Today I will introduce an American drama "Relativity Universe Season 1".
Title Counterpart Season 1 (2017), alias Relative World / Copy.
This sci-fi American drama produced by Starz cable station focuses on the topic of parallel universes. The American dramas produced by Starz cable station are known for their large scale, such as the highly topical "Spartacus", "Black Sails" and "American Gods". When seeing the Starz logo, the audience will have a feeling of seeing the HBO logo.
This play is another interpretation of a parallel universe.
Parallel universes are a relatively common theme in American TV dramas, and "Edge of Crisis", which was just completed a few years ago, is the main theme of parallel universes. The topic of parallel universes has been enduring for a long time, and it is a very common setting in American comics. The recently hit "Avengers 4" also mentioned that disturbing the space-time gems will produce different forked parallel universes. Marvel and DC have many The derivative universe has created countless classic works.
"Relative Universe" tells the story of a different parallel universe through another perspective.
The plot of "Relative Universe" has the feeling of a battle between different technological development routes.
The whole thing happened 30 years ago during the Cold War. During the Cold War, all parties were developing killer secret weapons, trying to win the arms race. When everyone was scrambling to do the experiment, an accident happened. Scientists to the east have opened a tunnel underground that connects two identical universes.
When the tunnel was just opened, the two universes were exactly the same, and all the people, buildings, and technology were exactly the same. As long as you go through this passage, you can enter an exact same parallel universe.
Let's call the universe that our audience sees first, universe A, and the universe that we see later, universe B.
The fact that there are two universes at the same time is regarded as the ultimate secret by both governments, and only government officials are qualified to know.
The two universes conduct diplomacy through the "Ministry of Foreign Affairs", bargain, exchange various knowledge such as technology, biology, and geography, and are temporarily in a state of peace.
After the start of the play, the killer of universe B came to universe A to start a killing spree, looking for a specific target to start, and killing specific people at a fixed point.
This drama is not limited to the production of an American drama of the type of murder detective, but begins with it, involving a big conspiracy that affects the survival of the two universes.
Why do people in universe B hate universe A so much?
As the story develops, the ins and outs of things are explained. Shortly after the split between the two universes, a global flu broke out in universe B in 1996. However, there is no biomedicine in the B universe technology tree, and the raging influenza spreads rapidly, claiming the lives of 7% of the world's population within four years. With a population of 7.5 billion, 7% is 525 million people.
Although Universe A has always claimed that it has nothing to do with the flu, the extremists in Universe B have always believed that Universe A is the culprit whose purpose is to destroy Universe B, so the seeds of hatred take root.
The extremist terrorists of World B have always wanted revenge, plotting in secret for decades. With the funding of the mysterious man, terrorists select orphans who survived the pandemic as training objects. Training agents from the youth of the orphans, waiting to start a war between the two universes.
The big war is imminent, and after a carefully planned terrorist attack, the war between the two universes is imminent. The purpose of the protagonist Howard Silk and his party is to expose the terrorist conspiracy, find out who is behind the scenes, and prevent the outbreak of war.
The main attraction of "Relative Universe" is the performance of the actors. All the characters in the play exist in both universes at the same time. There is a lot of time for an actor to play different roles in the two universes.
As the protagonist of this show, J.K. Simmons' acting skills are amazing. J.K. Simmons as Howard Silk. He is an unknown low-level clerk in universe A, but a seasoned and capable senior agent in universe B.
J.K. Simmons spends a lot of time playing both characters on the same screen. The two characters are very different. J.K. Simmons clearly conveys the different states of the two characters to the audience through his expressive interpretation. His eyes may be confused or sharp, and his body language may be procrastinated or simply. He can accurately express the different states of different characters. Even if the two characters are in the same room, the audience will not confuse them at all.
Old Beauty Olivia Williams Olivia Williams as Emily Burton Silk. She is a senior agent on both sides, the roles are homogenized, and Emily of Universe A is in a severe coma, which reduces the difficulty of the performance a lot. She just needs to be a capable old agent of the B universe. Judging from Emily's performance, this role is unfathomable, and the follow-up will play a huge role on both sides.
Harry Lloyd as Peter Quayle. This is a secret agent supervisor who holds an important position at a young age. He looks like a talent, but his business ability is not top-notch. He usually likes health care. He also knew that the big reason why he was able to climb to this position so quickly was because he married the minister's daughter with his face. It is such a slightly sloppy person who has become an important breakthrough and the key to promoting the plot.
In addition, there are two actresses who have crossed over from the B universe and are very handsome and beautiful. Sara Serraiocco Sara Serraiocco as Baldwin, the killer lady is heroic and aggressive, and the goal of life is to kill only. Nazanin Boniadi as Clare. After the flu took away her parents, her tragic life officially began. She was held hostage in the B universe and became an infiltration tool. It was difficult for me to counterattack.
A universe is closer to the real universe in which our audience lives, and it is easy for the audience to have empathy.
The B universe is like a universe that went in another direction 30 years ago, opening a completely different technology tree. There are many high-rise buildings in the B universe, and it looks a bit cyberpunk from a distance. It has made, or is forced to make great progress in personal hygiene, but the communication method is very ancient, and landlines and mobile phones are all luxury goods. Only high-level people can enjoy it.
The play is full of espionage and suspense, each character is mysterious, and everyone is believable and unbelievable. The audience cannot simply and quickly understand the true thoughts of each character. They must follow the plot to gradually fully grasp the character.
Until the end of this season, except for the theme of Trust no one. throughout, the mysterious forces still did not show up. Just like the Go game that appeared at the beginning of the film, there are chess pieces on the stage. Everyone is just black and white pieces from universe A or universe B. It seems that there is only one dead end to get rid of the fate of chess pieces.
People who grew up with hate education in universe B have more or less changed in universe A. "I didn't have to choose before, now, I just want to be a good person", but under the push of the mysterious person, the possibility of being a "good person" is almost zero.
Of course, it's best not to dig too deep into the metaphors of this show, what the A universe and B universe correspond to the real world, and what the flu corresponds to the real world...
no one is clean,
Don't believe anyone.
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