The final episode was the essence, making up for the sluggishness and dullness of the previous episodes. I was in tears the moment the maids chose to put down the stone. I also felt June's calm as she finally waited to be captured. And the moment Moira hugged Luke tightly. Similar plots have been shown in different movies and TV shows, but for the first time I was struck by the power in front of the camera. I felt human at this moment. I felt the most important thing about being a human being. This thing is not the endless development of the economy, the research and development of high technology, the continuous innovation, and the breakthrough of the limit. but the goodness of human nature. We have come so far and been busy for so long, we must remember to keep the most precious thing in our hearts.
Calm down. This is really a horror movie. The plot is sci-fi, but it's something that happens in our time (Luke was born in 1980, and he's 40 years old? June and Luke are talking about celebrities or Serena Williams). And it's something that can really happen if we're not careful. It does not mean that it is difficult for humans to reproduce, but that a centralized society can happen so naturally and silently as if overnight. It was so fast that no one expected my bank card to be unusable today, and I would be fired by the company tomorrow. Suddenly, what we thought was a peaceful march ended up being massacred. People always think that if you wait a little longer, and bear with it a little longer, everything will be fine, and everything will return to the way it was. But he ended up being caught in the endless dark whirlpool before he could even get a visa to flee abroad. I can't help but imagine if, if people had been more alert and not confronted with reality in an attitude of staying out of the way, would the result be different?
In fact, we all know where the Handmaid's Tale is fiction. Right now, in every corner of the world, how many stories of the same or worse are being played out. Our real world is scarier than horror movies countless times. It's just that we are used to being indifferent and turning a blind eye. We always feel that those unfortunate societies and countries are too far away from us. As for him, it has nothing to do with me anyway, just take care of your own business.
In addition, the absurdity is that the unbelievably absurd people in that absurd totalitarian society, before the war, what is the difference between them and the people we meet in our daily life. I like the interspersed plots before and after the war. A sense of crisis is coming. The absurd and the reality turned out to be so close.
***Add one more point, I don't know if it's just personal viewing experience. In a society where both sex and love are repressed, once the need for sex and love is sprouted, this feeling and desire will be amplified. The more restrained and oppressed, the inner needs will be magnified. It feels like if June met Nick before the war, she wouldn't have the possibility of having such intense sex with him. But in that society that was bound, they were willing to meet again and again at the risk of death. This is also similar to not thinking that a certain food is delicious at ordinary times, but if you are in an environment where food is severely scarce, you suddenly realize how delicious that food is.
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