Douban open score 8.2! The high-concept science fiction drama "Beginning" attempts to localize the "infinite loop of time"

Source: Global Times

The high-concept science fiction drama "Beginning", starring two young actors, Bai Jingting and Zhao Jinmai, recently received a good reputation after the launch of Tencent Video, with a Douban score of 8.2. Although the idea of "infinite loop of time" in the play comes from foreign film and television dramas, this localization attempt is still worthy of recognition.

"Beginning" is adapted from the web novel of the same name by Prayer Jun, telling the story of the male and female protagonists who encounter a bus explosion, but the two can constantly "come back from the dead", build trust in the time loop, and strive to stop the explosion and find the truth. Fans familiar with such plots will immediately think of the classic comedy that set a precedent for the "time loop" - 1993's "Groundhog Day". In the film, the weather forecaster played by Billy Murray suddenly falls into trouble - waking up every day is the same day, and life cannot go any further. The screenwriter cleverly creates a "circular time and space" that allows the audience and the protagonist to experience emotions such as surprise, ecstasy, anxiety, despair and willow darkness, and this interesting dramatic conflict and psychological evolution has also been borrowed from many subsequent films.

The 2011 sci-fi thriller "Source Code" brought the consciousness of the victim of the train bombing played by Jack Gyllenhaal back to the scene, using each 8-minute rebirth opportunity to investigate the truth of the incident. And 2014's "Edge of Tomorrow" is the colonel played by Tom Cruise because of the alien blood, get the opportunity to step into the time loop, using the super power of "predicting the next second" to fully train himself and find the key to defeating the aliens.

2017's Happy Death Day is closer in structure to "Groundhog Day", and the girl returns to the early morning after being murdered by the murderer one day, which gives her the possibility of finding the truth and breaking the cycle. The genre is thriller horror, but there is no shortage of black humor. The film's creator made a sequel two years later, tracing the cause of the time loop, but still can not be perfectly explained logically, which is also a common problem in such film and television dramas - instead of "strongly solving" the concept of science fiction, it is better to explore the psychological evolution of the characters and analyze the true side of human nature.