Dracula is not the only evil that has mastered immortality

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At the start of the New Year in 2020, the BBC teamed up with Netflix to launch a three-part miniseries based on the famous vampire Dracula. Beginning on January 1, all three episodes of Dracula were released on three consecutive days.

Dracula is adapted from the novel of the same name by Irish author Bram Stoker. It is produced by the original cast of Sherlock. There are three 90-minute episodes in total.

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The word Sherlock will interest many people, and the team that brought Sherlock Holmes into the 21st century has adopted the same strategy with the much older Dracula, setting the story in the modern world.

The story begins in 1897 in the Victorian era, the count Dracula originated in Transylvania, central and western Romania, he did not hide his thirst for blood. He went to great lengths to satisfy his hunger, and his long disappearances attracted enemies.

The three episodes of Dracula are narrated in different ways. Watching them is like watching three movies of different genres.

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The first episode is a horror thriller film that introduces Dracula through the narration of lawyer Jonathan Harker. In the dark, damp, gothic castle, Dracula waited quietly for his prey to arrive.

Jonathan Harker was the central character in the first episode, and this episode unfolds from his point of view. Huck's adventure experience in the ancient castle of Dracula is like taking the audience's eyes to travel in the castle in general, the mysterious veil of Dracula has been unveiled little by little.

The second episode returned to the crew's reasoning, which took place on the vast sea, like a chamber of secrets serial murder case. Dracula boarded a passenger ship bound for England to get a taste of the most intelligent and hypocritical of human beings.

The audience can see the crime clearly from the perspective of god, but if they bring themselves into the role of the ship, they will find themselves helpless and terrified.

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Reasoning then exerts its charm, and what remains, however unreasonable, beyond the impossible, is the truth. This explains why sister Agatha Zoe Helsing took Agatha with her name. Zoe Helsing incarnates a woman, to use the power of reasoning to expose and defeat Dracula.

The third episode finally tells the story in the modern society, and the time is pushed to 2020 123 years later. After more than a century at the bottom of the sea, Dracula finally woke up and set foot on British soil.

In the third episode, the gloomy gothic temperament of the first two episodes is swept away. In the noisy and impetuous modern society, Dracula also begins to think about what death means to him. Many criticized the third episode for its precipitous drop in production quality, in which a group of doomed characters take on the role of philosophers and embark on a long and pointless sermon.

In fact, as long as we understand the eternal life and death, which are contradictory and can transform each other, we can understand Dracula and van hessian.

Sherlock's original Dracula didn't adopt the same light-hearted comedy style, but filmed a completely different style of bloody horror story.

If audiences are uncomfortable with corpses, goshawks, and bats, try not to watch Dracula. The extent of the first episode will be beyond the imagination of many viewers. Fortunately, the style of the latter two episodes gradually changed from focusing on form to focusing on the inside.

Death is "the only place where the snow is untamed" and the only place where everyone has an equal chance. Immortality deprives living creatures of the right to enjoy it. The immortality everyone desires is only the immortality that can maintain the appearance of youth and beauty. If immortality is dragged along with a broken body and needs to feel endless pain, it is believed that no one wants such immortality.

After watching the first two and then the third, think about immortality and death.

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Dracula is not the only evil that has mastered immortality. He just has a good control of his desires and does not quickly consume his body on the way to indulgence. There are also many evil things that suffer from immortality and can only experience endless pain.

In order to maintain eternal life as much as possible, Dracula has set many rules for himself, such as the fear of the cross, the fear of the sun, and the inability to enter uninvited space. These rules are all rules he laid down to restrain his desires.

Eternity is not a gift, but a pain. Dracula spends more than four hours discussing the meaning of immortality and death, trying to express these seemingly metaphysical things in popular language.
 
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