In the fifth episode of the story, "American Gods" finally no longer holds the pipa half-hidden. Slowly lifted the veil of his own mystery, and put his thoughts and thoughts directly in front of the audience-this also benefited from the patience and patience of the previous episodes. Whether it was the destruction of "Nuyuninini" at the beginning, the large-scale monologues on Wednesday, the face-to-face confrontation represented by the old and new gods, and even Laura's raping and slippery rascals and chasing...all tell us that the "game" is long gone. Start. [Today happens to be the Dragon Boat Festival, I sent it out at the end of the article, and I wrote some essays. 】
Man needs God, God needs man even more
The opening of the play can surprise me every time. This time, in the form of animation, it tells the story of a tribe from Siberia across the land bridge to the North American continent in prehistoric times.
Just relying on human migration, the hardships and hardships can be imagined, but they are not alone, their gods follow all the way, Nuyunini-a totem sewn with a mammoth skull and a fur cloak.
When the tribe was hit by reality, Asura communicated with Nuyunini and prayed for guidance, "At that time, the distance between people and the god of faith was not far away."
Under Nuyunini's instructions, Asura sacrificed herself to the "fire cow" , a symbol of the deities of the North American continent , in exchange for the opportunity for the local native tribes to accept them.
Don’t think that the ancient gods are very cruel— at least in this work, the "gods" are all born out of human hearts. Unlike the new gods born in the peaceful and peaceful era, the old gods are mostly prevalent in the dark and cruel savage period. The bloody violence is only because people believe in this way.
As a result, those stubborn tribes who refused to change were eliminated, and the "betrayers" who abandoned Nuyunini survived.
Gods are great, but humans are greater because they are born in their hearts and they will return to their hearts.
Gods come and go, and soon after, Nuyunini is completely...forgotten . After thousands of years, the former Nuyunini turned into dust and ashes, and the Buddha had never been in this world.
From here, we can also see that the original author Gaiman and the core idea of this play- gods are born from the beliefs of people, people give power to gods, and gods exist because of people.
Chasing vitality, in the name of "love"
Before discussing the core theme, let's take a look at how the reunion of the Moon and his wife full of disharmony ended.
Laura was still very anxious to see the shadow . There were many reasons. For example, she had derailed for nearly two years before she died, and she knew she was sorry for the shadow, and now that the shadow became the only light in her eyes after death, she felt a kind of pilgrimage excitement ...
But the fly on her forehead reminded us: Laura has changed, she is now a zombie; Laura is still the same, she is still the "nihilist" who lacks faith (more appropriate than the "atheist" ).
The two people met again in surprise and embarrassment. When Laura looked back in the bath, the shadow couldn’t help but say: “When I called you for the last time , I felt like I would never see you again. I know you are dying ."
Back in the first episode, when Shadow called Laura, Rocky was already by his side. Maybe he was already involved in this big incident at that moment. It’s not surprising to have this "intuition"...not to mention. The situation of the two of them again conveyed the meaning of "arranged" everywhere .
After coming out of the bath, Laura couldn't help but kissed the shadow, unexpectedly this made her heartbeat briefly restored :
"I tasted it, I felt it, what I felt, and it felt like I was alive ." It is another way of saying from the literal meaning to the actual meaning.
"...But I know I love you, I have to die to realize how deeply I love you, but I really love you ."
Now, Laura is truly "in love" with the shadow "whole and heart". The main reason is that the shadow is unique in her eyes, and she has also absorbed the vitality of the shadow ...
"Are you still my dog?" Hearing this, the shadow began to smile, and then it seemed to think of something in an instant. The smile gradually disappeared from his face, he changed to a serious expression, shook his head, and said " No, I am not."
Obviously, the shadow will not refuse Laura from the bottom of his heart, but now there are other problems and worries preventing him from accepting his dead wife . Maybe it is just "Of course I don't forgive her!" I can't believe Laura anymore...
After that, Shadow and Wednesday were taken away by the police. Sweeney broke in and tried to get back the gold coins, but was hanged by Laura (unlucky elf), and she was asked a lot of things, the most important of which was It's "I got these moths on Wednesday, don't believe him."
At the moment Sweeney only wanted to get back her gold coins, but Laura had a stronger divine power than herself, lacked her strength, and her IQ was inferior. As a result, Sweeney was taken away by the police as a murderer.
Looking back, Laura came out of the morgue, staring at herself in a daze in the mirror, unable to breathe , not sure what she thought, but one thing is certain: she is absolutely unwilling to wait for her body to rot like Sweeney said. Drop, and then let him get back the gold coins.
Therefore, Laura quickly dressed and left—before her body rotted, she wanted to catch up with the shadow as soon as possible, not only for love, but also for the "vitality" she was determined to gain.
Prologue before the formal meeting
Everyone already knows that the two crows in the sky are actually Odin's eyeliners , and this episode directly confirms this.
After Shadow returned to the motel, a crow rushed to find Wednesday to report. Obviously it was not the simple reunion of Shadow and Laura, but Mr. World peeping outside .
Soon afterwards, I came to meet Shadow on Wednesday, and wanted to take him out for a drink in the middle of the night. I didn’t know whether to pretend to be a "smell" in the room, or really didn’t know...
No matter how you look at it, Odin is very afraid of Mr. World's appearance . Then the two of them were taken to the police station.
On the other side, the god of technology was posed by the way he had played before, and I saw the god of media in the "David Bowie" fan : "You have your information transmission and wires, but your motherboard is dead." "It can be seen that the goddess can't appreciate the kid's style .
The goddess of media is here to convey Mr. World’s meaning and ask the tech kid to apologize to Wednesday and Shadow, “ Wednesday was already suffocated and the sparks are smoking, and then you come and use gasoline to extinguish the fire .” Obviously, the god of technology. The act of being strong first intensified the contradictions that were originally eager to move but hidden .
In this regard , the god of technology is a thousand unhappy. He thinks that Wednesday is calling all the old gods to prepare for war. Even if he really apologizes, he will not change the other side's mind.
" Martyrdom is a very common recruitment tool, and now we have to pull the fuse out before the whole thing explodes in front of us ."
The god of the media clearly disagrees with the other party, and she still wants to do her best to quell this already intensified conflict and keep things out of control.
The god of science and technology only thinks that the other party's ideas are too naive, and said that such fantasies "not everyone believes."
"It is not necessary for everyone to believe it, but enough to believe, that is what Mr. Wednesday needs, enough people to believe ."
The new gods are now worshipped and powerful. People like the gods of technology are even arrogant. However, there are still many media goddesses who are still afraid of the old gods that have existed for many years. Mr. Yu "Harmony" World has decided the general direction.
On the other side, the police caught Shadow and Wednesday by relying on an anonymous tip-they received a fax from an unopened fax machine. The clues were accurate enough to include the vehicle identification number. These details evoked the police's bigger picture. Interested, so ask them: your boss provoked (which) some big people? But I don't know that they are just mortals used by gods ...
On Wednesday, I confessed in the next door: "I am recruiting a tired but still important god of death to participate in a war against the new gods. These new gods are very afraid of him, just as they should be so afraid of me. But at the moment they are not so afraid of me ... That Irish dwarf , he opposed this from the beginning, but he is at a disadvantage because he is a fool . Nancy , he is far from his homeland and has an advantage, but he can solve this. matter , under normal circumstances I would dismissive, but I must admit, seen the rope burn on my neck and friends ...... "
When I saw the accurately positioned photos on Wednesday, I immediately expressed my intention to escape: " These photos are the eyes of a certain god observing the world ." As he said, a little spider opened the handcuff key. It can be seen that Mr. Nancy has always been Following Odin's side, this can also explain why Wednesday has such a strong ability to deceive.
Combining the previous remarks, the old god Odin, who is afraid of being forgotten, has been waiting for an opportunity to provoke a war between the old and the new gods. The god of science and technology's attempt to hang the shadow undoubtedly made this unsatisfactory plan a big step forward, but He is still afraid of the new gods, especially the power of the opposing leader "Mr. World".
What is the relationship between man and God?
The climax of this episode is undoubtedly the meeting between the three new gods such as Mr. World and Odin. The shadow is basically responsible for the bewilderment and exclaiming throughout the entire process. The focus is all on the words and deeds of the others. This scene finally made me feel that I insisted This drama is worth it.
On Wednesday and Shadow discovered that they were trapped in the interrogation room, and then the god of the media came out to warm up in the image of Marilyn Monroe...
Then came the appearance of Mr. World's pull wind-about his true identity, I am afraid it is hard to say now. If you follow the original book , then he is the incarnation of some old god (involving the ultimate spoiler); but now he is completely new It makes sense from God's point of view , and it is the upper god among the new gods (human belief in globalization?)... This means that there are 2-4 possibilities for the story of the drama.
" Everything that happened will be recorded, stored, and recalled- "The Book of Life"." Mr. World couldn't control it in front of the shadow, and Xiao Xiao showed off his skills.
He didn't remember that he had brought someone to apologize until he was reminded by the media goddess. Then he forced the tech boy to admit his mistakes and apologize . The boy also persuaded: " Technology is evolving, and we are all evolving. I am honored to be evolving with you. I can help you. I want to help you-influence opinions and behaviors. Belief, beyond ever. "
The goddess also helped her voice: " We want to help you find an audience ."
After all his staff had finished speaking, Mr. World made his position again: I hope everyone will turn their fighting into jade.
" You may be at war, but I don't ." On the one hand, Mr. World said that he always advocated peace, and on the other hand, he put forward the idea of "integration".
However, Odin did not buy it.
Mr. World had to continue to persuade: "Wednesday is an individualist, tenacious individualism, this way is not working now . Brand diversification certainly has its inspiring effect, but in the end, everything will be intertwined with each other, a single product . From a single company, Producing for a single global market..."
It's useless to play lip service, so the new gods are ready to bring some dry goods to Odin- using guided satellites called "Odin" to shoot missiles to North Korea . In this way, 24.9 million people in North Korea will take Odin. Ding's name is instantly remembered in my heart.
It sounds wonderful, Odin can harvest countless lives in this wasteland, and can be awed by the whole world there...
Before the words were finished, the phantom was awakened by Odin's slap. Don't be funny, boys .
"There is an annoying sand in every pearl, and that's me, otherwise you won't be here... Just like pearl shells, you want to wrap me up and use a shiny, embellished necklace material, but In the shell, the hypocritical bead just wants to get rid of the thing that stings it. You mean fusion? What I hear is exile. "
The old man could see clearly and knew what the new gods' plans meant to him.
The media goddess replied with an excuse, saying: "It is not our fault that they (human beings) find other ways to kill time."
This is exactly where Odin sneered at the new gods, "You will only kill people's time, we have something in return, we have given them meaning."
In Odin's view, modern mankind has only irresponsible dependence and blind obedience to the new gods, lacking due respect and trust, and the new gods simply give and ask for more of their "believers", less than the past. Interaction and gifting (of course, some old gods are also following this path now)-the relationship between man and god seems to be torn apart, and it is far less entrenched between the old gods and mankind, which leads directly to the soul.
The talk collapsed.
Mr. World graciously prepares to leave, but the god of technology bluntly said, why not take the opportunity to kill him here?
"This person has lived longer than you can live in the future. His wisdom and knowledge are completely different from what you can have and master. If you have a little bit of a bit. This person deserves our respect."
Respecting the opponent is equivalent to respecting oneself . Regardless of whether Mr. World is an old god or not, these words are worthy of his identity as the leader of the new gods camp. It also reflects that the tech kid should gradually be reduced to an incompetent sub-god in the future, and even be directly assimilated and disappeared. ...
But somehow they are now in the limelight! Therefore, the tech kid who had long been dissatisfied with Mr. World's approach finally broke out with unfathomable foul language.
The goddess of the media preemptively taught the tech kid, and Mr. World knew that it would be useless to say more, leaving only the sentence "I am not your enemy" and then dashing away.
…By the time Odin and Wednesday fled in a hurry, the police station had been blood-washed again, and it looked like the masterpiece of the new gods who had just left.
And this is also the difference between the old and the new gods: the killing of the old gods is often the need to draw strength, and usually people have thoughts in their hearts; the new gods are more because of "I can" .
Here I have to mention the eyes that suddenly appeared on the scene and the tree monsters that came out afterwards . I don't know whether it is a malicious joke left by the new gods (tail-sweeping tool) or other other gods who want to catch fish in troubled waters . If the former is easy to understand, but if it is the latter...
However, it was Sweeney who was caught by the police station after being misplaced .
Through this meeting, many questions from the audience have been resolved, but more questions have been left at the same time.
The biggest pit is whether this battle between the old and the new gods can be fought ? Also, who is Mr. World ? The drama never has to follow the plot of the original novel. We can use it as an important reference, but it does not have to be regarded as a standard. If there is a surprise that everyone can accept, it is best.
Miscellaneous & Postscript
It coincides with the Dragon Boat Festival , and I suddenly feel that the changes in this festival in recent years are similar to the tone of this episode of "American Gods"...
In the past few years, since we did not pay much attention to traditional folklore from the top down, the Dragon Boat Festival seemed to have only become the "Zongzi Festival". In 2004, the next door South Korea suddenly took the Gangneung Dragon Boat Festival to the United Nations to apply for its own culture, "World Intangible Cultural Heritage". "In the end, it succeeded. Back then, this thing broke up in China.
After that, we were stimulated and began to pay more attention to it. In 2008, we even launched a big killer-the Dragon Boat Festival holiday .
In fact, the Dragon Boat Festival itself is just a code name. Qu Yuan is just an ancient man who died more than two thousand years ago but survived in spirit. What truly empowers festivals and heroic spirits is the respect and tradition of generations to come.
"American Gods" In addition to the old and new gods see whether PK, how to fight, the other a major part of the protagonist of the shadow of how to treat this originally but do not believe there is a new world.
To a certain extent, our understanding of traditional festivals such as the Dragon Boat Festival is the same. From the solemnity to the contempt of the later, to now we are trying to pick up this solemnity again ...
To make an inappropriate analogy: The Dragon Boat Festival was born out of ancient folklore, relying on people's beliefs to gradually develop and grow, and now it is also experiencing a declining crisis, so we need to eat rice dumplings, wormwood, dragon boat races, vacations, etc. And so on to deepen the impression and commemorate, re-inject energy into it.
This is not a unilateral "toss", because traditional festivals will also feed back our children and grandchildren of Yanhuang and Huang, the children of China-the sense of national ritual, cohesion and cultural self-confidence. This is an interactive relationship and can be endless. (Therefore, Lantern Festival, Qixi Festival, Double Ninth Festival can all be holiday, for young people, the traditional sense of identity will immediately come up~XD)
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