Today, let's talk about the Belgian drama "Life in the Night Season 1".
The title of the film is Into the Night Season 1 (2020), also known as Into the Night / Into the Dark.
After Netflix became bigger and stronger, it invested and filmed film and television works with local characteristics in various countries. This series is the first Belgian original series that Netflix is shooting.
On September 3, 2019, Netflix announced that it had placed a 6-episode order for the first season of the show. The series premiered in Belgium on May 1, 2020; on July 1, 2020, Netflix announced a second season renewal. Netflix also has official Chinese subtitles for the show.
The inspiration for "Life in a Night" comes from the science fiction novel "The Old Axolotl" (The Old Axolotl) published in 2015 by the famous Polish science fiction writer Jacek Dukaj.
The novel depicts a future world full of dead silence. In the next 10 or 20 years, the polarity of the sun will be reversed, cosmic rays will explode, and all carbon-based organisms on earth will be wiped out. As if the earth was subjected to an uninterrupted neutron bomb blast, any carbon-based life would be bombarded to death within seconds. Ordinary creatures that face the sun die instantly, and creatures that face the sun die the moment they see the sun.
The novel also writes that people predicted the disaster a few years ago, and developed devices that could read human neural structures in advance, and some humans would create their own inorganic copies on these devices to avoid cosmic ray burst disasters.
After the disaster, the virtual world of the inorganic copy is boring, and humans try to return to the real world, but they can only control the robot body remotely due to the limitation of technology. Humans have entered the era of robot-themed transformations, and they are constantly researching ways to make transformational humans more human-like. In this way, both humans and robots have moved towards a new design direction.
The plot of "Life in the Night Season 1" is exactly the first paragraph of the above novel, which tells the story of a group of people chasing the dark night to avoid the sun on the night of the cosmic ray burst.
A TV series filmed in Belgium, the story begins in Brussels. A plane from Brussels took off in a hurry and flew all the way to the west. They had only one purpose, and that was to avoid the sun and keep themselves in the dark at all times. Because that's the only way to survive.
There are not many people on the plane, but there are all kinds of people, pilots, soldiers, security guards, Internet celebrities, the elderly, and children. They have to find a chance to survive in sudden disasters. Everyone has their own little secrets and careful thoughts. , it seems very difficult to seek common ground while reserving differences.
The names of the characters in the play are not randomly chosen, but rather have connotations.
The name of Major Gallo is symbolic. "Gallo" means "rooster" in Italian, and he also plays the whistleblower role on the show, who warns the other characters that the sun is about to kill everyone.
In addition, the airline's name "BE Airlines" also means something else, BE refers to the radioactive isotope beryllium-10, an element produced by solar flares.
Members of the EU family travel with each other within EU countries, so there are many nationalities, nationalities, and religious beliefs of the people on the plane. In addition to local Belgians, many passengers from other EU countries.
You can see from the behavior of these passengers that they are all free and undisciplined. Those who really want to do things will be restrained by those who are afraid of taking responsibility. Democracy and freedom have become the master key for them to restrain each other. Only one person must hold a gun against other people's foreheads in order to carry it forward.
This kind of twisting behavior seems to be normal behavior in the West, but it seems too bizarre to us. Before a disaster strikes, we will have a group of people who serve the people charge ahead, and the rest of the people will consciously support the implementation. The new crown epidemic is the best proof.
Western countries use this ridiculous democracy to disregard the life and death of the people, and the people in charge of them clear their responsibilities, but the end result is a piece of shit.
Just like the game "Frozen Age", the game is a good game, but the production team has a heart-wrenching heart. They have to say "Is it all worth it?" .
Of course, the audience will probably also find that this is a soft sci-fi work. If they insist on studying the scientific principles, they will not be able to withstand scrutiny.
Cosmic rays like neutron bombing, various situations on the plane, and the halo of the protagonist who is too strong, each of which can't stand scrutiny. But as long as you let go of the entanglement of these settings in your heart and watch the intrigues of these characters with peace of mind, it is still very interesting.
There are only 6 short episodes in this season, and each episode is only about 34 minutes long. You can finish it in one breath without any effort.
The whole play has been in suspense, and the audience has to worry about the passengers on the plane all the time, wondering if they can live to the next minute. In the case of all the wonderful people, it becomes an interesting suspense which one will survive to the end.
This tension is the key to the success of the show. The audience can dislike all the characters in it, but still want to know how the story ends.
The shooting routine of each episode of the first season is the same. The personal life of a certain character is introduced at the beginning. The first 3 episodes all start with intimate contact between men and women.
The appearance of all the characters is different from their actual living conditions, and it is impossible to know the true face of a person just by spending a few hours on the plane together.
By opening the eyes of God, the audience can understand all the characters in all directions. Each character cannot be simply distinguished by good people and bad people. The only thing that is the same is that they are all fighting for their own interests in accordance with egoism. So don't expect too much from them when watching.
In the first season, the story of the novel was filmed at the beginning. It can be clearly seen that the production cost of this season is not much, and the scenes can be saved as much as possible.
According to the news on the official website, "The 2nd Season of "A Life in the Night" will be launched on September 8, 2021, and interested audiences can follow it.
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