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In less than two months in 2019, American dramas have been launched in a blowout...
[True Detective], [Kingdom], [Wayne], [The Punisher], [Sex Study Room] and many other new and old dramas are blooming, and you can't catch up even if you stay up late!
Lactic acid-kun, when I was still madly supplementing the new drama...
Netflix has dug another magical new pit without waiting for anyone——
Umbrella Academy
The Umbrella Academy
The new drama [The Umbrella Academy] tells a magical/sci-fi story…
There are 43 women in the world who gave birth to 43 babies on the same day, it's amazing how these women suddenly get pregnant without having sex, give birth suddenly...
It can be said that a shy miracle was born!
The billionaire Reginald adopted seven of his children.
He believes that these children have superhuman abilities and can save all mankind in the future, so he created a mysterious institution to train these seven children——
Umbrella Academy (the umbrella academy)
Sure enough, these kids showed different skills:
Some are incomparably powerful, some are bloodthirsty and terrifying, some can talk to the undead, some can control people's hearts, and there are even great gods who can travel through time and space!
The seven brothers and sisters have their own magical powers, and they are simply "American version of gourd babies" !
Obviously it should be a standard superhero saving the world plot...
However, the writers chosen to let them - love to kill one!
The seven brothers and sisters each bore the pain of growing up. When they grew up, they left the Umbrella Academy and became strangers to each other...
Some even turned against each other!
When they were children, they were the heroic youth group in front of the public↓
When they are adults, they are inseparable, and they fight ↓
So like the note on the poster:
Super family = super disabled family!
Their own superpowers also lead to personality flaws in each other. Just after the death of their adoptive father, Reginald, family conflicts are about to erupt...
However, it is these "flawed supermen" who still have to save the world:
The mysterious boy No. 5 can travel through time and space.
He has witnessed the destruction of the world in the future, so the brothers and sisters of the Umbrella Academy need to join forces to avoid this catastrophe before the end...
On the other hand, the villain Time Administration sends killers to stop them...
Because the ending of destruction is the script destined on the timeline, it cannot be tampered with because of these few mortals who consider themselves superpowers!
Netflix's [Umbrella Academy] is also a comic book IP work. The original work is from Dark Horse Comics, the third largest comic company in the United States .
Although it is also one of the three major comics companies in the United States...
But compared with the famous Marvel and DC, the popularity and influence of this "dark horse" in the world obviously cannot be compared with the other two.
However, this does not affect its hidden masterpieces!
Looking back at the list of dark horse comics, there are definitely classics you are familiar with:
Jim Carrey's representative works [Geek in disguise] , the iron man's tender [Hellboy] , the dark and violent [Sin City] , the hormone bursting [300 Warriors] ...
Each is a rebellious, alternative, and violent comic work!
And this [Umbrella Academy] is no exception.
It contains rich themes such as aliens, robots, superheroes, parallel universes, etc., and has a suspenseful, absurd, and ironic drama style...
First of all, the Umbrella Academy itself is a spooky family…
His adoptive father, Reginald, is weird and mysterious. The Umbrella Academy he established is located in a spooky Gothic mansion with strict family rules.
The housekeeper is a transformed intelligent chimpanzee, and the mother of the children is a female robot named Grace he made by himself...
A chimpanzee butler who can speak as if from the wizarding world.
A robot mother who never ages is like the German sister in the [Westworld] next door.
Animals and machines are all vassals of the adoptive father Reginald, so the seemingly harmonious family is actually just a deformed and mutilated illusion...
Seven children growing up in such a family are not destined to be normal:
No. 1 eldest brother Luthor was seriously injured in an operation. His adoptive father, Reginald, transformed him to save him. Luthor became a human-animal combination...
This also made his double business go offline.
He became an obedient warrior, but emotionally clumsy and powerless!
And able to communicate with the dead , No. 4 Klaus has been brutally trained since he was a child.
His adoptive father, Reginald, put him in a tomb and made him used to face dead fools, but such terrifying superpowers destroyed Klaus' young heart...
When he grew up, he became a drug addict, relying on drugs to escape suffering!
Alison No. 3 is now a famous actress.
Her superpower is to fabricate "rumors" to change other people's minds , and this superpower has given her a chance to become famous and an ideal husband...
She even uses this superpower to transform her own children!
Seeing that her beautiful life is actually based on "rumours"...
She will also face the consequences of "Rumors" being debunked!
Her superpower Rumors forms a sarcastic pun with what reporters call Rumors
The most tragic is the No. 7 Vanya played by Ellen Page .
Don't underestimate Vanya because of her touching hairline and height...
Her superpowers are the hardest to control.
So I was brainwashed by my adoptive father since I was a child. I am just an ordinary person, not a member of the Umbrella Academy...
Even family photos and family tattoos don't have her share!
You say poor or not?
The adoptive father deceived her to protect her. This kind of "I'm all for your own good" care is all too familiar to our Chinese children...
When she grew up, she became a useless burden in the eyes of others.
Everyone at The Umbrella Academy seems to have superpowers.
But in fact, superpowers magnify certain characteristics of them, and correspondingly sacrifice other parts of their personality...
A super power means that a certain side is disabled accordingly!
Therefore, [Umbrella Academy] uses the shell of a superhero, but it tells an out-and-out "anti-superhero" story...
Just like the famous quote from Nietzsche's "Thus spake Zarathustra" in the play :
Man is a rope tied between animals and superman
It's dangerous to walk past, and it's dangerous to walk in the middle
It's dangerous to tremble, it's dangerous to stop
Nietzsche's superhuman philosophy has influenced almost all superhero works.
We may understand it this way, man is only a transitional product between animals and superman, and before the appearance of superman, man may be biased towards any side...
The 7 superheroes of the Umbrella Academy are also obviously flawed ordinary people.
As a result, this [Umbrella Academy] uses 7 special characters to secretly metaphorize the living state of all human beings and an imagination for the future...
Umbrella is like a kind of support and protection, but also a symbol of family.
And 7 children are like mini United Nations:
The eldest brother, Luthor, is a standard Russian big man, the second brother is like a cunning thief in the Mediterranean, the third sister is a bitch of African descent, and the fourth brother is a drug-addicted gay...
The fifth brother is a mad scientist, the sixth brother is a Chinese with a heart of beasts, and the seventh is the ordinary person ignored by the world...
(Admittedly, there are some elements of stereotypes)
They are brothers and sisters without blood relationship!
Just like people from different countries, ethnic groups, and groups around the world, who seem to be separated from each other and have nothing to do with each other, but they live and die together and share weal and woe...
The world in the plot is doomed.
This is also the most pessimistic future that human beings can foresee themselves in reality!
Facing the future, can mankind put aside prejudice and join hands?
This question about the fate of mankind runs through almost all science fiction works!
Also dug a deep hole for the second season of [Umbrella Academy]...
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