Disappointed

Melody 2022-10-13 09:51:43

Alas, I was very optimistic about this subject, but the story told is really such a novelty, what is the difference between it and the World War II film? Not at all enlightening. I've only watched two episodes now and I'm utterly disappointed.
Relatives are all tortured in New York, but the male and female protagonists with such two large sheets of tape are flirting with each other in the neutral zone. The atmosphere is not right, is it? You took the lives of I don't know how many people, even if you don't care, it's about your own life. The male protagonist is afraid of not being able to spend all the money? In this situation, you still go hook up with a girl? You're taking the film and you're still okay to help someone pay for it? How can the vacation-like, laid-back attitude of these two make me believe that "that roll of movies can change the world"? Every time everything comes to the two of them, I think I'm watching a love movie. No pressure at all. This makes the suffering people there laugh too, not knowing what belief they are upholding, this belief has no depth at all, it looks as superficial as a superhero saving the world.
There are some details. For example, the male protagonist joins the resistance group. He stood in front of the organizer, saw his face, knew that he was a rebel, and the organizer was still hesitant to want him? What are you going to do without him? And so easy "Look, this is who they gave me". The man in the station was also reckless. When he saw the same bag, he dared to run up to grab it and ask? No wonder he was caught. It's like child's play, the German adjutant kills a group of rebels alone when his companion is killed really leaves me speechless. Superficial, stupid, comparable to American films.
There should be four major groups in the film: Germans, Japanese, rebels, and ordinary people, but the story is limited to the German and Japanese rulers and rebels. In fact, the beliefs of ordinary people are the most interesting. How were they misled, and how is it different from our current view? If you work hard it will be great. Find the fallacy of the concept, so that the struggle of the rebels will have a clear goal, and how the film will change the world will be clear, no longer a castle in the air. The contradiction between Japan and Germany also accounts for a large proportion in the play. I want to see how people on both sides of the divided America view the other country, and how their governments secretly slander the other. After all, the war is over, and now it's a political contest. The attitude of the public will make this drama n levels higher in depth, and it will come to the fore on paper.
I haven't read the original book, and I don't know how the original book portrays this different world, but it must not be bad, otherwise it won't be adapted. With a solid novel background, it is really sad to make such an in-depth film.

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The Man in the High Castle quotes

  • Joe Blake: [noticing ashes falling like snowflakes] What is that?

    Nazi Police Officer: Oh, that's the hospital.

    Joe Blake: The hospital?

    Nazi Police Officer: Yeah, Tuesdays, they burn cripples, the terminally ill. Drag on the state.

  • Mark Sampson: I don't plan on dying, Frank. But you can't live your life in fear. I was back east at the end of the war, in Boston.

    Frank Frink: Oh, Jesus.

    Mark Sampson: Yeah. You had to see it to believe it, Frank. Overnight, lynch mobs were murdering Jews because suddenly we were less than human.

    Frank Frink: And what did you do?

    Mark Sampson: Well, those of us who came out in one piece. We buried service weapons underground, well wrapped in oil, and we vowed revenge. I got a life to lead, got kids to raise. And Hitler and the Nazis - I mean, I don't care how it looks. They won't last. One thing I realized about my people is we got a different sense of time. These may be dark years, but we'll survive. We always do.