⓵ The story of the castle
Each castle records a piece of history. The Swiss city floating in the universe is the history of the kingdom built by Rick and Morty.
Ruicheng is a city built by genius. Not long ago, it experienced the chaos brought about by C-137 Rick: the battle between the prisoners of Ruicheng and the Federal Prison.
This war caused a devastating blow to Ruicheng. Since then, Ruicheng has been rebuilt from the wounds of countless wars, and it has also contributed to the transformation of the city.
This was originally a patriarchal city-state, but the former ruler was destroyed in the war with the Interstellar Federation. Today's Ruicheng has gradually evolved into a city that belongs to citizens, and a national election system has been established.
The atmosphere of Ruicheng has changed, and business has become prosperous and more dynamic; this is the capitalist Ruicheng, where an orderly division of labor has appeared, and the lives of residents have become busier.
People need to be exhausted from work, so there is "Simple Rick" waffle. ——Its formula comes from the brain secretions of Rick, who is immersed in the family. Cookies added with this secretion can make people experience the taste of innocence and happiness.
Because the war killed Rick in large numbers, a large number of Morty orphans were left behind. On the other side of the city, Mortys without Rick live in a settlement called Morty City, where there is no Rick to make rules, full of ruin and depravity.
Rick, a police officer who just entered the line, followed his predecessor, Constable Morty, to this area, and he saw the decadent side of Ruicheng. The city is being corroded by this decadence, including them as police officers.
This is a devastation in the throes of capitalism, and the internal crisis of the city has become increasingly serious. Not only in Morty City, but also the suppressed workers in the business district, Rick, were also dissatisfied with the shooting and hijacking incidents in the biscuit factory.
The turmoil in Ruicheng made the people eager to change everything, especially the Mortys who lost Rick. For this reason, four children from Morty University met to find the legend in the city and embarked on a journey to find the wishing well.
In the campaign in Ruicheng, a Morty was using his own actions to implement this change, and he became the only presidential candidate to run as Morty.
He conveyed the willingness to improve the equality between Ruicheng and the people, which won the resonance of the voters. This also makes Ruicheng's tradition change overnight, and Ruicheng will usher in a history of Morty as a leader.
However, all this is just a prelude, the opposition between Ruicheng is still deepening, and the city under the election is surging with a dangerous undercurrent.
⓶ Morty Town
The "Rick and Morty" series has always been known for its unparalleled creativity. Since the third season, it has become a new icon in the American animation field that is divided into DC Universe and Marvel. The "Story of Ruicheng" is recognized as the creative pinnacle of this series, and it is also the core of its position.
This is due to the fact that "Rick and Morty" established a macro sci-fi background and at the same time established a sociological system that blended with it. The achievement of this animation lies in its rigorous cultural analysis and creation. The universe it builds is independent, profound and self-contained; the personality characteristics and creative elements in it all contain close penetration and reference.
The chapter "Swiss City Story" is undoubtedly the most thoughtful and systematic part of the entire system. It describes the relationship based on blood ties with the background of the universe city-state, but it is divided by the formation of society.
"Swiss City" was originally a castle that provided shelter for Rick and Morty, and its mechanism was to maintain consolidation and endogenousness. However, after being hit by the war, the changes in social mechanisms made Rick and Morty lose the independence of their identities, and the differences between group characteristics and strengths and weaknesses began to become prominent.
Independent Rick and Morty will not produce social contradictions, because they have irreplaceable interdependence. But after Rick and Morty were formed into the United States with a large base, talent became the grade label for Rick and Morty: Rick was the creator, and Morty was always a cheap vassal.
In the Interstellar Federation War, Rick died in large numbers and countless Morty became orphans. Lucky Morty had the opportunity to be redistributed to Rick, but most of Morty had lost the qualifications as a human shield and became the outcasts of Ruicheng.
Under an elite-led city, Mortys without elite qualities have become a hidden danger in the city. The unregulated Morty Town contributed to the unlimited depravity of Mortys. The existence of this comes from Morty's original genes. He is the offspring of Beth and Jerry. This combination gives him both hysterical destructive power (mother) and dull blindness (father).
Without the supervision of their grandpa, they drank, took drugs, robbed them, and even became escorts in strip clubs. Behind the drug lord Morty (Big morty) is a mural with prominent meaning, suggesting that some Morty has even become lucky and prostitutes.
Police Constable Morty is a Morty who grew up from the bottom. He understands the situation of being a single Morty, which makes him extremely cruel to his own kind in the law enforcement process. He used corruption and violence in his position because he was also part of Morty City.
He can even become a veteran who leads Rick to the beginning. He is not smarter than Rick, but Birick is ruthless. After Rick was attacked by Morty, he told Rick that he needed to choose a trustworthy Morty, not every Morty.
⓷ Rick's care
Every Morty is actually a minor, and their plight is that without Rick, it is difficult to gain a foothold in the city. If you want to change the predicament, you need to break away from the dependence on Rick.
Just as the police officer Morty can completely remove the traces of simplicity and let the corruption harden his heart, his appearance has also become bloated and ruthless.
In the street interrogation, a Morty mocked him as a follower and aroused his anger. There is Morty's innate low self-esteem, with the humiliation defined as Rick's accessory.
The most embarrassing thing is that Morty and Rick become hostile to each other in this city, and Ruicheng deprives them of their close relatives to a large extent.
In the process of handling the case, Rick was attacked and assassinated by Morty. The grandson did not have any attachment to his grandfather, but instead took advantage of his weakness: they knew that leaving his wife and daughter was Rick's greatest guilt, so they made a baby cradle to shake his defenses.
Morty's use of Rick's pity will only make Rick also ruthless. As a new police officer, Rick has received caring training from law enforcement officers, because this is the compassion and tolerance of the law under the new democratic system. But Constable Morty broke his naivety with actions.
Because the antagonism of the city cannot be solved by care, its root lies in the power centered on Rick. Part of Morty understood that to occupy a place in Ruicheng, Morty had to be more decisive than Rick. Just like Police Officer Morty taught Rick from start to finish, it's trampling on the rules.
In order to kill Big Morty, the vicious police officer even pretended to be innocent in front of Rick, but this time Rick's mercy was not used again, and he shot his grandson again.
In fact, in the relationship between Rick and Morty, the grandfather had been disciplining his grandson. At this point, it is difficult for every Rick to change, he has been educating Morty to judge right from wrong.
Even if this Morty is his predecessor, an experienced Morty, Rick still sticks to the rules. When he found that the opponent was stubborn and unchangeable, he could only choose to take his life.
This scene conveys the deepest and indifferent cruelty: the camera is fast-paced, and the two's actions are extremely decisive;-Morty did not hesitate to kill another Morty in order to save them, and Rick did not hesitate for the justice rule kill him.
⓸ The iteration of government and Morty's power
The campaign of Ruicheng showed a process in which social conflicts induced changes in the political ecology. The protagonist of this political drama, Evil Morty, took advantage of this opportunity to rise.
During the campaign, the Rick's talents became their own obstacles. They still maintained the old aristocratic attitude and responded to the campaign with a strong self-attitude. They never thought that they should seek consensus under the current system. Only Morty proposed to eliminate the separation of consciousness in Ruicheng and the division of the crowd.
He pointed out that the root problem is the opposition of political goals between groups, the uniqueness of selfishness that divides the city and strangles the individual.
Morty attributed the current capital exploitation and group conflicts in Ruicheng to man-made confrontations. This confrontation aims to deepen people's alienation and has no time to consider real injustice.
——He appropriately exposed the means of power. In fact, in any place highly dominated by power, there is class conspiracy, which is similar to the aristocratic power tactics like the Civilian Massacre Day in the second season.
Morty guides voters and blames the contradiction on the old power mechanism. From the perspective of justice, he preached the damage caused by political poisoning and advocated a new equality.
This is precisely the pain of capitalism before the transition. For most of Rick and Morty who are suppressed by the city at this moment, this speech represents a new political vitality just like the liberation of slaves and colonization.
This is a typical American campaign. It criticizes existing shortcomings and raises concerns about personal appeals, but it also has the same vague and speculative nature.
Morty's odds of winning are precisely because he is based at the beginning of the exchange of political forms, and he understands the significance of political ecological changes better than the Rickers. Rick never considered changing their positions, and never considered that since Rick cannot leave Morty, then the two groups should be more coordinated, rather than one overriding the other.
Therefore, Morty's speech is very effective, because Swisstown is not contemporary America, it is a city that has just entered the representative system from the Council of Elders. The former centralization of power endangered the foundation of the city, and it pushed the aristocratic republic to give way to the presidential republic.
Morty promoted populism in the campaign to weaken the old political power, but the ruling Rick believed that the system was only a formal compromise, and Ruicheng still belonged to them.
The feature of the electoral system is to transform the current conflict into the capital of politicians. This kind of system restrained the conservative Rick, but achieved the power of Evil Morty, allowing him to eradicate dissidents.
⓹City in a commodity society
The history of Ruicheng is modeled on Western political history. There is no doubt that this will make Ruicheng more progressive. The new regime will bring new written rules, weaken the bias of the old system, and make the social mechanism more mature.
However, after the capital rules dominate Ruicheng, it will weaken Rick's independence to a greater extent, and at the same time bring about contradictions in the commodity society. Just like the workers on the tram looking at the rich man in the private car, Rick at this time looked like a failed Jerry.
Law enforcement officers have the responsibility to care about criminals, but not to workers because they do not seem to have fallen; it is precisely because of this that production line workers broke out and hijacked the factory, claiming that Ruicheng had deprived them of their independence.
This crisis has its own capitalization solution, and the capital awareness will not be shaken by a worker riot; the factory owner took the opportunity to weave a free dream for the riotous Rick, and replaced him as the old core of the factory’s taste. Rick of raw materials, "Freedom" waffle replaces "Innocent" waffle.
It is undeniable that the oligopoly system is ignorant compared to the representative system. Capitalism is to change its originality while establishing a new monopoly mechanism. The new regime was the victory of capital conspiracy, and the nobility gave way to the chaebol.
This change brought about a liquidation and redistribution. The president advocated the equalization of resources and power: Mortys who had been chased out by the farmers were allowed to pick the fruit; the police officers who shot their partners were pardoned; discriminatory Morty School was also closed...
⓺ Conclusion: The reappearance of the epic of the universe
"Story of Ruicheng" is the episode with the largest structure and the most diverse elements in the "Rick Morty" series. It is precisely because of this that this episode shows the most outstanding script control ability, regardless of plot scheduling or cohesive processing, you can see the superb editing skills of the creative team; all clues are refined under the common theme, the content of the whole story There is almost no redundancy in the orchestration.
At the same time, the material reference is the convention of "Rick and Morty". This episode also contains the most film and television footage in the entire series: Rick Biscuit Factory, one of the main lines, is copied from "Charlie Chocolate Factory"; "Morty City" Taken from "Training Day"; and the four Morty's journey to find the wishing well is born out of "Stand by Me".
"Rick and Morty" is characterized by never letting reference become rigid. When these stories are organized, they have achieved a magnificent tragic epic: the fairy tale castle that was once built out of ideals has become full of Scars, full of conspiracy and death.
This tragedy is embodied in the cannibalism between Rick and Morty, and the intimate feelings between grandparents and their partners disappeared; it is embodied in the pessimistic Morty who lost 5 Rick and throws himself into the wishing well, hoping to get it in exchange The realization of the wish; it is also reflected in the innocence of human nature being used by business, including the happiness of family in Rick’s fantasy, and the workers’ dream of freedom.
It shows the evolution of society and the transformation of political forms in the ideal castle in this universe, deducting the endless struggles and tactics of the human world.
The most fascinating character in this story is Evil Morty. This is an extremely versatile Morty. He has experienced the exile of the universe and the assassination of the campaign. He faces the Rick who are unwilling to abide by the political contract and a He is regarded as a cabinet of puppets.
He was as calm as ever, and on behalf of the new political forces, he cleaned the remnants of these noble politics; eventually he rose to the top of power and became the new master of Ruicheng.
This is the scene where "Rick and Morty" has achieved the highest achievement: when Evil Morty looks at the castle that belongs to Rick from a distance. As Ruicheng's airlock opened, the bodies of Rick and Morty floated into space. The background music "For the Damaged Coda" is like Ruicheng's elegy, once again unveiling the dark curtain.
This scene also gave birth to a new film epic. "Rick and Morty" has become the most outstanding cultural icon of the contemporary era with its unique humanities and aesthetics, and has officially become an insurmountable pinnacle of film history.
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