A very cliché beginning, a very stylized shooting, and multiple carefully laid out cross worlds. Just like the accidental drug experiment in the play, the ten whimsical episodes of "Mad Men" were a bit out of control to the end.
We were just two people, looking out for each other, it's stupid.
I had a dream last night. I dreamed that I was about to participate in a big production. When I was excited, I was super nervous. I was afraid that my acting skills would not be messed up. I kept thinking about all kinds of reasons in my subconscious to make myself clear. You can quit production. In the end, this wish did come true: I had a needle eye, and the director had to replace mine.
Unlike other strange dreams, I have a very clear explanation of this dream after waking up. Participating in Hollywood productions is mainly due to the recent "Hollywood Underworld" (5 stars praise); because of Needle Eye failed to participate, the reason behind it is that I have not worked seriously for many days, and I am afraid of being scolded. , So there is an urgent need for an honest reason to explain.
Obviously, last night’s dream was only a distorted and refracted reflection of the teenager’s daily life (stealing pleasure or feeling ashamed of these facts that caused mood swings). In the end, nothing changed when I woke up, and my life didn't get worse or better.
But for some people, the emotional fluctuations they encounter in life are much greater, such as being out of tune with their family members, or experiencing a car accident between life and death. If these can be deconstructed and reconstructed in the dream, the traumatic emotions can finally be obtained. Salvation, how good it would be.
James Mantleray almost made this fantasy a reality.
Of course, James Mantleray is just a fictional character in "Madman", and in the end he has spent his entire life developing a biologic drug for injury that has not succeeded. To be precise, a case was successful.
NETFLIX ’s original drama has a lot of gimmicks. The first season of "True Detective" is directed by Cary Fukunaga , who won the Emmy Award for best director in the drama category , and the actress Emma Stone is the starring actress, and she also won the Oscar actress. S ally Field (A-Gump’s mother in "Forrest Gump", mother in A BC’s popular family drama "Brothers and Sisters") served as a supporting role, as well as a good reputation with HBO's popular drama "Watching the Earth" , J ennifer Aniston’s ex-husband, Justin Theroux , who once won the top of the Hollywood Big Dick list .
The beginning of Maniac is excellent, with director Cary Fukunaga's consistent stylized, sad and supreme solid production tone. The story time is set in the near future. This kind of future is more about personal privacy and information overdraft. Other scientific settings are actually quite embarrassing.
However, Fukunaga succeeded in performing character performances (such as Dr. Yasumi who is similar to robot actions), the choice of movie colors (typical cyberpunk style), the assistance of props (automatic shit shovel), and the processing of other details (James and Atlante). The hypocritical sexual intercourse of the priestess), successfully created a very ironic pseudo-science fiction future world.
Cary Fukunaga extreme degree specialize in creating a sense of style drama desolate atmosphere, before there is "no border of the beast" after "True Detective," "crazy" also has a sense of doom that the former two. This sense of doomsday is not the real end of the world, but the kind of despair and loneliness that haunts the protagonist who cannot save themselves.
In the first episode O wen body comes out of the hopeless sense of loss, the second episode in Ann IE body to create the kind of fatal wounds, two seemingly suffering of the people in suicide edge of self-redemption, as well as The possible future crossing of destiny, has been the fourth episode, and the emotions have been created to the full and extreme, which makes people want to stop.
People can't help but imagine over and over again, in the end of the day, how the two people who were in a desperate way came to life.
Even the online dating between Dr. Muramoto and the main machine GRTA (a veritable online dating) is full of romance and mystery. The poem by William Blake read by Dr. Muramoto also fits the sense of helplessness created by "Mad Men".
William Blake 's works, especially the later works, have a very strong religious and mysterious color.
I dreamt a dream! What can it mean?
And that I was a maiden Queen Guarded by an Angel mild: Witless woe was ne'er beguiled!
And I wept both night and day, And he wiped my tears away; And I wept both day and night, And hid from him my heart's delight.
So he took his wings, and fled; Then the morn blushed rosy red. I dried my tears, and armed my fears With ten-thousand shields and spears.
Soon my Angel came again; I was armed, he came in vain; For the time of youth was fled, And grey hairs were on my head.
The wound-healing drug therapy initiated by Dr. James Mantleray and continued by Dr. Muramoto is full of mystery itself. It seems logically rigorous, but it feels like nonsense.
There are three steps in the drug experiment throughout the show:
Drug A (pain agent): find the core traumatic memory and re-float it on the memory surface
Drug B (Action Agent): Find the blind spot in the psychological defense mechanism
Drug C (confrontation agent): bypass the psychological defense mechanism and re-treat psychological trauma through microsurgery
All the steps are completed in dreams by taking drugs, which provides a major premise for the subsequent crossover of various dreams.
The first episode introduced how he got into the drug testing project from Owen Milgrim 's perspective, and the second episode focused on Annie 's story (approximate background) and her contact with Neberdine . The death of Dr. Muramoto in the third episode led to the intersection of the dreams of the two protagonists.
The dark emotions laid out in the previous episode culminated in a happy 80s retro comedy drama in the cross dream of the fourth episode .
Taking EP04 out separately , it is the first occasional resonance brain wave vibrations (in fact, dream crosses) between Owen and Annie . Before Neberdine officially entered the world, the emotions and trauma of the two were the most complete. Deconstruction, reappearance and interaction with nature.
The dreams created by the two of them clearly and straightforwardly exposed the most feared emotions of the two of them under the eyes of the audience. It seems to be an uncommon fictional past, but when it comes to the whole story and layout, it is easy to be heartbroken.
During the entire virtual process, I always unconsciously imagined, is this the blind spot of Owen 's psychological defense mechanism, or Annie 's? Owen ’s blind spot is that I can’t make you happy . Annie ’s hope is that the truck driver who fell asleep on the highway and caused her car accident has never been born.
The mutual redemption of Annie and Owen is the core of the whole "Mad Men".
However, their distribution of role weights under the entire plot structure, and the real fame difference between Emma Stone and Jonal Hill , reveals a little bit of the contradiction between the director's preference and the production requirements behind the drama.
At first glance, it seems that the role of Annie played by Emma Stone is the absolute protagonist of the whole play, regardless of the propaganda angle or the duration . Annie salvation came earlier than Ow EN to be much more important, redemptive journey of ten episodes, Owe the n- in the eighth episode basically completed a self-redemption, the remaining two episodes it is to save Annie and in reality once again the face of the family .
It has been with respect to gag J Onal Hill, E MMA's appeal and gimmicks much stronger, of course the crew to focus on the latter body.
Although 2 008 Nian was the column "Entertainment Weekly," "optimistic about the initial 30 years of age or less of 30 actor " row row list (this is a fairly weak chicken rankings), but over the years has been nothing to force out of work, Not even as famous as the supporting role Justin Theroux , who relied on the drama "Watching the Earth" to gain popularity.
Compared to the trauma caused by O wen's native family, the setting of An nie's loss of her sister in a car accident looks more like an expression of the screenwriter's laziness (or poor skills). Such an almost straightforward and uninspiring character's inner conflict can't completely match the weird and passing style created by the whole play.
Simply put, Annie 's journey of redemption is how to say goodbye to her dead sister. With the length of ten episodes to interpret such a cliché again and again, it is inevitable that the plot is procrastinated.
The discussion of the relationship between Owen and his native family is much more interesting.
Owen large degree of mental problems from family pressure, highly utilitarian for the whole family Ow EN is a chicken-like existence, he wanted to integrate into the original family, but for family members of such vanity and hypocrisy deeply Feel disgusted. In a family harmony dinner during the test, it was "suffocated" in his eyes, and it also hinted at the tense relationship between him and his native family.
He feels that he is a stranger, and the family of Snake and Rats has joined together to aggravate his mental problem and use it as a useful weapon to control him, making him feel that he is a coward who can't do without this family.
Pleasuring his family became the deepest origin of O wen's entire mental state, supporting his entire broken, torn, and painful life. And the beginning of the collapsed life was when his brother killed the owl he rescued and nurtured in front of him when he was young, which is equivalent to officially announcing the complete destruction of his independent self-spirit.
In O wen extreme mental state of instability, there is always an imaginary intelligence agency told him he needed to save the world, this is not the performance of his mental disorder, but is supporting his resistance finally signal the native families.
In the bottom of Owen's heart, he always wanted to make the people around him happy, which was quite clear at the end of the first cross dream.
The role of Owen is the core of the whole play, not only corresponding to the name of the play Maniac, but also stringing all the characters and clues in the play.
It can be seen that the director tried his best to explore this role and the conflicts and gray areas extended from it, but at the same time, due to the pressure of the producer on the star gimmick, he had to increase Annie 's role, which led to the loss of control in the second half of the rhythm. And procrastination.
After the fifth episode, the quality of the entire episode dropped off a cliff (or did the expectation value rise too high after the previous four episodes?), the rhythm was disordered, anticlimactic, and a lot of previously paved details and background were wasted in vain. For example, Owen's illusion, the relationship with his brother's fiancee Adelaide , and Ad Buddy, who explained quite a lot in the first few episodes, also disappeared...
The relationship between Dr. Mantleray and his mother seemed a bit overwhelming. The statement about connection in the first episode was also diluted by the fragmented dreams.
It's like a variety of irrelevant seemingly profound elements or a logic that is barely wrapped in the same frame. It is not enough to look at it individually, and it feels a bit patchy when placed in the scope of the whole play. The director’s original vision for the play was to create multiple cross-worlds. In fact, Maniac did it, but the overall impression is that these multiple worlds were created. Later, the director and the producer were torn away at random. Use a main line to string together.
Emma is out of place in the whole play, and she can be seen to some extent in the makeup of the character.
In terms of credibility, Jonah is more grounded than Emma .
Sister Stone originally had an excessively red skin, and the makeup artist did not seem (or did not dare?) to destroy it. This weakened the credibility of Annie Landsberg to some extent . After all, Annie is a poor man, with such exquisite makeup, it is impossible to justify.
In contrast, Jonah Hill is much more credible than Stone Sister in overall costume design and makeup.
I don’t know if fat people are particularly easy to perform 24K gold pure Luthor’s feeling, the inadvertent messy hair, cheap suits and the strong contrast of the preppy style of other members of the family , an Owen Milgrim who is incompatible with the family due to mental problems The small screen is so sad that people can't bear the blame.
Even the two supporting roles, Dr. James Mantleray played by Justin and Greta Mantleray played by Sally Field are much more exciting.
When James first came out , I didn't recognize Justin at all. The bald head and wig really had a cosmetic effect.
This doctor who was a bit neurotic, was expelled from the project, and had a strange relationship with his mother, was very convincing by Justin .
And Sally Field plays the successful and somewhat stubborn psychological counselor Greta Mantleray , but he has some spare capacity but not enough to deal with the relationship with his son. In the computer world, the GRTA , which is desperate to destroy everything, is performed . The switch between the crazy and the Greta now comes quite natural and smooth.
Generally speaking, the creativity of the story and the execution of the first half are very successful, but the overall rhythm control and the content of the second half are slightly weak.
In terms of actors, Sister Stone appears to be the only shortcoming in the whole show when everyone has done their homework.
It feels like Sister Stone can't let go of acting, such a strange story setting, so many characters who jump out of routine behavior, such a jumpy drama should be played without it, but it is a pity that she does not.
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