"You gave me shackles" Lucian fought back viciously.
"I thought that after all these years, you would finally understand - you can't get what you want." Victor tried to wake him up and give up his extravagant desire for freedom.
Just finished his sentence in prison, Lucian said to the "big black man" that "a new life is waiting for us outside this wall".
From the above two dialogues, it is not difficult for us to extract the theme of the story from these large-scale environmental events, which also sets the narrative tone of the film. This will introduce a group of oppressed werewolves against vampires, and werewolves rise to fight for freedom. story.
When everything in the story follows this main line and people's habitual thinking develops. Lucian, who led the crowd out of "Castle Black", went to "Castle Black" for a lover Sonia (Victor's daughter) who was trapped in "Castle Black". He knew it was a trap, but for the sake of a woman, he gave up his responsibilities and obligations as a leader, and forgot the promise he made to his brothers in prison. When starting from here, it gives people a psychological feeling that it seems that this is just a small branch, a small episode, and will not change the main line of the rise of the wolf clan to pursue freedom. Because it is difficult for me to imagine that the freedom of an alien woman can be equated with the freedom of the entire wolf clan, and I do not agree that love can be equated with freedom.
However, with the development of the story, the main line of the story did not return to the war between races as everyone expected. With Sonia being killed, Lucian is enraged, and all that people can see until the end of the film is Lucian's personal grudge against Victor, revenge for the slain lover, emotional revenge. The creation of heroes has always been a forte in Hollywood commercial films, but Lucian in this film seems to be far from the "hero" that people are used to. Lucian's personal grievances and hatred made the main line of the story more and more blurred, although the screenwriter tried to make up for it by cheering for victory in the later stage of the film, so that the main line of the story returned to the theme of freedom and rise. is ridiculous.
For films like "Underworld Prequel: Rise of the Wolf Race", storytelling is destined to not be its strong point, and we don't need to expect too much from it to tell people what a wonderful story. With fewer expectations, there will naturally be much less disappointment.
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