“Moon Knight” is a newly released Marvel Comics drama, with a freshness rating of 87% on Rotten Tomatoes and a 94% reputation among audiences.
But it has nothing to do with other Marvel works, and starts a new stove.
The setting is also very new.
The male lead is played by Oscar Isaac.
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Is a person with severe dissociative body recognition disorder, or multiple personalities.
During the day, he was dazed and chanted “do one good deed every day”.
Hit hard at night, “representing the moon to destroy you”.
The first personality is the honest man, Steven.
He is in a museum in London, in charge of sales.
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Usually get along with colleagues mild and cowardly, soft-spoken.
When he got home, he was talking to himself, and he liked talking to goldfish.
His biggest worry is sleepwalking.
Before going to bed every night, tie yourself an anklet and seal the doors and windows.
He also sprinkled lime beside the bed in case he woke up wondering where he was.
One day, when he woke up, Steven found himself in the wilderness of Germany.
The whole person kissed the ground and slumped his chin.
Before he could relax, a group of people with live ammunition suddenly appeared and began to chase and kill him.
On the way to escape, Steven gradually discovered that something was wrong.
He always hear strange noises in his ears.
But when he turned around, he couldn’t see who was talking.
In the last second, he was surrounded by a group of people, and his life was at risk.
The next second, the group of people were all beaten to the ground, their hands covered in blood donations.
what happened? Where am I? what am i doing?
He drove away, was strangled, and had a gun pointed at his head.
Another trance
The glass was shattered, and the man died, and he had a gun in his hand with blood.
Seeing a pile of wood roll down the mountain and hit him.
Just thought I was going to burp again.
startled.
Wake up from bed.
Is it a dream? !
Just happy that everything is fine, Steve finds his notion of time confused.
Thought I slept, only one day passed.
Unexpectedly, three days have passed.
At the same time, he also found himself hallucinating.
When taking the elevator, I suddenly saw a sharp-mouthed monster covered in bandages.
The next second, I found out that it was the old lady on the same floor.
Awoken again.
Looking around, the bus passengers looked at him as if they were insane.
I dozed off and had nightmares while sitting at the station, but it was okay.
Until the mysterious man who appeared in the dream came to him.
He just realized
It turned out that it wasn’t a dream.
Obviously, all the strange encounters before were all done by another of Steven’s personalities.
This personality is completely different from the timid Steven.
He’s a tough and ruthless mercenary, Mark.
He holds the super power of the “Moon Knight” body.
In the comics, Moon Knight is sheltered by the Egyptian moon god Kongsu and has extraordinary fighting power.
Especially in the moonlight, the combat value is full.
He used to have a tough fight with Thor.
In the comics, Moon Knight can control Thor’s hammer and beat Thor
The way the power of “Moon Knight” is displayed in the play is very special.
Among the works of the same type, the most direct and effective means of highlighting the power is nothing more than photographing it.
Such as the previous “Daredevil”.
Punching to the flesh, blood splattered everywhere.
It strongly highlights Daredevil’s excellent fighting ability and hatred of criminals.
But “Moon Knight” is an outlier.
Play a set, less is more.
Skip straight through the fight and show you only the beginning and the end.
As for the “middle” that everyone is most looking forward to, I leave it to everyone’s imagination.
The method seems to be “lazy”, but it is actually extremely ingenious.
It not only highlights the power of Moon Knight, but almost instantly kills the opponent.
It also keeps everyone’s appetite up, adding to the mystery of the characters and the suspense of the story.
After realizing the identity of Steven’s multiple personalities, many of the previous things are reasonably explained.
For example, a colleague who rarely communicates even takes the initiative to ask the rigid Steven.
It can be seen that the person who hooked up with the female colleague before must be another personality.
Or maybe the security guy at the museum never called Steven by the right name.
Interestingly, the security guy kept calling him “Scotty”.
Maybe, Steven has more than two personalities?
In fact, this is also implied.
A three-mirror lens is specially arranged in the play.
In the first episode, although most of the fighting scenes were “skipped”, they did not hesitate to show “multiple personalities”.
Many scenes are completely thriller filming-
In the dark night, the flickering lights, the shadows in the mirror, the strange atmosphere is about to come out.
For example, the shadow in the mirror calls his name.
Or in an empty museum.
Steven was gone, and the man in the glass was still there.
Nowhere to run, hide in the toilet.
The countless “Is” in the mirror began to let go of themselves.
Act autonomously and speak.
At a critical moment, the “I” inside and outside the mirror swap positions.
A new personality begins to take over the body.
The setting of multiple personalities makes the whole story have a “Fight Club” flavor.
The protagonist of “Fight Club” also has two extreme contrasting personalities.
A life is monotonous, sexy and soft.
Lonely, aimlessly, and dozed off during the day.
The other is free and unrestrained.
Do whatever you want, just indulge yourself.
He also advocates violence and has masochistic tendencies.
Although most of us don’t really suffer from split personality.
But I still feel the same way about this story.
Because this just represents the contradictory and complex multi-faceted nature of everyone’s heart.
Similar problems plague the protagonists of “Fight Club” or “Moon Knight”.
For example, how do I get along with people?
It is a positive conversation, showing your self-confidence and showing your charm.
Or wait passively, avoid all risks, and prevent offending others.
For another example, how should I face evil crimes and social injustice?
It is better to do one less thing than to do one more thing, forbearance and forbearance.
Or attack forcefully, and use violence to defeat violence.
Of course, there are not only two extreme answers to every question.
Rather, it is to strike a balance in the middle.
The villain in the play is a cult leader who uses mana to balance the good and evil of people.
When he holds someone else’s hand, the scale tattoo of judgment on his forearm will swing until he judges the good and evil of the other person.
And when he held the protagonist’s hands, the balance was slow to stabilize.
The reason is that the mental state of the protagonist at this time is very chaotic.
There are multiple personalities in the body, each with different values of good and evil.
This is also the most interesting part of the show-
As the protagonist of a superhero, he is a problematic person, a person who is internally conflicted and swaying.
On the contrary, the villain is a firm and devout believer.
He would crush glass and pour it into his shoes.
Self-cultivation in an ascetic way.
Ethan Hawke, who plays the villain, used to be mostly involved in low-budget literary films, and he also criticized superhero movies as “without depth”.
But this time, he has changed his mind on “Moon Knight” and is willing to play a major role.
“In the past, in many movies and TV works, the villain was described as mentally ill, or trapped by a demon. This time it was the hero’s turn to go crazy, so I had to come up with other motives, which was very appealing to me.”
Ethan Hawke’s remarks just point to a question worthy of discussion:
Does the hero itself represent “normal”, and the villain must represent “abnormal”?
As a schizophrenic Moon Knight, he also has a conflicting understanding of the righteousness of the hero.
After that, the competition between different personalities for their bodies is more like an inner debate over values.
And for many other heroes who exercise justice, there is such a contradiction.
For example, in “Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice”, Superman kills bad guys in order to save them.
However, the rescued person was disabled and took Superman to court.
Under such circumstances, it’s hard to say whether Superman is still the pure savior.
If justice is used to judge evil, then what should be used to judge justice?
And “Captain America: Civil War” addresses the same values debate.
The heroes of the Avengers were divided into two factions because of their different concepts of exercising justice, and they even fought each other.
Around justice, there have always been countless contradictory topics.
Is the outcome of justice important, or is the process of justice important?
In order to obtain justice, what is the degree of violence against violence?
Is it okay to use too cruel means to treat criminals?
Different situations, different objects, different events, the answers to these questions are not the same.
Regardless of the outcome, it may lead to various controversies.
Like the Joker in “The Dark Knight”.
He puts Batman to the test with the human nature of the Prisoner’s Dilemma, trying to shake the morality he’s held to.
Obviously, the show wanted to go further from the choice of the character “Moon Knight”.
No longer limited to bombarding the audience’s eyeballs with special effects, but try to use more meaningful content to get out of the popcorn dilemma.
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