HBO, known as "Little Yellow Terrace" by the people of the rivers and lakes——
Come back with new works.
Previously, with popular IP such as "Game of Thrones", "Western World", and "Watchmen", he established a firm foothold in the fields of fantasy, science fiction, and comic superheroes.
This time, they chose to open up a new position.
Gathering industry gods such as Jordan Peel ("Escape from Death", "We") and J.J. Abrams ("Lost"), bringing us into the dance of demons and the rampage of ghosts-"The Devil" land"
The opening is a grand scene.
Dramatic music sounded...
A black soldier was fighting in the trenches, and fighter planes whizzed past his head.
With a loud noise, the black and white image was blown out of color by an air-dropped missile .
Accompanied by the voice- over "This is an American boy, and a true story of the American dream" .
Sudden change of style!
Laser rays, UFOs, monsters with tentacles, this is a bizarre and bizarre world.
The alien princess descended from the sky, and the monster with its teeth and claws also attacked them.
In a critical moment, it was a baseball bat that killed the monster in one shot .
Everyone must have guessed it.
The monster died, and the American boy's dream woke up .
On the long-distance bus, the owner of the dream returned to this cruel and cold world.
50s of last century, the United States is also implementing kind of apartheid system , people of color living in misery.
Tik is a frontline soldier who has just returned home from the Korean battlefield.
Although he shed his head and blood in order to defend this country that promotes the American dream, he can still only sit in the back row of the colored people quarantine on the bus.
And he came back this time to find his father who had been missing for several weeks.
The relationship between the father and son has not been very good. Tick has never received greetings from his father in the five years since he participated in the war.
The only letter he received made Tick even more confused.
There is no one word for Xu Han to ask Nuan,
The father said only one thing in the letter- he was going to look for clues to the family of Tik's late mother, and hoped that Tik could also go with him.
What is even more bizarre is that the small town of Adham in Massachusetts mentioned by my father in his letter has disappeared from official records for nearly two centuries.
Although they only know a rough range, Tick and Uncle George still resolutely embarked on the journey of "Black Baby Finding Dad".
They were accompanied by Tick’s childhood friend Letty , who happened to be visiting her brother who lived in Massachusetts.
The three of them drove and embarked on a journey that was destined to be dangerous .
And bear the brunt of the social environment that was extremely unfriendly to people of color at that time .
The main creator put a lot of thought into creating this area, not only focusing on creating an atmosphere, but also adding a lot of background information to express vagueness.
When three people drive, they often encounter racist advertisements. The character image of the brand "Aunt Jemima" is derived from slavery.
The trademark holder Quaker Oats Group (a subsidiary of Pepsi Group) finally admitted this year that the trademark may have racial prejudice.
This trademark, which has been in use for more than 130 years, was just retired in June this year.
On the way, the three also passed a group of African Americans waiting in line for the bus.
Queue behind the poster is full of irony; "There is no one like the United States on the road in the world", and declared that the United States has "the highest quality of living in the world" .
In fact, this lens perfectly reproduces a photo published in Life magazine in the last century.
Picture by picture, the authors noted the debate between the civil rights activist James Baldwin and the conservative writer William F. Barkley and added harshness.
The most well-known sentence in the debate was: "The American dream comes at the expense of the black Americans . "
Although this speech took place more than ten years later in the story timeline of the play, Baldwin’s views can still resonate strongly in the play.
Every corner of the three people's journey can experience naked prejudice , no hard-line but so-called political correctness, all descriptions are in the service of the story.
Violent racism was still prevalent in parts of the United States at that time, and the trip of the three people was dependent on the editors of the Safe Negro Travel Guide, which was actually the famous Green Book .
This book indicates places where people of color can safely refuel, eat, and stay.
In turbulent times, such a guide is a precious survival resource for black travelers.
The three followed the instructions of the guide and came to a restaurant where Uncle George had visited.
But when I arrived, I found that the restaurant had changed its name. After I entered, I could clearly feel the hostility of the waiters and customers .
George found that the walls of the restaurant had been repainted white, and he suddenly thought of famous historical stalks.
The British army invaded Washington and burned down the then US Presidential Palace in retaliation for the US military's burning of the York Fortress.
After the war, the United States rebuilt the Presidential Palace. In order to cover up the burnt marks, it was whitewashed inside and out, and it was named the White House.
Therefore, it is self-evident what happened to this restaurant that was friendly to the black community.
The chase with live ammunition came in close pursuit .
Seeing that he was about to be overtaken, a high-end silver car turned out to block the chasers.
The most weird thing is that it has its own position, which can directly make the chaser overturn the car in the air.
A beautiful woman walked down from the car, and countless question marks struck her head and face.
But before he had time to react, one wave was unsettling.
Just out of the wolf den and into the tiger's den, a panic-stricken group of people rushed into a small town that pursued the "City of Sunset" policy.
Such cities stipulated that people of color were not allowed to appear after dark. At that time, the towns that followed this policy were all over the United States, especially in the South and Midwest.
By coincidence, they were caught by a sheriff.
Less than 7 minutes before sunset, the only way for the three to survive was to drive 2.5 kilometers before sunset to Linxian County, where this policy was not implemented.
The despicable sheriff held the steering wheel with a lazy hand, vainly lynching eyes and stared at the prey in front of him.
But the three men, whose lives were hanging by a thread, were at stake, but they dared not speed up .
The handling of this episode shows the skill of the crew.
The tense atmosphere suppressed the audience's breath, and the tension of contradiction made it extremely slow in just a few minutes.
And instead of being relieved of this high pressure as they drove out of the border, they plunged directly into a more desperate abyss.
They were caught in the scheme of the despicable sheriff.
The police in Linxian County are resetting the cards for a gang theft and investigating them.
The three people driving around in the dark happened to hit the muzzle.
Sure enough, he was stunned.
Seeing that the three were about to be executed in the jungle.
The weird thing happened again, and there was a weird noise in the woods.
A giant beast rushed out, and the policeman was in a different place in an instant.
The policy of the "City of Sunset" has never been so uniformly treated.
This monster with eyes full of heads indiscriminately attacks anyone who appears in the woods after dusk.
At this time, the three people crawling on the ground wittily discovered that the monster was afraid of light, and came to an end .
However, the former vested interests were all taken away because of arrogance and ignorance after the exchange of scenes .
This monster named shoggoths comes from the monster system created by Howard Philip Lovecraft (HP Lovecraft).
The monster at the top of the chain is a huge winged monster tentacles - Cthulhu (Cthulhu).
Crusu culture provides a huge amount of attractive material and inspiration for film and television works of fantasy, science fiction, and horror.
"Alien", "Prometheus", "The Shape of Water" and other works are deeply influenced by it.
Howard Philip Lovecraft
Although Lovecraft has made great contributions to the field of terrorism, there is a fact that cannot be ignored.
He is actually an out-and-out racist , and this uncontrollable discrimination and disgust is completely uncovered in works such as "The Curly Hair of Medusa" and "The Terror of Red Hook".
This drama is adapted from the novel "Land of Lovecraft: Escape from the Desperate Village" published in 2016. Although it is also in the same Cthulhu system, it is based on opposing racial discrimination elements in the inherent system.
The lead writer Misha Glenn did not directly deny Lovecraft.
Instead, he chose to transform his works into anti-racism weapons.
Take its essence, remove its dross, and turn its gorgeousness into a voice tool for ethnic minorities.
Although the apartheid bill has long been abandoned, this policy that has been implemented for a century is still exuding aftermath.
The white police who swept the United States at the beginning of the year strangled the Freud incident, and the video of the Chinese American being pushed into the pool in Ireland... the piles and pieces are all clearly sending a clear signal——
To this day, institutional discrimination and physical violence against people of color are still commonplace.
And the creative method of this play that uses supernatural ghosts as metaphors can more deeply convey the more complex structure and the violence that has occurred in the past.
HBO's launch of this show at this time is simply appropriate.
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