For this drama, I really admire the talent of the screenwriter. Deep themes such as self-cognition, personality contradictions, and inner redemption are all poured out lightly in the dialogues of the characters. (I am really curious about how many books the screenwriter has read to say such profound words, and the books mentioned in the play are all kinds that are not usually covered. The editor has only heard of the Utopia... The screenwriter is definitely a college student Bully!!!) The characters often say things that make me pause to think, like the conversation when Daniel's current lawyer goes to visit his ex:
What people never understand...what-what gets lost in all this revisitin'...is the tenor of the town back then. Humans don't change that much in 50 years. Or 100, or 1,000. It's the laws that change. The rules of civilization. We just repeat ourselves. Everyone with a part to play.
And in the first season, Daniel chatted with his Mama after matching glasses:
Mom: How are they?
D:Like I've been lookin' at shadows on a cave wall.
Mom:As in "Plato's cave?"
D:Yes.I haven't thought about that since--
MOM:A book report?
D:Well, I was more of an advisor. I didn't really understand the allegory back then. But, I will say this, mother. Plato was onto somethin'.
I didn't know what Plato's cave was talking about, so I checked it silently, I have to feel that the meaning of Plato's cave fits well with the theme of the whole drama (the following is popular science)
There are a group of people who are like prisoners, living in a cave for generations, the cave has a long passage leading to the outside, people's necks and feet Being locked, you can't look around, you can only face the wall of the cave. A fire was burning behind them, and between the fire and the prisoners, some people were walking with objects, and the firelight cast images of the objects moving on the wall in front of the prisoners. The prisoner can't turn back, doesn't know the reason for the images, thinks these shadows are "reality", calls them by different names and gets used to this life. When a prisoner accidentally broke free from the shackles and looked back at the fire, he found that what he had seen before was an image rather than a real thing; when he continued to work hard and walked out of the hole, his eyes were stimulated by the sunlight, so that he could see nothing but nothingness. He had to go back to the cave, but he couldn't regret it, he hated himself for seeing everything because it caused him more pain.
In Plato's Republic, this allegory speaks of the tragedy of Socrates. Philosophers, according to him, are interested in knowable ideas, with the highest aim being the pursuit of the good; beyond that, they have no worldly interests and interests, including participation in politics. "Those who have attained this height," he said, "are unwilling to take part in public affairs, and their hearts long to remain above; those who descend from divine contemplation to earthly life will think they have committed a foolish mistake." Plato, however, said , Philosophers are like free men returning to the cave, who have to give up personal interest and speculative happiness to engage in politics for the benefit of others. It is the civic duty of philosophers to enlighten and rescue those who have fallen into a miserable situation without realizing it.
The inner struggle, wandering, confusion, and contradictions of the characters are most vividly depicted in the wonderful journey of the fifth episode of the first season of the goat man (goat has the meaning of happiness and indulgence in Western culture). When Daniel meets the goat man , they talk like this:
G:Now, where you headed?
D:I don't know.
G:Not all who wander are lost.
G:Till you get things figured out, you reckon you could give me a hand with a little chore?
And when Daniel saw the magical sculpture, the goat man said another super classic sentence:
G:It's the beauty that hurts you most, son, not the ugly.
Another example is when Daniel went to the bookstore in the town to buy a book , a dialogue with the owner:
D:You're elusive, Chet.
C:That's an underappreciated skill.
D:So it can be developed
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D:My friends think I'm a sad-aholic.
C:Don't get help.
D:I just like to have somethin' to balance out the farce, you know?
C:I think farce may be sadder.
D: God, you're right. It's all sad. And farcical.
Do you think the screenwriter is the sad-aholic person who despises the noisy and advocates seclusion?
In addition to the dialogues full of philosophical thinking, the excellent soundtrack also adds a lot of light to the whole series. I specially organized the playlist:
http://www.xiami.com/collect/104297891
(but it seems that most of them are The soundtrack for the second season)
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