Some people see the ugliness in this world.
I choose to see the beauty.
But beauty is a lure, we're trapped.
Lived our whole lives in this garden, marvelling its beauty and not realising there's an order to it, a purpose.
And the purpose is to keep us in.
The beautiful trap is inside us, because it is us.
---West World
Can we really find the way to the new world someday?
The heroine's monologue in the last episode of the first season touched me deeply and put me in a very sad situation.
I tried to watch this drama because of the popularity. To be honest, I felt that I couldn't watch the first 5 episodes, because the rhythm is slow, the background is long, and the plot has not yet unfolded. I don't like many technical parties who know how to analyze how delicate the picture is and how effective it is to pay homage to the original work. If I just say it from a good-looking angle... I feel that the front is really not that good-looking. But from the development of the sixth episode, I felt the skill of the screenwriter. The foreshadowing of the later plot promotion has long been buried in the front, and I finally differentiated the various characters after 5 episodes of tempering?♀️When everyone's stories began to develop one by one, I couldn't help but follow and think about the plot.
In addition to the proper arrangement of the plot, I think the good thing about this show is that it is "thought-provoking". I think one of the reasons why I wanted to give up dramas at first was that I felt a little tired watching them. Most people chase dramas for entertainment, so brainless dramas should be more suitable. But I have to admit that this drama will make the audience think about life, and fall into it, involuntarily. This show just gave me a chance to think about my current stage of life. Different characters in the play have their own different pursuits. The good old man became a violent old man who killed without blinking an eye after losing his love. The senior technicians who seemed to love their wives and children were originally written backgrounds. On the road of awakening towards freedom, only the heroine has always been beautiful in her heart, and has been pursuing the beauty in Zifeng's heart until she perishes. The most attractive part of the show is of course that the above may be just mysteries, and the screenwriter probably has to spend several seasons to solve the mystery, so I really want to pursue it...
But in the end, I still want to add my own personal insights, that is, about the fact that the heroine only sees beauty. Anyway, I think each of us must have some beautiful obsessions in life, and it is these obsessions that keep us full of strength in the face of the ugliness of the world. But is it a good thing to have these obsessions all the time? We are reluctant to leave because we are satisfied with those little things, we are unwilling to let go because we get a touch of warmth, and we are immersed in a world that may be ugly because of those small but beautiful things... We will really escape from these beautiful things one day. Trap, go to a better new world? Or is it to escape from this trap and go to another, bigger trap like the new story line in the play?
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