If you use the analogy in the form of literature, then "Secret War" should be the most complete story, a very neat short story.
The styles of the stories in "Love, Death and Robots" are different, and some of them are also easy to produce literary associations: "The Recovery of Ancient Fish" is like a prose poem, and "Beyond the Aquila Rift" is a short sci-fi suspense. , "May there be a good harvest" and "Transformers" have an adult fairy tale temperament, "Lucky Thirteen" is like an autobiographical prose, "Three Robots" is a little geek style essay.
"Secret War" is my favorite among the 18 stories. In less than 15 minutes, it presents a very complete story with a particular age and distinctive style; it is like a standard short story. The clear frame of the story includes the beginning, the inheritance, the transfer, and the combination. The characters are bright and short. I would like to do reading and appreciation of the ways to share this story, so to the next can involve a lot of spoilers, mind friend, please pay attention to avoid.
If you treat it as a short story, I want to give it another title, just call it "Gunshots, Balalaika and Birch Forest" .
【rise】
At the beginning of the story, a seemingly well-trained army detachment came to a deserted village.
The protagonist and the main character have been shown in the switching of several shots: the lieutenant, the adjutant, the red beard soldier, the scout who looks like a Tunguska, and the immature big-eyed soldier . The audience/readers can quickly judge from the environment, the appearance and clothing of the character, especially the red heart on the hat, that this should be a squad of the Soviet Russian army.
There was no dialogue for the first minute or so. The audience/readers and the soldiers were in the same perspective, only narrating through the language of the camera, showing the situation of the village bit by bit.
The close-up shots of the young dead are an intuitive stimulus to the audience/readers, creating a sense of inhuman cruelty and horror.
After the characters appeared on the stage, several shots were used to show the miserable situation of the village, so that the audience/readers could understand that only a small group of monsters can create such a terrifying situation, further highlighting the terrible monsters.
After showing the background of the protagonist and his party, the story laid the first foreshadowing: with such a brutal monster and such a difficult task, why is only one army sent over?
The adjutant’s doubts, the lieutenant’s answer: It turned out that more than one team was sent, but they were all separated
While laying the groundwork, the rendering of the horror atmosphere is also a little bit deeper
At this time, the story advances to the first climax: a ferocious, swift and secretive monster appears.
At the same time as the first climax appeared, the relationship between the characters was also rendered at the same time:
After the negative core role was displayed, the second foreshadowing was buried: the scout found a Red Army corpse, but the dead was not a soldier like them.
Is there any connection between the secret police and the monsters here?
Rear missions in wartime, teams ordered to separate, plague-like monsters, dead secret police
The basic information of the story has been explained here, and the next part will explain the previous foreshadowing/foreshadowing.
【Inherited】
Before coming into contact with the monsters, the lieutenant was confident to kill the monsters; but after a small conflict, the lieutenant who had survived saw the distress signal sent by other teams under the mountain and thought of his dead and injured teammates. Facing the scout's questioning eyes, he shook his head gently.
While showing the psychological changes of the lieutenant, the portrayal of the main characters is still in progress. It can be seen that the lieutenant has taken care of the team members, and the team members next to the fire are also illuminating each other.
The story has now completed the basic foreshadowing: it is said that during the Battle of Stalingrad in World War II, the location can be presumed to be the Siberia region of the Russian Far East. The relationship between the character and the character is also clear, especially the lieutenant's strictness to the soldier: this is a relationship deliberately inked in the whole story, which naturally makes the audience/readers pay more attention to the interaction between the two.
The story reached the half, began to [secret police] before bedding explain: original to that monster is dead calls from the secret police.
Although the red-bearded soldiers felt that they were being used as guns by their superiors, the lieutenant still insisted on completing the task of destroying the monsters.
Foreshadowing 1: [Single-action squad] and Foreshadowing 2: [Secret Police], this is explained in this undertaking part: During the Soviet-Russian Civil War, the Red Army dispatched secret police to perform witchcraft activities to summon evil creatures in order to achieve victory during the Soviet-Russian Civil War. Control evil objects to enhance combat effectiveness; as a result, stealing chickens is not enough, not to mention the failure of the mission, the monsters that were summoned began to wreak havoc among the people.
Since the rampage of monsters is a historical issue and a "policy error", this leaves viewers/readers with room for imagination: their superiors ask them to act separately, because they really trust their abilities and want to expand the scope so that the monsters can be treated separately. One after another, or is it to split up to disperse the fighting power of the teams, so that when they encounter a monster, they can fight until they die with the monster, so that no one can point out the wrong order of the superior?
【change】
After finding the monster's old nest, everyone originally wanted to blow the nest down and seal the hole.
The lieutenant dispatched a scout and another soldier to set up a bomb at the entrance of the cave. The two set up the bomb before the monster appeared, and it detonated smoothly.
However, the situation took a turn for the worse-the entire mountain collapsed. Not only the teammates were sacrificed, but the entire monster lair was exposed.
This is the first turning point in this part-now, everyone in the team will have to face the real moment of life and death .
The lieutenant seemed to know his fate of fighting to death in an instant. Immediately stated: "We must hold on here."
At this moment, the little soldier who had been treated harshly by the lieutenant was the only one who was not arranged. The transition here has not only undertaken the multiple interactions between the previous lieutenant and the minions, but also the upcoming last turning point.
To show the process of the lieutenant's deployment arrangements, the camera is shaken and drifting, giving the audience/readers a sense of urgency and urgency. But at the moment when the lieutenant was talking to the soldier on the horse, the camera calmed down a bit and slowly zoomed in, because what was about to be presented to the audience/readers was the last turning point in the film.
The soldier's pleading gesture and the unexpected " father " call was the last turning point.
The lieutenant is the father of Xiaobing, which is unexpected, reasonable, and also an explanation of the theme of [Love].
This small turning point allows the audience/readers to re-remember all the interactions between the lieutenant and the soldier, so that there is more room for memorial to those details. At this time, the relationship between the father and son is pointed out, so that the audience will be more emotional about the desperate struggle of the lieutenant that will be shown next.
【combine】
Now that you are ready to sacrifice, then fight to the death, fight to the death to the last minute.
Although this last part is only a few minutes, it shows the fierceness of the battle and the pain of the soldiers. Several shots are quite desirable.
At the last moment, only the protagonist lieutenant was left. At this time, this character is still being portrayed and the final description is being carried out.
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The entire "Secret War" ended in just 15 minutes. But to look at its setting carefully, there are actually many points worth developing: how the Hades plan was carried out, the mysterious witchcraft rituals, the monsters summoned during the Civil War, and they were still being wiped out during World War II. Are there any other incidents in it... Maybe you can start the story from the characters, such as how the Tunguska joined the Red Army, the red beard who speaks of loyalty, the cautious adjutant... ...Maybe some viewers will find it a bit modest and mediocre, but in my opinion, it can tell and understand such a story in a short space, and it has many settings for digging into it. It is already very good and commendable.
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