"Arcane" enters your heart, is your enemy

The original title of the film is ARCANE, which refers to the mysterious power, also known as "magic", so is this a story about how to use magic? That's right, but the power of magic is not only the mysterious energy produced by "science", but also the sparks created by the characters that describe the huge gap between the upper city society and the lower city society.

The Chinese title of the film is "Arcane". The ingenious idea is that "magic" is not enough to explain. The core of the mysterious technology is not the progress of science and technology, but the change that directly affects people's hearts.

Uptown VS Bottom Town

The world can always be easily divided into two, right? The rich, the poor; the capable, the incompetent. According to the classification, people can distinguish objective criteria from each other, but do not find that it is a kind of discrimination, let alone, it is the discrimination of a whole society.

The two cities that were originally united to defend against the enemy may have been destined to fight from the very beginning.

The upper city has the parliament as the power center, seven people control the policy direction, as the capital of progress, a prosperous city led by scientists, facing the other end of the bridge pier, leading to the mines of the old times, the power of the bottom city even if the dark tide is surging and spreads all over the two cities. land, but never see the light - dividing up resources is always a problem.

On the day that Vander launched the revolution, there were countless casualties in the bottom city, and in the fog of blood, Fei (Vi) led her sister onto the bridge, and the nursery rhyme she sang reflected the color of blood. in the lyrics. Children who have lost their parents have since gathered at Vander's bar and become a close second-hand family.

A teenage Faye sneaks into Uptown with children of his own age, targeting a mansion. The younger sister, Powder, is still petite and timid by nature. Fei Ai encouraged her to cross the obstacles, but after everyone arrived in the house, an explosion occurred, the whole building was cut to one side, and the law enforcement officers in the city found them, Hurry into the streets.

In this running process of escaping from the law enforcers, the explosion is the center of vision, but the distance is very far. Why do you deliberately use such a method? We can see that in the next scene where we go back to the bottom city.

Fei Ai and her party encountered other children robbing, the fights of the teenagers turned into slow motion mode, and the trembling of fists into the flesh was staged gorgeously in front of the explosion, not only emphasizing how close the world of physical violence was to her, but also showing how the bottom city The basics of "physical violence" to obtain resources - no negotiation, no negotiation, direct capture.

It was the biggest robbery they'd ever done, and they ended up with nothing left, but the Uptown bombing didn't let them go - except for the teenagers like Faye, and Jayce, the owner of the Uptown mansion. .

Jesse is a scientist and used to be the chief scientist of the parliament: Heimerdinger's assistant. In order to study the science and technology of making magic, the laboratory has placed experimental items everywhere, and the blue stone that was accidentally discovered contains unexpectedly. with unknown energy.

Due to the destruction of civilization caused by the battle of magicians, Hammerdinger opposed Jesse's research in the parliament. Some members said that he must be exiled until Jesse's mother interceded.

Jesse, who had been helped by magic, could not understand what his mother did, and when all his thoughts were lost, the scientist from the bottom city: Viktor was willing to help, because the vision mentioned by Jesse was worthy of the future of the people in the upper city.

The blue stone is about to become the future of the upper city people, or the redemption of the de city people?

Or, the origin of the disaster?

Into the heart, is your enemy

There is a saying, "Only if you are willing, others can hurt you." At first, I disagreed, but as I got older, although I understood the true meaning of this sentence, I also found that it was an inappropriate description.

What enters your heart may become your enemy.

It is this person in your heart, it may be a friend, family member or partner, or a work partner, that will care whether the other person meets the expectations of the relationship or the standards you identify. The difference between people's closeness and distance will affect their own values. However, people are in the society, and their relationship with the society also affects how they view others around them. Relatively, they cannot integrate into the society and gain a sense of identity. Lose your footing.

People can't decide their original family, and family members are usually the first people who come into their hearts.

This season is divided into three chapters, three episodes are one chapter, a total of nine episodes; and the third episode is the key point of the breakup with Fei Ai.

To be honest, I realized it with hindsight. It was only when I read the third chapter that I realized that the two of them were biological sisters. I thought they were more sensitive and would easily lead to love and hatred. It was only because the two were sisters that she had such influence over the shadow area accumulated by Fei'ai's departure (or abandonment).

I haven't played "League of Legends" and have no relevant background impressions. Just looking at the story from the audience's point of view, "Arcane" has done really well.

First and foremost, Powder's new personality formed from a major trauma: Jinx.

Originally, the title of Jinx was simply regarded as the unfortunate ghost when he was on a mission, but later it became a self-identification that Bang Bang pursued to defend Bang Bang who left him and left his dearest one. Growing up another personality in the form of self-protection has appeared in many animations, but the place where "Arcane" does a good job is that Baku/Jinkes, who swings on both sides, still hopes to embrace Fei .

For this goal, she simultaneously kidnapped the villain Silco who raised her in the future, and in order to track down the stolen technological gems and retrieve Fei's law enforcement officer: Caitlyn, she asked Fei to make a choice, If she is willing to kill Caitlin, then she is willing to be a bomb, otherwise, she is Genekes - a crazy criminal.

"One day, we will win the respect of the whole city." Fei'ai looked at Shangcheng in the distance, and Bang Bang looked at the same distance as a child.

Thinking of it this way, Jinkes and Fei's goals are actually the same.

In order to gain the respect of the people of Upper City, Fei inherits Vander's thought, to exchange for respect with peace, while Genekes inherits the thought of Silco, believes that violence should be exchanged for respect.

If you see this and start to hesitate whether it is too violent and bloody, please don’t doubt, these will definitely occur, but not to the level of massacre or torture, which is also the second advantage, which I quite appreciate.

Even if Genekes is such a negative, violent and divisive girl, the audience can still see a lot of explosive shadows; in fact, in retrospect, there are few film and television works that use blood and violence as large-scale content, Unless the protagonist is a special character, or a B-level film.

You say, how is that possible? From time to time, Hollywood produces a bunch of police and gangster films of killers and secret agents, and violent and bloody films are super common!

Yes, but if you think about it carefully, it will really involve the details of murder, or explain the details of torture and so on. Even if the theme of the film and television works is about murderers, the most bloody crime is blood. The blood sprayed on the wall, the blood on the knife, the blood on the murderer's clothes, etc. Why? Because blood is scary enough, and symbolic enough , that the audience doesn't need to actually see the details of the crime. (Note 1)

Humans are born with an instinct that helps their imagination—oh my God! What happened? Is it ________?

It's just that the closer to the ninth episode of this work, the more the audience speculates about what Genekes will do, the more uneasy they become. When the critical point is reached, I also think nervously: God, shouldn't- ─!

This is the second advantage of this work.

When the audience is focused on the character, if the development of things helps the character, the audience will also feel happy. If the character is in a low ebb, the audience will also be sad. If the character is facing life and death, the audience will be even more nervous.

For the key points of the plot turning point, in the process of shaping the story, it is convenient to consider more and more, and more importantly, it is necessary to understand from which angle the audience is watching the story at this time.

Exquisite animation album production, although the details are moving, it does not necessarily make the audience's heart move, and the real heartbeat moment is usually all-round compliance.

"Arcane" is a story with both inside and outside, satisfying sound and light effects, rich plot and moving details. If you think it's just a cutscene in some places, maybe you can look back again, or wait for me, the next article Some details will be mentioned.

Note 1: In order to prevent imitation of crimes, any conscientious play will not present the details of the crime, unless it involves the core of the story, but it will definitely be adapted, which should be clear to the creator and producer.

Figure 1: RIOT GAMES. Worldwide "Arcane" premiere simulcast and awards.

Figure 2-7: Netflix

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