To be honest, I restarted watching Frozen at the urging of my friends over and over again.
I clicked on the first episode of this show when it was just broadcast the year before, but I didn't even finish it. As a historical drama, it has the biggest feature of this genre: slow heat. From the first episode to the third episode, there was almost no fun. Finally, in the third episode, the father of the male protagonist finally showed the strength of "war ghost" and started to show off his skills. Unexpectedly, he received a box lunch in the fourth episode. Eat deflated for two episodes. At this time, more than a month has passed, and the audience with the attributes of an old mother may still stay and continue to care about the mental health of the male protagonist Torfin. At this time, a large part of the audience may gradually lose the motivation to click on him every week . Isn't this just telling everyone about the tragic life experience of the hot-blooded male protagonist? Is there any need other than procrastination?
Necessarily, this is the foundation on which all the main characters can stand.
Thorfen's father Thors, his death was like a seed buried in everyone's heart. In an objective sense, the seed that everyone gets is the same, it's just a difference in the way of looking at it, just like Thor Elphin chose hatred, and Asherat chose enlightenment. These are the two most important story lines in the future, and the dramatic conflict that ignites these two lines is inseparable from the emotional collision of the two characters. There are so many characters that it is easy to have a situation where the narrative is confusing and people can't set up. Wit is very smart and chose to put only one main actor on the stage of each scene. The actor in the first act is Torfin. The actor in the second act is Asherath. At this time, the wisdom of the screenwriter is reflected. It only took six episodes to set up both characters. No matter how you write down in the future, you can let these two characters decide where to go, and you don't need to deliberately arrange actions for them. In other words, the characters are now "alive".
And good historical works must have an epic feel. This is also what I like most about The Battle of the Ice and Sea. He uses the conflict of characters to successfully show the changes of the times. There are similar techniques in "Farewell My Concubine". There is no lengthy background description, only the perilous situations encountered by the protagonists, and the small gossips, behind which are the magnificent stories written in the unpredictable and turbulent times. The characters show the story, and the story sets off the characters, and the pattern of the work is reflected here.
Finally, let me say a few words about Asherat.
The character of Lao Xie is very complex, and the animation took almost an entire season to shape his image, and it was very successful to make him appear on paper. He hated everything, including himself, but was secretly proud of his illusory bloodline of King Arthur; he was selfish and exhausted, but in the end he gave up himself for the situation. It all makes him both a hopeless jerk and a hero. His mixed feelings for Torfen may also be due to hatred of his own past, but he also knows that it was that experience that made him who he is today. He wore a mask all his life, and only at the last moment of his life did he return to his true self, that madman with clear love and hatred, outspoken.
This is really a very good work, not the kind of "as long as you can survive the first few episodes", but "as long as you can calm down and listen to the whole story". I hope everyone can stop for a little while in pursuit of pleasure. In the snowy night, hold a horn cup full of good wine, sit around the bonfire with others, and enjoy this epic story quietly.
(I started to carry private goods, I don't want to read the following sentence, I can turn it off now)
(Although, why would anyone read such a movie review?)
(Why would someone compare him to that blade? How can these two be on the same level? How much are you used to??)
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