked up, which caused the earth to be invaded by aliens. First of all, this scene is very similar to the first episode of Irving’s family dinner. The family chatted at the dinner table when the eagle picked up by Owen ate his brother's pet mouse. The plot of the next few episodes mentioned that his brother killed the eagle later. Then combined with the lines he said to Getty:
It can be seen that Owen has always been sorrowful of the eagle in his childhood. He has always been ashamed that he did not protect the injured eagle. He will feel that his "mistake" is trying to achieve "helping a wounded eagle". "This is "not as good as the reality", instead of blaming my brother. He generally see him as a child crying in front of the microphone at the UN trial disk, I can imagine such a pleasing personality child at the time to see how the eagle's body is self-blame . So he learned to doubt the “things that are not as beautiful as reality” in life, which is reflected in his feeling that his ex-girlfriend was paid by his parents to please him, and also reflected in the fact that in the last episode he was right after living in a nursing home. The two "pessimistic possibilities" described by the doctor. He never felt that he Deserve was "not as good as a reality." So life is a mess.
At the same time, in reality and treatment, he was obsessed with a wish: "We flee, get a new passport identity, and go to a far away place, a brand new place to live a new life." Too Classical, and too real. His heart was really longing for something he had never dared to do. He was born in a wealthy family, which means that his personal space is often squeezed by family honors, and coupled with his cowardice, it is inevitable that he will become a bag in the family. However, he did not dare to compete with his brother for power and space in the family. He only dared to flee and ran to live in the apartment. This was also in line with GRTA's diagnosis of "forever cowardly".
Next, talk about Annie. Annie has been unable to get out of the shadow brought to her by the departure of her relatives-like the character in "Watching the Earth"-when she faces the reality of her mother's departure, she has a sense of responsibility to take care of her sister, which helps her and her sister to get through A bleak childhood. But she couldn't digest the trauma caused by a car accident during a trip . She played the role of sister and mother, which meant that she had lost her sister and daughter at the same time. So she began to blame herself. She feels that she deserves to live in the painful travel memories. She indulges in the pain caused by A pills again and again, which is already self-harm on the spiritual level. But she just wants to see her sister’s face again, after all, she didn’t take a picture when she was traveling.....As long as there are enough A pills, she can live forever on that day, and she will never have to face it. The reality that my sister has passed away.
In the end, she only needs to say the phrase "She is gone." to get out of the shadows and face her sister's departure with the courage to deal with her mother's departure, but this sentence is so difficult for her. , Only she knows. In the end Annie had a lovely conversation with GRTA in the elevator: "When will this feeling disappear?" "It won't disappear, you just need to adjust it." "I have read the minds of 882 people, but I am not yet Know how to adjust!" "No one knows! I want to see my sister!"
In the last episode, Annie finally extended her arms to her father and said that she needed him to get out of that tin can. It was probably "You are not alone in suffering. Since you can't bear it by yourself, it's better to hold each other together." Warm up.” (This is what the last season of "Watching the Earth" has always wanted to express. The third season of Watching the Earth is crazy than this drama called a lunatic ˊ_>ˋ)
The conflict between Dr. James and his mother of "Chicken Soup for the Soul" also accounted for a lot of scenes in the play. Interestingly speaking, I remember that the supercomputer in EVA was also made based on the mother of one of the developers. In this show, we only need to look at GRTA's wayward performance after the death of Dr. Robert to guess what kind of stupid James and his mother would do after his father left in his childhood.
Dr. James accused his mother of verbal violence against James during his childhood (you can think of it if you have seen "Olive Kitridge"), she robbed his bed and kept threatening herself with words such as "hanging" Her son, she showed the pressure and darkness that should belong to the adult to the childhood James, causing James to become frustrated and indulge in sexual satisfaction and even proliferation when he is an adult.
James’ mother is too naive, but she refuses to admit that such an adult is like GRTA, which is extremely threatening when mood swings. It is conceivable that James’s growth should be under great pressure. He can Answer what it's like to live next to a time bomb 233.
Before starting to talk about the love story between the male and female lords, let's first understand what the ULP test they are conducting in the whole show is?
"The ULP cure method is divided into three steps. The tester takes the three drugs A/B/C separately, and uses high-end non-surgical microwave technology and the world's highest-end artificial intelligence GRTA to help: identify, The three-step treatment method of mapping and confrontation will regenerate your mind. Make your life different from now on~"
I sorted out the general scenes in the whole play:
A pills: painful memories. Annie's memory is the death of her sister . Irving’s recollection is the BLIP experience of schizophrenia in his youth (the "father paid Olivia and Owen to grow old together and have seven children" in this recollection was realized in the C pills stage. I counted seven. Kid hahaha)
B pills: Because of GRTA's "tears", Owen and Annie's wires were connected together. At this stage, they first experienced the plot of robbing lemurs in a fur shop to help a dead old woman fulfill his will, and then attending a party of the undead on a full moon night, trying to steal the hidden chapter of Don Quixote, halfway through It also inserted the memory of Annie being forcibly separated and jumping into the laboratory to see herself and her younger sister putting on makeup when they were young.
After stage B, everyone participated in the question-and-answer session conducted by Dr. James. Annie was diagnosed by GRTA as "marks of borderline personality " and "actively defending her mother's behavior". Irving's diagnosis was " paranoia " and "delusional identity construction" ( Is schizophrenia)" "permanently cowardly "
Then C pills: Annie entered the magical medieval world like Quanyou, and the task was to take her sister to Yunhu to heal her illness. Owen is the son of a gangster family. His father especially likes to use electric drills to drill people's brains. He finally revealed that his father married his classmates and lived a life of "seven children". But when the style of painting changed, he turned into an eagle and went to find Annie, and was transferred into the world of "killing aliens" by GRTA. Anne accidentally joined the world as a female CIA agent. It turned out that Owen’s fantasy brother Grimson rescued Anne. In the end, Owen rescued the laboratory. Anne untied her knot and everyone was happy.
Then after watching the ninth episode, a question will be asked: Has the ULP treatment been successful? First of all, it is certain that Annie's symptoms have indeed improved a lot. She came out of the painful memories of the car accident and hugged her father, and began to find her own happiness. Irving, on the other hand, showed justice in court, punished his brother who wanted to get out of the sexual harassment case, and abandoned the heavy thing of "family honor". At the end of the TV series, they drove a pickup truck to Salt Lake City, preparing to "go to a faraway place, a brand-new place to live a new life." So to a certain extent, ULP therapy is helpful to the hero and heroine, and they began to walk out. The depression and fog that entangled me was gone. Although this ending does not have the realistic warning of "True Detective", I understand that it is indeed heartwarming to the audience and has a life guiding significance (the director will help you with a psychological treatment).
Then you can start talking about their love.
In stage A, it can be seen that Owen and Annie are more frustrated in life and relationship: Annie 's sister said that she is too narcissistic to take care of a relationship. Which is true , she didn’t pay attention to the fact that Irving had been helping her in the laboratory. Irving had been actively helping Annie to complete the task when she rescued the lemurs, but Annie was always "unhappy" and was dangerous before the full moon party. I gave her the car to Annie and told her not to take risks, but Annie went anyway. As for Owen , he was too inferior and self-blaming. He felt that his partner's unhappiness was his fault, so he went to read the book "Saving Marriage". In the happy relationship of his youth, he suffered from schizophrenia due to inferiority... However, after getting married, I have been anxious about how to "save the marriage". After having 7 children, he was depressed. By the way, they also participated in the party for their "divorce status". He has not done this, but it has been fully reflected in the plot constructed by GRTA. In response to his anxiety and fear, he began to consider the pessimistic consequences without even talking about love. ULP made him justice and freed him from the shadow of the family, but he was helpless with such anxiety.
In stage B, Annie and Owen became a fantasy couple, including two states before and after divorce. Owen flipped through the "Marriage Rescue Guide" in the car and got the guidance of "Do things according to her heart" (Dr. James's mother's poisonous chicken soup is not shallow...) so he helped his wife to rescue the lemur and fulfill the old man's last wish. But when Annie shared the traumatic experience of her childhood mother's departure in the car, Owen said ruthlessly, "This doesn't fit your role. Your parents are not divorced." How low is the EQ? ? ? What is shown here is how inappropriate the hostess before the ULP treatment is. Owen just loves Annie obsessively (for her at the door of the house), they will not have results... And in the plot of the party After the divorced two worked together in the mansion to obtain the last chapter of the "stupefying" Don Quixote, Annie pointed the gun at Owen and asked him to give Don Quixote to her. But Irving gave a red heart A card: it represents love and also represents Anne’s obsession and madness for A pills... Is the discord between them just Irving’s problem?
Next to stage C, Annie realized in the magical world that she was very happy to see her sister, and even promised GRTA to stay forever (she thought she could stay with her sister forever). She felt that her sister was everything, and GRTA was not sad. Help her out, the whole Yunhu is a scam. (Looking back now, it seems that the scenes set by GRTA are useless...) What about Irving, in another world, fighting against the evil gangster family, while falling in love with his classmates, and finally marrying classmates, but because GRTA broke So the ending is to live in a distressed apartment with his wife and 7 children. Later he realized his love for Annie, he broke out of his brain theater, turned into an eagle to find Annie and escape this increasingly weird experiment.
In the ninth episode, the two of them became the hope of the whole laboratory (the hope of the whole village 233) Owen was told by the female agent Anne that “ it’s not your fault ” (mind catcher hhh) “Aliens wanted to invade us and want to bring humans Selling as kebabs" reduced the self-blame and low self-esteem that had always plagued him. Annie found in the basement that "to stay with her sister forever" was a scam , which was impossible, so she went to GRTA to refuse the previous invitation, and went to see her sister for the last time, saying goodbye. At the same time, Owen's fantasy brother also bid farewell to Owen , because Owen does not need a "fantasy character" to protect him, he has Annie.
Annie saved Owen, and Owen saved Annie. In this redemption of two people, they are like male and female spies in that spy war scene, working together to defeat all the "heart demons" in life , and their love life will be like this in the future . They understand each other for The other party makes due concessions. At the end of the TV series, Annie stopped selfishly thinking about herself, and started to care about Owen's whereabouts. Under the guidance of Annie, Irving overcame his paranoia and cowardice, and embarked on a trip to Salt Lake City together.
It can be said that their minds are "reborn". The whole drama is here, drawing a perfect end, the crazy love of two lunatics is jealous.
I am very happy when I came for the title of science fiction, but was fed a bowl of neon chicken soup by the director. Recently, I started to realize: I lack a true partner, a person who can cooperate and fight against the demons. .
It is fortunate to be able to meet Anne and Owen who are each other. After watching the show, you may still feel sadly that you will not meet your own "Anne/Owen". Please don't be pessimistic, the "mode" will help you meet him/her: D Even if you don't meet it, you can still hug the sand sculpture netizens on the Internet to keep warm.
I think that Dr. James talked about the origin of the universe and the origin of life at the beginning and the end of this play to tell you: Your birth is the result of billions of years, and everything will be in a heat death billions of years later. Disappearing, life is too short. Compared to being trapped in my own painful memories, it is better to change a new way to live well. Treat yourself well is the most correct way of life.
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