If you've been losing your whole life, what was it that supported you in the end?
When a girl knelt in the vast snow, not only her home but also her only relatives in the world disappeared in the falling snow, what did she have doubts, sadness, fear, or confusion in her heart?
When she has her family again, but keeps losing them, will her heart stop suffering because of numbness?
What is family, and what does home mean to people? What about friends and lovers?
If you lose all this, what is left of your life?
"Ring Story" is a science fiction drama, it is better to say it is a literary drama about "love". It tells 8 stories that happened in Mercer Township, most of which were caused by an exotic stone - the etched stone.
But the story does not explain the scientific logic in detail. It only uses this as the background, but it tells stories about "love and companionship".
The heroine Loretta's mother disappeared with their home in a very "sci-fi" way due to an experimental accident, leaving only her seven or eight-year-old daughter - our heroine Loretta.
Loretta was transported to another dimension after touching the etched stone her mother brought from the laboratory.
There, she tried to find her mother, but in the wood cabin in the snowy night, she met another her - the future her.
Through adult Loretta's line "You'll have a home, and a new family, I promise."
It is not difficult to see that she knew very well that when she was a child, after losing her mother, her heart was full of fear of loneliness.
So I used my new family to comfort my younger self.
But who knows, her own misfortune is far from over.
As an adult, she once commented on her disappearing mother in front of her childhood self-"I don't think she wants to be a mother".
But he was instantly defeated by the young Loretta's sentence "Cole said so about you".
The story shows the adult Loretta's impatience with the second son Cole and the neglect of the eldest son Jacob.
It's like a sad cycle that started with her mother, pulled by a force somewhere, and took her back on her mother's path, leading to tragedies that followed.
Because of the disappearance of her mother, Loretta also threw herself into the scientific research of stone erosion, but because of this, she ignored the family around her.
Her husband has been troubled by his childhood experiences for many years. The second son seems to be a little withdrawn. The eldest son has good grades but is introverted and has low self-esteem. He is going through a somewhat unpleasant adolescence, and he does not want to engage in the career that his parents planned for him.
But she didn't notice all this.
What's even more tragic is that, after being reminded by Loretta when she was young, although she woke up for a while, the truth was that she didn't seem to have changed much after that.
So after her eldest son Jacob swapped bodies with classmate Danny for a "sci-fi" reason, as a mother, she didn't notice.
After Danny begins to enjoy Jacob's rich and promising life, he refuses to change his body back.
However, because of his low self-esteem and introversion since childhood, Jacob did not even ask for help from his relatives who got along day and night, and acted recklessly, which eventually led to the tragedy.
When his soul was trapped in a worn-out robot, standing in the snow through the familiar window, and seeing the impostor against his body and enjoying everything he once had, he didn't know what he hated more in his heart. More, or more regret.
As a viewer, when I see a plot like this, I always expect everything to return to its original position, and I always believe so.
It's a story after all, and stories mostly have happy endings, don't they?
But this story tells the life of a girl.
And how can one's life always be complete?
Someone once said that in fact, if a person's life is made into a movie, every movie will have a tragic ending.
Because everyone's ending will be ended by death.
But the tragic color of life, but not only from their own death.
Jacob eventually died, in the battered robot body.
He never went back—to his warm home, to his imperfect family who still loved him.
When his body fell to pieces, his joints creaked, and turned helplessly to the ground, he could no longer support his broken body with mechanical claws, and could only stare blankly with his big disc-sized eye. with blue sky.
And his life that had just begun and was supposed to be full of all kinds of beauty and unknowns has come to an abrupt end.
But at the time, his brother Cole had just found him and was about to take him to their seemingly omnipotent mother.
They both believed that their mother could solve this problem - because she was so strong, because she was their mother.
Until then, hope has just come, and everything looks like it's going to be all right again.
But Loretta was a step slower.
And this step made her lose not only Jacob, but Cole also lost her way in a "sci-fi" way on the way home.
And just like that, she lost her two sons.
All this seems to have been caused by an accident, brought about by the mysterious carved stone hidden in the Loop.
But is everything really like this?
Jacob and Danny are two people with very different personalities, with completely different grades and hobbies.
If Loretta had paid attention to Jacob's grades, perhaps she would have spotted some of these problems earlier.
Danny is not a particularly bad person, and may say everything in her questioning.
Then Jacob and Cole's omnipotent mother may really be able to put everything back in place, and Cole won't get lost in time.
Or, if she can find Jacob's problem in Cole and ask her for help, she can get the first message and give a response.
Then Cole will not enter the forest alone, and maybe everything after that will not happen.
But on closer inspection, such a tragedy seems to be inevitable——
Because she is Loretta, because she also "doesn't seem to want to be a mother".
At the end of the story, the screenwriter seemed to feel that it was a bit cruel to attack Loretta, and finally gave her some comfort——
Cole, who disappeared for decades, finally crossed the river of time to the other side and returned to her side.
Everything doesn't seem so bad, just like life, there are always new hopes - and those hopes for happiness come from our family, or the people we love.
In fact, these stories are like a warning, they do not clearly warn people to cherish the family around them.
But they tell people stories of "loss" one after another to make people realize - such as the harm caused by the unspoken words in the quarrel between lovers, the inevitable death of relatives, and the tragedies that may be caused by the neglect of family members .
And some small desserts about "obtaining" interspersed in it are even more gratifying.
For example, a paranoid father let go of his obsession, in exchange for the understanding of his family.
For example, black youth let go of their fantasies about their dream lover and get a less-than-perfect but real encounter.
For another example, a man who has experienced the shadow of childhood can finally face it as an adult, only to find that it is not terrible, and has been with him for a long time, and has long become an inseparable part of himself.
Another example is the youngest child in the whole story - Cole - he will accompany his elderly family, he will bluntly express his thoughts about his brother, and he will use the camera to "leave" his favorite relatives.
So if some losses are really unavoidable, can we use other ways to prevent our lives from being plundered by fate again and again until we have nothing?
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