The title is taken from a poem by Tennyson, recommended by Zizek
The six-episode miniseries is both melodrama and a catharsis that leaves reflections.
On the screen, an overly yellowed tone has a colonial or cinematic feel to the Age of Navigation.
Structurally, a flashback similar to the boxing drama "Big Little Lies" that was released not long ago was adopted. As soon as it came up, it was told that someone was going to die, and then began to retrospect the starting point of the incident. The rich people went to the island for vacation. The creators have constructed several interesting relationships: the hotel manager as a working class to the rich or expensive guests, the spa front desk to the heiress, the newlyweds with the disparity between the rich and the poor, the search engine executive woman and the husband who eats soft food, they The daughter who studies minority rights and her female classmates of color, and the only one who is not in an adversarial relationship is their son, has been called "the real fringe of today's society, and no one will want to hire a young white man who has graduated from college." ” (Political Ritghteous)
All kinds of chickens and dogs are staged in the hotel, lost "drugs" and jewelry, cheating, betrayal, repentance, burial of mothers, guests/rich people are vested interests and enjoy everything rightfully, while the oppressed white lotus And the person it represents seems destined to be like this, caught in a never-ending cycle... This is a tragedy, the only light of hope is the son called by nature, who at the last moment escaped from his family, Stayed in Hawaii in order to join the team of canoes paddling across the ocean.
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