In April 2020, a newly launched sci-fi American drama attracted the attention of the public, adapted from the Swedish artist Simon Stallenhager's picture book novel of the same name "Tales From The Loop" (Tales From The Loop).
The paintings explore the lives of a group of people living on "The Loop," a machine designed to explore and unravel the mysteries of the universe, making possible what was previously only possible in science fiction. In this sparse and ordinary town, it tells the fantastic and mysterious stories of people under the influence of "ring".
The play has a total of eight episodes, each episode can be regarded as an independent science fiction story, and the characters in each story will continue to live in the next story, creating subtle connections.
Accompanied by a low and gloomy music, the story begins slowly. The little girl Loretta's mother is a scientist working in the "Ring Project". Her mother's focus has been on scientific research, and she has no intention of taking care of her daughter.
One day, the independent little girl, Loretta, came home from school and overheard a man arguing with her mother, who persuaded her mother to return the stolen items and not put her daughter in danger.
How will things develop after that?
Loretta came home to find her mother disappeared with her home, and there was only a black stone in the snow as far as she could see. So Loretta took it on a journey to find her mother. She met a little boy named Cole, and followed him to seek help from the little boy's mother who was also working underground, but accidentally turned over in his mother's bedroom drawer and found an answer sheet for the maths exam that looked exactly like hers.
Loretta briefly encounters her grown-up self, still reeling from her mother's unannounced farewell. As an adult, she replied hesitantly, "I don't think she wants to be a mother." And Cole, who was often overlooked growing up, said the same thing earlier.
Loretta returned to her old home through the "ring", and as an adult, she hugged her son Cole and told him that she would always be with him.
The parent-child story has come to a successful conclusion. Is the drama over? And eggs.
Cole's brother Jakob is inseparable from his good friend Danny. One day they were walking in the forest, sharing cigars and discussing invisibility when they stumbled upon a hollow sphere. Jakob got inside, each woke up to find that they had swapped souls, and after a second test found that the souls were still intact and reversible.
They originally decided to spend a day in each other's bodies, go back to their respective homes, and find their own mothers. Later, after tasting the sweetness of each other, they decided to suspend the exchange of their respective souls. When Jakob, who has Danny's body, sees Danny making out with the girl he likes, he asks to exchange it with Danny. But Danny refuses Jakob's request, because he needs this good-looking body to replace his scumbag for the "ring" job he desires.
Jakob burrows into the orb of the grove alone in grief, and unexpectedly falls into a coma (during the few days he was missing, Danny was frightened and went to the grove again, where he found Jakob). Danny's parents are deeply concerned and grieved that their child is unconscious and bedridden.
Did Danny ever think about the prodigal son? The answer is yes. He set off again for the grove.
Can be disassembled by workers.
He can't go back to his body.
At night he saw the shadows under the trees outside the dark window of Jakob's room,
Quickly take a flashlight and go out to check,
I didn't expect it to be a robot.
Seeing this, everyone should understand it. Jakob drilled into the body alone, but switched bodies with a nearby robot, and the robot was lying on the hospital bed. Swap is reversible but only if both parties have the will. I think you must hate Danny and feel sorry for Jakob at the same time.
Danny confided to "younger brother" that he wasn't the real Jakob in Cole's sincere wish for his brother to come home, and ripped off a drawing of a robot for him to go to his brother. Cole found the gentle brother who loved his younger brother and taught him to draw in the forest.
When his brother asked if his brother hated Danny, he shook his head. It seems to me that Jakob has somehow become the invisible man he fantasizes about so that he doesn't have to listen to what people are really thinking, and in the end it's a relief that his soul is a scrapped robot, it's real In a sense, ignore what the world thinks.
Jakob, who has a robot body, was led by his younger brother to the city to seek help from his mother. He fought with another robot that rushed out halfway, defeated the enemy, and at the same time fell down.
After Cole settled his brother, he walked back and crossed a thawed river. He passed Danny's house. The first floor cleaners changed in a short time, Danny was not on the second floor (with yellow curtains installed), and saw old mother.
Cole crossed the flowing river and the dimension of time. When I came back, I was told that both my father and my grandmother had passed away, and only my mother was still holding on to the promise to the child, trying to live, waiting for the child to come back, not to let the child be alone, and to always be with him.
Dad never got a chance to tell Cole his story of losing his arm in person, and grandma couldn't take another look at her grandson before dying and leave. When the two close relatives left, Cole lamented injustice, not death, the reason for which was that he had a deep understanding of death - the death of his grandfather.
Although Grandpa didn't leave the country much, he was a boss who created a "ring" in an underground building, the purpose of which was to unlock and explore the mysteries of the universe.
Grandpa took Cole to a place when he was alive, where there was an abandoned hollow spherical object with holes all around (not the same sphere that my brother saw).
Cole was asked to yell at it:
hello?
6 hellos from different age groups were returned.
Grandpa told him the object could tell him how long he lived.
But Cole asked Grandpa to try it too,
Didn't get any response.
Birth, old age, sickness and death are human nature.
This is the message grandpa wants to convey to his grandson. I hope that Cole will not get caught up in grandpa's death and waste the good time of his life.
Looking at it this way, it seems that Grandpa doesn't care much about Dad. Is there an insurmountable gap between their father and son?
It starts with George, a teenage dad.
George takes a boat to a monster island with two friends.
The two friends left him alone to survive on the island.
His arm was bitten by a snake, the wound rotted, and when he was chased by a monster, he was able to escape by hitting the monster's arm with an electric rod.
The injured friend who came back saw him collapsed in the sea and sent him back to the hospital.
George lost his left arm, his father made him a robotic arm, and he was able to live like a normal person and start a family.
But at that time, instead of comforting Dad, my grandfather told him not to tell others what he saw on the island.
As a son who has always been nightmareed by the experience at that time, after asking his mother about the lonely island in his adulthood, he decided to go again to learn about the matter and solve the nightmare that has plagued him for so many years.
Grandpa created a living him-monster in a sense. He was afraid that the world would hurt this very different him, so he put him on a boat and floated to an isolated island. This is the first technological product created by Grandpa, and Grandpa is reluctant to kill him. And Grandpa believes that there will be a second more mature robot human being born.
In fact, this drama does not directly attack the concept of "circular loop", but illustrates the role of technology through all the incredible things that happen to the people in the small town in the circular work and life.
It is a sci-fi film that uses the current vivid examples of future technology to show.
In the atmosphere of Ring Story, the past and future that technology brings to us, generation after generation, has not always been bright, warm, cool, and desirable. Sometimes it's also dark, "bloody" and lifeless. It constantly wanders between the two ends, like a double-edged sword, specious, and cannot be absolutely defined from beginning to end.
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