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<\/a>Terror in Resonance Poster<\/p><\/div>
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Unfortunately, I was proven wrong. On the surface, the story evolved around some terrorist duet blowing up buildings, for which authorities from certain countries with a mental age of five thought the series was glorifying acts of terror. Amazingly, this helped make my mind into watching the series as they usually sieved through works and banned the best from public views.<\/p>\n
A further look into the series revealed two runaways from some inhumane child drug test facilities going through lengths to expose their stories to the public, against entrenched political interests, drawing attention but causing no casualties. Sounds more interesting. And those entrenched political interests did those tests for the good of the country, in their opinion, as they saw Japan as a nation very much under American control, even 70 years after WWII. <\/p>\n
And this mindset of subordination was everywhere in the series. We saw there\u2019s nothing the police chief could do with obviously questionable orders from his superior, we saw the female protagonist Lisa Mishima being bullied in school by her classmates, but most evidently, we saw the seemingly boundless power that America\u2019s delegation wielded over Japanese authorities in the airport hunt, and the subsequent highway chase. I know it\u2019s exaggerated, but it just felt too much, to either emphasize America\u2019s control over Japan, or to shed light onto Five, another female protagonist\u2019s mental state. And somehow, senior congressmen thought the best way to bring independence to their nation was to the development of some supernatural human (from orphans), as if superiority of one person, if they ever succeeded, would make Japan on equal grounds, if not better, than the States. For which, honestly, I think launching \u201cJapan\u2019s Got Talent\u201d might be a better idea. Oh, yeah, alongside super-children, they were developing nuclear weapons, which, if you look at North Korea, you know nuclear weapons alone doesn\u2019t make a country great.<\/p>\n
Of course this is not to say there\u2019s nothing good about the series, in fact, there\u2019s plenty. We were all familiar with stories of revenge, but the two protagonists didn\u2019t use their revenge to right what was wrong, they merely sought a voice, where they could tell their stories which the public can contemplate on, and a nation instead of its few congressmen would think of a way forward. The brothers could easily kill all the officials in charge of their experiment, which was how justice was usually delivered in movies. They didn\u2019t, they painstakingly made sure there wouldn\u2019t be any casualties. So it was actually quite a marvelous plot. <\/p>\n
And for characters, I liked the uniqueness and complexity of the characters, so that even the two protagonist brothers that worked as a terrorist duet ultimately made opposite choices, one for their mission and another for his friend Lisa Mishima. But at the same time, the uniqueness and complexity got very well conveyed to the audiences, no obscurity. It\u2019s just that there wasn\u2019t much in-depth character building throughout the series, partly because this is only an 11-episode series, not much longer than a movie.<\/p>\n
Unfortunately, I\u2019m not Japanese. When I was touring Japan this May, I saw a country with almost absurd self-discipline, of almost-untrue public security, of advanced infrastructure that\u2019s unrivaled throughout the world, all the pleasant things a tourist can see. However, at the same time I very much believed that the Japan I saw as a tourist may not be the Japan seen by Japanese people. I heard rumors that Japan is a nation plagued by social problems, of stress in the workplace, of self-identity and stagnant economy. Well-dressed men in late night trains was as far as I can see during my trip about these problems. So maybe, the absurdity of such child drug test in the series may find perfect explanation among Japanese people, which I believed is what the series was intended for. And at the end of the series, Lisa Mishima, representing the Japanese masses, visited the tombs of the test children and hopefully, found a path forward.<\/p>\n
Unfortunately, the false expectation of nuke going off consumed much of my viewing experience, and there\u2019s no way for me to feel that mindset as Japanese people. So to me, the series provided a refreshingly new plot, with clear set of characters. I know it had all the traits of a good series, I just cannot comprehend.
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Where shall I start? Maybe from the name itself and the poster. I was spoiled before watching the series that it somehow involved a \u201cnuke\u201d, which is not really my fault cause it\u2019s written in the \u201cSynopsis\u201d part… Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[156],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.huangyizhou.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2858"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.huangyizhou.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.huangyizhou.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.huangyizhou.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.huangyizhou.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2858"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.huangyizhou.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2858\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2859,"href":"https:\/\/www.huangyizhou.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2858\/revisions\/2859"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.huangyizhou.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2858"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.huangyizhou.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2858"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.huangyizhou.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2858"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}