1. Sonnie's Edge 4 stars. The anti-Avatar story of post-Avatar, consciousness controls the body + Monster arena, the highlight is the reversal of anti-customer-based, the will to survive under fear becomes a survival advantage, in addition to the obvious tribute to aliens, brain synchronization and anti-kill also remind people of EVA (No. 1). Machine runaway is a famous scene of the originator of this type of theme).
2. Three Robots 3 stars. A machine-based tour of human ruins, similar to the follow-up to "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy", commenting on three commentary tracks of human activities from the perspective of a machine, which involves questions about the utilitarianism of life (why eat), and the post-Anthropocene scene reference A lot of apocalyptic films. Meow star people open their mouths to flirt with cuteness, too many videos have been used.
3. The Witness 4 stars. The double-sided triangle of the post-Triangle, a loop story of a Mobius ring, the art obviously borrows from "Ghost in the Shell" (closer to the cyberpunk Hong Kong style in the live-action version), embellished with hand-painted comic style, and SM pornography is too displayed. Eating heavy may point to the alienation of people.
4.Suits 3 stars. The action movie of fighting monsters and defending the home full of clichés should be borrowed from "Starship Fleet". The style and low-frame dynamics are similar to "Spider-Man: Parallel Universe". The scene where the monster steps into the room is like last year's "A Quiet Place". , the final ring of planets hints at extraterrestrial colonization, swapping defender/aggressor roles, which is ironic.
5. Sucker of Souls 3 stars. The attacking vampire Dracula itself may be more like a Predator with a certain ability to communicate than a pure other alien. The blood-splattered cross may be a provocation to Christianity. In addition, the setting and appearance of the underground monster is also similar to that in 2005. In the "Darkness Invasion", the tunnel tracking is too cliché, and the PS cats have become weapons again. The cat fight is exactly the same as the recent "Captain Marvel".
6. When the Yogurt Took Over 3 stars. The cut is small but quite dark and humorous, yogurt may allude to wheat, religion, mobile phones - domesticating human beings, the president's plot satirizes the stupidity of human politics, the yogurt bubbles make sounds, and "eat" baby montages.
7. Beyond the Aquila Rift 4 stars. Sensory deception/illusion grafted with extraterrestrial intelligence (it can be regarded as the fourth kind of contact), from the multiple switching shots of the same scene, I tend not to be the kind of person in "The Matrix" who simulates a virtual reality in a vat, but Is an enhancement/distortion of physical reality, similar to AR. No matter what method is used, the suspicion of reality is the point of suspense. The two statues of the Virgin have the function of mirroring the demon (or implying the loss of protection), which also reminds people of the devil who lied to me that Descartes said. The hibernation accident plot and the space honeymoon scene may draw lessons from it. The big cousin's "Space Passenger", the setting of extracting memory + hallucinating old people + thinking exchange, also reminds people of "Solaris" and Tarkovsky's adaptation movies, the alien intelligence first appeared from the cave Moment is like a woman's figure. This visual image shows how humans presume cognition, but the plot is still too curious (alien intelligence becomes spider spirit). This kind of theme is still based on the short films "Uncanny Valley" and "Black Mirror" S3E5 Pearl Jade. forward.
8. Good Hunting 4 stars. The legend of the fox demon is grafted with the steampunk-style Cyborg prosthesis, which seems to show a process of disenchantment with the flesh. "Stuck in a human shape" can also be regarded as a metaphor of some kind of oriental philosophy/style falling into modern civilization, from the magic east to the scientific west, Hong Kong is almost the only springboard, but Liu Yukun is obviously not satisfied with recounting the historical process, but wants to use disenchantment technology to revive magic, so the illusionary humanoid in the legend of Zhiguai has become a transform of the mechanical age, which is visually close to this year. The disadvantage of "Alita" is that the style and values of the times span too much, which leads to a disconnect between the front and the back, and the final destination is also quite shallow (superhero type film). However, Liu Yukun's efforts to draw closer and bridge the two worlds It still has current significance, including the moral awareness of equal rights between men and women, which is a kind of anti-Orientalism.
9. The Dump 3-star junkyard version of "The Monster of the Han River", retains the memory of eating, this setting is very familiar ("The Shape", "annihilation"?)
10. Shape-Shifters 3 stars. Werewolf vs werewolf, the military version of "Underworld", the values are a bit old-fashioned (criticizing racism of non-my races, the doggy soldier's name is like Negro), the transformation and fighting visual effects are excellent, with a subjective point of view lens (like playing CS games) ).
11. Helping Hand 3 stars. The heavy-duty version of "Gravity" + "127 Hours", the crisis management is more realistic, and an episode that resorts to real science in the whole season (but there are bugs in the air leak of the aviation suit and the error of the same sound in the vacuum), it is a trivial matter Paying a heavy price is also a true portrayal of space history, and the close-up of the residual arm at the end suggests a new accident cycle.
12. Fish Night 4 stars. This episode is very interesting. It uses the concept of haunting in human dwellings to project the ghosts of animals in a larger space and time span, but it is not limited to small fresh dreams, but there is a real danger of haunting in it (that is, really The style of painting reminds me of Foreman's "Waltzing with Bashir", but the core of the story is more like "The Fantasy Drifting of Pi", which can be explained by false memory, but what cannot be explained is surreal The imagination soars in the animation.
13. Lucky 13 3 stars. The well-established Zhongliang AI theme is a bit like the Tachikoma in the TV version of "Ghost in the Shell". This episode and 7, 10, and 18 are the highest level of current CG production.
14. Zima Blue 5 stars. From an ideological point of view, it is well-deserved the best of the season. Zima is not only a representative of AI upgrading to advanced intelligence, but also a symbol of the evolution of human intelligence. From some automated modules, to searching for the truth of the universe up and down, and finally returning to the original, back to the original point. This light of civilization, which has overcome thorns and thorns, has made a strong stroke in the vast universe. His image is also reminiscent of Dr. Manhattan in "Watchmen", high-energy, low-key, nostalgic, and truth-seeking. Speaking of Zima blue, most of it is a tribute to Klein Blue (and Hockney's swimming pool), but this color is more like Tiffany Blue... PS This style of painting is very familiar, but I can't remember it for a while.
15. Blindspot 3 stars. The teen version of the mechanical robber, the visual design including mecha armed is very cartoony in the 80s, the plot is quite boring, but the blindspot point constitutes a pun.
16. Ice Age 4 stars. Small but wonderful, the only real-life animation, in addition to the contrast in the spatial scale, there is also the difference in time and speed (this point is written in science fiction), open the refrigerator, see the vicissitudes of civilization in the world, and be watched by the world, it's really a bit I see how charming and beautiful the green hills are.
17. Alternate Histories 2 stars. You can choose history. There have been too many films of this type, from "Lola Run", "Butterfly Effect", "No Name", "Former Destination", "The Man in the High Castle", including "The Man in the High Castle" in Chaoying. X-Men: Days of Future Past", "Deadpool 2", I don't see any breakthroughs in this episode, maybe it's the South Park-style stereotype, and of course there are tributes / easter eggs, such as the sexy parallel time and space The posture on the bed imitates the poster of "Karaoke Hall" in 1972.
18. Secret War 3 stars. Grafting the epic national war into fighting monsters (introducing dark magic settings), the visual effects are quite good, but it is also very old-fashioned. It is estimated that making a long film is like a wandering earth.
To sum up, it is an intensive display of the plot bursts of sci-fi/fantasy films. By the standard of "big story" or compared with Black Mirror, Rick and Morty, the scientificity is not good, but the selected themes are worth noting. Tendencies, one is the strengthening/extending/reorganization of the body, and the other is the void/manipulation of consciousness. Most episodes are very prominent in sensory stimulation, so that the scale of sexual violence is astonishing, because through the senses, we can understand the duality of human body and mind. Possibility, or rather, possibility of transformation (albeit mostly reduced to action war cliches). The ideological development of the whole season is limited (compared to the animated version of The Matrix), but it is easy to use the "flow of type and re-creation of type" that Sid said, which may be a product of the Internet media era, skilled use of classic elements, for I use it, as the Cold War had on the Golden Three Heroes. The point of science fiction is that intelligence is greater than human beings, and civilization is greater than the earth, but we can only imagine within the framework of people on earth.
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