Two hundred years later, the wine of immortality was made by the undead, but it was lost due to an accident. In order to retrieve it, the undead began to act. And like the ripples formed by falling water droplets, in 1930, on a train to New York, the undead, the mafia, the killer, the daughter, the conductor, all seemingly unrelated people, but at a certain moment, each other The destinies are intertwined...
Narratively speaking, the wine of immortality is unique. Instead of telling the story in a traditional linear fashion, it jumps at different points in time, between events, and tells the whole story from the perspective of multiple characters. In the story, no one is the real protagonist, and no one is the absolute green leaf.
Dallas, a delinquent boy who loves his sister, a stupid thief husband and wife duo who loves life but is crazy, a pure killer who only enjoys killing people but has his own rules, and a cowardly but firm heart, the boss of the emerging bad group Zha Keji... They have their own journey ends and their own lives. They have no absolutely direct connection with the wine of immortality and the undead. The same train... It is such a series of coincidences that their fates are wonderfully intertwined to form a complete story.
Just like the absolute bystander and analyst of the entire Wine of Immortality incident - the vice president, in the opening remarks, behind an intricate story that spans time and space, he points out the essence of it.
"Stories are neither intelligence nor the accumulation of intelligence, but the result of thinking.
By focusing on who is the center, the same event will also have a thousand changes. That is to say, there is only one event, but as many people are involved, there will be as many story.
The story has no beginning and no end. There is just the connection between people and each other, and it spreads. "
At the end of the story, beside the vice president, the rat crushed by the car came back to life, and the story of the wine of immortality seems impossible to have an ending, a foregone conclusion, and the story is still developing.
Even if it's just passing by, it's just Looking on, there is still such a power, unconsciously, involving you in an unknown connection, or maybe you are already in it, and even more in the possibility of becoming the protagonist of something at a certain moment
. Finally, I recommend "BACCANO, the wine of immortality!", an animation work with a montage style, to everyone to experience the BACCANO (meaning "big riot" in Italian) throughout the story.
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