In today's world, there are no religious stalks, prophetic stalks, and small easter eggs in black crime movies. In Ozark, there seem to be more details that echo before and after than in ordinary crime movies/dramas. Of course, this does not refer to the necessary response in the plot. For example, in the front, Roy checked the files on the computer, and later said that he knew that Russ had called male prostitutes, but it was more similar to the echo of the egg and metaphor. In the first season, I was more impressed with the following (in no particular order):
1. Before : Episode 5. The old man in the basement taught Jonah to practice the rifle with a watermelon. He said the reason is that the water content of the watermelon is similar to that of the human body. Gave a close-up of the watermelon being burst. After : Episode 10. Del got a headshot with a rifle, and didn't forget to show the audience the exploded head.
2. Before : Episode 7. In the previous episode, Russ slapped his niece Ruth. Ruth is going to see her father Cade in jail the next day. Boyd comforted Russ and said that he doesn't have to worry about Cade getting revenge on you, he won't deal with his own blood. After : Episode 9. Ruth actually attacked his blood relatives Russ and Boyd, and the blue is better than blue.
3. Before : Episode 4. Marty asked Ruth: Have you ever said "thank you" in your life? Ruth just didn't say, saying that I should get the money. After : Episode 6. Ruth thanked both his brother and Roy.
4. Before : Episode 7. The local snakes said that Marty Byrde broke into Ozark and disturbed their life (fan) and life (du). After : the next scene. Jonah is watching a documentary about the European starlings invading the Americas and disturbing the ecology. Bird is pronounced the same as Byrde.
5. Before : O at the beginning of each episode.
After : Episode 10. Marty lies in the middle of the black trampoline.
6. Before : Episode 8. When Roy's ex-boyfriend made his first appearance, he was wearing a hospital uniform.
After : the next scene. Marty and Bruce ate in the hospital restaurant. Roy's boyfriend was at the table behind Bruce, indicating that Wendy lived in the hospital where he worked after the car accident. I originally thought this was to prepare for the follow-up plot, maybe Roy and Marty have known each other a long time ago, but there seems to be no follow-up. . . Right and be a little easter egg. To be honest, I didn't see any plot of Roy in episode 8 that it has a dime relationship with the main line.
7. Before : Episode 7. Charlotte went swimming, almost drowned, and resurfaced. After : Episode 10. The pastor almost drowned the baby and took it out of the water to find that he was still alive. Charlotte's story is also weird, if it's just to echo the rest, it doesn't seem to be that long. I don't know your screenwriter very well.
8. Before : Episode 5, Episode 7. The priest was shot in the chest when he stopped the robbers, but he escaped, so he believed that God was protecting him. This is the beginning of his faith. The next (jump to the present tense) picture shows him with a cross on his chest. After : Episode 10. The pastor's faith collapsed after experiencing a series of events such as the murder of his wife. He abandoned the Christian precept of "don't kill", wanted to drown his children, and maybe even commit suicide. The baby also escaped from the dead. So the pastor once again believed that God was protecting him. This is the rebirth of his faith. The next picture shows him drawing a cross to baptize the child. PS : There is a lot of controversy about the priest's intention to immerse the baby in the water. My thoughts are: First of all, he is not determined to baptize. No one baptizes people for that long, and the vicious movements and expressions in the front are not the same. Secondly, he didn't have to kill the child, but used him to test whether God blessed him, which is probably equivalent to second-degree murder. (It is written in more detail in the response below)
There are also a few things that are like prophecies, but have not yet been fully fulfilled:
1. Episode 2. Ruth said to Marty: "Why do I think that we both know you might as well die?" In addition to its role in the plot, this sentence itself also stands out because this episode is actually the real life of the protagonist Ozark. At the beginning, and it is also emphasized in the trailer, I don’t know if it is a true prediction of the ending or misleading.
2. Episode 5 (There are so many buried stems in this episode). Wyatt told Charlotte about the plot of "The Chronicles of Mars": Earthlings could not live on the earth, they ran to Mars, and finally found it to be useless, and they would suffer the same trouble on Mars. And on Mars, they will always be aliens. The innuendo is too obvious.
3. For the starlings mentioned earlier, Jonah kept saying that he would kill them, and the Sith was empty. . .
There are also some religious stalks.
1. Episode 5 (you again). Jacob said that in order to eliminate drugs, the local police once let go of the flood, "But man cannot tame what God wishes to be wild". But in the Old Testament, it was God who used the flood to destroy the sins of mankind.
2. Episode 6. Marty saw that the church had built the cross, and was so scared that he quickly called Wendy: "They put up a cross. Jesus fuck! They put up a cross."
Some of these designs are wonderful, some of which I don’t like personally (such as the metaphors of Martian and European starlings, there is a feeling of "so afraid that the audience will not understand"). But it is undeniable that the crew has worked hard on these small details. Just to shoot Del's head into an exploded melon, I have to spend some time making a model. On the other hand, this drama really needs to rely on stalks to adjust the atmosphere, or the bitter middle-aged life in the mountains and the countryside looks too depressing.
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