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There are only 8 episodes in the entire second season, and each episode averages 10 minutes, which is much less than the average 15 minutes in the first season. But 8 episodes aired at the same time. That adds up to almost 80 minutes, which is exactly the length of a movie. The creative team must have anticipated that the audience is likely to watch the entire season in one sitting. Then you can play a bit in the selection of themes and the arrangement of the order. In fact, the first season also made a clever setting in the order of the film. The short films in the front and back are relatively exciting, and different styles and themes are interspersed to prevent aesthetic fatigue. LUCK 13 happened to be arranged in the 13th episode, which is all artificial settings. I believe the same is true for the second season. The third season is scheduled to be broadcast in 2022, and it is likely that each team has completed more than 8 short films. But this season's creators picked 8 for the second season in order to express a larger theme.
As for what kind of theme, there may be clues in the trailer. The lines chosen in the trailer make up a dialogue with a plot.
are you ok? yea. hold my hand. you feed something, don't you? The whole trailer seems to be set as a dialogue between the episode and the audience. It starts with saying hello to the audience, asking if the audience is feeling anything?
wow~ It's like a door open about there. I think I believe it **** to some other world， trapped on our own . (Indicating that this film gives the audience a different feeling)
why give all this up? why? I have been lived for 218 years. I seen too much. This passage is the soul asking why you should give up all this, implying a choice that is not understood by outsiders. The explanation for this is that, after living for a long time, there are too many things to see.
1:00 Subtitle: "The Emmy Award-winning Short Film Collection Returns". Then a lump of shit fell. (The main creative team's self-deprecating self-deprecating self-deprecation is a piece of shit this season) After that, the wonderful pictures of each episode are interspersed. Flashes like a stream of consciousness. (implies that the audience has seen a lot of things, which also corresponds to the previous lines seen too much)
The trailer ends, it just I want this. "That's exactly what I want." Combined with the previously edited pictures, a plot theme was pieced together. After looking at too many things, I found what I really want. Maybe that's what the trailer has to say. It can also be the content of the entire second season. If the big theme or purpose of season 2 is to let the audience find what they want after watching it. So what kind of thing are you looking for? The answer is in the play.
01. Automatic customer service automation customer service
director meat dept
Screenwriter john scalzi (season 1 02 Three Robots, 06 Yogurt Ruled the World, 17 A Different History)
A worldview setting of high technology, high welfare, aging, and a slow pace of life. Judging from the photos, the old lady is a single person and lives with her pet dog. After encountering a series of difficult problems. Robots are unreliable, pets can't help, and they end up with the old man next door.
Implicit information: Analyzing the conversation between the old lady and the customer service, the time spent waiting in line for labor is very long, more than 6 hours. Explanation: 1. There are many people who encounter robot failures; 2. Even if the robot can do a lot of things, there are still people working; 3. Under the state of high welfare and high technology, the working time per day is likely to be shortened to 6 hours without invoicing . The automated customer service knows the operating status of the robot well and knows that the robot has life-threatening capabilities. Think about it here, why add the ability to threaten human life to a cleaning robot? Even a dog-walking robot can hunt down humans? Do humans expect robots to have such capabilities? Humans shouldn't be stupid enough to let a cleaning robot have the ability to kill. Then these robots are more like robots made. Robots want their own kind to have the ability to kill. It's a robot plan to fight back against the human race. However, the film mentions the human customer service who has been absent. There are also humans at work, most likely young people. Because all kinds of leisure and enjoyment appear in the title are the elderly. Since there is a human customer service, it is certain that there are humans who know all this and know that robots have the ability to kill. Can humans accept such a setting to allow killing robots to flow into the market? This is already the case. Humans know that cleaning robots have the ability to kill, and let such robots flow to the market and serve humans. What if it's just serving retired seniors? Seriously terrified.
02. Ice
director robert valley (season 14 zima blue)
screenwriter rich larson
High technology, industrial immigration, harsh natural environment and xenophobic human environment. In the era of zima painting, body modification was illegal, but here it has become a universal value. The story is about breaking the ice threefold. 1. The whale hits and breaks through the ice many times; 2. The male protagonist breaks through xenophobic prejudice and is accepted by youth groups; 3. The male protagonist breaks through the closed heart, caters to the concerns of his family and adapts to the environment. Every kind of ice breaking requires enormous force. The driving force of the male protagonist comes from the social attributes of human beings, who need to be recognized and need partners. There is a street of addicts in the film. Even if people are transformed and have stronger physical functions, some people will still choose to live a depraved life.
03. Assault squad pop squad
Director Jennifer yuh nelson (Kung Fu Panda 1, 2, Madagascar)
screenwriter paolo bacigalupi
In an era of advanced technology and a large gap between the rich and the poor. The whole nation can maintain youth through medical means, at the cost of birth control. Having a child = delinquent. As a law enforcer in the upper class, the male protagonist enjoys infinite happiness. But he is obsessed with exploring the motives of criminals to breed and produce children. In the end, before the male protagonist died, he seemed to realize the true meaning of life and free himself from the imprisonment of immortality. There are no husbands in the two families who have illegally conceived in the film. It will make people reverie about the family structure of this era. In fact, there are other details that suggest that the child has a father. This episode is the one with the most quoted lines in the trailer, and it is worth pondering. Some people are willing to have children even if they give up immortality. Why is this?
ps: It is worth noting that the therapy used by the poor is core injection therapy, and the therapy used by the rich is bliss therapy.
04. Snow in the desert
Directed by the 4-member group leon berele, dominique boidin, remi kozyra, maxime luere (Season 1 07 Beyond the Crack)
Screenwriter neal asher
A world of high technology, arid and hot aliens, scarce resources, and coexistence of order and violence. The male protagonist can produce special genes due to illness, and has the special ability of immortality and regeneration. He has lived for hundreds of years and is wanted and hunted down. After a life-and-death catastrophe, the heroine who was transformed with the same fate became a goddess. Even if it is immortal, is it better to have a companion? In episode 4, the setting of immortality is different from episode 3 in that there is only one person here who is immortal from a genetic point of view, so he has become the target of competition. Contrasted with the previous episode of National Immortality.
05. the tall grass
director simon otto
Writer joe lansdale (season 109 junkyard, 12 ancient fish resurrection)
The technological level of a steam engine, a business man who travels alone at night. Passing through a tall grassy field, stop halfway. A magical story in which the male protagonist is in danger because of curiosity. It seems that there is no theme, just talking about curiosity may kill people. But what is the "door" the conductor refers to? There is no visual representation in the film. It can be said that "it's like entering another world". The whole concept of "door" is very obscure. Grass, trains, hordes of bald monsters (and competing with each other to snatch the male lead), plus doors. Most likely a sexual metaphor. But it is an upside-down setting. There are groups of monsters (the monsters symbolize jz) hidden in the door and the tall grass; the male protagonist (the male protagonist symbolizes lz) comes out of the train. If it really is a metaphor for sex. Perhaps it is a hint of the dangers of losing one's self through sex.
PS: There's a headline in the newspaper, "West Coast Business Booms." The place where the giant appears in the back is also the west coast. The use of footage in the film is very clever. The front of the car was originally facing the right side of the screen, and then it was facing the left side of the screen. This change is very subtle. People are confused about the whereabouts of the conductor and mistakenly think that there is a bug.
06. all through the house
director elliot dear
Screenwriter joachim heijndermans
A large American villa in the early morning of Christmas. A terrifying story of two brothers and sisters having a false alarm when they found Santa Claus out of curiosity. Seems like a simple fable, good kids get what they want. The ending also raises a terrifying question, what if the bad boy is? The shortest episode of the season, with two implicit messages. First, the siblings are orphans. The whole house is just the two of them. The clue is that there are only two people's socks hanging on the fireplace, and no other people appear in any photos. Such a big house has to be two people living in one house. There is a high probability that living alone will be scary and need company. Another implicit message is that the boy really is, not Billy, but Santa Claus calling his name, William. Every short film is not easy. Many details are worth pondering.
07. life hutch
director alex beaty
screenwriter harlan ellison
In the space war, a crashed soldier fights the out-of-control robot at the supply station. This episode directly gives the answer to the question at the end of the last episode. Bad boys who are disobedient and mischievous will be beaten. It also shows the helplessness and despair when a person encounters danger, as well as a strong desire to survive. It's hard when you're alone, and it's even harder when you lose a hand. Do people always have to have a companion to take care of each other? After all, it's not a problem to play cats at home.
08. The drowned giant
Director TIM Miller (Chief Producer of Seasons 1 and 2, Season 1 16 Ice Age)
Screenwriter JGBallard
Modern documentaries record the encounters of giants after drowning, and a large number of monologues are the observations and feelings of the male protagonist as a scientist on the giants. It looks like a realistic film, but it has a romantic fictional setting. After death, the giant's head quietly turned twice. Yes, the dead move. It's not a gang, it's a deliberate setting. Each time towards the amputated arm. It can be understood that people will care after death, or they will care about how others see themselves after they die. Obviously, in the show, most people don't treat the remains of giants as human beings. Casual trampling, graffiti, no basic respect. Even after the death of a great man. To most outsiders, the lives of others are irrelevant.
Suspected Easter Eggs: 1. The person throwing garbage on the beach is Putin. 2. The 7 fire buckets placed by the homeless person next to the body are in the shape of a big dipper, alluding to the giant in Norse mythology.
After watching all 8 episodes, the theme of the entire second season came out. It seems to be related to companionship, pension, marriage, children, family, career. Whether the audience is a single person, a dinkist, family-oriented, career-oriented, or anyone with any other concept. "What kind of life do you want to live?" This question is a big theme that Love Dead 2 wants to express. The main creators used their wild imaginations to show the audience that when people have robots, they have superpowers after transformation, medical means of immortality, great achievements in life, and various possible situations. In the end, what do you want to pursue in your life? Leave it to the audience to think. After all, it is related to life and life. This is a profound philosophical question, and there is no unified standard answer. After reading so much, have you found what you were looking for?
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