Every time you watch "The Wonderful Story of the World", you will probably have a strange brain wave that questions the world, this feeling will basically last for a week, every thing and every detail will expect him to appear like the unimaginable flip in the play, in the careful thinking and curiosity to sigh the world is really wonderful, probably the reason for the long-term success of this TV series.
"The Wonderful Story of the World" began as a late-night show, but after its broadcast, it received high ratings and gradually became the most popular prime-time TV series in Japan. Since its inception in 1990, it has become the world's longest-running TV series, winning the love of fans around the world with its wonderful, suspenseful, absurd and funny plots.
Since 1997, it has appeared in the public eye as a fixed program in the spring and autumn seasons. 2018's "World Of Wonders Spring Special" was broadcast on May 12, this season of horror and absurd exaggeration has been reduced, the screenwriter wants to return to the realistic level to tell the social contradictions that have occurred at this stage, although there are fewer highlights of the show's nonsense, but from the level of details, the completion and delicacy of the story is still very positive.
In the 2018 special chapter, in a period of up to 2 hours, it tells four stories of "Follower", "Affair Police", "Crossing to Tomorrow", and "Teenager", telling bizarre and meaningful stories from social issues such as the online world, extreme society, traveling through time and space, and exchanging bodies, and the sense of social responsibility is particularly prominent in this season.
Today we will focus on two of the two stories that I think are the most interesting, to see what kind of fear and warmth there is in this ghostly society.
Followers
"The Follower" appeared as the first story, the content reflected the social reality at the same time or added some horror elements in it, about the use of printer threatening words, close-ups of dead people falling from the upper floor, the rapid switching of the camera has created a horror atmosphere, when watching inevitably with the protagonist to escape together, the heart is also with the plot of panic.
The story is roughly about the protagonist, Miss Haru, although only a small clerk in the real world, but deeply obsessed with the beauty of the online world. On her personal social networking site, she lives a life of celebrity by posting photos, and her personal signature "Likes sparkling things, life is beautiful" seems inspirational and beautiful, but it is as easy to burst as a bubble. Staring at mobile phones every day, taking pictures of sports cars that do not belong to themselves, showing off other people's boyfriends, renting high-end clothes are all just for taking photos and uploading social networking sites to win the attention of fans.
Until the appearance of a loyal fan follower, Mimiko, and an online fan contender, Sayuri, breaks her seemingly beautiful calm, everything has just begun. Mimiko in the seemingly loyal private chat every day, revealing the incitement of the wind about the number of xiaolily fans and more than Miss Haru's words "Miss Xiaolily won the latest bag", Haru in anxiety gradually produced irrational practices, with "must exceed the little lily" installment to buy the most expensive bag, increase fans, as if falling into the abyss, gradually falling.
With the bizarre death of Sayuri and the threat of fan Mimiko "24 hours." I'll keep an eye on you for 365 days", causing Haru to fall into a deep fear, and she began to nervously wonder if everyone knew that she was not a celebrity, and wanted to escape from such a world but could not escape. Fear of the threat of death and the vanity of living in the virtual world make her play a role that does not belong to her in the midst of contradictions, and she listens to the instructions of fans like crazy.
In the scene of Haru's car accident, it is also quite realistic, people take pictures around Haru with their mobile phones, and in the first time, instead of calling the police, they take pictures and send them to social networking sites as news that they have won the attention of fans. Haru, who was still a little awake, did not call for help but crawled to the side of the gleaming ring that rolled down underneath. The girl who still has to do glittering at the last moment of her life is really living out what she looks like on social networking sites, and in such a sparse and ordinary but extremely frightening event, the fans are gradually reduced to 0 in that moment, and it all begins and ends for what.
In 2015, an 18-year-old Instagram social influencer, Essena O ́Neill, announced that she had quit her 570,000-fan site and began to return to normal life.
She narrated on YouTube that behind this seemingly beautiful scene, she had to make up all kinds of elaborate makeup, choose a chest- large, long-legged, sweet smile from hundreds of photos from all angles to show to fans, and spend more than 50 hours a week soaking in it to please fans, all of which is not her own life.
Whether it is Haru in the story or Essena O ́Neill in reality, they are deeply obsessed with the huge satisfaction of having fan praise on social networking sites, all of which are carefully designed only to be known to themselves, and when everything is debunked, the sense of the huge gap between the two worlds will be oppressed to the point of being unable to breathe. The difference between the two is that Haru could not break free from this vanity at the last moment of his life, and Essena O ́Neil, who was only 18 years old, thought through all this: "The real life is not only social networks, you can go out and meet many people, there is nothing worth losing, there is no need to use social networks to prove yourself"
Travel to tomorrow
Compared with the revelation of reality in "The Follower", "Crossing to Tomorrow" can better reflect the beauty of life, and I think most people who have watched this story will understand the meaning of reality to their own existence, whether it is beautiful or not, they are more cherished. Although the film makes people feel a lot, it is not stereotypical, and through the protagonist's own experience, he naturally substitutes people into that environment and grows up with him.
In the confused youth, reality and dreams are always inescapable problems. "Your plan is coming" is the survival pressure from his girlfriend, but the protagonist Kobayashi's dream is to be an independent director, whether he has no talent or is not recognized is unknown, and this is a game-filled problem. In the face of choice, the great pain made him unable to breathe.
At the suggestion of a psychologist, he took Irium, a drug that cleared memories for the next 24 hours, to relieve stress. One tablet can go back 24 hours, and three tablets are a week, accumulating one by one, in other words, enough to safely travel into the future, but doctors warn that they should not be consumed in large quantities.
The temptation is enormous, and everyone who experiences pain wants such days to pass as soon as possible. For Kobayashi, he wants to see if he will succeed in the future. This approach made him addicted, and in the short passage of time, the loser still struggled with the suffering of life. He doesn't want the pain, and prays that the future will be better like an addictive poison, constantly fantasizing about the future.
When faced with the self of returning to 43, everything changed. I don't know my aging face, I don't know that the strange room is my home, I don't know that the little girl opposite me is my daughter. The 28-year-old doesn't seem to have come that far, but he sees the rest of his life. The panic of that moment made people even more confused, like a stranger in this world, suddenly appearing, but becoming the master of the second half of his life.
We all fantasize that we can see the future, just like the protagonist, the future is better, then go directly back to the good. But is this really the case, Kobayashi Fengxiong gave us a very clear answer, standing in the so-called beautiful world in the future to pick up the trophy about his award, but do not feel the joy. Seeing photos of marrying someone you love, you can't remember every bit of life. The 43-year-old day is 43-year-old, the 28-year-old crossed into the future without experiencing all this, ending prematurely, constantly escaping the embarrassment of pain, leaving him numb. Perhaps the reason why beauty is beautiful is because the painful days are unbearable, and the goodness of that moment is precious.
Before Ang Lee became famous, he also ran for his livelihood and insisted on his dreams. Narrated that he was very afraid of himself like the Lyrics of the Hokkien song "Roast meat dumplings": "Self-pity and self-pity, my parents really cherished, let me read a few years of books, after graduation, there is no way, temporarily to sell roast meat dumplings ...", people to the age of establishment, but also to talk about dreams, heartache for themselves, but also pain to look at others like this. When "Push hand" and "Wedding Feast" won awards, Ang Lee finally ushered in his recognition. He thanked his experience, his wife for her support, and all the joys shone through the ups and downs of the past.
The advantage of the story compared to life is that it can be deleted and changed, and the flip plot appears that all of this is a pill fantasy experience, just a dream. When he woke up, Kobayashi knew that the experience brought him not only tribulations, but also memories. Memory is the only way to look back on life.
Full of absurd words, laughter and anger, there is a wonderful life. The spring special of 2018 will be relatively more about thinking, looking forward to the special meeting in the autumn, and the flipped plot in the story gives life more possibilities and becomes hope.