The story of the whole play begins with a plane taking off from Brussels, the capital of Belgium.
Brussels, also known as the "European capital", is not only the headquarters of the European Union and NATO, but also brings together people from all over the world.
This kind of mixed-race fusion was concentrated and concentrated by "Farewell to the Night" and gathered on the plane that was about to take off: a mechanic from Poland, a cleaner from Morocco, and a gangster from Turkey. There are also Russian mothers who take their sons home to see a doctor...
Because of this, in addition to showing the disaster situation, the play is also full of regional black and funny memes where various cultures collide.
There are 6 episodes of "Life in the Night", each episode is 40 minutes. Although short and powerful, it is intense and exciting, and the rhythm is tight. Watching the whole drama in one go is equivalent to watching a disaster movie that lasts less than three hours.
Like many disaster works, the play also shows multiple characters in extreme situations in the form of group portraits.
At the beginning of each episode, it will introduce a character's past life through flashbacks.
The heroine , Sylvie , is a female Air Force veteran who served in Afghanistan. Her fiancé, whom she had been in love with for many years, died of cancer, and she boarded the plane with her fiancé's ashes, intending to go to Moscow for a love-struck trip.
But a sudden change changed the fate of everyone on the plane.
A gunman burst into the plane and took control of the crew in the cockpit.
In desperation, the captain could only cooperate with the thugs and fly towards the west he requested.
After the plane took off and stabilized, the thugs finally expressed their difficulties:
As a NATO major, he had just learned from a secret meeting held by the European Union that a disaster caused by a solar aberration was imminent.
In order to save his life, he could only hijack the plane and use the principle of the earth's rotation from west to east to escape the sun and run into the night.
For the major's remarks, everyone did not believe it at first. But it didn't take long for these remarks to be verified by reality one by one. First, the wifi signal was interrupted, then the flight tower lost contact, and then the Iceland airport died in a sea of fire...
A doomsday scene continues to unfold.
Through the news, everyone learned that everything that happened right now was caused by gamma-ray bursts caused by solar aberrations.
Different from other massive disaster films, "Life in the Night" does not have too many visual effects of big scenes except for its own gimmicks in the core setting. Regarding the tragic disaster, there is no big book in the play, but only a few simple shots are used to explain everything.
For example, there are streets full of corpses, traffic accidents in which vehicles collide in series, and crow corpses falling from the sky.
In addition, during the voyage, the screenwriter also set many levels for the flight of the aircraft, showing a variety of air disaster scenarios, such as encountering hijacking, mixing in "stowaways", flight instrument failure, communication equipment failure Accidents, including shattering of the machine window glass, have been staged one after another.
Due to the limited fuel, a group of people on the plane had to make a temporary adjustment to the Scottish airport to replenish food and fuel.
Not long after the plane stopped, three soldiers approached the plane and wanted to help them resupply and take the plane away together.
However, after the three took the plane, other passengers on the plane learned through the news that the three had committed murder, arson and rape in Afghanistan earlier.
A series of unstable factors have laid the groundwork for this.
Although "Life in the Night" is dressed as a disaster, it is actually a doomsday story that explores human nature.
The plane is like an ark of doom, carrying these survivors to escape the disaster.
However, although the plane can stay away from disasters, it cannot stay away from the struggle between good and evil and the game of interests in people's hearts.
In the face of instability, the show deftly asks the question: Should we do whatever we can to survive, or should we preserve our humanity and obey morals?
"Born in the Night" chose the latter. In order to get rid of the 3 soldiers, everyone did not hesitate to catch up with their compatriots (leaving the poor female flight attendant).
The cruelty of the disaster situation is obvious.
As stated in The Mist:
"We humans are born crazy. If there are more than two people in the same room, we will choose sides; try our best to kill each other, otherwise how can there be politics and religion?"
It is worth mentioning that although there are many characters in the play, they are all very distinct, so that people can easily remember each character.
And these characters, to varying degrees, show the complexity of human nature. It has both a fragile side that cannot be looked at directly, and a bright side that is worthy of praise.
The captain who seems to be upright, but behind his back is making a colleague's belly; the gangster who is brave and ruthless on the surface, but actually has good intentions and will help children without hesitation; the female pilot who originally wanted to die, was ordered to shoulder the responsibility in the face of danger Hope for all life.
However, due to the limited space , most of the characters in "A Life in the Night" are given obvious functional colors.
The behavioral motives of all supporting characters, like NPCs (non-player characters), serve only to promote the development of the plot.
For example, the NATO major exists to hijack flights, inform disasters, and provide clues to shelters. The three soldiers who later boarded the plane existed to create conflicts and act as unstable factors.
Its existence value, more or less, is a bit blunt.
It is reported that the creative inspiration of the play mainly comes from the electronic novel "The Old Axolotl" (temporarily translated as "Old Salamander") created by Polish writer Jacques Duka .
The story of the novel takes place under the cataclysmic apocalypse of the sun's gamma-ray burst. In order to maintain life, the few survivors on Earth can only upload their own brain waves to a video game server called "InSoul3"...
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Compared with the novel story, the story in "Life in the Night" looks more like a prequel.
At present, the main creator has buried a big hole at the end of episode 6, and it is expected that a second season will come out in the follow-up.
It's just that it's impossible to judge whether the follow-up episodes of the show will follow the sci-fi plot in the novel, or will it become a completely different original story.
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