article/Guo Jing
This article may have some spoilers, if you feel uncomfortable, you can turn to the summary at the end of the article. Compared with the theme of the first episode,
is the reunion and reunion derived from the second intersection of the emotional clues of the characters. "Game of Thrones" S08E02 further integrates and guides the emotional context of the characters, and in the rapid development of the emotional burst of each group of CP characters, the whole plot is moving forward in an inevitable tragedy.
The opening of this episode is slightly different from the first episode. The ice continues to extend from the location reached in the previous episode (the last hearth city), and there are more fortifications on the periphery of Winterfell.
The interesting thing about the narrative structure of the episode lies in its focus on the coherence of time and space. Within this 55 minutes, the plot starts from the daytime of the day until night falls, when the army of ghosts and soldiers approach the city as the end. In this continuous time relationship, the Junlin City line did not appear in the narrative of the episode at all. The entire Winterfell Line is the only event development space in the complete works. This makes this episode more like a one-act play created by a rough analogy of the classical trinity (the organic whole formed by the consistency of location, time, and plot). This style also highlights the play. The urgency of time and the suppression of space: the precious time of the last night before the war. Tonight is not over, life and death are unknown.
And as time goes by, night is coming. The light and shadow effects and style characteristics of this episode also tend to highlight themes and portray the psychological activities of the characters. Its specific performance is the characteristics of the scene divided by cold and warm light (blue light, red light). In the audiovisual language in the art of film creation, the warm and cold light shines on the face of the character, which is mainly used to express the uncertainty of the character's psychology, entanglement and hesitation, wandering and worry, etc. In this episode, such as Daenerys’s worries and entanglements when facing Snow’s true identity, Missandei’s inner worries and anxiety when talking about the future with Grey Worm, are all divided by this cold and warm. The typical lighting method is intuitively mapped out. Of course, on the other hand, the blue cold light more represents winter, cold and death. The warm red light symbolizes life and hope. This style of light and shadow also shows the lust of the rain to the extreme.
On the other hand, the plot of the episode makes several groups of new and old CP emotions further burst and climax, such as the emotional burst of Arya and the blacksmith, the establishment of the relationship between Sansa and Theon, etc., all seem to be on the eve of a tragedy. Beautiful moments that pass away.
Daenerys’ first reaction after hearing Snow’s true identity was to worry about his threat to his succession to the Iron Throne, rather than the sadness and grief over the moral dilemma between the two of them in their love relationship. This also reflects from the side that Daenerys' desire for power goes far beyond love. It is the foreshadowing of the split between the two in the future. Combined with Daenerys's dream in the second season. Here we might as well make a bold prediction: Daenerys will die, or at least, she will not be able to ascend the Iron Throne.
In this episode of Bran’s conversation with James, there is a crucial line: "How do you know there is a future?" This sentence may indicate that between Bran and James, at least one person will convenient.
, combined with Bran’s analysis of alien ghosts in this episode and the establishment of alien targets, we might as well speculate further: at least one alien ghost will die with Bran.
In this episode, we also understand: the purpose of the Night King is to erase the entire world, and the reason why the Night King focuses on erasing Bran first is that the character of Bran represents the inheritance of human knowledge and memory Entity. Erasing Bran is more like erasing history and truth. He is like a living hard disk that saves the entire human development history and cultural data, and its value is self-evident. Of course, the author here does not believe that the purpose of alien ghosts is only to satisfy simple destruction and killing, which must have deeper complex conspiracy and purpose.
and after knowing the current purpose of the strange ghost, Sam said: "The meaning of death is to be forgotten.forget. "If we forget where we have been, what we have done, and what our purpose is, then we are not humans, but animals. "This line can also be seen as a small topic of sublimation of the theme of the season. German existentialist philosopher Heidegger believes that death and death are two different concepts, and as long as we live, we are in the process of death. The physical death is called death. So, on the eve of this upcoming war, the choices and struggles, persistence and emotion of each character will be more precious. And the reason why people are different from animals, It is because people can think, that is, as Sam said, know where they are going and what their purpose is. Then, between life and survival, power and interest, whose purpose will finally be realized? Let us wait and see.
Overall In other words, the second episode of the eighth season of Game of Thrones is an episode of "literary drama" with a more unique narrative. Combining the emotional context and plot development of the first episode, this episode compresses and pave the way for the atmosphere before the war in the next episode. It's a wonderful episode.
