If one day, you enter a new world, in which you don't have to work, you just need to constantly participate in the game to survive, doesn't it sound tempting?
However, after you have seen this new drama, you may change your mind - "Alice in the Land of the Dead"
Adapted from the manga of the same name by Japanese manga artist Aso Haru, the series is directed by Shinsuke Sato and starring Ken Yamazaki and Taiho Tsuchiya, and is a familiar face of the manga, from the production team to the cast.
The plot focuses on survival and thriller, as well as unlimited pass flow game, the swimsuit party in the play, the nervous and brain-burning puzzle solving are also many, the whole process is tense and exciting, and the sense of substitution is very strong.
The story takes place in Tokyo, Japan, where the male protagonist, Ryohei Arisu (Kento Yamazaki), is a veteran waste wood addicted to games, who has been in a slump since the death of his mother, and has been playing games at home all day.
His two friends are not much better, Tsutomu works as a temporary worker in a bar, has just been fired by his boss and becomes an unemployed vagrant; Zhang Tai works as a procedural ape in an IT company, and his hard-earned salary is squandered by his addicted mother.
The lives of the three people are like a pool of mud, and just when they can't help but think whimsically: "I really want to go to a strange country", they accidentally caused a car accident.
In order to avoid the police, they fled into the subway bathroom, but something strange happened, and after a loud noise, the light bulb in the bathroom went out, and the air seemed to stand still.
The three of them went out to take a look, just now the bustling street, instantly empty, hard to get to the night, the big screen on the street suddenly lit up: Welcome players, the game is about to start.
The three men were instructed to come to a "game building" that was brightly lit but empty, with only a number of mobile phones, but these mobile phones could not be called or accessed to the Internet, but only as a notifier + timer.
Just when the three were confused, two girls came to the building, one was a female high school student, the other was a female white-collar worker, and the female white-collar worker told them that after entering the game, it was a dead end if they wanted to quit again.
The rules of the game are simple and rude: the room is written with "life" and "death" two doors, choose the right to enter the next room, until out of the hotel, the game passed; if you choose the wrong one, you will be laser headshot, and the door will die instantly.
If the door is not opened at the specified time, the room will turn into a sea of fire, seeing that the time limit has arrived, Yuqi suddenly has a flash of inspiration, remembers the safe escape map at the door, and successfully escapes according to the instructions on the map.
After escaping from the building, they get a "Three of Spades" playing card, and the number corresponding to the playing card is the number of visa days they can survive in this game world.
If you win the game, the player can get a visa for days, automatically liquidate each player's visa at 12 o'clock at night, and once the visa expires, they will be killed by a laser blow from the sky.
There is more than one game here, the classification of the game is based on the 4 suits of the playing cards, and the degree of difficulty is determined by the number on the card, which gradually increases from a to k.
Spades represent the flesh type, good physical fitness, will fight easy to pass, squares represent intelligence type, smart, knowledgeable easy to pass, plum blossom represents the balance of both.
The most difficult and cruel is the red heart, which can win by playing with people's hearts and betraying friends, and in the days when the visas of Yuqi and friends are about to expire, they encounter the "red peach seven".
The name of the game is "Peekaboo", one is a wolf, the remaining three are sheep, and at the end of the game, only the wolf can pass the level, and finally only Youqi survives.
Although he is alive, he cannot face the death of his best friend, which is also the purpose of the game designers, to threaten survival, but constantly crush your will with death.
To escape from this life-and-death world, Yusu must find a place called "Seaside", where many gamers gather and drive a carnival party that never ends.
According to seaside leaders, hatters, once all the playing cards are collected, a person can be sent back to the real world, so the seaside members must unite to collect the playing cards and then send them home one by one according to the ranking.
During the day, they are drunk and dream of death, enjoying themselves, and at night, they regard death as a homecoming for the same dream, but how can it be possible for everyone to uphold one ideal and work together?
In the end, the entire waterfront is caught up in a battle royale mode of jealousy and chaos, not because of infighting, but because the game designers made the first season's highest difficulty Game of Peach 10.
The drama is "Alice in the Land of the Dead", the Land of the Dying, that is, the Land of the Dead, and every player who is selected to enter the Land of the Dying has a real life that they want to escape.
They are full of dissatisfaction with reality, and even desperate to die, but after coming to the land of the dead, they are aroused by the game to survive, and they want to live at all costs.
What is raw? What is death? How on earth should we live? And how to die? This is the proposition that has always plagued the protagonist in the play, and it is also a proposition left for the audience to ponder.
Although the story is not to be continued, it is always a reminder that we are fortunate to still live in reality: escape, never solve the real problem.