Weirdness is the new sexy

Stone 2022-03-28 09:01:07

This drama has been watched for a long time, it really belongs to the type of getting better sci-fi world. I didn't pat on the thigh until they both entered their first dream, which is fucking funny, right?

At the same time as my inner ecstasy, I also clearly understand that this kind of fun is really not that popular. Because it's interesting, it's all based on the mental state of the two protagonists and this weird worldview in the play. If you are not willing to accept this setting obediently, then all the dreams after that are just a farce. Only after you accept it, you will find that all the stories are just to expose and make up for the wounds of two broken human beings. but in a weird way.

You can say that the screenwriter and director insisted on telling such a simple love story in a niche or even bizarre way (no, not even love), but I am more inclined to think that the screenwriter is just about each of us The crazy ideas in my head are visualized and put on the screen. Every dream is actually a situation in which we dream, and why do we have these dreams, and what do these dreams want to tell us, the logic behind this is like the computer brain Gertie in the play. We can't understand it at all in the black box. (Not to mention, the scientist who manipulated Gertie is just another group of mentally handicapped people)

I prefer to believe that two broken people will indeed experience a series of crazy experiences that only two people can understand and imagine before finally discovering the true love between each other, just like saving one for you without hesitation. Lemurs, or looking for the last chapter of Don Quixote, or even turning into an eagle and flying over thousands of miles to tell you to say goodbye, damn it, it's incredible but it's so romantic.

I know that many film critics should focus on the relationship between mental illness (such as Owen's flattering personality and feeling that he doesn't deserve any good, Annie's crazy self-abuse) and technology. This is indeed what the director wants to express the most, but I always I was attracted by the wonderful adventures of these two people. Maybe it all started with Gertie's tear, but this wonderful but mutually healing fate has really captured my heart.

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  • Ernie 2022-01-06 08:01:33

    Only at the end did I know that this is a romantic drama, this is a romantic drama. It was a little touched. Kerry Fukunaga is too self-willed, as if the seventh and eighth episodes are only more than twenty minutes long. This drama is really played as he pleases. Probably only the American dramas on the web dare to be so self-willed. The first three episodes are all foreshadowing. The fourth episode starts with hi and goes to the end. It feels like flying. I can see a lot of shadows, but American dramas still dare to play, it's interesting.

  • Richmond 2022-01-06 08:01:33

    4.5; Seriously practice the role of psychotherapy and funny and humorous experience, a combination of unconstrained and heart-warming tears, the romance of death under the coat of science fiction, the desperate situation of mutual redemption between "abnormal" people, and it is difficult to reconcile with the past. It’s impossible to untie the knot. Even the artificial intelligence that has witnessed hundreds of cases can only sigh in vain; the mutual transformation of the identity of the experimenter and the subject, almost no person in the play is completely "normal" , There are more or less demons, there is no omnipotent rescuer, only the courage to face the truth can save oneself. The stacking of multiple hallucinations means Jinmin. The journey through each other’s minds is like Lynch’s possession, the retro setting is like a blade runner; the accumulated details of daily reality are projected into subjective consciousness, it is desperate self-persuasion, it is the fear of owning or moving forward. , Love saved everything.

Maniac quotes

  • [from trailer]

    James Mantleray: What would you say this trial is showing you about yourself?

    Annie Landsberg: Is this therapy now?

    James Mantleray: It's *not* therapy. It's science.

  • [from trailer]

    James Mantleray: Once you begin to appreciate the, structure of the mind, there's no reason anything about us can't be changed. Pain can be destroyed. The mind can be solved.

    [Owen slowly starts to clap, rest of group joins in]