If you were born with a small animal, what would you want it to be?
Laila lives in such a world, but these little animals with free will have a common name-guardian spirit.
As a part of the human soul, before the young master reaches adulthood, the guardian spirit can freely change its shape, and is finally shaped as an animal that matches the master's temperament.
The only constant is that the guardian spirit and the subject are dependent on life and death, and both die.
This wonderful setting comes from the BBC series "Dark Matter Trilogy" where seven million Britons stayed up all night waiting for its premiere.
This article has spoilers.
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Since being fostered by his uncle Asriel at John's University in Oxford 12 years ago, Laila has lived a life with her guardian spirit, Pan Xiangyi.
Except for the occasional love of flying over the wall and pranks, which makes the dean and teachers a little headache, Laila is basically no different from other children.
Until this day, Laila heard that his uncle who was exploring the Arctic had returned to the college.
But before Laila waited for her uncle, she saw the dean poison the wine he prepared for her uncle.
If it was not discovered in time, the uncle might have died long ago.
However, the uncle did not seem to be very surprised by this incident.
Why would an uncle who is eager to study attract a murderous disaster?
It turned out that all the reasons were the two photos brought back by the uncle.
The first one is an adult wrapped in "dust".
The photos prove that only adults can be swallowed by this substance called "dust", but children are not.
In the second picture, a huge sky city is hidden in the aurora shot by a special emulsion.
In the eyes of Laila hiding in the cupboard, this is nothing but Uncle Frankenstein’s discovery of the true face of the new world, an important step on the road of academic exploration, and even new scientific research funding support as a result.
In fact, Asriel chose to publish these two major discoveries in order to challenge the unshakable authority of the church.
In this world ruled by the Lord’s admonishment court, all bold speculations that do not conform to mainstream values will be regarded as heretics, such as acknowledging the existence of another world.
The irony is that church personnel can freely pass through a wall in the sky and directly cross into the modern society with mobile phones, computers, and cars.
The Lord warned the court that once the people were made aware of the existence of other worlds, their brainwashing rule would immediately be in jeopardy, so the method of traveling through different worlds was concealed early.
The two photos of Asriel prove that multiple worlds are real, which just touches the interests of the ruling class.
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Compared with the common modern social picture, the world in which Laila and her uncle live has been injected with more space for imagination.
There are not only industrial sceneries in a period of vigorous development, such as steam trains and airships, but also magic kingdoms aimed at European retro feelings, such as the fighting family of bears in armor and witches carrying secrets.
Asriel's research work is to explore the margins and possible extensions of this wonderful world.
However, the college, as an independent research institution, is only superficially independent of the church.
The dean’s poisoning of Asriel shows that the academy already knew the truth, but it wanted to cover up the truth and did not dare to offend the church.
In contrast, the uncle's rebellious and unruly personality has become more three-dimensional, and Laila, who has the same blood, is naturally not too much.
In fact, similar to Harry Potter, who took the world by storm, Laila was shrouded in the long-lived witch prophecy at birth, and was "a child with a great mission."
Finally, Laila ushered in her own destiny.
Soon after her uncle took the airship back to the north, Laila found out that her good friend was missing.
The succession of child disappearances means that a planned conspiracy is sweeping across the country, and the culprit is likely to be a "glutton" among the population who eats children.
Laila knew that something terrible was happening, so she took the "not very easy to use" golden compass, and followed the sudden visit of Mrs. Coulter, and started the journey to London.
It's just that this Mrs. Kurt seems to be a little weird everywhere, she can actually be separated from her guardian spirit, and even has an inexplicable relationship with "gluttonous"...
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The BBC once conducted a survey and voted "the most popular novel of all time by British readers".
The first place is the literary + film and television double classic "Lord of the Rings", the second place is the world famous book "Pride and Prejudice", and the third place is the trilogy by Philip Pullman: "The Golden Compass" and "The God of Magic" "Knife" "Amber Telescope".
In fact, as early as 2007, "Golden Compass" was adapted into a movie of the same name and released.
Although the box office and word of mouth were not satisfactory, "Golden Compass" still fulfilled half of the fan's dream, and with rich imagination and sophisticated production, it won the Oscar for the best visual effects award, making a lot of fans begging for the second place. The Ministry returned to the public eye.
Today, the BBC and HBO have reopened this fantasy masterpiece, no wonder it has attracted British friends to chase the drama all over the country.
Unlike the movie "Golden Compass", which focuses on creating fantasy visual effects and weakening the conflict of the plot, the drama version opens a survival adventure exclusive to the dark world according to the original style, allowing children to see the cruelty and anxiety of the real world under the fairy tale coat .
Similarly, the protagonist who leads book fans into the world of imaging is also very interesting.
The little heroine Laila, played by the little Wolverine Daphne Keane in "Wolverine 3", and the uncle Asriel who inspired her to embark on the adventure, is taught by Professor X "One Beauty" James McCulloy Starred.
The director of the tube is Tom Hopper, who has won the Oscar for best director, and the classic movies "The King's Speech" and "Les Miserables" are all produced by him.
However, even if it is the most watched drama premiered in the UK in the past five years, the "Dark Matter Trilogy" still has problems with the rhythm of the plot.
The branch lines of the original works are numerous, which makes the adaptation of the play more difficult.
Although the original author Pullman was invited to be the producer himself, in the basic setting of "Lila is responsible for the danger in London, and the uncle is responsible for confronting the Lord's admonishment court", the TV series still does not deal with the relationship between the two narrative lines more appropriately. Limited, let the big coffee "Yimei" join a gimmick.
However, the fantasy plot, hundreds of millions of investment, and brilliant casts still work together to incubate the charm of the drama. Just as the "Dark Matter Trilogy" is an unstoppable novel, as the series gradually unfolds, it leaves too many unsatisfactory questions:
Why is Laila "a kid with a great mission"?
What the hell is Mrs. Coulter doing secretly?
What secrets are hidden in the parallel worlds of different dimensions?
The curiosity of these answers makes people feel that even if the process of solving the puzzle is slower, it doesn't matter. After all, Laila's world is sealed with the childlike innocence that every adult does not want to grow up.
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