[Notes for Chasing the Drama] Life must continue after loss - "The Ultimate After Life"

Title: "After Life"
Language: English Episodes: 18 (three seasons in total)
Year of broadcast: 2019~2022

It has been a while since the last update. During the process, I watched "The News Reporter", "Zombie Campus" and other films, and I felt that it was a bit of a scratch. Instead, I accidentally clicked on "The Ultimate Post-Life", which made the author unable to bear it. I lived one episode after another, and it took about two weeks to complete all three seasons. In the process, I also gained a lot of feelings and understandings about life.

With the theme of "letting go", "The Last Life" is about the protagonist Tony. After his beloved wife died of cancer, he went through various events in five stages. The whole work may be able to use "Seeing a mountain is a mountain, seeing a mountain is not a mountain, Seeing a mountain is still a mountain" to briefly describe. From seeing things and thinking about people, being jealous of the world, and finally being willing to accept the departure of his beloved wife, interspersed with the joys, sorrows and sorrows of some people around him, Tony broke many real world norms because he gave up the world and became loyal to himself. It also makes the audience reflect on the worldly values they have become accustomed to; and his attitude after the "ultimate" brings the audience a different outlook on life from the beginning.

On the whole, Tony is not a very lovable character, and the common "British humor" and absurd settings in the film are not my favorite, but the absurdity seems to echo many people in the society ironically. phenomenon, and made Tony's sharp-edged personality traits, which produced an inexplicable charm. Life may be made up of constant losses, and people may not be able to get used to losing for a lifetime. Although it is still sad in nature, "The Ultimate Post-Life" gives the audience the strength to move on at the same time.

"The Last Life" short story: Ricky Jarvis, the unforgiving man on the show

Ricky Gervais (Ricky Gervais), who won the 2004 Golden Globe Award for Best Actor in a Musical and Comedy TV Series, played Tony in the play, is not only a celebrity in British comedy, but is best known for his vicious tongue power. And when he presided over the 77th Golden Globe Awards in 2020, he showed his skills even more. Felicity Huffman, Leonardo DiCaprio and other movie stars, after watching it, let him The author strongly suspects that he is simply "being himself" in "The Ultimate Post-Life".