Story? myth?
After watching the movie, I thought about the message from the name of "Ring Story". Tales From The Loop, "tales" is translated as "story", which includes both myths and legends, as well as folk tales, with a certain mystery. If it is translated as "ring myths" and "ring legends", it would be biased. Because there is no "god", the background setting does not take place in ancient times.
It can be translated as "the story of the ring", but due to the common use of "story" in daily life and the strong realistic meaning, the strangeness and mystery are weakened accordingly, and these two points are exactly what "The Story of the Ring" is about. intuitive feeling.
sci-fi? Fantasy?
The film is neither sci-fi nor fantasy.
The film focuses on the narrative of personal stories, and science fiction seems to be only interspersed in it. The third episode with Mei as the protagonist and the fifth episode with Danny's father as the protagonist are mainly about the emotional communication from love and family, and the sci-fi elements are related to the related plots that promote the various "pits" that fill the "Loop". few. I have to say that "Ring Story" deals with the relationship between people very delicately and emotionally, but the first, seventh, and eight episodes are more balanced with sci-fi interspersed, "Stone Erosion", "Loop", "Island Robot", " The imagery of Jacob", "River" and related narratives that unmasked "Loop" appealed to me even more.
Ring Story is also a mechanical story. This is very innovative. How does modern mechanical metal relate to the story? Different from the general science fiction, the various robots inside look more artistic than technological, and are not made of special materials.
except this robot
Secondly, the machine has peculiar functional properties, but it does not come from people, that is, it is not given by people, but comes from "Loop", which has mysterious power (Loop is the panacea for explaining strange events in the film). Machinery contains metaphors. The blue robot, the spherical personality converter, the spherical life echo player, and the three cylindrical buildings that frequently appeared in the first episode are all closely related to time.
Unlike fantasy, because it also has a technological element and is built on the basis of a sci-fi world.
"Ring Story" reminds me of craters, is it because they are all "rings"? Is it its cold and lonely atmosphere? Or is the film simple and elegant? No, it's the pit it left behind.
What is etched stone? What happened to Loretta's mother? How did the girl Loretta get back? Why did my grandfather disappear when he was close to the etched stone? What did Cadiz travel through to the parallel world? What does the spinning hole in the ground mean? Did he go back? What happened to the robot on the island? What are the people working at the ring doing other than discussing math problems?
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Finally, my favorite detail is the variety of metaphors in the film.
My favorite content is the relationship between "Loop" and time. Time is not only a ring, but is connected and overlapped at a certain moment; time is three-dimensional and is the intersection of countless parallel worlds. So much so that it feels like a lot of people in the film have disappeared but not completely disappeared.
My favorite is Loretta.
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