Speaking of the most brain-burning sci-fi drama, which one comes to mind first?
Perhaps many students think of Netflix's "Darkness".
Science, religion, philosophy, metaphysics, paradoxes, theology and other complex elements are intertwined, 7 time and space, 4 families, 3 worlds back and forth, all kinds of brain-burning bridges are addictive.
Just at the beginning of this year, Apple TV+ also launched a multi-time and space-burning science fiction drama, which is also thrilling step by step -
"Scary Call"
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The play is based on the French drama of the same name.
Directed by Feder Alvarez, he is known for his horror films.
The cast is even stronger, with "Quicksilver" Aaron Taylor-Johnson in "Avengers", Karen Gillan in "Nebula", Aubrey Praza in "The Swarm", Pedro Pascal in "Red Viper" in "Game of Thrones", Lily Collins in "Emily in Paris"...
Even with so many excellent actors, no one shows their faces, and the whole drama is just a series of telephone tracks and sound waves.
In comparison, it is more like a radio drama.
Of course, it also depends on the imagination of the audience to fill in the scenes they hope to appear.
The whole drama has a total of 9 episodes, the single episode is 15 minutes long, and Douban has 8.8 points.
Each episode seems to be relatively independent, and there is some inevitable connection between them, and only by seeing the end can we know the truth.
A series of bizarre calls, coupled with ingenious sound waves, light, and horror atmosphere, led the audience's emotions to one climax after another.
Many innovative elements are intertwined to present the audience with a super immersive experience.
The first episode of the story.
Tim and Sarah are a long-distance couple.
Tim is a stand-up comedian who travels to Los Angeles alone to pursue his career; his girlfriend, Sarah, is a nurse and has to stay in New York for work reasons.
They haven't seen each other for 6 months, and the distance has not produced beauty, only estrangement and misunderstanding.
At this time, Tim has cheated on his agent Carmela, and the purpose of this call is to break up with his girlfriend. Of course, this is also what Carmela asked for.
The two chatted some time over the phone, and Tim was about to speak, but was interrupted by a strange noise.
When the signal was restored, what was heard was Sarah's urgent voice: there seemed to be someone outside!
Hearing that, Sarah was terrified, and Tim hesitated, so he had to reassure her first and ask her to call the police.
The phone suddenly broke.
Frightened, Sarah dialed 911 to call the police, and the cramped voice made the police feel that the situation was very critical, and before they could elaborate, the phone was interrupted again.
The police hadn't arrived yet, but the man who had scared Sarah wanted to break in!
In Sarah's opinion, the man outside the door was a strong man with strange arms, not even human.
Tim on the other side was not idle and began to call Jiren Xiaosan Carmela.
Just then, something terrible happened!
An unknown number came in, Tim cut over, and there was a strange voice on the other end of the phone, and then the other person said that she was Carmela.
But ming was on the phone just now.
Although it is a little strange, this does not affect the two people to flirt without shame.
Carmela told him that he was now taking care of his sister's children, and when her sister picked them up, she could rush to his bed to spend the night together.
After passion.
Tim gets another call from Carmela, who is clearly around, so why is he calling?
With all his doubts, Tim answered the phone, and Carmela told him that his sister hadn't returned yet, and that he couldn't leave the child alone, and that he would have to go a little later.
Tim was shocked!
Who was the one who just rolled the sheets with himself? Who is sleeping next to you now?
Wave after wave of unevenness rises again.
Before she could figure out who the man in the bed was, Sarah called again and told Tim that the man's face outside looked exactly like his.
What the hell is going on with this TM?
The second episode of the story.
Mark and Rose are a newlywed couple, and before they get married, they make an appointment to be dink and not have children.
Rose's unexpected pregnancy made Mark hard to accept, and when he heard the news, he wanted to calm down and drive alone to the Great Desert to relax.
However, not long after, she received a call from his wife Rose, who hoped he would return and said that she would wait for him all night.
Mark refused, and the phone suddenly broke.
When I answered again, it was three days later.
Mark was very puzzled, obviously only a break, how could it be three days, thinking that it was just Rose who said this deliberately.
After a while, Mark's mother called.
Mom told him that Rose was four months pregnant.
Only half an hour has passed on my side, how can four months have passed on the other end of the phone?
Mark decided to call his good buddies for a few words.
Unexpectedly, he was scolded as a scumbag just after being connected, and said that his son has been 6 months old.
What's going on?
Didn't you collude to act and trick me into going back?
He called his family every few minutes, only to tell him it had been a few years.
My mother said she was getting worse and worse.
The buddies say they are celebrating their son's 12th birthday and that his wife Rose has remarried to a good buddy.
Mark began to panic, he couldn't understand whether the world was crazy or if he was crazy ...
Was he mistakenly entering the time tunnel, or was it a lie made up by his relatives in order to let him go back?
The starting point of all this chaos has to start with a flight.
The captain received a phone call telling him that the plane was going to crash, that he could do nothing, that he had to let tragedy happen, and that everyone on board was on the death list.
But the captain wanted to see his daughter and chose an emergency landing, and the plane did not crash.
This changed, and serious consequences began to appear.
The whole time and space began to appear strangely intertwined, and everyone's life began to change dramatically.
You may be on the phone with your past self, or you may have two selves at the same time.
In the end, everything in the world will end in an instant.
The first episode of the show is actually the end of the story, and even the title is "The End".
Everybody floated up.
Until the sky parted, seeing a wide variety of colors.
Their faces began to melt, their bodies elongated, and finally exploded...
This is the self-correcting power of the universe to punish those who try to change their destiny.
In the end, only at the moment when the world is about to be destroyed, the protagonist of each story is willing to say the three words "I love you".
This drama only has sound on the surface, but in fact, in order to mobilize the audience's emotions in just a few minutes, the director has spent a lot of thought.
The frequency and color of the sound waves will change with the rhythm of the plot and the emotions of the characters.
You can even feel the scene and intensity of the story through the lines of the full screen.
Of course, for these abstract forms of expression, everyone's feelings will be different.
The great thing about this drama is that it can allow the audience to fully participate and firmly grasp the audience's fear of the unknown.
Let the audience's emotions, like a roller coaster, rise and fall with the ups and downs, twists and fluctuations of the lines.
And the amount of information in the dialogue is huge, you must concentrate and devote yourself to it, in order not to miss any details, peel away the layers of fog, in order to really understand the play.