YO, after looking forward to it for so long and playing so many smoke bombs, the second season of "Love Dead" is finally long overdue. Have you all watched it?
In today's issue, I will first come up with an impression video to share with you my own feelings about each story in the second season of "Love Dead" and some details of my discoveries.
There are only eight episodes in the second season of "Love Dead". I watched it three times for the first time. The feeling I got was that it was dull and moderate, and I was slightly disappointed. In the most popular words, this is it? !
Because of the amazing first season, I also have high expectations for the second season.
The biggest regret of the second season is that the "original" of the first season is lost. The so-called "original" does not mean that the stories of the second season are not written by themselves, but the topics of these stories, plus the presentation There are too many deja vu in the style of the painting. I know that the story of the second season is still the story of the author who won various Oscar-level awards in the sci-fi world, but everyone still remembers the true attraction of "Love, Death and Robots" What is the place for people?
It is the boldness of scale, the thoroughness of nudity, and the cruelty of violence, which completely release the audience's most primitive hormones and adrenaline, and also in a future or non-existent world, let us experience an unheard of life style.
Although it doesn't mean that the 18 films in the first season are all excellent, but I am impressed by several of them, but in the second season, if it is not for making videos, I don't really need to watch it a second time. Season's short films, I always pick a few to reminisce when I have time.
I watched "Qima Lan" in the first season more than 20 times, but guess what, almost the original cast, director, screenwriter, and production studio made "Ice" in the second season. It's just that the story is not the same writer.
In fact, at that time, the style of painting can be seen, but the completeness, depth, pattern, and exploration of the two stories are completely two levels, and the only remaining is the unique and strong style of the author.
And this kind of people continue to maintain a sense of freshness, which can make people shout that this is the style of animation. In the second season, there is only this "Ice", and the other seven are all three-dimensional, not to say that three-dimensional is bad, But the repetition and style of painting are also too overlapping.
Except for the 5th story "High Prairie", the painting style is slightly different and slightly painted and framed. Others are either anthropomorphic three-dimensional or (similar to) Disney's normal painting style, and the lens language also seems ordinary.
Do you still remember that the first season of "The Witness" is also three-dimensional, but it is realistic and has a graffiti style of American comics.
In the short film, Chi Guoguo is not afraid to talk about love , In fact, I think the M18 is just fine.
Don't say that the painting style is not important, it's all made into an animation collection, animation animation, animation style does not have a strong visual freshness and author label, how can you applaud animation.
The diversification of animation style elements, the use of different audio-visual forms to combine stories, and expounding the same theme "Love, Death and Robots" is what makes the first season stand out.
Of course, if you compare the 8 films of the second season with the 18 films of the first season, it seems inappropriate to compare the quality by the difference in quantity, but only 8 films are really not enjoyable to watch. It's not the same, the story is wonderful, that's fine, but if you add up the 8 films, it can really settle down, and I don't think there are many.
So in general, the second season is more like the short film of this series of assembly lines. Basically, there are sci-fi fantasy settings, some outer space background, and discussing life and death, and you can enter the big family of "Love Dead".
No matter in terms of quantity, style of painting, or choice of stories, etc., the second season is significantly different from the first season. Of course, having said so much, after all, this is 8 short films with 8 different authors and teams, so If you look at it alone, the evaluation will be different. Next, we will briefly go through the perception analysis of each part. At the end of the video, I have a private ranking of 8 short films.
The first is called "Automated Customer Service", which tells the story of an almost fully automated future where the population is aging, and almost all people in a small town are elderly, but they all live comfortably and are managed by various robots. Everything, the first picture at the beginning pays tribute to the solar scene picture at the beginning of "2049".
In an old lady's house, the robot vacuum cleaner didn't know when it started, and it has mastered all aspects of cleaning and furnishing in the home. Because of the location of a photo, the old lady discovered that the robot had "betrayed".
So a man-machine battle was staged at home. The most important thing was the introductory guide of the so-called customer service center of the sweeper, which also showed that the AI of the customer service center had also "betrayed", but it was finally discovered that this was actually what the manufacturer wanted. Seek maximum profit.
After that, the old lady killed the sweeping robot at home, which led to the pursuit of robots from all over the city, but as long as the old lady ordered a new package, the killing mission would be cancelled, but the old lady and the neighbors chose to go to the end of the world and fight the robot to the end. .
In-depth analysis, even if the old lady finally chooses the package, she actually chooses the life of being "enslaved" by robots. Robots seem to have become the masters of human life in the film. If you can't even decorate a photo. Choice, what freedom is there to talk about.
To put it more exaltedly, in response to the current Internet age, what we see on the Internet and what we push on our mobile phone seems to be our own choice, but in fact, each of us lives in our own stratosphere, and various platforms are based on our own The precise algorithm pushes everyone to the most accurate and favorite things they want to see.
Although the idea of the short film is good, it is not surprising to discuss such a theme.
The second part is called "Ice". The background of the story is placed on an icy planet that was mined. The humans here have to adapt to the environment of the planet, or that human technology has developed to a certain extent, and humans all want to transform themselves to be stronger. , so the people here are transformed people.
And only the protagonist's elder brother Sai Qi has not been transformed and is inferior.
In order to integrate into the group, Sai Qi decided to go on an adventure with his younger brother Fletcher in the middle of the night. Fletcher took Sai Qi to meet his other transformation companions. When the brothers went down the stairs, Fletcher directly rotated 360 degrees and jumped. While going down, Sai Qi slowly walked up the stairs, and he could see the difference in physical fitness between the two.
There are also people on the street and Fletcher's friends, who wear very thin clothes in the ice and snow. You can see that although the transformed people look similar to ordinary people, they have actually undergone a lot of transformation.
Their expedition this time is to leave the residential area and go to the farther gathering area to see the frost whale. The frost whale is the most distinctive creature on the planet. Each time it hits the ice surface, it jumps out of the water to breathe 7 times.
So a group of small partners set a goal to attract the frost whale to come out, and start running back at the moment of impact, but this requires the physical fitness and speed of a 100-meter sprint.
During the run, Fletcher was accidentally caught in the foot by the cracked ice and could not continue to run. Sai Qi decisively carried his younger brother on his back and rushed forward. At the moment when the frost whale broke the ice, although the two brothers were rushed to the sky, but fortunately they were not caught. eat.
Then comes the most important visual moment of this short film. It is said that the main creator bought this story for the visual presentation of these frost whales.
In the end, we also found that Fletcher's leg was not injured, just to stimulate Seqi's potential to make him run faster, and by the way, to test whether the brotherhood between them is plastic or steel will.
Some people here say that Fletcher was indeed stuck on the ice. Maybe the transformed man recovered quickly, but in fact, look closely. When the Frost Whale jumped, the brothers were bounced away. One of Fletcher slid off the ice with both feet. The picture shows that Fletcher is actually fine.
The second "Ice" is not so much a small story as it is a small fragment.
The third part is called "Assault Squad". In the future, human beings have developed immortality technology, which leads to the other extreme is the prohibition of childbirth. As long as they see any children, they will be executed. Therefore, there is a special silencer. Child's Assault Squad.
The protagonist is the executor of the assault team. After killing the child once, he actually gradually had his own new thinking and views on human immortality and human reproduction. Then, by accident, he discovered that another family had given birth without authorization. A child, who has lived for hundreds of years, has lost the interpretation and understanding of life in his eyes, but is just like other immortals, empty and no longer in awe of life.
Even the protagonist calls the child it, not the human she.
In the end, the protagonist did not kill the child and mother the second time. According to the character logic of the story, it should not change so quickly. It's just that where the story is funny, with a finishing touch, the greatest human Primitive nature burst forth.
At that time, my mother said: I am not selfish enough to just let myself live forever... I like to see the world through her eyes.
The greatest primitiveness of human beings or life is reproduction. Reproduction is human nature, but selfishness is also the primitive desire of human beings or life to protect themselves.
The short film not only discusses the issues of immortality and reproduction on the surface, but also considers the game between selfishness and love.
If we humans really have the technology of immortality one day, it will be the moment when human selfishness reaches the top, and it will also open up a new interpretation of human love. If the day of immortality comes, human beings will face Food, space survival, morality and other issues, will human beings evolve to the point in the short film that they need to prohibit reproduction to protect themselves? If it were you, what would you do? !
The fourth is called "Snow in the Desert". Basically, this short film is the western theme of "Star Wars". Attacking the shell is a hodgepodge.
Snow lives in seclusion on a hot and water-deficient desert planet, but is wanted by a local businessman, Barris, because he can live forever. Barris wants to take Snow's testicles to study the secret of immortality.
So the bounty hunters would go after Snow, and Snow would be in a bar, um, a bar again, and there would be a shoot-out similar to Star Wars 4 or The Mandalorian.
At this time, the heroine Slade rescued Snow, and the two walked together. It turned out that Slade was from the Earth's Central Intelligence Agency, and also wanted to get Snow's immortal gene, but Slade wanted Snow to go voluntarily. No refused.
After that, Snow took Slade to his secluded home in Antelope Canyon. Snow ate the strawberries that had been couriered from the earth from thousands of miles in front of him.
To be honest, when I saw this, I thought that Slade would have some kind of strategy or something. Didn’t he say that Snow’s testicles can study immortality technology? I thought that Slade would get some sperm through this, but I thought too much.
At this time, Barris personally went out to take Snow, and the two sides fought fiercely. Seeing that Snow was about to be shot in the head by a heavy gun, Slade came to help after he woke up, only to find out that Slade was a shell man with a brain. Humans have a synthetic body, so is this also considered immortality in disguise?
So lovers get married.
This short film is. . . There's nothing to expand on.
The fifth is called "The Tall Grass". I was thinking when I saw it, isn't this Stephen King's novel? The setting of a movie called "In the Tall Grass" in 2019 is very similar. If you are interested, you can watch it. .
The short film tells that every time a train passes through the tall grass, it will stop due to some faults, so the protagonist gets out of the car to smoke and wait for the train to continue, only to find some moving lights in the grass.
Curiosity killed the cat, so the protagonist went down to check. At first, he thought it was caused by the moonlight reflecting on the leaves, but if you look closely, the light will still move, so as you go deeper, you find that the skin is pale, like the white alien in "Alien Contract" Zombies crawled towards him.
The protagonist was so frightened that he hurriedly ran. At this time, the train was about to leave, but the protagonist was lost in the tall grass, and the sense of despair came over him.
In the end, the protagonist was lucky to find a way out and was rescued by the conductor. The whole film was over.
The short film controls the horror and suspense quite well. The three-dimensional painting style of oil painting texture can be regarded as a jumping setting in the second season. It is a short film of good quality.
The sixth "The Whole House", on Christmas Eve, the siblings were waiting for Santa Claus to arrive. Sure enough, there was a sound from downstairs. The siblings thought that Santa Claus was coming, so they quietly went downstairs to check, but found "Pan". The combination of monsters and aliens in God's Labyrinth is in the living room of my own home. The monsters are doing the action of Pan's Labyrinth, and the picture does not forget to pay tribute to "Alien 3".
After some confirmation, the monster thought that the elder sister was a good boy, and then spit out a gift, and then confirmed that the younger brother was also a good boy and spit out the gift.
Then the question arises, if it is not a good boy, what will be the result.
The short film made everyone play a nasty subversion of the stereotype of Santa Claus, but in Western tradition, if the child is naughty and disobedient, Santa Claus will put coal in the socks where the gifts are placed.
There is a detail in the short film. Although this monster looks scary, it likes to eat the milk and cookies that my sister deliberately left behind. Maybe it means that the monster does not eat naughty children, it may just spit or something. Gift Certainly not.
The seventh short film is called "Rescue House". In the future world, humans and alien races are at war. The male protagonist is accidentally hit and falls to a nearby planet, and the spaceship crashes.
Fortunately, there is a safe house on the planet, which is specially used for soldiers to take refuge after falling and wait for rescue.
It was only when the male protagonist went to the safe house that he found that the breakage rate was a bit high. A robot dog there was severely damaged, and the damage was a terrible internal species. Because the robot dog was crazy, it could function and kill any living beings.
The male protagonist can only deal with it by feigning death first, and then use the flashlight to play with the mechanical dog and let it self-mutilate to make the safe house safe.
This is a short film with well-made content and lackluster content. The most cool thing is the short cutscenes of the human and alien battle. It is really exquisite. The details of those spaceships, and the battle moment where there is only a glimpse of the scene. , all strive to achieve the level of sophistication that every frame can be drawn into a wallpaper. If "Three-Body Problem" has this effect, it will be very comfortable.
The eighth short film is called "The Drowning Giant", but this one is not a scaleless giant, but a kind of giant, and he looks quite handsome.
This is one of the most literary shorts of the second season, with a Gulliver's Travels flavor, but with a more poetic and romantic use.
The monologue of the first season of "Qima Lan" is used throughout the whole film, telling the audience more about the thoughts and thoughts of the protagonist of the short film, and it will also have a sense of substitution. This form is limited by the length of the short film. It is more convenient to do subject sublimation processing.
The short film tells about the sudden appearance of a giant's corpse in a coastal town, and the various words and deeds that humans make over time when faced with such a giant kind.
In front of giants, people are like ants, and the sea and time gradually corrode the giant's body. Although the giant's life has come to an end, from the perspective of the protagonist, death is also a kind of life continuation, and deserves the same respect.
When the protagonist sees the giant for the first time, there is still a pool of seawater in the hands of the dead giant, and there are still a few live fish in it. This detail seems to be noticed only by the protagonist, which also means that in the protagonist's heart, the protagonist feels that the giant has been None of them died, and the narration of the protagonist in the film also emphasized this point again and again.
The short film makes a cut in the protagonist and the crowd's views and thoughts on giants. The protagonist represents a romantic view of some people's life coming to an end, to radiate human respect for life and death. At the same time, the giant is in the eyes of the protagonist, It is also a symbol of a giant spirit, representing strength and beauty, as well as a kind of divinity.
When the protagonist meets the giant for the first time, he also uses a lot of beautiful modifiers to describe the just-dead giant.
The people who eat melons showed a secular vision and words and deeds to deal with the lying corpse of the giant this time, and finally used the same selfish way to get the various parts of the giant according to their needs.
In general, "Giant" is the short film with the highest comprehensive index in all aspects in the second season, so my ranking is "Giant" > "Assault Squad" > "Tall Grass" > "Ice", the other four, the same thing , there are bright spots but not enough, shortcomings, or in the expectations of "Love Dead", lack of good, is the shortcomings.
Overall, the second season is not ugly, but if you have always been a veteran sci-fi fan, maybe after watching the second season, you will feel that way.
What about you, what do you think about the second season of "Love Dead", and which short film do you like the most? Please leave a message to share your answer.
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