Polar Evil (Season 1) is a new drama released by AMC this year. Personally, I didn't read the comments, but I only heard that it has a high rating. I watched the whole drama with the mentality of finding out, and the overall feeling is really good.
At first I thought it was a sci-fi drama, but later I found it to be very realistic. It recorded the crew members’ journey from exploring with enthusiasm, to being trapped in extremely cold places, and then to abandoning the ship to escape on foot. The plot became more and more fascinating. . The joy, hopes and dreams of the first half constantly reflect the sadness, despair and fragmentation at the end. At the beginning, the commanders of "Netherworld" and "Terror" were still fighting for rights and honor. The crew members were more looking forward to the future and carrying the surprise of discovering a new world. At this time, what the audience saw was only capitalism. Different strata under the system have different ecology; but gradually when monsters attacked, when the first captain John Franklin fell, and the second captain Francis Crozier suffered a big blow, everyone gradually realized that the severe cold could really last forever. After several years, it was decided to abandon the ship to seek rescue. However, due to the continuous harsh environment, food problems, disease problems and people's mental problems emerged one after another. Doubts and fears began to breed, and survival became the most basic need. At this time, the pyramid of class gradually collapsed. In the end, when people tore off the coat of civilization, sometimes they were inferior to animals. In the end, what we saw was endless despair. There is both despair for the evil of human nature and the establishment of capitalism. the despair of civilization. There was a dialogue between a doctor and an Eskimo girl in the play, the general idea was "Go back with me, back to the British Empire, where you will have the best life", but at the end of the first season, when the search and rescue team appeared, We saw Francis' choice.
Personally, I think the most distinctive feature of the whole play is that each character is very full, and it presents people's good, evil, beauty and ugliness in front of the audience in a three-dimensional manner. Take Francis and Hickey, Francis is a wise, experienced leader with a gritty character and a big-picture view, but he didn't all look like this at the beginning, and his original intention to take the crew on this voyage was not To discover the New World and then to be promoted to a noble, but to fulfill a promise of his beloved woman - to help Captain John Franklin complete this voyage, the exploration itself is a very dangerous thing, his original intention can be said to hold his men. The crew's life was a joke, and his mood was very negative at this time; however, Francis was a forward-looking leader. After the ship was frozen for half a year, he immediately made a decision that "should return immediately to seek rescue", but when his decision After being strongly opposed by his peers, he even decided to abandon the crowd and lead the team to leave alone; then John Franklin died, and Francis's promise to his lover finally fell through, which made him even more depressed and drinking all day. The story has developed so far, in addition to the prediction of the situation and the steadfastness of love, what we see is an officer who lives in Cao Ying and has a heart in Han. When Francis realizes that the situation is extremely serious, he is the captain, he has Obligation also has a mission to lead all the crew to seek rescue and regain a new life, his leadership is fully displayed. After that, I have to say that excellent people have excellent genes, and they are excellent in their bones. He has absolute prestige in the fleet, which is not only from his official title, but more because his words and deeds can generate sincere admiration. He has the correct sense of purpose, the overall view of leadership, kindness and benevolence. For example, when Hickey defected with a group of people, Harry (a co-captain who had been against Francis at all times, and finally really opened up to Francis and fought alongside him) asked if he wanted to destroy the camp they were about to leave and defect. Even if the person comes back, he will get nothing, but Francis said he must stay. At this time, Francis is thinking about saving more people, not betrayal, not face, nor hatred. At this time, Harry commented on Francis as "more than God". love them more".
On the other hand, Hickey, when he came up with this role, gave people the image of being observant, clever everywhere, and doing some trivial things that were provocative and detrimental to morality, until he was publicly whipped for the first time. The distortion of human nature began to gradually magnify, constantly creating conflicts in the army. When he killed a brother by mistake to save everyone at a party, he suddenly felt a sense of pleasure in fear, and his ambitions expanded rapidly. For power and food, he He began to despise life and constantly created false appearances to kill innocent people. The method was extremely cruel. There is a close-up of Hickey killing the captain. During the process, he seemed to hear music but it was not normal music, like a harsh noise. However, villains are villains after all, and have a kind of inferiority. Even though he successfully defected with a small group of people and became the leader, his attitude towards his subordinates was diametrically opposite to that of Francis. In the face of sick and dying crew members, Hickey didn't care whether the parties agreed or not, and he didn't care if there was a third party. In the presence of people, he killed the patient on the spot with one knife, and even turned it into food; but Francis never left anyone behind. When Harry couldn't bear the pain and asked him for relief, he pushed the others away with a strong sense of reluctance. Harry was also buried after euthanasia. Similar detail contrasts recur in the play.
Of course, there are still many full-fledged characters in this show. If this is a horror film, what it tells us is that what is more terrifying than evil spirits is the evil of human nature. In a cruel world, those who can survive in the end are those who People with strong spiritual power, with more good qualities, survival experience and some luck, perhaps those so-called luck are also the combined effect of the first few.
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