As for the "Share more. Play more. Connect more. Find more. Experience more...." repeated in the trailer, most of them didn't show up. Although there are a small number of them, they are all just scratches.
Since some people have already given positive reviews in all aspects, it is useless to say more, so I will pick and choose.
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Be Right Back is oddly structured. According to a bunch of foreshadowing at the beginning, you guessed that a virtual person will appear later, and sure enough, he appeared. Gradually you also guessed that there might be a robot, and sure enough, he also appeared. You naturally feel that it is impossible for them to live happily together, and sure enough, contradictions have arisen. The next thing you think the director is going to say is something new about the age-old thesis that "robots can never replace people." As a result, it ended. ... Looking back at the whole story, I believe that "personality displayed by a person on social networks" is the core of the first half of the plot. The male protagonist devoted all his energy to virtual social interaction before his death, and after his death, virtual people and robots were created based on his online identity. There is also a little humor in the film where the robot mocks itself "I'm much more handsome than him because everyone puts the best pictures on the Internet". There are so many foreshadowings ahead, and according to the series' consistent allegory of technology dependence, "social network personality" should be the focus, right? But no, the next plot seems to be completely kidnapped by the "robot" setting.
"Robot" and "social network personality" are two different settings. In the film, the former exists based on the latter, but the latter's connotation is actually far richer than the former - people's self-disguise, fragmented personality, social The complementarity and conflict between the Internet and the real world... There are so many topics, but it happens to be about robots.
The line in which the heroine asks the robot to jump off the cliff probably expresses the ultimate thinking of the film - "You are not him, you have no past, you are just showing some things he did without thinking..."
Big cliché.
If the details, foreshadowing and atmosphere of the first half give people a hint of a masterpiece, the second half is directly pulled back to the level of an ordinary science fiction novel.
White Bear
I was swept up in the "phone photo" scene from the very beginning. In the trailer, the footage of people holding up their phones in the face of the storm is still vivid, and I thought the plot would revolve around that.
But after the truth was revealed, it was discovered that these people were actually carrying out a "just trial".
Then why take pictures?
The screenwriter said that because the heroine's criminal process was "recorded child abuse clips with her mobile phone".
...Well, it turns out that technology is just an eye for an eye guise. The point is not "mobile phones", but "surroundings".
So a very shocking ending saves the whole story - watching the reincarnation of suffering, people enjoy it. Seeing evil being staged again and again, but thinking that he is doing justice.
But what does this plot seem to be missing?
I remember McKee said in "Story" that human nature is always reflected in a dilemma. Give you a dilemma, see which one you give up and which one you choose, only in this way can you reveal who you really are.
But the bad thing is that the heroine of White Bear is like a rabbit. Apart from running constantly to survive, she obeys others' words and has absolutely no will of her own. When the host announced her sin, she didn't say a word except crying.
As for the others, it is only necessary to carry out each step of the plan step by step, and everything is just work and recreation.
Therefore, there is no choice in this film. Most of it is used to describe the pursuit and killing process in the "play", but it does not create characters at all. It shows a picture of "consumption pain", which is very shocking, but it is difficult to say profound, because such a "humanity manifestation" is not based on a mature plot structure but on simple speculation on the dark side of human nature and clever suspense settings. , everything is too taken for granted. A very down-to-earth episode of
The Waldo Moment , except for the slightly bland ending, nothing to be dark about.
But I have a feeling:
too many people use Waldo-style cleverness to mock the government on the Internet today, and this behavior is temporarily excusable, because we do not have a platform that allows us to debate face-to-face with government officials like Waldo; but If one day this platform is established, and we are used to safely carrying out the career of complaining under the cover of "seriously, you will lose", can we guarantee to "talk well"?
Resistance to politics is also a political position, and it is far more powerful than we think.
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All in all, this season is still worth watching but has dropped in quality, with big ambitions but often anticlimactic.
So if there is another season, please don't stick to the 40 minutes of suffocation...
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