Every year when "winter is coming", there is always a magical drama that is about to return,
It's Ice Storm.~
"Ice Storm", like his name, is the kind of drama that is so cool that it has no friends;
The remote state of Minnesota, where no one aspires, is full of snow, bad signals, and no nightlife.
On the night of the snowstorm that can only stay at home, a family that was originally quiet and warm for the elderly was suddenly targeted and then died.
The police who chase the clues and try to solve the case, but step by step into a dead end,
A desert murderer with his own unique philosophical worldview, but calm to the point of indifference,
The snowstorm, the murder case of yin and yang, and all the coincidences are connected to form a magical and inexplicable story in "Ice Storm".
The audience clearly opened the perspective of God, but they saw in the clouds,
This is the delicacy and absurdity of the Coen brothers, the god of cinema, and a chic artistic sense that continues the film "Ice Storm".
What could be more invigorating than being helpless in the snow and searching for the truth in a snowstorm?
In the first episode, it is rough and sophisticated, full of charm, killing all sides and calm and rational,
It's like a cheetah with a cold glow in its eyes when hunting in the forest;
In the second episode, there is both the cold madness of the red face and the noisy and ignorant Peggy of the housewife,
She became an extremely interesting female character in the history of American dramas.
Solid plot, insight into human nature,
Not ordinary inside, close to life, dramatic tension in the role, and a little just the right amount of absurdity and humor,
In the icy, backward and boring Minnesota, there is a kind of human fierceness that makes people want to stop.
In October, when the weather is getting colder, the fourth season of "Ice Storm" is finally back!
The story in the fourth season of "Ice Storm" changed places,
Although it is no longer the icy state of Minnesota, what remains unchanged is that before telling an absurd story, it must be added at the beginning of the film:
"This is a true story, it's a true story."
In the first season, there are cold-blooded killers with a sense of primitive human hunting,
In the second season, there are Indians who are trembling and chasing to the end with clues,
This time, there has always been a set of its own unique aesthetics and world view, and it has never been as "politically correct" as other American dramas.
It even incorporates elements such as the difficult growth of ethnic minorities and black girls in the story.
The possibility of that snowstorm eve:
Chills, quirky tracker killers, snowy dilemmas with nowhere to escape, and the strange noises from the garages of remote houses are all hidden.
This time, "Ice Storm" is more straightforward:
In the ice and snow, an Italian gangster who is not welcomed by the Americans, and the black boss branded with a "black G", he cut his palm with a dagger, humbly and falsely held it together, vowing to be an ally of blood.
Two kinds of "dirty blood" fused together and landed on the "dirty" snowy ground, which is the ice blood storm,
Without the loneliness, remoteness and chill of the past, this season's "Ice Storm" has a story of a few gangsters cheating on me.
There are no stupid, noisy and unlucky protagonists and top killers who have not talked much about survival,
This season has changed its style, not only to please the play of "political correctness", but also a lot of subversive group elements,
The classic environment of the ice and snow minnesota has also been changed to Missouri, how to say it?
Regret with new expectations ~
In retro-era America, for foreigners,
"American Dream" is a glamorous term, so Irish, Russian, Italian, black...
These people are flocked to this dreamland by the locals of the United States and the government as bugs to start their own journey of the American dream.
But helplessly, the local talents in the United States do not take you to play,
These foreigners who are also looked down upon, but still want you to live and die, start fighting, treacherous, and renew all the way,
Italian gangsters wearing bowler hats that they think are elegant, blacks whistle and talk like rap rap, Russians talk louder with volts, Irish people drink home-brewed beer,
In the cold winter, these bug gangs feel empathy for each other, but they still have to fight.
While incorporating elements of ethnic minorities and "political correctness",
But the absurdity and surprise of "Ice Storm" has been well inherited.
In order to maintain their trust and loyalty to each other, the two gangs must exchange the youngest child of their gang for each other.
It is both a hostage and a trust.
First irish gangster vs Russian gangster,
The Irish children lurking in the Russian gang, directly in the Russian gangs inadvertently, brought their brothers into each other's nests and won a group annihilation.
Next up is the Irish gangster vs the Italian gangster,
What the Irish gangsters did not expect was that their children had been successfully brainwashed by the exchange of hostages of the other party.
A child actually shows the betrayal of human nature, the pursuit of profit, and the milk sound makes people feel extremely dark,
There is still a bit of jianghu atmosphere in the core of this story:
Confessing to thieves as fathers, perfidy, little teenagers being pushed into strife...
And after the black people joined the game, they had a little subtle feeling.
They do not seek face or kill you, but more "advanced" to seek financial benefits, status and win-win results.
Running to negotiate with a white banker, wanting to turn on the credit card model, asking people to overdraft their credit to invite their beloved line girl to a candlelit dinner,
Watch the black gang boss, with a witty face, peddling his ideas to white bankers;
A kind of capitalist cleverness and the loyalty of "honest people", a confrontational impact of external innovation and inner loyalty, let us can't help but be amused.....
Unexpectedly, in the end, the credit card became the spiritual pillar of an empty consumerist society.
And this time the classic character cold-blooded killer in "Ice Storm",
In the fourth season, a little innovative changed to a woman, a "Mayflower" nurse who saves the life of the heavens and the angel's endorsement but inexplicably kills people,
With a cross necklace on his chest, he said:
"Forgive them for being God's business, and all I have to do is send them across the street from my house."
In the hospital, while taking drugs and dispensing medicines, while saving people, he took orders to kill people, but the nurse who spoke strangely, this female killer is not too cold and a little warm
This time, "Ice Storm" is more eccentric and subversive than before, and some uncomfortable political preaching;
To integrate the "true story" of the unlucky protagonist and the hunting killer in the ice and snow into the gangster epic sense,
The fourth season is not ambitious, but obviously does not want to lose the previous isolated and arrogant "absurd B grid",
How to play "political correctness" in the fourth season of the rough and "cold" "Ice Storm" is not annoying!
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