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A few days ago, I talked about the drama "Uploading the New Life" ( even if the sequel has to wait a year, more than 10,000 people will finish the first season quickly ), compared to the former's bad taste, fast rhythm and mix of elements, " Ring Story" appears to be deeper and slower.
The original English name is Loop in Tales from the Loop . Personally, I think it has two meanings. One is that the story revolves around the local magical institution "Loop", which can be said to be used as a proper noun. The other layer is the meaning of the "ring" itself. The eight stories are relatively independent, but the characters are related to each other. Although they are not completely linear narratives, they will be linked to each other and continue. It feels like going around in a circle and returning to a few A loop on the protagonist.
The 8 stories are also shot by 8 different directors, including the director of "The Handmaid's Tale" and "The Ice Storm" , as well as the director of "The Coquettish Lawyer" and "Stranger Things" , and the finishing work of the last episode is more It was handed over to the famous actor and director Jodie Foster to complete it.
The play is based on the sci-fi paintings of Swedish writer Simon Stalenhag , who also acted as the screenwriter himself. Most of the fictional technological equipment and buildings in the play are directly adapted from those depicted in the original work.
Of course, the creation of the film still has new elements to come in, the producer of the show (and another screenwriter besides Simon) Nataniel Halpern (Nataniel Halpern) hopes that the new design in the show will also All match the image in Simon's painting. Therefore, he also asked Simon himself to be a design consultant.
With that said, it's a visually appealing show, and while not every story is that great, there's always one that touches your heart.
1 Meet your past (future) self
If we see such a still, we are usually accustomed to guessing, or in other words, the mother-daughter relationship is what immediately comes to mind.
The two people in this still are actually the same person, but they are from different time and space.
The little girl Loretta found that her mother Alma was doing research at home with a piece of etched stone taken from the laboratory. When the light flickered, the glass in the room cracked, an ominous sign.
The next day, when Loretta came back from school, she found that her house had disappeared, her mother was missing, and only the etched stone fell in the middle of the snow.
In the jungle, Loretta met a little boy , Cole , who wanted to help her find her mother, because according to Loretta's description, Cole felt that her mother Alma should be with his mother. work for an agency.
The place is known locally as the Loop, which is the " Mercer Center for Experimental Physics " mentioned at the beginning of the episode.
When we get a call from security guard Cadiz, we see Cole's mother's shocked expression, and the audience guesses that she must know Loretta's mother. The truth is, it 's more than just knowing, because that's her own mother, and the little girl is herself from the past. This episode mainly tells about the meeting of two Lorettas. The sci-fi element is the setting of traveling through time and space, which is more like explaining a history of adult Loretta, as well as the other little protagonist Cole who leads the film.
From the perspective of childhood Loretta, it is to meet the future self. The director of this episode is Mark Romanek , who directed the film "Don't Let Me Go" based on the novel of the same name by Kazuo Ishiguro .
2 swap bodies
The second episode focuses on the story between Cole's older brother, Loretta's eldest son , Jakob, and his friend Danny .
Two people discover a strange device in the forest that completely changes their lives. This alien-like sphere aroused the curiosity of the two young people. After Jacob got into the cabin, he found that the two bodies could be interchanged.
The two decided to swap bodies with each other and just try it for a day, but things got out of hand. Realizing that his life prospects would be better if he became Jacob (he could go to work in the loop), Danny decided never to change his body again. In desperation, Jacob, who took Danny's body, decided to go to the cabin by himself to replace his body, but fell unconscious and was admitted to the hospital.
At the end, the audience sees that two people need to be present at the same time because of the body swap, and Danny's absence causes Jacob and the robot in the forest to swap bodies.
Now, the word "thinking and terrifying" is often used, thinking that if real life is as bizarre as the show, Jacob's life is too miserable. There is a very interesting scene in the play. Danny with Jacob's body sneaked into his room, retrieved his own spider, passed the living room, and saw only his sister Beth , who couldn't speak, was there watching . she. Danny tells Beth in sign language that he (Danny), his brother, is actually here. However, no matter whether you can speak or not, this inexplicable matter can only be continued in silence, waiting for time to open up the dusty topic.
Anyone who has read a little science fiction story knows that "body swapping" is not a new setting, and they all use this to ask the complexity of human nature: Is other people's life really better than yours? Different from the history of Loretta himself thrown out in the first episode, the affairs of the Loretta family will be explained later. 3 If time stands still, there will only be me and you in the world. The third episode moves from Jacob's line to May, the Chinese girl he likes .
Jacob had a crush on May when he didn't swap bodies with Danny. After swapping bodies, Danny realized his love affair with May through Jacob's body.
But this relationship is not what May especially wants (it may have something to do with Danny in Jacob, who can't tell) while she is tired of Jacob, she is also from Asia, with disabled feet The boy , Ethan, is on good terms.
Obviously, this kind of behavior of stepping on two boats is not a blessing. When she was having an affair with Ethan at home, she was caught by her mother, and Ethan slipped away embarrassedly. What turned the situation around was Mei's curiosity. She picked up the time stopper by the river and repaired it, and the person wearing the wrist would not be stopped by time.
The two reveled for this. The craziest scene was that they had sex in the middle of the street, and the people around them were still, which became the three-dimensional background of their nonsense.
They also steal their favorite items from supermarkets and shops. But the good times didn't last long. All of this was due to a problem with the time-stopping machine. Back in the past, in the process of looking for parts to restore the machine, Mei found a mother who was being cheated on by time-stopping .
This made her collapse instantly, and when arguing with Ethan, she called him a lame.
Realizing the aphasia, Mei ran to look for Ethan, only to find that he had taken off his bracelet and stood still. After recovering time, May ended the relationship with Ethan, because she believed that Ethan's act of taking off the bracelet meant choosing to say goodbye to her world.
In addition to the romance between the two, it is worth reflecting on the scene of seeing her mother cheating, although she is dissatisfied when she sees her daughter having a tryst with other boys, and she herself is an cheater away from home.
When Mei's father and Mei were fishing by the river, Mei lamented that nothing in the world could last forever, but his father replied like this (subtitle below):
Yes, together there is no forever. 4 Facing death
Cole's grandfather Russ (Russ) , the founder of the Mercer Physics Laboratory Center, is actually the first person to appear in the show .
The content of the fourth episode, in fact, has very little sci-fi elements, and only talks about one thing: how Cole faced Lars' death.
Cole loved his grandfather so much that he couldn't accept Russ' impending death. Russ had told Cole that he was doing research to make the impossible possible .
Therefore, Cole also hopes that the underground world of the Physics Research Center can save the grandfather, but that is unrealistic.
The touching part of this episode comes from the same place, which is the scene in the main poster of the play (the header image of this article). This cabin seems to be the one used to swap the body in the second episode. Enlarged version.
Russ asked Cole to shout "Hello" in it, and he could hear his own echo. The number of echoes indicated Cole's lifespan. There is no specific explanation in the play, but the audience can infer that a voice is almost an age group, such as 10 year.
Cole asked his grandfather to shout, but there was no response, before he realized his grandfather's life was coming to an end.
After his grandfather died, he came here alone and shouted "Hello", we can see a few shots of Cole's future life, and a group of fireflies appeared in the cabin, which was the same as the fireflies at the beginning of the play. echo.
Although the theme is heavy, it is also a relatively warm ending in these episodes.
By the way, grandfather Russ is played by Jonathan Pryce, better known as "High Sparrow" from Game of Thrones. 5 A Man's Family Responsibilities
The pain caused by the second episode continued to this episode. The Danny family lived in a very embarrassing situation. After all, there was a lack of a young man to earn money to support the family, and the parents had to pay for the medical bills for this sleeping body.
Danny's father , Ed, has a stressful life, and he is worried about money when things worsen. He saw someone watching his daughter standing by the window in his yard one night, and his colleagues always said that strangers broke into the house before, which made him have a strong sense of insecurity.
Taking away the advance salary, Ed bought a robot that was originally used for picking up garbage. Putting the sensing device on the body, the robot can follow the actions of the human, and he leads the robot to stand guard at night to protect the safety of the family.
But over time, his behavior attracted the resentment of the neighbors around him. After all, when he was on patrol, the robot moved a lot, and at the same time, it was also a dangerous role.
Jacob (Danny) takes back the toy he once gave to his sister Beth from Bad Boy and tells him to put it in the garage. The younger sister, who wanted to get the toy back, quietly ran into the garage, and was found by the alert Ed who started the robot to capture the "villain", but almost hurt his daughter.
Because of this incident, the wife took her daughter to live with relatives. Ed also realized that there was a problem with the direction of his life. He repaired the electrical box at home, returned the machine to the woman who picked up the trash, and redeemed the money.
That's what he really should have done to call back the mother and daughter, and even though Danny's tragedy has happened, life has to go on. 6 Always have a relationship of your own
Episode 6 is about Gaddis, a black man who works as a security guard at Mercer .
Similar to Loretta in the first episode, Cadiz met another self because he successfully started an abandoned tractor, and it was the Chinese girl who stopped playing during the second episode to help him get the drive accessories. plum.
It's just that this time it's a parallel time and space, and he meets a self of the same age and looks exactly the same. In the tractor there is a handsome white man playing the piano who has always been the object of his sexual fantasies.
The worst thing is that the other self really loves and lives with this dream lover. Cadiz starts his tractor but can't return to his own plane, so he stays and lives with the lovers.
It is conceivable that the person you admire is in front of you and gets along day and night, how can you not arouse Cadiz's desire, he becomes a spoiler, a passive trespasser.
Although neither the other self nor the handsome white guy meant to drive him away, he had no choice but to leave. Is it really impossible to live well in this time and space?
At the end, we saw that at the beginning of the episode, there was a white man who worked in "Mercer" who had "sexual interest" in Cadiz. Unexpectedly, in another time and space, this man met him in a bar again.
This may be the real fate of Cadiz, or the real reason for coming to this time and space. The two have common hobbies (both are bird lovers, please don't think too much here), and they chatted together.
With an open ending, people naturally hope that they will eventually come together. 7 Father's Inventions
The characters that appear at the beginning of this episode have never been seen before, and when the teenager's prosthetic limb is discovered, the audience realizes that this is the history of Cole's father, George.
George's father, the deceased Mr. Russ, once created a "monster" and sent it to an isolated island across the river. No one dared to go, for fear of encountering danger.
George was tricked by two companions to the island when he was young, and his arm was eventually amputated after being bitten by a strange creature. In self-defense, he attacked the robot-like monster with an electric baton one night on the island.
So it wasn't the guy called a monster that caused George to break his arm. But this old story will still appear in George's nightmare, and he needs to talk to his mother.
The question hidden in his heart is that after returning from the island that year, his father did not let him tell what he saw and heard. George asked his mother the truth. The mother said that the artificial intelligence robot that was created was sent to the island by his father Lars, not because he was afraid that it would hurt humans, but because he was afraid that humans would hurt it.
In order to get rid of the shadow left by this incident, George went to the isolated island again alone. When he saw the robot again, he found that the other party also had a broken left arm, which was given by his electric rod.
George seemed to understand his father at this moment, and took off his prosthesis and put it on the ground as an apology and gift for his father's masterpiece. The prosthesis in the photo above is said to have been designed by the original author, Simon Starlenhager. The image of the robot in this episode also comes from another of his paintings , Things from the flood . As can be seen from the cover photo, the image of the blanket in this episode is indeed based on this. 8 In the blink of an eye
Jacob's business is not over yet. In the last episode, the younger brother Cole wants to find the real brother. Danny with Jacob's skin told Cole the truth, and Cole finally found his brother who had turned into a robot in the woods.
Unable to save his grandfather's life, Cole was heartbroken, and this time, he decided to do something for his brother. He took his brother to find his mother to solve the problem, and in the middle of the fight with another robot, he injured Jacob's body, and he failed to last until the end. Cole still lost his brother, the world is so unpredictable, and life is always impermanent.
Cole surrounds the robot brother's body with his favorite pine nuts. And he walked over a ravine that turned from ice to stream and then froze again. It was this "mistake" that made his time in the forest equal to decades in the original time and space.
Going back to "Mercer" to find his mother, Cole, found that her mother has gray hair. Earlier, in the fourth episode, Lars was about to pass away, and when he handed over his seat to Loretta, he said such a sentence "Blink of an eye"
Time passed, generation after generation, and the teacher who lent Cole's book never grew old. She also taught Cole's mother. The truth is as follows, the style of painting is suddenly a little scary, it turns out that he is another robot made by grandfather Russ...
Cole said the same to his son as an adult. What Russ said to Loretta about "the blink of an eye," and what Cole said to his son, is what we normally understand about the passage of time.
The difference is that Cole has personally experienced the wondrous moment in the blink of an eye. His short time in the woods has indeed made his family wait for him for countless years, and he has not been able to witness the death of his father and grandmother. It can be seen that there are always such and such misses in life.
Before the adult Cole came along, we saw Jacob (actually Danny) introduce his daughter to Cole and he played with his niece of his own age.
In the whole play, this kind of intertwining of time and people has dispelled the sense of absurdity, so that you can see that even if some things change unpredictably, there is always the human heart.
Seeing Cole with a camera on his back, it seems that he saw Yang Yang, the protagonist of the movie "Yi Yi" directed by Yang Dechang. Maybe they are all shooting the truth that people ignore in life.
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