Friends, Netflix has a new Japanese drama, and these days it has brushed the screen in my circle of friends.
I brushed eight episodes a day, and I really didn't step on the thunder.
Seeing the male lead actor Kenjin Yamazaki, I know that this drama is most likely to be a manga drama again. After all, the sage's title of "little prince of manga" is not in vain.
The new drama is also adapted from the manga of the same name, but the script type is still a little different from most of the manga adaptations that Kenjin has played in the past. Many of the comic dramas that the sages received before belonged to pure love love dramas, and the characters were also pure little handsome men, such as "Heroine Disqualification", "Wolf Girl and the Black Prince", and "April is Your Lie".
But this drama, "Alice in the Land of the Dead", belongs to the suspense survival category. Very bloody, irritating and dark.
Therefore, the character image played by the sage as the protagonist is no longer closer to the male protagonist in the girl comic, but has become an otaku who not only has messy hair, but also wears half-sleeves and beach pants like pajamas when he goes out, and his style is quite grounded.
The heroine of this drama is Taiho Tsuchiya.
In the previous films of the neon fire, the roles played were all kind and energetic girls. Before this drama, she also starred in a comic love drama "Orange Miracle" with Kenjin Yamazaki, which is the image of a student sister, and the local heat is still quite high.
But I think she obviously plays a neat and murderous beating of women, the effect is better and more appropriate!
The previous machifu in "Langke Sword Heart" is an example, and the martial arts drama should not be too emotional to practice.
Including the image of the sportsman in this new drama, there is no sense of violation in acting, and the short hair style is really much better!
Let's get into the main topic and take a look at the story!
The male protagonist of the story, Yusu (Kento Yamazaki), is an otaku who plays games at home every day.
Because he does not seek progress, he is always disliked at home, and one day, under the double attack of his father and brother, he ran away from home in anger without listening to nagging.
Yuqi found his friends, the blade that had just been fired from the bar, and Zhang Tai, a corporate social animal who was tortured every day.
The three unhappy people hit it off and went for a walk to the streets of Shibuya to relax and spread wilderness.
The streets of Shibuya that day were as crowded as ever.
The three of them vented wildly, and the accident caused a riot, which provoked the police uncle and frightened them into hiding in the bathroom on the side of the road.
But no one expected it.
When they came out again, the world had changed completely!
The streets were bustling with activity a few minutes ago, and there was silence at this time.
There were no people in all the buildings on the street, and cars on several roads were parked horizontally and vertically.
The whole shibuya seemed to have suddenly stopped at some point, leaving only the three of them looking at each other.
(In order to shoot this part of the picture, the crew specially built a 1:1 Shibuya street scene, the authenticity is 100%, too hard, the funds are burning!) ）
From this moment on, the drama officially begins.
Simply put, Yuki and his friends are like entering a large live-action escape room game. The silence in front of them was the chamber they needed to escape.
You can think of this large chamber of secrets as a kingdom, because according to the rules of the game, only gamers can survive in this world if they obtain a visa to stay in this country.
The way to get a visa valid for days is to continue to participate in the game, and the validity of the visa will be extended accordingly for each successful pass.
But if the visa expires, the player will be immediately killed by a laser falling from the sky.
At this time, some people may ask, what if the player does not succeed in completing the level?
Quite simply, die directly on the game site.
The game world in which the player is located may be virtual, but death is real, which is the cruelty and excitement of this game.
There are also many ways in which players die:
Burned to death, shot by a laser falling from the sky, stabbed to death with a knife, shot to death, or headshot by game props...
In short, each method of death is extremely bloody, and one is more terrifying than the other.
In this case, of course, someone will choose to quit the game.
But, sorry, don't want to play?
It's up to you.
Entering the game is irrelevant to personal will, as long as the game designer is selected to enter this silent country, he must choose between the game and death. It feels a bit like the movie Battle Royale that we introduced earlier.
Of course, if the player is strong enough to collect the success badges of all the levels in the game, there is also a possibility of returning to the real world.
But it's not easy, because the rules of the game are not only complex and changeable, but also quite torturous.
The first level of the game, the gate of life and death.
All players enter an unfamiliar building at the same time, which has several rooms, each with two doors.
One life gate and one death door, the player must choose one of the two life and death doors within a certain time limit.
Whether it is late or wrong, the little life will be played in an instant.
Only if you choose the right one can you have a chance to enter the next room alive and then continue to repeat the choice.
The second level of the game: hide-and-seek.
The rules of the game are that the player must find the position in the entire building within 20 minutes to touch the specified object, but it is important to note that it cannot be caught by the ghost at the same time, so that it can be considered successful.
This level is cruel, and the game is doomed to die from the beginning.
Because the ghosts in hide-and-seek are also gamers, if you don't kill others, others will kill you.
In order to save his own life, the ghost can only hunt other players desperately.
If, in the end, the ordinary player successfully completes the mission, the player who is selected to be a ghost will be directly headshot by the equipment set by the system, and the blood will be splashed on the spot without a corpse.
In the game, in addition to this level of competition intelligence, luck and physical strength, there are also higher levels and the most difficult to deal with -
A level that wins by playing with people's hearts and betraying their partners.
In the third level of the game, Yuki and his two friends and a female white-collar worker participated in such a game together.
As a result, three of the four people died, and only the male protagonist had a hard time surviving.
The game is very ironic, but in the end it is very touching.
According to the rules of the game, four people are to be three sheep and one wolf, and only those who become wolves can live in the end.
At the beginning, because everyone wanted to live, the strong desire to survive arose the evil thoughts in everyone's hearts, and everyone began to attack their closest partners in order to become wolves.
But as time slipped away minute by minute, people's inner kindness was stimulated again, and everyone fell into a crazy and tangled situation.
Everyone doesn't want to face death, but it's hard to get started with their partners who have been with them for many years.
Until the last minute, Yuki was trying to figure out a way to keep everyone alive, but he failed.
His two little friends silently chose to give up the opportunity to survive to him, and one of them also suppressed the other female white-collar worker, and all three died in this game.
As you can see, the setting of these games is still very bold.
Players in the game, if they are not extremely strong at heart, will easily be mentally shocked after the game of level by level, and finally become desperate or crazy.
It is worth mentioning that in the second half of the TV series, the writers no longer focus on the mode of one game level per episode, but open a fixed waterfront scene, bringing together most of the people who come to participate in the game, thus forming a miniature society.
On the one hand, this design eliminates the aesthetic fatigue caused by the patterning of each episode, and on the other hand, it is also obviously more concentrated and effective to analyze and excavate people's hearts.
In this venue called the waterfront, a large number of players gathered.
Each player was once an ordinary person from the real world, carrying different life stories and different degrees of good and evil on their backs.
This prompted the plot to develop a lot of small branches, making the story structure more rich and substantial.
The reason why these players were able to come to the waterfront alive was also because they had a hard time passing through the previous games, witnessing the death of others or killing others with their own hands.
Everyone lives together here, seemingly crazy pleasure on the surface, but in the heart they are always worried about their lives.
What is even more ironic is that where there are people, there are rivers and lakes, and this virtual country is no exception.
In this jianghu, there is also a superhuman head, like the undead Joe in Mad Max, a dictator with absolute power, using violence and weapons to restrain other players.
And his men, in fact, everyone has their own ideas, some people are absolutely obedient, some people intend to rebel, some people are conspiring, and some people are not resentful.
Such a chaotic situation led to a large massacre in the seashore in the end, with countless deaths and injuries, and the scene was very terrible...
Although this story superficially seems to depict only the beginning and end of a game, it is actually full of realistic metaphors.
Through this game of exploiting the weaknesses of people's hearts, the screenwriter has created another human purgatory step by step, although it is a bit routine, but after watching it, it will still be a little emotional.
If you watched eight episodes, you haven't cooled enough?
It doesn't matter, the trailer for the second season has been released at the end of the film, the game will continue, and the difficulty will skyrocket!
Without further ado, I'm already on the chase list!
I only hope Netflix does it faster!!!