Meryl Streep (The Queen Wears Prada),
Edward Norton (Fight Club),
Tobey Maguire (Spider-Man),
Kit Harrington (Game of Thrones),
Carrie Russell (American Spy Dreams),
Diane Lynn (Infidelity),
Matthew Rhys (Washington Post),
David Humer (Friends),
Chen Jing (Real Humans),
Marion Cotillard (Life in the Roses)...
Such a top luxury lineup, with the "banknote ability" of Apple TV+, what kind of sci-fi blockbuster will be presented?
To be honest, I'm not surprised by how popular this annual megalogue, Extrapolations, is.
However, maybe the creative team just wanted to surprise everyone, so this film is not only not hot, but also rotten.
Sometimes I think Apple TV really has no money and nowhere to invest, and always engages in such big-budget films.
Seriously and diligently, he fried up a plate of colorful defense.
In the process of resisting not turning it off, I finished writing this article.
While scolding them for wasting time and money so much; While looking at his bank card balance, he bent his waist for five bucket meters.
Let's just say that this American drama is not much to watch, whether in production or creativity.
Maybe the big coffee is the only attraction.
It's a pity that these powerful actors work hard to show some silly, unintelligible, and mysterious roles.
Everyone "spoiled" themselves so much, I can't think of any reason, probably Apple gave too much.
After all, it is not a shame to be "spoiled" by money.
There are currently four episodes updated, and I have already watched them, so I should help my partners demine.
I came to break it and crumple it and tell the big guy where this film is rotten.
You know what I'm most afraid of? The most afraid of someone seeing here said:
"Oh, seeing you say that, I can't help but be curious to see it."
Don't! Don't waste time, let me carry all the suffering alone.
01
First of all, from the theme of the TV series - "nothing new".
But with these three words alone, it is completely impossible to describe how "unnew" this play is.
There are countless works on the theme of environmental protection, movies, television, documentaries, pseudo-documentaries, comedies, tragedies, black humor, disaster films...
If this theme wants to shine, I'm afraid it's not so easy.
Secondly, in 2023, the topic of environmental protection really has a feeling of the end of a strong crossbow.
In today's bad world, there are so many things that are bad right now.
Environmental protection is really a bit out of ranking, it is impossible for any region to stop developing and engaging in environmental protection, and the times have changed.
I know that among our backstage fans, there are a lot of friends who are my age.
From an early age we have been taught like this:
The atmosphere leaks holes; Earth Hour;
Use less disposable chopsticks and save paper;
Oil will run out, water resources will run out;
White pollution, carbon emissions, fewer children and many trees.
If the above is still a little useful, the funniest thing is "eliminating the four evils".
Yes, at the end of the 90s, we were still fighting flies and catching mice to "get rid of the four pests".
If you want to blame, you can only blame yourself for being young and ignorant, and really using the summer vacation to hunt flies.
The teacher assigned the task of working as a group unit in the direction of returning home from school.
Everyone put the collected fly carcasses together in bags and turned them in at the beginning of school.
It seems ridiculous to repeat it now, but I was young, six or seven years old.
I killed the flies, then clamped them with small tweezers and put them in a matchbox, and finally unified them into a plastic bag.
The first day and the second day were fine, and after a long time, I found the bag of fly carcasses wriggling.
I can't remember exactly how this last event ended, I just remember that little bag of fly carcasses became my childhood shadow.
In addition, I have always had a question since I was a child:
There is a lot of propaganda that plastic harms marine life, so the use of plastic should be reduced.
But I didn't throw plastic into the sea, my family and friends didn't either, and we were taught to throw this thing in the trash.
So why did this plastic run into the sea?
As a result, the small people obediently sorted and took out the garbage according to the time and regulations, but the problems at the disposal end of the garbage were still not solved.
But that's not surprising.
A lot of things that make a bang,
In the end, it will all be gone.
By saying all this, I don't mean to express that environmental protection is useless.
But we are too familiar with "environmental protection", if you want to shoot, you have to shoot something profound.
Instead of an unappealing story plus corny and boring preaching.
All the characters are flat and full of stereotypes.
Make a serious talk and say something that people all over the world have long known.
This alarmist intimidation is really undeterrent and less educational than the Blue Planet documentary.
Watch these videos of melting glaciers, exhaust gas, wastewater, and plastic everywhere.
Do you have to point at me and ask you are not ashamed? Do you know how the future holds?
I just want to say, "Destroy, hurry up, tired." ”
To put it bluntly, environmental protection has nothing to do with anyone, but it doesn't matter to anyone.
People are more concerned about next month's mortgages and credit cards than about how the planet will change in ten, twenty, thirty years from now.
This feeling is absolutely used at home and abroad, and as far as the current world economic situation is concerned, those who devote themselves to the cause of environmental protection are definitely people whose living conditions are above the middle class.
Of course, I don't mean that everyone shouldn't be environmentally friendly, but that people who are too lazy to watch TV series intimidate everyone with a condescending face.
Throughout the whole process of watching the play, I had an expression of "the old man in the subway looking at his mobile phone", and I almost thought it was a black humorous American drama that satirized "extreme environmentalism".
When I saw it, I found out that it wasn't, and he was preaching in a serious book.
02
It's a pity that this show got off to a bad start at the beginning.
In 2037, an environmentally friendly girl named Carmen Galily uses holographic projection to shout about rising global temperatures.
There were angry people everywhere, holding signs and shouting, too naïve from top to bottom.
Not to mention that the matter of environmental girls is already very annoying, and it has turned this image into a spiritual leader, I don't understand.
And, are you environmentally friendly when you gather here to pull banners, hold up signs, and wave flags?
In contrast, there are those rich who have money, talent, patents, and resources.
These people are outright villains who are against environmental protection.
I really want to be a villain.
But if you think that the whole show is really criticizing these politicians and capitalists, you are also wrong.
Although the screenwriters portray them as a bunch of selfish ghosts, mercenaries who seek profit and rob bastards.
But it is not difficult for them in the slightest, let them live very moisturized.
Private pools, private jets, private yachts, life is not affected by climate change.
Very pompous and superficial, the monsters in Ultraman have richer characters than they do.
They come up with data and cases to make future extrapolations on the timeline to tell the audience how urgent the threat of global warming is.
(This is also the origin of the title :)
Assume that these people who took to the streets to demonstrate as the actions of the majority, and believe that the audience of this show must think so too.
Who wouldn't agree with protecting the environment?
The screenwriter thought that the audience would bring in environmentalists and be very angry and scared.
But in fact, in the whole film, you can't bring in anyone, there is no emotional resonance.
These positive figures were the ones they had to design, because environmentalism is also a type of "political correctness" that cannot be questioned.
People who can write scripts simply look down on these ordinary people in their bones, but prefer those who are rich.
These people who marched in the streets, reckless and chaotic, stupid and impulsive.
The toiling people protesting against climate change, you and me, the many ordinary people in front of the TV.
You might say you don't parade, but sorry, there are only two kinds of people in this film, billionaires or a pack of ants.
These middle and lower class people have the intention to save themselves, but the means are crude.
There is only an impulse, without any wisdom, only a smile and generosity.
Smart people are on the side of the "villains" represented by capitalists and politicians, ordinary people are fools.
Although it cannot be directly said that it is not, the way it is filmed and portrayed is full of disdain for ordinary people.
This time the march grew out of a negotiation in the United Nations building.
Politicians are talking about how to curb climate degradation and unbridled exploitation, but countries are struggling to do so.
They simply don't have the ability to think about the future of the planet, and the present is troublesome.
Perennial droughts have led to existential crises in two-thirds of the world.
Some can march, while others are already homeless.
Some suggestions are to firmly control the number of temperature rises, and two degrees is a threshold.
It must not exceed two degrees, so that at least the existing ecology can be preserved, and the future is still promising.
But the advice on the other side is that in this situation, it doesn't matter if you go up 2 degrees or 10 degrees.
In our already not rich countries and regions, the places that should have died of drought have long been drought dead.
We have to send more refugees to Europe.
But the more people gather, the more problematic water becomes.
But if seawater can be purified, then the earth cannot be short of water.
A third speaker took place, who pointed out that Alpha Water Solutions has the world's most advanced desalination and purification technology.
As long as we can get the support of the genius billionaire AKA Alpha founder, Nicholas Bilton.
At this time, Mr. Bilton was swimming in fresh water in his large villa in London.
Although you all have nothing to drink, but Lao Tzu still has to swim, is he angry?
The artificial intelligence assistant has already calculated that if he were to give away the patent, he would face a loss of 2.7 billion euros.
However, businessmen do not buy and sell at a loss.
His target was Greenland in the Arctic Circle.
Greenland, the world's largest island, is known as "the world's last pure land".
He wanted to build a casino here and take the opportunity to exploit all the scarce resources underground.
Years of forest fires have sent metals such as nickel and cobalt soaring.
Lithium, cobalt and nickel are known as "Battery Metal", and its minerals are the three important mineral resources required to manufacture lithium-ion power batteries.
As long as the United Nations is willing to give Greenland to him, he is willing to give away the patent.
He doesn't care about climate change.
Instead, it's a business opportunity to make a fortune.
Because he "knows nothing."
03
The show adopts the method of splitting the narrative and unfolds the story into a rich man per episode.
Yes, apparently the protagonists are all kinds of rich people.
There will be eight episodes this season, that is, eight rich families.
And the lives of ordinary people under most disasters are embarrassing and crowded brushstrokes, like a background board without a sense of existence.
In addition to dying in a disaster, it is to set yourself on fire or a group of stupid fools who can no longer be stupid.
Of course, there are also good-hearted people among the rich, but they are keen to waste human resources.
In this moment of human survival, they still spare no effort to help.
Time and time again, they have fallen into crisis and again and again mobilized resources to save them.
As if to tell everyone: even if the world ends, such a superior person with a little conscience will be saved.
There is a "compassionate heart" of "why not eat minced meat".
Maybe each actor only needs to act in the episode he is responsible for, so there is no rival scene, and the actor's cost can be controlled.
After the first episode 2037 The story of wealthy businessman Bilton.
The second episode focuses on Rebecca, who is passionate about animal protection.
At that time, she still ran into the burning mountain forest with Rokko in search of endangered animals.
She said maybe God was telling humans in this way that they shouldn't have children.
Then you don't give birth, turn around and she will be sent to the helicopter.
Breaking through the wildfire, he was sent to the hospital in minutes to give birth.
This eventually leads to premature birth and congenital heart problems.
I don't know whether it's selfish or selfless, and I don't know what kind of "bodhisattva heart" it is.
Fast forward to 2046, and Rebecca will start saving humpback whales again.
She lives with her children in a mansion deep in the mountains, and the means of transportation is an automatic helicopter.
Her clothes were forever spotless, contrasting with the gray sky outside.
I don't understand the point of portraying these people so seriously about their extravagant lives in the last days.
There are also countless contrived lines, and there is an indescribable physical discomfort when I listen to it.
As a privileged class, they ask questions in the apocalypse:
"Who decides which people, which species, which places are preserved and which should be left to be destroyed?"
Sounds particularly ironic.
The third episode is 2047.
Talk about religion and discuss why God did not come to save mankind.
The father of a wealthy merchant took the maiden to receive a religious rite of passage.
The actor of this little girl looks quite similar to David Humer.
The little girl is full of mouth to save the sky,
He also disgusted that his father had money to buy land,
Make the poor homeless.
Finally, the Jewish Rabizak, who rescued the file during a storm, was rescued by helicopter in the flood.
After facing the disaster up close, the girls also grow.
I really don't understand the point of helping a rich business girl grow up in the context of the apocalypse.
It is also necessary to shoot a long and entire episode about the willfulness and naivety of the girl.
And the poor people around who are homeless in the shelter really don't seem to be worthy of any camera.
It's just a dummy to make up people's heads and perform "a bunch of poor refugees who are homeless".
The fourth episode, 2059, is the year the President of the United States is a woman.
The average temperature has risen by 2.2 degrees, more than 90% of the land has become ocean, and the global population is only 2 billion.
Scientists have proposed a geoengineering plan to alter Earth's climate through human intervention.
But scientist Roger suggests that the consequences of this approach are unpredictable.
In the end, he had to die halfway and was explicitly banned.
Unfortunately, his son disagreed with him and ran away from home with a big fight.
Eventually, Roger's ex-wife, the son's biological mother, launched the geoengineering program on her own.
After manual intervention, it is still unknown what kind of evil consequences the earth will have in the future.
With four more episodes to come, the show has only one way to save the game.
is to take the route of "Don't Look Up", don't be so serious, and turn into an absurd magical realist irony.
Now it's really too hypnotic to look at it or laugh.
I don't know where the future of the planet is, but the future of Apple TV doesn't feel good...