Recently, Marvel's ten-year final battle "Avengers: Endgame" welcomed the 4.24 mainland finale, this is very likely to be the first time to win 500 million US dollars at the box office of the super masterpiece, I believe everyone has been its true and false trailer for nearly a year's appetite; in last year's Reunion 3, Thanos a ring finger instantly let half of the earth's life go up in smoke; but the movie theme and space limitations, and failed to expand to describe how people in this world live, Accept or resist this harsh truth. In a trailer released by the previous Super Bowl midfielder, Marvel changed its bright and bright tones, showing the confused world that lost half of its population for about two seconds, the gray Statue of Liberty, and the deserted streets:
And in a scene similar to a common American conversation, a poster hangs on the wall: "Where do we go, Now that they're gone?"
So today, I recommend a "divine drama" with similar settings, from 2014 to 2017, a total of three seasons in four years, which shows a world after the random sudden disappearance of some people:
The Leftovers
HBO's drama Douban is not marked by many people, and presents a very interesting phenomenon; the first season, 8.0 points, 3423 reviews; the second season, 8.9 points, 2138 reviews; the third season, 9.0 points, 1818 reviews. What does this mean?
Watching the three seasons of the world is like a filter, he is not a "cool drama" suitable for everyone, and there will be people who abandon the drama because of its obscurity, so fewer and fewer people watch it; but on the contrary, people who see the third season are all shocked by the philosophy he contains; the exquisite screenwriter and the final ending, in the short review of the third season of Douban, there are basically no negative reviews, and those who are not its audience have left as early as the first season.
I also have to sigh that only a company like HBO can withstand the pressure of season after season and insist on presenting this story in its entirety, rather than sloppy tail.
Let's start with the setting: On October 14 of a certain year, 2% of the world's population (140 million people) suddenly disappeared out of thin air, leaving no trace.
"According to the millennium doctrine of Christianity,
When Christ returns to earth,
The most faithful believers will be lifted up to heaven. ”
2% of the population, one-fiftieth of the global population; it seems far less exaggerated than the disappearance of half of the population in the reunion, in the words of the play, "the people on a football team may be spared"; but the impact of the incident is far greater than the number of 2%; the disappearing people are also diverse: students, couples, the elderly, prisoners, politicians, and even children in the belly... There is no law to follow. Where did they go? Still alive? Is it random or chosen? Will there be a second "disappearance"?
The 2 percent of humanity that suddenly disappeared,
Are they chosen (the lucky ones)?
Or is it the abandoned (unfortunate)?
No one knows the answer.
China disappeared more than 27 million people in this incident,
Equivalent to the population of Shanghai
The series cleverly spends ten minutes of the first episode showing the panicked scenes at the time, and then focuses on the world three years later, which has been completely changed by this bizarre and sudden event three years later.
The government did its best to name these people who disappeared out of thin air "the departures," seemingly deliberately drawing a line with the religious "Rapture," even though the plot is highly religious and metaphorical from the beginning and stills.
The holy light of the church dome in the opening scene summons the "disappearing" person
To commemorate the sculpture of the departing event,
The "vanishing" baby seems to have grown the wings of an angel
And those who have not disappeared and have not been "chosen" are called "the leftovers", implying that the people in the play are not clear whether the people who remain are lucky or unlucky.
Of course, such a large and inexplicable event has occurred, and academics, religious circles, and various non-governmental organizations are also brushing up on the sense of existence: some scientific institutions have begun to study the relationship between the probability of departure and the god of death:
There are people constantly looking for evidence of the guilty of the departed, trying to prove that these departed people are not "chosen" and that the people who remain are not "leftover":
Distribute leaflets of the guilt of the departed:
"She beat her children"
Some people package themselves as the "gods" of the world, who can relieve the suffering of others.
There is also a "cult" organization that runs throughout the three seasons, called Guilty Remnant: those who join the association give up their right to speak, wear white clothes, minimize desires, smoke continuously, and use various extreme ways to remind the world not to forget this incident, to remind the world that they are sinners who have committed sins:
"Don't save them"
Stop wasting your breath"
Naturally, their various acts of death will inevitably clash with people.
After all, this pain is not something everyone wants to recall
But they are like ascetics,
In a non-violent way,
Persistence uncovers the scars that people will heal again and again
In the second season, "Watchmen" launched another amazing setting, in a small town in Texas, no one disappeared because of that "departed" incident, this town is considered to be a "spared" existence, people crazy want to come here, settle, visit, even if it is to buy some souvenirs, people who can't get in are camped outside the town; the experience of small townspeople, people who want to squeeze in, the transformation of silence, Constitutes the grander conflict and story of the second season.
The town was named "Miracle National Park"
MIRACLE national park
People flock to the shrine like a place of worship
With such a large time span, many and complex group dramas, and alternating between real space and dream illusions, the cast of this drama throughout the three seasons is also very good, and it can be said that it is the performance of these actors who are literally (heart-wrenching) that gives us the privilege of witnessing a miracle in the television industry:
This scene is really like the classic scene of "Fight Club"
Justin Theroux plays the male protagonist Kevin Garvey: a strange man who combines the mafic line mermaid line shark line business line, with a compassionate expression and a cute face (??? ）
Carrie Coon, the heroine Nora Durst, played by Carrie Coon, has been very successful in portraying a beautiful woman who dares to love and hate, and is determined to be bold, and the part where she appears will not be boring, who can imagine that she is actually the actor of Proxima Centauri under Thanos in Avengers 3!
Can't bear to look at it directly...
Liv Tyler plays Megan, as the daughter of Steve Tyler, the lead singer of the band Aerosmith, Liv's transformation from confusion and weakness to fierceness in the film is impressive, and in addition, she really looks more and more like her father.
Regina King, who won the Oscar for Best Supporting Actress with "If Beale Street Could Talk", played Erika, a great and tragic mother:
Chris Zylka plays Kevin's son Tom, who is kind but has a rough fate, and the appearance of a bit of a blessing in the second and third seasons is actually a bit like Tom Hardy in some ways:
Margaret Qualley plays Kevin's daughter Jill, well, there's not much to say, but it's good-looking:
Good works are always inseparable from good music, and there are too many classic musical moments in the three seasons of "Watchmen", and in addition to some referenced tracks, it also has its own compassionate and atmospheric original music:
Finally, for a drama that has been on the altar, just a few thousand words of articles, really can only be regarded as a very universal introduction, it does not have a fast entrance, can let people quickly understand the whole picture, only sit down to feel episode by episode, spend dozens of hours to bring into the joys and sorrows of the world in the play, in order to understand the meaning of "watching the world".
We always say that with more and more investment, more and more actors into the TV, the golden age of the small screen has come, then, there is a divine drama such as "Watchmen on the Earth", perhaps it is the best proof that the artistry of the TV series has surpassed the movie.