Snow Country Train S01E01
The long road to the light
I have to admit that in the beginning, I chased this drama for the goddess Jennifer Connelly. From the first episode alone, if the drama version of "Snow Country Train" has enough highlights, then the goddess must be indispensable. , Her perfect performance, her exquisite presentation of "Melanie" and "Mr. Wilford" is really a highlight. After all, asking Jennifer to play is arguably the most important role in the whole show. It can't just be written as a flat and rigid character, right.
The story of the first episode is not complicated. First, I briefly introduced the background before the departure of the Snow Country Train in the form of animation: Scientists cooled the earth in order to compensate for the overheating of the climate caused by the war, but frozen the earth. There are no living things on the earth, only Mr. Wilford made The Ark train is always moving. In the train, the wealthiest people occupy 1,000 cars, while the ordinary people have only won one car rear...
Six years later, one of the leaders at the rear of the car, Chief Leiden, was asked to detect a murder case. After waves of "persuasion" by Melanie, Chief Leiden always insisted on his position and did not agree. At this time, Parker and the others at the rear slid into the next carriage, and Leiden took over the murder case in order to protect Parker and the others. Finally, we will find that "Melanie" is exactly "Mr. Wilford".
At the end of the first episode, the leaders of the two factions are basically established, that is, the personality traits of the male and female leaders.
The first is Wilford. When Melanie appeared in front of people as the management department, she was a slick little leader. In the morning, she would personally greet the rich one by one in the upper class carriages, and she would immediately arrange to deal with the big and small things they were dissatisfied with. And through her series of ways that Leiden agreed to take over the case, we can see that as a manager, she has a gentle and tough wrist, slapped a sweet date, don't agree? Then slap and give dates.
There is a very lyrical plot in the first "Jujube". After Leiden was washed and disinfected without dignity like a trapped beast, he was taken to the third-class dining room and was pierced by the bright sunlight outside the car window. , And then ate a bowl of hot soup and toast, almost crying... This sweet jujube Leiden refused to accept it, and was beaten by the gatekeeper Osweiller.
Only then did Melanie appear. She played the white-faced role in Leiden and even everyone else. She smiled at Leiden and shook hands with him, but when Leiden saw through her "strategy" , She either ignored it, or said that a person's "status is commensurate with its value" made Leiden speechless.
In fact, between the leaders and the "people", there will be more or less truths concealed by the grassroots executives and lower-level managers——
At the end of the first episode, a dialogue shows the wonderfulness of Wilford's hands-on management attitude. In the engine room, Ben asked Mr. Wilford, why didn’t the chef make smoked salmon rolls with avocado today, but the avocado was gone? Wilford thought for a while and said that there was no sawdust for smoked salmon. Wilford uses two identities to go upstream and downstream, not only can he know all the changes on the train, but also firmly hold the control. I think this is what the creator wants to show by combining these two identities. , In fact, to a certain extent increased the richness of the role played by the goddess Jennifer Connelly.
Let's talk about Leiden again. The only homicide detective on the train has the professional qualities of being sensible, good at observing and mastering the logic of things. As one of the leaders of the rear man, he advocates that the struggle of the rear man should not be rushed and should be considered for a long time. It is precisely because of this view that The "hawk" representative of the man at the rear pinched Pike. In my opinion, David Diggs's performance is quite regular, and sometimes a little deliberate, especially when he is acting against Jennifer Connelly, the performance traces are a bit heavier.
It can be said that the first episode has completed a plan for the story of the whole play by shaping the two characters of Leiden and Melanie: let the people at the rear of the car go from blindly self-confidence to a unified idea, find the exit of hope and seize the engine of the front of the car, forming a relationship with The opposition of the rich. However, this is undoubtedly difficult. The people at the rear of the car only occupy one rear compartment. In terms of combat effectiveness, whether it is weapons or manpower, compared with the rich, it is a long way to go. Let's just wait to start with Leiden's case-solving process, and see how the creator leads the man at the rear of the car to kill the engine at the front of the car.
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