Netflix's drama can't get rid of stingy

Reva 2022-03-26 09:01:09

Although I haven't watched many Netflix dramas, and although it seems that this drama is actually produced by another company with the name of Netflix, the "stingy" taste of the film is still very Netflix.

Small is not necessarily negative, small can see big, small can win in details, such as the recent "End Times" is still good.

But the smallness of this film is a bit fatal. A big idea is suffocated into a small one. It seems that there are a pair of 43 feet beautiful feet, which are forced into 36 shoes.

The first third of the film is full of fun, and the second two-thirds are completely routine and blunt, with a suit and tie on the upper body and pants and slippers on the lower body.

The male protagonist has hallucinations, and his life can't go on. It's an interesting suspense, a parallel universe? Schizophrenia? The beginning was good, I was hoping that the protagonist would make some trouble at the party, break out the conflict, and lead the plot to a profound conflict. I didn't expect that there would be a popular drama of "alien invasion" right away. Fuck shit.

Well, in the next episode, it is found that the protagonist is an artificial human being occupied by magpie nests, and the "invasion" is actually a counter-attacking human being. This core is not bad. If the film follows the identity dilemma and the way of getting along between races, Taking care of the deep existence, or alluding to the conflict between human races and groups, the film still has the potential to be a blockbuster, but unfortunately still not, it is just lame personal heroism and open-hungry escape.

Small and delicate is beautiful, small and cliché is cheap.

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Extinction quotes

  • [first lines]

    Peter: [narrating] Our world never stops moving. Changing. Evolving. Every day we go about our routines - work, home, family - but who are we? Who am I? You think you know your beautiful wife, your adorable kids, and who you work for. But what if you don't? And the truth, once you knew it, would change everything.

    [the attack begins, then he awakes]

    Alice: You have a nightmare?

  • [last lines]

    Peter: [narrating] Our world keeps moving. Changing. Evolving. And so do we. I know who I am now. And I know my enemy. We're not that different. Maybe, if others can see that, we'll have a future after all.