In the opening of "Love, Death, and Robots", each episode always appears not only with the title symbol representing the three words "love, death, and robot", but also three other symbols that greatly summarize the plot of the episode. This is a completely different new symbol, some generalize the characters, some highlight a certain detail of the story, and some very implicitly suggest the idea that the author wants to express when creating the short film.
The first episode (PS: Netflix Chaos) Sonny's advantages:
Love + Death + Snake Totem of Team Sonny
The reason Sonny refused Dico's request is because if she fails in the game, she will face the complete death of the spirit transplanted into the monster's body.
When the white-haired woman introduced Sonny’s tragic experience to Dicko, Sonny in the picture stepped on a pool of broken glass on the ground, unconscious, which actually implies that her current human body is just an empty shell. .
Three robots in the second episode:
Robot + spoiled burger in restaurant
What’s interesting about this short video is that it looks at human behaviors from the perspective of robots (third parties), and we see them as if we are watching animals in a zoo. (But the short film also shows their limitations through the medium of cats)
The third episode of witnesses:
Ouroboros (representing infinity and infinity, suggesting the cyclic structure of the short film) + prostitutes wearing plastic uniforms in erotic places + moving eyes (referring to witnesses who saw the murder)
This episode is a very popular time-space cycle story, but the most ingenious setting is that the positions of the hero and the heroine are reversed each time the cycle is repeated.
The male protagonist first appeared in the screen and killed the female protagonist 1, and was seen by the female protagonist 2. It can be inferred that the male protagonist was the role of the female protagonist 2 (victim) in the timeline of the female protagonist 1, but when he successfully countered After killing, he became the role of the perpetrator in the heroine 2 storyline.
When the male protagonist finished killing the female protagonist 1, he saw the female protagonist 2 outside the window looking at him, recalling what he did in the timeline of the female protagonist 1, he already understood everything, he chased the female protagonist 2 to want Explain clearly and return your innocence (searching for the truth).
But what he didn't understand was that the role of the perpetrator was mortal, and he had no other choice. He finally completed a new cycle in the interweaving of the heroine 2 swords and blood.
How the story begins is actually not important, because this is already a "chicken or egg" paradox.
The fourth episode of mobile armor:
Hank's tea + house + cow
The key to this episode of the short film is the issue of "position". As humans, we will naturally treat humans fighting ugly alien monsters as a square, but when we fight against "alien monsters" wishful thinking, it is true. Must be right? The planet picture at the end explains it all:
We are cultivating land on other planets, and those "monsters" bravely broke through the barriers just to regain the homeland they depend on for survival.
Episode 5 Soul Dipper:
Soul sucker + "Cross" + research assistant cut in half by soul sucker
The professor called the soul sucker in the film the king of vampires, which is worthy of the name. His prototype is the ancient Romanian Grand Duke Vlad III (nicknamed Duke Piercing, the professor mentioned in the short film, and some subtitle translations may be ignored). He is brutal and violent, because he suffers from blood-seeking symptoms and many fears. The behavior of people has become the prototype of the famous vampire Count Dracula, and his name has now become completely synonymous with vampires.
The sixth episode when yogurt rules the world:
Yeast + yogurt + strawberries used when the people protested against the rule of yogurt
When the usually inconspicuous small objects become the masters of the world...This episode is very nasty.
Beyond the crack in episode seven:
The superposition of dick and heroine's breasts (sexual temptation) + iced wine + the real appearance of the hero
Good harvest for the eighth episode:
Love + gear + vixen
Episode 9 Junkyard:
The lighter the old man wanted from the city inspector + caused death + the garbage monster "raised" by the old man
This episode is rather environmentally friendly. The clean city inspector represents those who make rubbish, but he is eventually swallowed by the rubbish he made.
The tenth episode of the shapeshifter:
The "dog tag" on the wolf soldier (slavery) + the death of a friend + the moon that awakens the wolf soldier's animality (awakening)
Eleventh episode helper:
Love + Death of Alex's Left Hand + Christmas Tree in Alex's Space Capsule? Pendant (foretelling going home)
The twelfth episode of the recovery of ancient fish:
Mid-Moon (Mid-Moon Phantom) + road signs on the side of the road + hooks (there used to be an ocean, the hooks imply that the car broke down and stopped here)
Episode Thirteen Lucky Thirteen:
Lucky 13 has "heart" + death + horseshoes (representing good luck)
The fourteenth episode of Qi Ma's works:
The first square: the blue square tiles wiped when Zima Lan was just a simple pool sweeper
The second square: Zima Lan’s blue square paintings that have been searching for truth over the years
The third square: Zima Lan ends his search for truth and returns to his original self
There is quite a kind of Eastern Zen in which mountains are mountains, mountains are not mountains, and mountains are still mountains.
Episode 15 Blind Spot:
The "rat" who interfered with the chip stealing plan + the death of teammates (dilemma) + Su Yi's mechanical finger lighter (breaking the game)
Episode sixteenth ice age:
The power socket transmits electricity to the refrigerator (origin of civilization) + generation of refrigerator civilization (the ice block of the mammoth) + nuclear bomb explosion (the end of civilization)
The seventeenth episode is not the same history:
The first ×: Hitler's original death
The second ×: Hitler's new death
Clock: change history
Conclusion: No matter how history changes, history will always continue and repeat itself.
PS: There is a way to die and pay tribute to the famous song and dance film "King Hall"
The eighteenth episode of Secret War:
The death of the village + the death of the secret police + the Soviet Red Star representing the squad
The death of the village is the first key point of the short film, which brings out the current situation of cholera in the team.
The death of the secret police on the snowy mountain is the second key point of the short film, which brings out the root cause of this cholera.
Although the team members are powerless in the context of the great era, they ultimately chose to sacrifice themselves to continue their hope of life, which interprets the meaning of the red star.
PS: There are many places, I know I haven’t looked carefully enough, welcome to discuss them in the comments, thanks!
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