To talk about the current media giant, it has to mention Netflix. To say it's just a video site would be superficial. It has very prominent advantages in movies and TV series.
Netflix's "Roma" was a big hit at the Oscars the other day. There are many wonderful things that you have seen but did not know that it is also the work of Netflix. For example, "Black Mirror" from the third season was purchased by Netflix, as well as "Stranger Things", which I also prefer, and "The Ballad of Busters Grugos" with an excellent story script, which created the Interactive Cinema's Black Mirror: Bandersnatch and more.
And what I want to say is this short and concise animation "Love, Death and Robots" produced by it.
You can see its positioning just by looking at the name. It is an animation that combines blood and science fiction.
Episode 1: Sonny's Predator
I won't go into the specifics, it will hurt the mood of the people watching.
This episode was bloody violent. The robot battle has a feeling of aliens versus Titans. The battle scenes are very cool and bloody. I didn't expect it to be larger at the beginning.
The story behind it surprised me. The constant switching of the dominant party is well grasped, and the heroine's character and sexual orientation are also prominent. Although it still cannot resist the bloody place, it is very exciting.
The theme of this episode should be violence and fear. The heroine was raped before, and fear haunts her heart, but she takes this fear as her advantage, and for the dignity she lost before, she has to fight for her life.
In fact, I think it also highlights a little feminism. At the beginning, the villain has been emphasizing that he wants the heroine to give up, thinking that the heroine cannot win at all, plus what happened before the heroine, and she is not weak, but to stand up and fight bravely, which is what women should do when they are oppressed
Episode 2: The Three Robots
This episode has a sudden change of style, which is the most relaxed and stable episode. Probably the most comfortable of all episodes, a rare one.
The whole episode is about the interesting things that happened when the three robots came to the human world. The robots in it are very cute and funny. One is funny, one focuses on taking pictures, and the other is short but cute
In this world, how should humans be suddenly extinct, because there are many remains of human corpses here, and the robots discussed here are also very reasonable
Finally, cats can talk to them. It should be unique to robots. They are going to extend their vacation because there are still many orange cats waiting for them here.
Episode 3: Witnesses
This episode begins to highlight the excellence and ambition of the film.
The sheer scale is both embarrassing and shocking. Only Westerners can make it so outstanding.
The style of painting is too comical, very similar to the previous "Spider-Man: Parallel Universe". There's also the stuff in it when he's having sex with a guy. I don't know if it's a real woman or a robot. It's very similar to the sex robot in an episode of "Rick and Morty."
The ending fell into a loop, but looking back at the front, although it feels a bit unreasonable, in order to enter this loop, we can only deviate from this development. But if both of them can calm down and say a few words, the latter might not happen, and the cycle will be broken, so I feel that it is a bit tough, not the powerlessness that is forcibly pulled into the cycle by the sense of fate Feeling, this is less than convincing.
But since there is a cycle, there should be a head. No matter who kills whom, it cannot be classified as unintentional, so it seems that someone must have murderous intentions. It's not illogical after all
But considering the length, the 13-minute animation doesn't have much time for you to develop the plot, so it's understandable.
In short, ideas and expressions are greater than the basics of the story
Episode 4: Mobile Armor
This episode can be understood as the story of alien invasion and then humans guarding their homeland, but the pattern has become smaller
The mobile armor has the feeling of "Pacific Rim", and the feeling that the protagonist has several armors to fight against many alien creatures is like playing a game. .
But aside from these, this episode is actually quite a routine, there is nothing particularly outstanding, the whole development is quite satisfactory, and the setting is not very novel.
It's great that the final footage highlights the entire Earth being lost, and it's worth mentioning.
It should also be said that, from the above picture, there is a ring outside the planet, which should not be the earth. My guess is that they were transplanted to other planets, and they were retaliated by local creatures, etc., which can be left to our imagination.
Episode 5: Soul Eater
This episode can be seen as the kind of expedition to an ancient tomb that ends up being chased and killed by the terrifying creatures inside. In fact, this is not too novel.
But, this episode is bloody and punctuated with laughs, and it's perfect for those who like to watch the genre
The style is also more Japanese
But the result surprised me, this terrifying creature is actually afraid of cats? It seems that cats can't be provoked these days.
All in all, this episode isn't great, but it's worth watching.
Episode 6: When Yogurt Ruled the Earth
This episode, I'm going to blow it up!
It's only 7 minutes, but it's scary! When yogurt becomes conscious and begins to rule the earth, we humans still trust it very much. What is the state of this society?
Satire politicians only play tricks on other people's good ideas, and yogurt is no longer limited to earth, but to outer space
The way yogurt speaks is creative
Humans thought they could solve their debt problems under the rule of yogurt, but they were so naive. Humans will only survive with the help of others, but they have become deformed. They have forgotten the previous model of human domination of human beings. Although they may not be too satisfied, at least they have not oppressed human beings. Has changed shape, just imagine, why are we not the same? Live well under the protection of others. Once others are good to you, you will trust others, but if others do too much to you, you will not be too angry. Once he leaves you, you will be yourself again. failed self.
This episode may also satirize the food issue, it mentioned China, and yogurt said that if the United States did not give them land, China had already promised to give them a province. What I want to express here should be China's dependence on food. This kind of yogurt flows into my country from foreign countries, which is a big part of their economic income. Once the West cuts off this source of income, economic growth will be another matter. We in China like this kind of foreign food very much now, but we can't make it ourselves. For example, we in China can't even manufacture refills, so we can only rely on imports.
I would also like to ask, what could be better than this kind of cryptic and short but punctuated irony?
Episode 7: Beyond the Cracks
The suspenseful feeling of rushing into layers and the ending is also open, but it is also very shocking.
The protagonists did have a machine failure and went to another place, but this place is indeed ruled by "spider spirits". In my opinion, "spider spirits" should be relatively friendly creatures. When the male protagonist happened, they crashed here. When they knew they wouldn't accept it, they put them in a dream, and during this period "Greta" was constantly learning to become more like her.
This can also be understood as those alien creatures learning to study humans. Just like humans will study those novel creatures, they are very valuable. Of course, they will not kill or destroy them, but create good conditions to nurture them, and the protagonists are the novel creatures being studied. Frightened.
In the end, the male protagonist woke up to see all this, and found that his previous companions were dead, but in the dream, the female companion stopped him and asked him to take a good look at everything around him. Obviously, she knew the inside story. But is this kind of dream interconnected? I don't think so, it's very likely that this is the male protagonist's inner self-consciousness, just like he was finally wiped out and brought into a dream to start over. And what this episode provides us may not be the male protagonist's first dream memory. He knows that this is just those alien creatures cultivating and studying themselves, but the self in the dream state does not know, and the real consciousness is buried deep in the heart, Converted into a female companion and wanted to resist all this, but it didn't work. Alas, sorry for the hero
Episode 8: I wish you a good delivery
This episode is purely Chinese, and the graphics are very well made. I doubt whether they hired a Chinese team to make it. The soundtrack in it is also very Chinese. Such a well-made animation must be given to the audience. The creator gives a thumbs up.
In fact, the theme of this episode is predation, in fact, I think it is more change.
This kind of change is not only the change of the times. It started from the ancient conquest of demons, and later changed to the era of machine industry. It also reflects the scene when China was colonized. The Chinese worked for the British, but they did not care that it was Chinese territory.
Then this change is also reflected in the story. The male protagonist and the others began to capture fox spirits, which is a kind of "predation" relationship. Later, this relationship became the "coexistence" relationship between the male protagonist and Yan, and then became Yan's relationship with Yan. The "predation" relationship of those who hurt her, this change is actually worth noting, but it still lacks strength in the story script. You can also think that this is an episode of revenge
The vixen in traditional Chinese culture was finally transformed into a robot by the British. This idea is actually a bit beyond imagination. How should I put it? It feels a bit to reflect the fact that China was colonized by the British in that era.
The last robot fox and punk city are good looking
Episode 9: Garbage Truck
The plot is actually quite simple, and the creature in the junkyard is also quite powerful. When I watched it, I always remembered that there was an episode of Swamp in "Ghost Show", which also killed others and made them a part of myself, which was quite scary.
Episode 10: Shapeshifters
This episode is not outstanding, quite ordinary.
My favorite scene should be when the protagonist enters the top of the mountain, the first perspective, plus the sense of game play, it's cool to watch, but it doesn't last long.
Why did the protagonist "Wolfman" join the human army to destroy their own kind? This is a question worth thinking about, maybe they were abandoned by the werewolf tribe? Or was it a hybrid between a werewolf and a human? leave it to us to imagine
They are not animals, and they should not be imprisoned by humans. Similarly, it is also reflected in our lives. We keep animals in captivity, such as monkeys, thinking that we will give them a good environment, but this is just a disguised captivity for them, they belong Nature belongs to itself, just like the tigers in "Pi" and the gorillas in "Rise of the Planet of the Apes", they have their own right to live their own destiny
Episode 11: A Helping Hand
The visual sense of "Gravity" is only more terrifying this time.
In the face of death, we can wait to die slowly, or we can work hard to fight for it.
I feel so sorry for the heroine. In order to return to the spaceship, I can only sacrifice my hand to obtain reverse thrust. If a person wants to live, he must have enough courage
"I must make small sacrifices for the great nothingness"
Episode 12: Fish Night
The best thing about this episode should be its style of painting. It's so beautiful. Although the plot is boring, it's so beautiful that it makes me feel like watching "Youth Pie"
Episode Thirteen: Lucky Thirteen
This urgency is very memorable, but in fact, there is nothing worth highlighting.
Regarding whether the fighter jet 13 has life, I think it is for sure, but the cliché of the story itself and the conventional story development make it difficult to become a good work.
Episode 14: Qima's Works
This episode is so poetic, why call it poetic? Because it gives me the feeling that it is like an ancient poem, which is familiar but can touch the feelings.
Zima is a robot, but the works he created are loved by people all over the world, but under the great influence of fame, few people know his real experience and life.
He was invented by humans, and his first masters gave him wisdom, and the first thing he saw was blue tiles.
When I am tired, it is like going home, all the familiar and dear people around me have left, and the people who are left in this world are those who do not understand their own works but who say they like them with hypocrisy. As the times changed, he felt more and more hypocritical and ethereal, and finally, he created the last piece of work-the swimming pool tile that he first saw when he was born.
he's going home
Episode 15: Blind Spot
It's pretty mediocre. Whether it's in terms of story or style, it's not as good as the fourth episode. Do you think this episode was made out of a sense of progress?
Episode 16: Ice Age
The concept and ideas of this episode are good, and it is also played by real people. A couple sees their refrigerator is interpreting the progress of the world's life era.
After reading it, I not only have a few conjectures, but the world that the refrigerator began to experience can finally jump out of the refrigerator (just like humans walked out of the solar system), they will not come back, and the refrigerator has started the evolution of the ice age. . Not only do I think, maybe we're not really the first generation of people on this planet? Before that, did human beings have been born and then reached a very high civilization after hundreds of thousands of years, then left the earth, the solar system, and sailed into the distance, but did not expect the earth to give birth to our current generation of human beings, or, we It's just like them in the small world of the refrigerator, but we have not yet reached such a high level of technology, but we are arrogant, think that our thousands of years of development may only be a few minutes of more advanced civilization? They stared blankly at the development of our civilization, and then wars, the destruction of the earth, and the development of outer space. Humans feel that they are gods, but they are actually just the corner of their little "refrigerator".
Episode 17: Alternate History
This episode is very interesting and simulates 6 different ways Hitler died
It even paints a different history of the moon landings
That last picture is funny too
Episode 18: Secret War
This episode is also the snow version of the monster fighting game, which is a little exciting and bloody.
The details are well laid out. From the tragedy that I saw in the village to buy the foreshadowing for the appearance of the monsters behind, the relationship between the young man and the captain is also just right, and the last sentence of "father" is also very subtle and touching.
Other than that, there's nothing special about this episode.
Summary: I am very surprised and liked by "Love Dead". Although not every episode in it is so exciting, it is at least well-made, and many of them have advanced thinking and dare to do it. It has been a long time since our country was able to shoot these If something comes, then it can be considered a true parallel to the West. Everyone else has made these animations. We are still talking about those family love things, which makes me feel very backward.
Outside of episode 6 Yogurt and episode 7 Crack, episode 16 Ice Age is my favorite episode.
In the end, typing is not easy. Like and forwarding is the greatest support for me. If you have any other opinions, I will be happy to communicate with them, thank you.
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