Author: small black box —— crowbar two cylinders (the original author of is not easy to create, I hope you will pay more attention to the original author)

The lives that cannot be escaped are all prisons - " The Shawshank Redemption "

If it hadn't been for the emergence of "Cyberpunk: Edgewalker", I may never have learned about a fraudulent game work.

Rotten Tomatoes received 100% praise, and the audience responded 97%. The Douban opening score is 9,3, and ing9.0 is enough to prove the success of this work.

I will not deliberately blow this work into hype. In fact, "Cyberpunk 2077: Edgewalker" tells a story that is expected and reasonable, and there are not many plots worth speculating.

It does not have the addictive rainy night streets like "Blade Runner", nor does it have the profound thinking of class political opposition in "Ghost in the Shell", nor does it have the shock of "The Matrix" interweaving reality and dream, "Edge". "Walker" embodies the legend of just a small person, and it is also another tragedy that has been done under the worldview of many cyberpunk .

Reasons for recommending animation

"Cyberpunk 2077: Edgewalker" has only ten short episodes, and each episode is also compressed into thirty minutes, which is also the great place of the production team Trigger Club. In such a short time, every character in the animation, including the supporting roles, can be depicted vividly and three-dimensionally, and the level of storytelling is also first-class, even if you have never played the game "Cyberpunk 2077", you can immediately Understand the macro context of the seemingly complex web of relationships and the entire worldview. The first two episodes of the

animation basically used the background board to express the core and basic settings of cyberpunk, with a slightly absurd soundtrack to set off all kinds of absurd appearances under the night city, such as the homeless and Prostitutes, people spray everywhere on the street, relying on Mewtwo and adult products to maintain the status quo, and all of this is accustomed to the male protagonist's eyes, and it also reflects the male protagonist's family situation and his proud, young and frivolous. Attitude. The lens language similar to

occupies a very large part in the animation. The setting of the entire animation network is basically narrated through short dialogues and ingenious shots, and there is no long dialogue that affects the rhythm.

and the animation is very skilled in the control of the camera lens. In order to highlight the characteristics and class of some characters, the animation camera will deliberately downplay and turn the head of the insignificant party to highlight the insignificance of the small person, and at the same time, the strong camp characters will be highlighted. The image of the character is exaggerated and becomes extremely huge, which brings out the powerful forces hidden behind the characters.

However, after returning to the normal level, the difference in height and body shape between the two is not large, but through the pressure of the aura, you can clearly feel who is the real big man.

This method of lens processing and storytelling can easily make the audience unconsciously substitute into the animation, so as to more easily pave the way for the emotions of the characters and promote the development of the plot with the right opportunity.

First-class picture, iron action scene

"Cyberpunk 2077: Edge Walker" uses standard 2D animation, with rough lines and exaggerated picture shaking to express the feeling of punching to the flesh when attacking, and in the performance of fighting At the same time, the still frame method is used from time to time, giving the audience a detailed description of the action and a certain space for thinking.

Objectively speaking, "Edgewalker" is definitely the most 2D animation I have seen in 2022, which is full of 's violent aesthetics . The shackles of the restricted level have been removed, and all the big scenes of this work are absolutely portrayed enough to be realistic and bloody. The battlefield, the ruined ruins covered with machinery and blood, the extensive and wild action moves, extremelyA close-up of proportions for visual impact. Coupled with the hideous expressions of characters attacking and being attacked, it can be called the best action drama in 2022.

and the lines and proportions in the battle between the characters are very beautiful. For example, the virtual phantom created by the protagonist's high-speed movement is reflected every time in the whole animation, and sometimes it also uses the method of repeating to move the mirror , Deepen the impression of the audience, showing all kinds of unexpected reversals during the battle.

A good battle scene is to keep the audience in a state of nervousness at all times, to create an atmosphere of ever-changing battlefield situations, and you will never know what will happen next until the end. This is the biggest action scene. stimulus source.

is full of dramatic legends (spoilers)

Night City has no living legends, "Cyberpunk 2077: Edge Walker" is still about survivalism , the core of dystopia is a bad guy Awakening from the bottom class in the sea of ​​life, this awakening of human nature will only become vulnerable in an era where interests are the mainstay, and eventually become a generation of bubbles, living in people's memory.

So the existence of cyberpunk is essentially a tragedy, and David, the protagonist of "Edgewalker", is a small person struggling in the tragedy, and even his initial struggles came from the dreams of others.

just like this, he continued to move forward with his mother's dream, his partner's dream, and his lover's dream, and he never lived for himself.

But fortunately, this kind of contradiction and unyielding personality made David truly live as an ordinary person with blood and tears. His dreams were not so complicated. He never thought about the distant cities, nor did he think He did something that shocked the heavens and the people, but silently guarded the dreams of others, so he finally became a legend as his mother hoped, and also fulfilled his lover's wish to go to the moon.

This is the life of an ordinary person. In the animation, there is a cyberpsychosis setting, that is, if the prosthesis is used too much, it will cause auditory hallucinations, hallucinations and other effects. .

But in fact cyber psychosis is not a so-called insanity at all, it's just a precursor to people losing their humanity, the more people they kill, the more people's nerves will become numb, they will often fall into the past memories, trying to get back their humanity. Last ray of light.

This is why the eldest brother in the animation did not fall into madness in the end, and the death of the eldest sister-in-law awakened his last conscience.

The same is true for David, the male protagonist. On the way to an assassination mission, David seemed to see his mother. David, who killed without blinking an eye, hesitated for the first time, including the final kiss from the female protagonist. David also died Neither became cyberpsychotic.

The brilliance of human nature becomes brighter under the humorous and suppressed worldview. All the characters who fought hard to resist eventually turned into stars in the sky, leaving people who killed each other and lived in an atmosphere of intrigue all day long.

's spirit of bravely resisting in the face of oppression is worthy of praise. This is also the "legend" that David's mother hopes, because David has climbed far higher than all high-rise buildings. He exists in the sky and affects people for generations.

And stories of little people becoming legends, even if they lack depth, will never go out of style.