Yesterday, episode 4 of the Marvel series Moonlight Knight was launched.
The update of this episode further plunged the series into a state of word-of-mouth polarization.
Because the amount of information involved in the fourth episode is very large, some plots are indeed relatively protracted, and the mental hospital at the end makes fans even more confused.
What is this all about? Abandoned pits...
As the latest douban review said (just cut in the morning):
It can only be said that works of art, each person feels differently, a thousand readers have a thousand Hamlets, everyone is based on personal feelings.
Personally, I am one of the fans who gave the praise, and I am actually looking forward to the follow-up update of "Moonlight Knight".
So, the biggest tangle around Moonlight Knight Episode 4: What does the ending really mean?
Advance note: The following is only a personal opinion, and is only for your reference before the next episode is updated.
→ on the surface
It is a mental hospital that houses a variety of mentally ill people, unfolding the narrative from Mark's main perspective.
Moreover, all the details of this mental hospital (basically every picture) can correspond to the plot that took place in the first 4 episodes of "Moonlight Knight".
Steven Grant, for example, is the name of a character in a movie:
For example, the villain Arthur Harrow, here becomes the doctor:
For example, Steven's female leader, here became a patient:
There are also the performance artists, girlfriends, and rivals that Steven often confides in, all of whom appear here as patients.
There are also various scene hints.
For example, the town where Steven once visited:
It appears here in the form of wall paintings.
There are many other details, such as Mark's feet tied to a wheelchair, a Rubik's Cube played by patients, a Moonlight Knight ornament, a goldfish, Arthur Harlow's crutches...
I will not repeat the narrative here, you can read it several times, I believe you will find more details.
So, is the plot of the first 4 episodes of "Moonlight Knight" really happening, or did Mark come up with it?
→ from the point of view of suggesting contradictions
On the surface, this mental hospital does not seem to have any major problems, but when you think about it, there are all kinds of contradictions and hints.
Here are also a few examples, as a brick throwing jade, for your reference.
For example, when Mark escaped, the whole mental hospital also shook:
Obviously, something like this can't happen in the real world.
For example, Mark happens to find a mysterious sarcophagus, which actually contains Steven Grant:
Apparently, this clashes with the beginning of the mental hospital (the character in the movie: Steven Grant).
If it had been Mark's imaginary world before, the sudden emergence of "Steven Grant" would seem contradictory.
There is also a line from the psychiatric doctor that implies:
"Our world is not material, but spiritual."
In addition, there is a third sarcophagus, which should be the third personality of the Moonlight Knight who is locked up.
Through various details, it is basically possible to draw conclusions:
For Moonlight Knight, this mental hospital is obviously a spiritual prison, and the plots that happened in the first 4 episodes of "Moonlight Knight" are real.
→ whose spiritual prison is it?
There is currently no unique answer to this question, and only Episode 5 or Episode 6 can know.
However, we can roughly sort out the direction.
First of all, all the details of this spiritual prison come from the Moonlight Knight (no matter which personality it is).
Apparently, the purpose of this spiritual prison is to imprison the consciousness of the Moonlight Knight, or to destroy the Consciousness of the Moonlight Knight.
In the Marvel comic book Moonlight Knight V8, the corresponding plot also begins with a mental hospital, mark can not distinguish between illusion and reality, and finally escapes the story.
In that comic, it is the spiritual prison carefully shaped by the moon god Kong Su.
Luna Kongsu attempts to destroy Mark's consciousness and then invades the real world with the help of the Moonlight Knight.
In the Marvel episode "Moonlight Knight", there may be some adaptations, such as Arthur Harlow releasing Amit, and Amit may also have this ability.
We can't draw conclusions specifically, but here we have to rely on the story portrayed by the screenwriter of the series.
In addition, the hippo lady who frightens the moonlight knight into the pig's cry is based on Taweret in Egyptian mythology.
She was the hippo goddess of ancient Egyptian mythology, the protector of pregnant women during the Old Kingdom, who could bless pregnant women and newborns, and she may also be imprisoned here.
Or just a character based solely on what the Moonlight Knight has seen and heard:
Speaking of which, it can only be said that although the superficial plot of "Moonlight Knight" is a conflict between people, behind the scenes may hint at the conflict of ideas and power between God and God.
Further, this may correspond to the god-killing motive of the "Thor 4" villain, the god slayer Gore.
Every god (high-ranking species) is hypocritical and selfish, covetous, extravagant, completely disregarding the interests of ordinary people, and not worthy of being worshipped at all.