I recently watched " Alone in the Lost City ". From the first episode, the male protagonist Ou Xiaoan was kicked, interrogated, and tortured so much that I felt phantom pain. In more than ten episodes, he was electrocuted until he was semi-conscious. ...
Although watching handsome guys being tortured is also one of my hobbies, as a spy, Ou Xiaoan experienced not only the torture of the skin and flesh, but also the "brain torture" in a pathological sense.
Due to repeated tossing with drugs, trauma, experiments, and big iron rods, Ou Xiaoan's brain memory is in a state of fragmentation. In other words, this spy war starts in collapse mode. How else can he fight?
Double A and Resident Evil
If I were to write this story, it should be "Ace Agent on the verge of destruction".
The heroine of "The Lost City", Tan Moqing, was working as a military doctor on the battlefield in Myanmar when she accidentally discovered a "traitor" who had been eliminated by the military command organization, that is, her senior brother Ou Xiaoan. A dead man posed as a corpse during the day, and immediately became a top target of concern to both the military commander and the Japanese army.
Judging from the symptoms of acute infectious diseases among the North Korean soldiers in Myanmar, the reason why the reborn male protagonist, who holds the starting point of Skyfall, wanders across the border is that in addition to the failure of his previous actions, there is also a very special reason, which is this drama. Theme: biochemical germ warfare.
The female protagonist discovers that there are antibodies in the male protagonist's blood, which is suspected to have been used as a sample for biological experiments. Therefore, the male protagonist is not only an agent investigating biological and chemical warfare, but also one of the victims of biological and chemical warfare.
Different from most military operations, bacteriological weapons have been completely evil weapons from the beginning of their creation. If most weapons have the meaning of offensive and defensive use, then bacteriological weapons have only one meaning, which is It's anti-humanity. Since
is anti-human, it is destined to be mixed with a large amount of ulterior hidden information. Just to find the information, not including transportation, transmission, and deciphering, requires a huge price.
Not long after the male protagonist was sent to the bacterial force as an undercover agent, his identity was suspected when his senior brother was exposed; in order to prevent his senior brother Lou Mingyuan from continuing to be tortured by the Japanese army, Ou Xiaoan had no choice but to abandon his soldiers to save his car. I personally tied the knot for my CCP comrades who worked together.
Generally speaking, when spy dramas reach the point where teammates need to be sacrificed, they are almost at the end. In "The Lost City", even though teammates are sacrificed, they don't even save themselves. It's just the beginning of the flash of swords. The heroine of
is also faced with a choice between conscience and reason: if
does not join the medical team to assist the protesting students, she will regret it for the rest of her life and cannot bear to see her classmates fall under the guns of the invaders; but After joining the rescue service team, she failed to fully comply with Sister Qiu Shui's arrangements, and she was also full of guilt.
It happened that the arrest of the patriotic students led to the arrest of the spiritual mentor Mr. Ye. Therefore, the male protagonist not only needed to obtain germ warfare materials, but also had to save others, making the situation of the male protagonist who was already unable to save himself even worse.
The male protagonist went from almost becoming the leader's son-in-law to being captured and used as a guinea pig in a laboratory in just two years. The male and female protagonists of "The Lost City" have been making choices in a reality that lacks the halo of the protagonist - in
spy war dramas, if they can do tricks and do things with ease, it will certainly make the audience happy to watch, but the problem is that In troubled times, in a turbulent environment, a random episode may change a person's destiny. So what should you do so that you won't regret it when you think of the past in the future?
The "Smug Old Man Group" assembles!
What determines the fate of the male protagonist is not only the danger of entering the Japanese army's den alone and the randomly changing external environment, but also an organization that has a huge influence on him, which is his unit in the military command:
Chongqing Military Command Station.
According to the natural laws of the workplace, when a leader repeatedly emphasizes "please don't make your own calculations," it means that everyone's calculations are about to jump to people's faces.Webmaster Wei, the top leader of the
website, followed the male protagonist to work as an undercover agent in the Japanese army, and became a "traitor" in the eyes of the public. He naturally did not want the male protagonist to reverse the case, but at the same time, he was a person who still knew what he was doing. The smiling tiger uncle who is concerned about the safety of the people.
On the one hand, you will feel that he is full of yin and yang all day long, which is a bit disgusting; on the other hand, when he puts his yin and yang power on war criminals and speaks cold words with his 37-degree mouth, you will feel that... Got it, I feel so refreshed ~
His mentor, Deputy Webmaster Wen, on the one hand, trained three CCP apprentices in a row, and on the other hand, he told his apprentices that it was okay to violate the bottom line.
So far, he seems to have never tried to save the male protagonist out of self-preservation, and he always gives some pointers to the male protagonist when he is on the verge of falling off the line.
His former prospective father-in-law, Deputy Webmaster Feng, now seems to simply not want to be associated with traitors, but the new prospective son-in-law he is currently supporting, Section Chief Li, does not seem to be a good guy and has inextricable connections with Japan;
will Is it reasonable for my father-in-law to install a monitoring device in his son-in-law’s house? The bird's food was unreasonable. It was so unreasonable that the old colleagues at the intelligence station couldn't help but feel burning with gossip.
There is also Director Shen who comes from the air, and he is very concerned about his son-in-law, Section Chief Li. According to my experience of watching spy dramas for many years, this director is not simple.
In the recent episodes, on the surface it seems that the heroine is wondering who is a member of the CCP between Section Chief Li and the hero. In fact, it is the work of a few old men who seem random but are actually step-by-step. It seems to have no direct impact on the hero. But it constantly makes the status and identity of the male protagonist sway together.
If the former father-in-law had not regarded his daughter’s marriage as a major benefit bundle, then the situation of the “returned” male protagonist might not be so difficult; Teacher Ruowen had not trained a famous CCP disciple like Lou Mingyuan, The male protagonist may have to resist a little less pressure;
If the webmaster Wei had not promoted Secretary Miao, who is actually a Japanese spy, to be his right-hand man, the male protagonist would not have been in jail several times.
In the process of the three factions of old men contending with the Chinese and Japanese sides, the male protagonist was first pushed to the most dangerous restricted area by the teacher, and then was exposed due to Secretary Miao's leak. Later, the suspicion increased due to the unclear attitude of his ex-father-in-law.
seems to be a workplace secret fight within the Chongqing Juntong Station, but it is like a butterfly effect, affecting everyone in the overall situation. Does it mean that those who are temporarily safe must have outstanding abilities? Is it necessarily his own fault that the male protagonist is behind bars and living in Myanmar?
mentioned a hypothesis in "The Lost City": Whether you eat or not determines the luck of the times, which may not be directly related to personal ability. Under the overthrow of the nest, no matter how smart and hard-working a person is, escaping from the abyss will have to pay a greater price.
A trivial but powerful existence
This category of spy war dramas focuses most of the time on individual choices, the torrent of history, and the emotions of hatred between the country and the family. There are also related plots in "The Lost City", but what I like more is the perspective of individual power in the play.
In the process of fighting the Japanese germ warfare, there were countless variables. Those who can influence the situation are not only the leadership of professional organizations such as intelligence stations, but also seemingly accidental "passers-by" among them.
The person who led to the exposure of the underground party leader was not an important person, but just a rescued student; the person who allowed Ou Xiaoan's mute inmate to temporarily correct himself was not a professional, but an ordinary villager in Myanmar, Ah Jin.
Two concepts are put forward at the same time in "Lost in the Lost City". One is that people cannot resist the torrent of the times, and success or failure may not be determined simply by the saying "Man can conquer nature"; the other is that no matter how difficult the times are, if there are enough people to choose Standing in the same direction is enough to reverse the situation.
The male protagonist in the drama has a setting of superior memory, but in terms of results, his mission was not very successful.He went to Shanghai to cooperate with his senior brother, but his senior brother died, the leader of the underground party was arrested, and he was imprisoned in the laboratory;
Another job was to entrust Section Chief Li to return to Chongqing with Japanese information. As a result, After Section Chief Li arrived at the Chongqing Military Command Station, he and the male protagonist went head-to-head. The two accused each other of treason.
The play did not try to add too many lucky buffs to the male protagonist, making him look like an accident favored by fate. Instead, it first gave a set of fatalism that seemed to be impeccable, and then used another set of even more impeccable "History is written by the righteous." "Go and fight back."
The fate of the male protagonist is at the mercy of the invaders and influenced by the top. It seems that the end is inevitable. However, in the tide of the times, the situation will not be one-sided -
Mr. Ye who exposed himself in order to inspire millions of students, Comrade Wang Yunjie who knew that he had a narrow escape but still had the courage to give it a try, and the male protagonist who has witnessed the crisis again and again. The heroine Tan Moqing did not stay aloof.
Some people choose to seek advantages and avoid disadvantages, and naturally some people will sacrifice their lives. There are also people who will cater to both ends, including even more insignificant existences. For example, a record sent by the daughter of a Japanese military commander or a pen that appears in the interrogation room can also influence a person's current situation.
is in an environment where events are random and the future is not very clear. It is difficult to achieve absolute success. It is also difficult to get rid of the influence of the people around you. It is even harder to say that my destiny is my own. But there is at least one thing It's simple: when
makes a choice, even if you can't predict the outcome, if you are worthy of yourself now, then don't regret it in the future.
e sister's conclusion
There are three designs in "The Lost City" that I think are quite worthy of careful consideration. One is that people who look like NPCs can also affect the entire main line. The second is that the male protagonist is a genius but he smashes two things in a row. Big job -
Who said NPCs don't matter? NPCs are obviously very important in their own world; who says that the bonus of the protagonist's halo must make him successful? The protagonist of the play, the only halo is all kinds of light bulbs that have not fallen into disability. Other halo is like indirect failure of electric bulbs, which will only flash and cannot be bright.
There is another point, which is about the interpretation of the subject of biological and chemical warfare.
In terms of the visual conflict of shooting, biochemical warfare is completely incomparable to fights with real swords, real guns, and explosion scenes. And as far as survivors are concerned, the attention paid to survivors of biochemical warfare and those on the battlefield is , the difference is very big:
soldiers and survivors can tell the cruel acts of the enemy, but the victims of biological and chemical warfare often do not know when they were infected, and the victims who were used for experiments almost never survived. The fighters against biological and chemical warfare are often ignored. They are like an erased memory in human history.
As it happens, the male protagonist is set as an intelligence officer who has lost his memory of precious materials. A clever metaphor connects the fate of the protagonist and the era.
For people in the future, we now are also acting as puzzle pieces in the wave of a certain era. When we look back on every detail of 1945, we will pay tribute to those revolutionaries who have disappeared in human history. So when we look back in 2145, what kind of understanding will we have?
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