"Ring Story" is not a hard sci-fi, but it is like "Interstellar Exploration" with sci-fi elements and brings deep insights. At the same time, I like both of them very much. "Loop Story" is about a group of people living in a small town with a loop. Loop seems to be a machine, but it's not just as simple as a machine. It controls everything and is the source of sci-fi in all stories. Each episode is different The story of the story, but each episode has its own connection, as if a thin line pulls everything together, and finally closes into a ring, which is the same as the title, the earth is round, the story is circular, and life is also around different points Surrounding, returning to the starting point at the end, these touching stories are not all so preaching, just use these trivial parting events and stories of chaotic life, which makes people sad and moving.
The chaos of time and space in the first episode made Lolita, an independent little girl, leave her mother. At the same time, she also met her adult self and learned about her situation in the second half of her life, but the boy who helped her she met was her. The future child, and now she also knows that the original child helped her, which is indeed a special feeling. Like "Arrival", she will play the role of her own mother with a script in her life, and her own mother did not do her mother's duty well. She stole things on the loop and wanted to study it, so she was confused by time and space. Punishment, but this is not only accidental, but also seems to be destined for the future to meet the present. When I was a child, I said that I would not treat my children like this, but it still hasn't been fulfilled in adulthood, but just like when my child met me when I was a child, "no mother wants to be a mother", people will eventually live out What I don't want to be, this is also life. The first episode seems to form a loop, which drives the story behind.
In the second episode, Lolita's eldest son Jacob and his friend Danny discovered a "big ball" that can swap bodies. Not only did they experience the fun of swapping bodies, but they were both disgusted with their future plans. After the exchange, he was able to meet the current arrangement for the future, but it did not belong to him in the end. Jacob wanted to exchange it but was rejected, and finally fell into the predicament of a vegetative state. Will we be in control of our own destiny, or will we be left with the destiny of others? No matter how many times we think about the lives of others, when the real opportunity comes, will we still be who we were? A misplaced life still cannot have everything others have, and the true self, no matter how tired it is, is the best and unique life that should be enjoyed.
The third episode is the protagonist of the girl Jacob likes, Mei, who meets the crooked boy in love, and discovers a device in the lake that can stop everything. When their blocked love is no longer hindered by the outside world, it can really be like the original Is that dry and fiery forever? In the case of enjoying everything at the same time, people's selfish desires are also expanding. After cutting off everything, do they want to return to their previous life? Or you can discover too many heartbreaking secrets, and there is always vulnerability between people, just like the last boy's "I love you", but you can't get the following
The fourth episode is the story between Lolita's youngest son Cole and his grandfather. In a big ball that can predict his lifespan through echoes, Cole heard his own echoes many times, but his grandfather no longer heard it. It seemed to herald his death.
It was in the face of this kind of death that there was so much to keep and remember, Cole couldn't accept everything, and wanted to seek the help of the loop, but was stopped by his mother. Death is the last part of life, and it is only with it. Integrity, we are afraid of death, and even more afraid that it will take away the people around us, leaving us alone, but death is a liberating thing. There are too many memories in the world. To be tortured by this feeling in front of death is even more so at the end. , Grandpa forgot everything, the only thing he remembered was his lover, and finally walked to the loop that he had guarded his whole life, and disappeared into the loop, as if the end of life and the origin were at the same point, surrounding the world, and returning to The homeland, those various memories and life, make people cry
Cole finally returned to the big ball that could predict life. This time he seemed to see his life, and he seemed to have walked this distance in this endless shouting, but all the results were death, we are more To cherish the scenery on this journey, that is the most important
The fifth episode features Danny's father and family as the protagonists. After his "son" became a vegetable, the family lived in grief. Danny's father has low funds, but he still wants to protect his family by himself instead of accepting help from others. Recently, the frequent thieves incidents have made the family even more worried. The deaf and dumb little daughter was harassed and made him He was determined to protect his family, but he went further and further in paranoia. In the eyes of others, he became the person who disturbed the people. This paranoid responsibility also accidentally hurt his daughter and his family in the end. He kept saying that his family was the most important. It is important, but he ignores the care and responsibility of his family. He always thought that he wanted to be the core of the family and take care of everything, but it made the situation worse and worse. In the end, he accepted everything calmly and let the family face it together. This is happiness The essential. At the same time, the "thief" who is worried day and night is his son Danny who has swapped his body. He can't do anything but guard the family he loves alone at night. After the person you care more about, there is always someone more than yourself. The unspoken love can only be remembered silently in your heart.
In the sixth episode, the doorman of the laboratory is the protagonist. He found himself on a tractor with a strange damage. He fell in love with the photo at first sight. He is a person who has a heart of admiration but cannot tell. He has not been found for a long time. Although he has met someone who is interested, he has no results because of his imaginary lover. After repairing the tractor, he went home and found another self. It turned out that this tractor was something that Loop took away from another parallel universe. After the repair, it was started and brought him back to the original world. In this world, that The person he dreamed of turned out to be his lover in this world, and that photo was also left on the tractor by him. The love and impulse all along made him want to have him very much, but it doesn't belong to him after all, but when a person likes it for a long time, he will get tired of it, and this new self is all new to him. , also had the impulse and attachment from the beginning, so he left a note to let them run away together, but he was betrayed in the end. In this world, he told him that the imaginary lover was not really that beautiful, he was outside He colluded with others and still didn't want to lose himself, which made him very sad. He went back to the bar where he met with a side and found him who didn't know him. He didn't expect that he who spoke no common language had the same He may just want to see himself more, or he may just fall in love with him. Coincidentally, the person who was put down by his beautiful fantasy at the beginning can have the same feelings no matter when and where, no matter time and space, love is always eternal.
The seventh episode is from Cole's father George as the protagonist, to tell why he broke his right arm and has a mechanical arm. He was played by his companions and stayed on the island of horror rumors. He was bitten by a poisonous snake and saw it. The unidentified creature who had a nightmare for a lifetime, after a day and a night of trepidation, the seeds of fear were planted in his heart, and whenever he recalled the original episode, it was always trembling, and this was more or less profound. Experience, the impression of childhood is the deepest, those nightmares growing up are also from childhood fears. Facing the painful experience of the past, facing is the only way, so I went back to the island, and only after my mother's understanding did I learn that the creature was created by my father (the grandfather of Cole and Jacob). The robot, and because it is not recognized by the outside world, my father can only send it to an uninhabited island to live a lonely life, but he never told himself the truth. Now he has left, leaving it alone, but also The unspeakable thing that my father has always kept silent. The nightmare at the beginning was his father's difficulty and his father's pain. He couldn't tell his son the truth, and it made him suffer for a lifetime. This is also his regret all the time. In the end, George Accepting all of this calmly and helping it,
The title of the eighth episode is "Going Home", which is also the most distressing episode. After swapping bodies, Danny guiltily told Cole all this, and also knew about "Danny" lying in the hospital It was his brother Jacob, but he also learned that the current Jacob's mind is on a robot, which is also hinted at the end of the second episode.
So he found his brother and told him that Danny was very guilty and felt that he was angry with himself, but at this time Jacob also accepted the current changes calmly, Cole could only bring his robot brother to find Mom looked for a way, but walked into a river that can travel through time. Before crossing, it was frozen, and after crossing, it was flowing water. This also implies that one side of the river is frozen time, and the other side of the river is flowing time. In the end, the robot brother fell down on the way. In desperation, Cole had to go back alone. The first thing he saw was the aging mother, and everyone around him had grown old except himself. Passed away, it was too late to say goodbye to himself, he hated the unfairness of all this, and just wanted to make everything back to the way it was before, brother Jacob, mother and father, grandpa and grandma, now everything is gone from him, leaving himself and mother alone live in the world. My mother said that no matter where she is, she will always be with her, and after thinking that everything is gone, she will only be left behind in the end.
Later, he found that his teacher was young and still confused, but he learned that she not only taught his brother who accompanied him, but also his own father and mother. Just created this more human-like robot No. 2, as she said, "change is part of nature", the world is changing, time has not stopped, and still facing the future, full of expectations
At last he climbed to the top of the building, where his grandmother had always said impossible to reach, and then he saw that this town was in his eyes, the whole world.
Cole returned to his home after many years, everything changed, seeing his brother on the side of the road going to school, thinking of himself and Jacob, now gone, and seeing his life in the big ball is still here at this moment. After the footprints, no matter where you go, you will eventually return to the original place, and the whole life will be closed as a loop, leaving traces of the story.
"Ring Story" tells too many things, family affection, love, growth, human nature, desire, loneliness and family, all in this small town, their stories are too delicate, so they are too touching, so slow and deep American dramas are also rare to see, and at the same time there is too much involvement between each episode, not only the robots that have been seen many times, but also the loop in the center of the world, which brings a unique feeling to these stories. Maybe all these stories are arrangements of loops. It controls all things in the world, waiting for us to discover changes. This is our own story, or it is the predetermined result of all things. We may be our own puppets, walk the life of their own unique expectations
Some people will criticize that science fiction is not like science fiction, the stories change one by one without a fixed protagonist, and the rhythm is slow, but this is also what I love, too many big truths are shown here, science fiction is not the focus, but the understanding of truth and humanity. The tools, and at the same time those extremely beautiful pictures, are also enviable.
After all, the truth of the story is: life is a closed loop. Our starting point and ending are always the same point. The most important thing is the decoration of life in the process. , cherish everything.
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