Original link: True warriors, dare to face the bleak life
A lot of people said that this episode was relatively bland, and indeed, this episode is really less eye-catching than the first two episodes.
But I think this episode just embodies another form of expression of sci-fi films - mapping another possibility of life with a certain sci-fi setting, and then triggering thinking about real life itself.
The logic of referring to the name of this official account [Sci-Fi Shell and Life Core] is that this type of work has a simple and thin sci-fi shell, but has a deep and heavy core of life.
I still want to explain to you that this article is only for commenting on the content shown in the play. It does not involve the original novel, and there are spoilers. It is recommended to read this episode before reading it~ First of all, I will first move to IMDb to introduce the content of this episode Let me show you two simple sentences.
Ed Jacobson, atrainstationemployee,isalarmedtodiscoverthatanumberofcommutersaretakingthetraintoatownthatshouldn'texist.Whenheinvestigatesforhimself,hecomesfacetofacewithanalternaterealitythatforceshimtoconfronthisownstrugglesaroundhisrelationshipwithhiswifeMaryandhisverytroubledsonSam.
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Those two lines also really reflect how I feel about the show: it's about a middle-aged man reflecting on his life and family. The protagonist Ed, the real life he faces is: his son suffers from a certain mental illness and has an increasingly violent tendency, and sometimes he is afraid of his son; his wife is disappointed and saddened by her husband's hypocritical life all day long. Her illness also made her very haggard; work was tedious, and the only pleasure seemed to be making jokes with colleagues.
So, it's no exaggeration to say that Ed is a Loser. The main setting in the film, Macon Heights, we might call it Escape Town , is a town that almost existed, where people have had unfortunate stories, but they chose to escape pain, daily Coming here to live a happy life.
The harsh truths of life are not allowed there because that would upset the balance of the town. I think the setting of this small town is similar to a trigger of an alternate world where people who come here can see an alternate reality. Linda, the daughter of the late designer of the escape town, is officially missing and suffering from the effects of her father's death, so she has been living in the town, burying the pain in her heart.
Linda seems to look for people who have suffered misfortune in real life and guide them to escape town, so she notices Ed who has a bad life, Ed also finds and successfully came to escape town, from the female reporter we know that some people are He wanted to go but couldn't find it, so Ed seemed to be "chosen" by Linda, and Linda wanted Ed to be happy here.
Ed's real life has changed since he first came to Escape Town: his wife's relationship with him has become gluey, and his terrified son has disappeared in reality. But he would see his son in a trance, and he still couldn't forget his son.
Strange things happened one after another, and I heard my colleagues say some strange things: Once the family is broken, it can't be repaired... Three children from different mothers... I know how many children I have...
I think this should be his auditory hallucinations caused by the influence of Escape Town. It seems that a lot of information from parallel worlds hit him. He felt that it was not real, so he came to Escape Town again. This time, the subconscious seems to be reminding himself not to indulge in this ideal town, which is too ideal to be real.
Returning to reality, he got off the train and thought for a long time.
The wife at home also told him that she was thinking about what would have happened, and Ed should have thought about it himself.
In the dream, he thought of his son, how much he loved him subconsciously, and had many happy times.
The third time he came to escape town, he wanted Linda to get back his son, he wanted to get back to his old life. He felt that people with problems could not just disappear just because there were problems in their lives. And Linda threw out her three reasons for the selection.
Indeed, Ed is very fit, but Ed firmly chooses his old life, he chooses to face it, solve it, fix it.
Back home, the world went back to the way it used to be, and the son came back, still mentally ill, but Ed was ready to face the bleak life and he was going to be a true warrior.
After all, Life is a struggle, but life is yet to come.
One last little detail, a man asking for directions at the station appeared twice.
It seems that his father asked him to come to this station. If he comes twice, it should be in the right place, so open a small brain: Could this be Ed's son Sam in another parallel world?
Ha ha! Pure entertainment!
Original link: True warriors, dare to face the bleak life
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