"Lost" is a TV series launched by the American ABC TV company in 2004. It is my favorite one in the American TV series launched in recent years. The plot is more complicated and the characters are darker, and it is a serial form, not a unit. drama. Most of the U.S. dramas currently being broadcast are in the form of unit dramas, including "Doctor House" and "Mad Men", all of which have very good production quality, but relatively speaking, unit dramas are based on a single event and take a long time. It is inevitable to simply repeat the established patterns and plots, and in order to connect the episodes to the episodes, the characters must fall in love for the sake of falling in love, and then break up in order to be able to fall in love again, which is ridiculous.
"Lost" tells the story of a plane crashing on a deserted island, a group of people who survived by chance, and what happened on the island. This group of strangers must survive on the deserted island, and live in camp while waiting for rescue. However, over time, this group of people gradually found themselves in a very peculiar situation. First of all, this small island has magical powers that can make diseases heal without medicine. People with paralyzed lower limbs can suddenly stand, and people with terminal illnesses can suddenly recover. In addition, there is a group of residents hiding in the dark on the island, spying on and even attacking the group of plane victims. Even more terrifying is that a burst of black smoke will appear on this island inexplicably, attacking the people on the island in an evil manner.
The name of this album, Lost, not only means that this group of people are lost on the desert island, but also that this group of people is lost in their own lives. According to the statement in the film, these people's lives are Fraud, mutilated and flawed. In the film, the life on the deserted island and the trajectory of life before the death are constantly intertwined and staged. There are well-known surgeons, beautiful murder suspects, handsome liars, young unmarried pregnant women, rock and roll bass players who are addicted to drugs, and fat guys with jackpots, but without exception, they In reality, they are living in a dilemma. Sadness, frustration, depression, and loss are the true colors of their lives. They are eager to escape from this small island, but deep down they are unwilling to return when they return.
Not long after falling on the island, this group of people was attacked, some were killed and some were missing. In the process of resisting the countermeasures, they discovered the existence of another group of people. This group of people came to the island very early and settled on the other side of the island. Because they didn't know the details of the victims, the original residents of Shanghai sent people into the victims to inquire about the background and intentions of the victims. Moreover, due to the weird effects of the island, the residents of the island were unable to give birth to the next generation, so they kidnapped pregnant women among the victims in an attempt to study and help give birth to children. Although the secret was finally unlocked, the residents of the island moved very strangely. They were always unwilling to help the victims leave the island, and even hindered them from seeking help from abroad. For this reason, many victims suffered kill.
In the process of exploring the small island and searching for rescue, the plane victims found that there were many abandoned scientific research stations on the island. The video tapes kept in it showed that these scientific research stations and related equipment and food were produced by an organization called "Dharma". left. However, apart from these hardware equipment and scientific research stations for living, no "Dharma" personnel remained on the island. It seems that the people of this organization disappeared overnight. Through those leftover equipment, the victims discovered that the island they were on had strange electromagnetic interference, which made it impossible for the outside world to detect the existence of this island. What's even more amazing is that there seems to be a force in operation that makes the outside world believe that the crashed plane has crashed into the sea and all passengers have died. Moreover, there lived a person named Desmond in a scientific research station. He came to this small island in a shipwreck. The person who rescued him told him that a special button must be pressed at a certain time of the day, otherwise it will There will be a big explosion, destroying the entire island. So Desmond was on this small island and kept pressing buttons for three years. Because of Desmond's exposure to too much radiation, his consciousness can travel through time and space, inadvertently returning to the past or to the future.
The source of the magical power of the island, the background of the original residents on the island, the details of the Bodhidharma organization, what the black smoke is, who blocked the search for the victims from the outside world, and the function of the buttons are the core mysteries of this album, and the only The person who can answer these questions is Ben, the leader of the original residents of the island. Ben and his father came to this small island with the Dharma organization since childhood. The Dharma organization is a scientific research group that embraces utopia. Before the arrival of the Bodhidharma, there was already another group of mysterious people on the island, called the others. The others behave strangely and seem to have some kind of magical power, often appearing in the jungle, attacking outsiders. In order to protect itself, the Dharma organization has set up a high-voltage power grid around its residence to prevent the others from invading, and it is also strictly forbidden for people inside the organization to contact the others.
Ben's father was a violent and alcoholic man. Ben grew up in an environment full of shadows and depression, so he had grievances against the Dharma organization in his heart. Finally, when Ben was big enough to make a decision for his own life, he decided to join the others, and to completely eliminate the Dharma organization. So overnight, the others invaded the base camp of the Dharma organization, and all of them were killed. Since then, Ben has led the others to live in the base camp of Dharma. The team led by Ben owns a submarine that can keep in touch with the outside world, but Ben always keeps this connection to a minimum, and the others have nothing to complain about and live a peaceful life with Ben until that The group of victims appeared on the island. Ben was ill at the time and needed the help of a surgeon, so he had to send someone to contact the victims and he had to maintain a certain good relationship. However, just like the others, Ben doesn't want anyone to come to this island, but once people come to this island, they can't let them leave.
Just as the victims fought with Ben's people, a rescue team came to the island and claimed to rescue these victims. But in fact, the rescue team came to the island because it was dispatched by a wealthy businessman named Widmore. The main purpose was to detect the mysterious power on the island, and this mysterious power was related to the island’s time travel ability. . The wealthy businessman Widmore is actually Desmond's father-in-law, but he has always hated Desmond and feels that Desmond is not worthy of his daughter. Desmond will fall on this island because of Widmore's frame. Although the real purpose of the rescue team is not to save the victims, after all, the main members are scientists, and they don’t want to watch the victims die tragically on the island, so at a critical moment, the necessary flight coordinates are given to the victims so that they can board. The rescue team's helicopter fled the island. It is a pity that helicopters have limited fuel, and only carry a very small number of people, and the condition for these people to go back is that the existence of the island and all the secrets cannot be told. As a result, six people returned to the real world, but all claimed that they were the only survivors.
Speaking of this, I have to mention the strike of American screenwriters that occurred in 2009. The strike at that time lasted for 3 months, and about 60 American film series were affected. So the film series staged during this period were basically like drunk-driving cars, and they drove out unintended paths one after another. They are all defiant. "Lost" is no exception. It is a big loss. First, without knowing how to explain the secret of Kojima, the victims are sent home. Then it is difficult to continue the theme of "Lost". The victims were so incomprehensible in real life that they voluntarily asked to return to the island.... The method of returning to the island was like witchcraft, wearing black robes and surrounding the weirdness painted on the ground. Graphics. In fact, the experience of "Lost" during this period is considered good. "Hero" became the past and present of Miyamoto Musashi, and finally ended in a hasty. "Intern Gerley" is a love affair in the whole hospital. The chief doctor, resident doctor, and interns are all in love, heterosexuality, homosexuality, and even human-ghost love. "Doctor House" was a crazy expulsion. Dr. House somehow expelled all his subordinates, and then found a large group of candidates, constantly tossing a group of very strange candidates, and Wilson and Cuddy Their temperaments have also changed drastically. The former becomes a naive child, while the latter enters the estrus period. "Case Closing Master" does not close the case, but only makes trouble, love and family affection take turns to make trouble. "Desperate Housewives" is not desperate anymore. Those who deserve to get married are married, and their successful business is successful. In the new season, we had to divorce the married, and the successful career failed. Needless to say, "Prison Break", after the second season, it is estimated that even the actors will not know what they are doing. Fortunately, the whole drama has ended, leaving the protagonist dead too late.
As a result, the American dramas after the strike have entered a period of "bye bye", and all the albums are struggling to round the story back to the original route. I personally think the ones that break better are "Doctor House" and "Lost". "Doctor House" is to remove the waste, leave more distinctive characters, and then reshape the characters of House, Wilson and Cuddy. Cuddy and Wilson are back on the professional and tolerant character line, and House has added a little kindness, combined with the independent but fateful characteristics of novices, the result is even better than the previous conflicting combination. As for "Lost", it introduces a lot of scientific logic to explain the various abnormal conditions on the island, in order to reverse the characters and events that suddenly appeared in the previous season, as well as the incomprehensible time and space jumps. Although it is unavoidable to be a little bit obscure, but the hard work and meticulousness of the screenwriters can be seen. It is estimated that a lot of people and staying up for a long time made the story come true.
The island itself has very powerful electromagnetic waves, which will interfere with the emission of various signals, but it can also provide scientific purposes. The Dharma organization first thought of using this electromagnetic wave, they tried to build a machine that can travel through time and space. As for the others, they were people who were killed in a boat before the arrival of the Bodhidharma and fled to the island. Since the Bodhidharma used the others’ people as experiments when developing the time-space transfer machine, the relationship between the two parties was very deep. Hatred. Widmore, rescue team member Daniel's mother, and Ben's mother are all scientists from Dharma, and they have jointly participated in the design and manufacture of the space-time machine. Therefore, these talents have a strong obsession with this island, and will do their best to prevent the outside world from knowing the existence of the island. As for the buttons that Desmond must press regularly, it is to ensure that the time machine does not run randomly. However, when the 6 victims who had returned to reality returned to this small island again, what was waiting for them was the time and space that was constantly jumping and changing, so several people were scattered and sent to different time and space. As for the three years they left, the people who were left also lived in different time and space.
Among the victims, two were the most critical, one was the surgeon Jack, and the other was John, who was originally paralyzed in his lower limbs but was able to walk suddenly and was good at survival in the wild. Jack is smart, steady, and gentle. He can effectively organize everyone to do the right thing at critical moments, so he naturally becomes the leader of the team. John has a strong personality and strong survival skills. He often leaves the team to investigate and has his own opinions on where to go. Jack has always advocated uniting and finding a way back to the real world together. John is not so positive about returning to the real world, and he has different ideas about the various forces on the island than others. So Jack and John gradually went in different directions and stopped acting together.
There is also a very important but very mysterious person on the island: Jacco. Most of Ben’s actions follow Jacco’s guidance. However, despite this, Ben doesn’t know who Jacco is, because Jacco’s instructions are transparent. It was passed by a person named Richard. When the island keeps moving the people on the island to different time and space, everyone finds that Richard has survived for hundreds of years, and his appearance is always the same. And this ability to be immortal was given to Richard by Jacco. When the six victims returned to the real world, Jacco appeared next to them and told them in very tactful but firm words that they must return to the island. So the 6 people finally came back, but John was killed by Ben in the real world, and the corpse in the coffin came back.
After returning to the small island, Jack met with a few friends in the era of Dharma organization setting up a space-time machine. Jack believes that if a hydrogen bomb stored on the island is thrown into the location of the space-time machine construction, and the construction of the space-time machine is prevented, time and space will be corrected, and all things that have happened and related to the island will not happen. Now, their plane will never crash on this island! They don't need to try to escape from this island. Since this logic sounds very reasonable, the other victims agreed to do so, avoiding the obstruction and chase of the Dharma organization, and throwing the hydrogen bomb into the place where it was to be dropped. The corresponding big bang happened, but the result of the event was beyond everyone's expectations. It's still you, it's me, it's all here.
After the explosion, the victims recovered from the effects of the explosion, and found that time had indeed returned to the present, but the space-time machine was still built, and everyone was still on the island. However, what they didn't know was that Pacific Flight 815, full of passengers, from Sydney to Los Angeles, arrived safely at its destination. All the passengers on the plane got off the plane safely, including Jack, including John, and all the victims on the island got off the plane in Los Angeles, but at the same time, they were all still on the island. And the people who died on the island before are still dead, except John. John, who was killed by Ben in the real world, appeared again in front of the people on the island, but John was also lying in the coffin that was brought back.
When the big bang happened and everyone returned to the island at the present time, there were others here: the others who lived in the temple and the guards who were called by Jacco to protect the victims. When Jack and his party were living in other time and space and conspiring to throw hydrogen bombs, John, Ben and the so-called guards were led by Richard to the giant statue where Jacco was. John kept persuading Ben to kill Jacco. Jacco has always been a person Ben sincerely respected. In order to follow Jacco's instructions and protect this island, Ben sacrificed everything, including his daughter's life. However, Jacco has never shown himself in front of him, nor has he expressed his approval for Ben. But Jacco showed up in front of others, and protected the victims at no cost. All of these make Ben feel so embarrassing. In this state, coupled with John's instigation, when Ben entered the giant statue with John and saw Jacco, Ben inserted the knife deeply into Jacco's body. In this way, this great and almighty being died.
When Jacco died and the guards rushed in, John turned into a puff of black smoke and killed all the guards. It turned out that John's true identity was the mysterious black smoke, but the black smoke turned into John's appearance and appeared in front of people. When learning that Jacco had died, Richard was the one who suffered the most, but not because of sadness, but out of anger towards Jacco. Hundreds of years ago, Richard turned out to be a Spaniard. He accidentally killed a doctor in order to save his wife. Since Richard could speak English, he was secretly sold to a British merchant ship as a slave before execution. But the ship encountered a shipwreck near the island and ran aground on the beach. Except for Richard, everyone on the ship was killed by a puff of black smoke. Richard met Jacco and was given eternal life at the cost of becoming Jacco's spokesperson. Jacco once promised that he would tell Richard the reason for everything, but Jacco was easily killed, and it made no sense for Richard to keep alive for so long.
After killing Jacco, John came to the temple and killed the few who were willing to follow him to leave the island. John's intention is very clear. He wants to leave the island, but six candidates must join him to leave. From the messages left by the others in the temple and Jacco, Jack and the others gradually learned that they had been selected by Jacco very early and they were the so-called "candidates." One of the six candidates would eventually succeed Jacco. Take the responsibility of protecting this island, and more importantly, in any case, can't let John, or the black smoke, leave the island. Jacco once told Richard that this island is like a bottle stopper, and the black smoke is like wine in a bottle. The bottle is tightly closed by the stopper, but if the black smoke leaves the island, it will affect the world. Cause devastating consequences.
While Jack, Ben, and Richard were constantly looking at how to deal with John, Widmore also came to this island, with Desmond who was kidnapped. Widmore was the last line of defense arranged by Jacco during his lifetime to ensure that John could not leave the island. As for the method of preventing John from leaving the island, Desmond's special physique was maintained. When Desmond was on the island before, he was exposed to strong electromagnetic waves for a long time, and apart from the temporal and spatial shift of consciousness, he had no other symptoms or discomfort. Such a special physique was necessary to deal with John. As for the specific operation method, it is related to the secrets of the island guarded by Jacco.
A long time ago, a pregnant woman drifted to the island after a shipwreck and was rescued by another woman. It didn't take long for the pregnant woman to give birth. The child was called Jacco, but what she didn't expect was that the pregnant woman was pregnant with twins, and the second child came to the world shortly thereafter, but without a name. After the woman delivered the pregnant woman, she watched the pair of boys for a long time, and then she picked up a stone and killed the pregnant woman. The woman raised the two boys as her own sons, but never named the second boy. But when the children were more than ten years old, the soul of the child’s mother appeared in front of the second son, told him the truth of the matter, and told him that another part of the island lived with someone who came here with her, and On the other side of the sea there is a rich world. So the second son left to go to the others, and although Jacco also knew the truth, he chose to stay with his foster mother.
Before the second son left, the adoptive mother took the two children to a magical hole, which was shining brightly. The foster mother told the two children that there is everything about human life and death in this cave. This light is the light in everyone's heart, but human greed will ruin it. And their mission is to protect this cave, and this cave is the heart of this island. The reason why the adoptive mother will kill the child's biological mother and not let them contact other people is to ensure the safety of this cave. After learning of this, the second son still insisted on leaving. Since then, Jacco has separated from his younger brother. The task of protecting the cave fell on Jacco. The foster mother confessed to Jacco that she must protect the cave, but she must not go into the cave in any case.
Although the two are separated, Jacco will still sneak to find his brother. The younger brother also told Jacco that those people were indeed greedy and ugly, as the adoptive mother said. But the younger brother must use these people to leave the island. Through private visits, my younger brother finally found the entrance of the cave, and used the others to build a device that could use the light from the entrance as energy to leave the island. When the adoptive mother learned of this, she stunned her younger brother, destroyed the equipment, and killed all the others. After the younger brother woke up, he was very angry and stabbed his adoptive mother to death in his anger. When Jacco learned of it, he was sad and angry. He grabbed his brother, went to the cave entrance, and threw his brother out of the cave. After a scream, the younger brother turned into a puff of black smoke coming out of the cave. When the two brothers were born, the adoptive mother cast a spell to prevent them from hurting each other. Therefore, during these long years, no matter how resented each other, they could not kill each other. Until now, the younger brother possessed John's body, and with Ben's hand, he finally got rid of Jacco who had imprisoned him.
It is not true that John said that he must join all the candidates who succeeded Jacco to leave the island. The fact is that as long as the candidate is still alive, John, Jacco's younger brother, and the black smoke, cannot leave the island. However, continuing the initial spell of his adoptive mother, John was unable to kill those candidates despite his strong ability and invulnerability. He had to try to make these candidates kill each other before he could leave the island. So he lied to Jack and said that they must be together to leave, and he managed to get everyone on board the submarine coming from Widmore. These people, as John had originally imagined, isolated John as soon as they boarded the submarine, preparing to escape on their own. These people didn't expect that John had put a time bomb in Jack's backpack beforehand, so when the victims found out, they dismantled the bomb regardless of Jack's objection. Jack’s mind is always sober. He guessed that John would do everything possible to take them away, and Jacco tried to keep them on the island again and again, it must be because as long as they stay on the island, John can’t leave, and John wants The more reasonable reason to take them away is to kill them, and the only reason the process is so complicated is because he can’t do it himself, so according to this logic, as long as they don’t touch the bomb, nothing will happen. But if you try to dismantle it, the result will be an explosion. At the last moment, one of the victims ran to the far end of the submarine holding the bomb alone, thus saving most of the lives, but there were still a few people who failed to escape in time and drowned in the sinking submarine.
Before that, John tried to kill Desmond. This reminded Jack and the others that the reason why Jacco arranged for Desmond to come to the island and John wanted to kill him, obviously Desmond had a special function. When Jacco finally dissipated his soul, he told the candidates everything and let them choose who would replace Jacco. In the end, Jack voluntarily took over this responsibility. So Jacco told Jack the location of the hole. Finally, Jack and John reached an agreement and took Desmond to the cave together. After all, no one can kill anyone in the current situation. Only if Desmond enters the cave with his special physique that is not afraid of electromagnetic waves, can it be possible. The two sides found a way to end, but the result may be that the island is destroyed, but this result is better than each other's stalemate and death on the island. So Desmond went down to the cave, and did not turn into a puff of black smoke like Jacco's brother, but was able to move freely. Desmond saw a pool in the cave, with strong light and electromagnetic waves emitting from the center. Desmond went into the pond without hesitation and pulled out the stone pillar that stood in the center like a plug.
While the victims struggled to survive on the island, they lived a completely different life in the real world. From the moment the plane arrived in Los Angeles, their lives were no longer crippled. Jack was no longer sad, but had the courage to love and accept his half-sister. The liar turned into a policeman, and bravely opened his heart, telling his friends the dark childhood in his heart. Ben is not a selfish madman, he is willing to give up his future for the sake of a student. Everyone is different, hope and courage are brought to them so that they can embrace happiness again. The love, affection, and friendship that were lost on the island have all been reproduced satisfactorily. Desmond, who can travel through time and space, see the past and the future, travels back and forth to find happiness for these sad and lost people. At the moment when they met and rendezvous one after another, all the past events that had happened on the island surfaced in their hearts, making them tearful and grateful for this moment of happiness, and they could leave with gratitude.
When Desmond pulled out the stone pillars in the pool, the light in the pool dissipated and the pool water also ran out. The island began to shake, the rocks began to fall, and the island's mysterious power disappeared. John was very happy that the island that had imprisoned him all his life was finally going to be destroyed. Jack is also very happy, because John is no longer immortal. The two stood on the cliff and throbbed. Finally, John fell off the cliff and died, while Jack was seriously injured. Jack asked the other victims to quickly get on the plane they had taken when they returned to the island, and he had to return to the cave to save the island. In the end, Ben and the jackpot fat man Hugo insisted on staying with Jack. At the moment he entered the cave, Jack gave Hugo the responsibility of protecting the island, because Jack knew that he did not have Desmond's special physique. No matter whether everything in the cave could be restored or not, it would be impossible for him to live anymore.
The victims in the real world remembered everything on the island. They came to a church very peacefully and happily together. This church is the place where Jack will hold the funeral ceremony for his father, and everything on the island It all started with Jack's father's coffin. Jack took off from Sydney with his father’s coffin at the time, but crashed on the island. At that time, Jack discovered that his father in the coffin had disappeared out of thin air, but suddenly appeared to show Jack where to find water and where to find the key. Things. Today, everyone is gathered here, back to the beginning of everything. And Jack's father's coffin was also transported to this church. When Jack opened the coffin, his father's body was not inside, but appeared beside Jack, pointing him for the last time: everyone was dead. But this time, everyone has no regrets, no longer lost, no longer lost.
Jack moved the stone pillar back to its original position in the pool, the light gradually gathered again, and the pool water began to accumulate. Finally, the surviving Jack lay alone on the grass, looking at the blue sky through the layers of branches, while the plane was flying across the blue sky at this moment.
The ending of "Lost" is not perfect, and the explanation of Jacco, the island, and the mysterious cave is somewhat flawed or rough. However, the arrangement of the entire album is very complete. Whether it is good or bad, it gives a logical view of everything. The explanation shows the effort and skill of the screenwriter. In the last season, a two-line approach is used to give everyone a happy ending, so that the story ends in a touching beauty, and also so that all viewers who like this album can calmly accept such results. After all, whether it is from science fiction From the perspective, from the perspective of human nature, or from the perspective of religion, this album can be understood very reasonably and completely. In the six quarters, in the first four seasons, in order to attract the audience and let the story go on, the series developed a lot of story lines and left a lot of mysteries. In the remaining two quarters, the screenwriters worked hard to integrate these The story lines are closed together, and these mysteries are solved with reasonable logic. Although the story has been greatly compressed in the latter two seasons, almost every mystery, large and small, has been taken care of, and they have been put together by a huge puzzle, forming a tapestry with fine stitches and complicated weaving. , Maybe the final picture is a little skewed, but it is still a work of vast engineering and superb level.
The biggest feature of "Lost" is that the story frame is huge and complicated. It ends with the emotion and happiness of "people" instead of cold and dark science or metaphysics, which is another highlight. In addition, the management of characters in "Lost" is also very moving. There are a large number of characters in the series, but the series are given thickness and depth one by one, showing a group of background stories, emotional ups and downs, and an inner heart. Three-dimensional figures of the world and appearance. Selfish people have selfish reasons, sad people have sorrow reasons, simple people have simple reasons, and complicated people have complicated reasons, although the characters will fall into love and family affection. 、Amidst the entanglement of friendship, but will not get caught up in it divorced from reality or keep repeating. Every person has a sympathetic side, no one is pure evil or simple superficial ignorance, everyone also has an abominable side, no one is pure goodness, or pure beauty and innocence.
There are many ways to understand the ending of "Lost". It can be said that everyone died at the moment the plane crashed. Everything that happened was spiritual salvation. Through the sufferings on the island, we can understand the beauty of life, and Re-experiencing this beauty in the real world allows these people to pass away with no regrets. It can also be said that everyone died at the moment the hydrogen bomb was thrown out. The hydrogen bomb prevented the jumping of time and space and changed the trajectory of history. The remaining souls floated in the two worlds at the same time, and finally left the two worlds at the same time. . It can even be said that the victims have been on the island from beginning to end, and everything in the real world is just the dreams of the victims, or Jacco's spiritual compensation for them, or it only happens when Jack is dead. But no matter how you understand this ending arrangement, the stories and feelings of "lost" are all well packed.
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