Ants on hot pan

Lina 2021-12-16 08:01:16

When they were young without computers, internet, iPads and mobile phones, boys’ favorite games apart from playing marbles and taking pictures, I’m afraid they are following the cracks in the corner to find a group of ants on the road, untie their pants, and take a hot pee. , And then watched them struggle and roll in the hot ocean until they disappeared somewhere with this small warm current. Or, catch one of them, put it on the classroom desk, cover this bewildered little thing with a glass (more often the transparent pen case of a ballpoint pen), and spend the entire class time to observe it. Doubts and struggles.

This kind of almost boring game now seems really boring. But for children with great curiosity, unknowingly using God’s perspective to spy on the behavior of the little insect world, you cannot define a clear relationship between cruelty and studious.

"Under the Dome", as a work by Stephen King that has not yet been translated into Chinese, tells such a thrilling science fiction story with allegorical meaning. The small town of Chester Mill was suddenly shrouded in a transparent dome that fell from the sky. After experiencing confusion and fear, the residents isolated by unknown forces gradually fell into chaos and despair in an increasingly tight life.

As a master of horror and horror, Stephen King is best at removing people from habits and then putting them into extreme environments to torture the possibility of human nature. Works similar to "Doomsday Approaching" are in the apocalypse, quietly observing the crowd during the period, watching how human beings under the collapse of the original social civilization produce stories in the collision. Compared with the dramatic conflict in the open world of "Doomsday", "Under the Dome" limits the environment to an extremely limited space from the beginning. The reduction in the number of characters is destined to be a more intense contradiction in such a human and social experiment. Only when the outbreak is presented can it be ended calmly in a short space.

In the original novel, this dome is portrayed as an isolation hood placed by alien youths for entertainment. Just like we observe ants, we are indifferent to the little humans who look down on the scorched headless flies, and finally deliberately after the interest fades. Unintentionally carry out an extinction plan.

Although the chilling ending made readers strongly protest before being adapted into a TV series, so much so that after the filming of the series began, a second creation of the original has been carried out to a large extent, but this science fiction with high hopes The drama still slides into the quagmire of the magic stick game in the plot of insufficient tension and stamina.

The most thrilling scene of the entire TV series is undoubtedly the shock brought by the moment the dome descends. The fragmented ground, the split trees and houses, the crashed airplane and the corpse, and all the peculiar visual moments brought by the dome really make People have deep memories. Unfortunately, the gimmicks and suspense of the entire TV series end here. The cow (?) that has to be cut in half every time the previous situation is reviewed makes people feel sympathy while doubting the level of the screenwriter.

Whether it's the battle for resources or the crisis of the pandemic, these few survival conflicts in the whole show, the actors in this game perfectly interpret what is called scripting and character profiling. Dean Norris, Hank's well-received actor in "Breaking Bad", seems to have suddenly become incapable of acting. The big jim of "Under the Dome" has a picture of "I'm a villain" from beginning to end. "The poker face, and as one of the heroines, Rachel, except for the red hair that is impressive, the other performances are even not as good as the soy sauce in the movie "Shocking Crisis"; while the other heroine and another The famous male protagonist, that is, the pair of fateful mandarin ducks, the inexplicable basement imprisonment not only tells us what is meant by "If you don't die, you won't die", it also showed the two famous performances with exaggerated and sluggish style.
The out-of-control script and unintelligible performance made the sci-fi setting of the whole series that was originally interesting. The conflict of existence that should have been used for torture, and the gains and losses of human nature that should have been sublimated, almost disappeared without a trace in the family romance drama "Under the Dome" in the second half.

I couldn't help but admire the aliens looking down on the small town under the starry sky. If this were me, I might uncontrollably unveil the dome in the fifth and sixth episodes, pinching these non-working actors one by one...

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Under the Dome quotes

  • Joe McAlisterNorrie Calvert-Hill: The pink stars are falling. The pink stars are falling in lines.

  • James 'Big Jim' Rennie: [Opening Narration, Season 3] Four weeks ago, an invisible dome crashed down on Chester's Mill, cutting us off from the rest of the world. The dome has tested our limits, forcing each of us to confront our own personal demons... rage... grief... fear. Now, in order to survive, we must battle our most dangerous adversary... the enemy within.