I watched “Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse” today. It is an entertaining film. Excellent video effects, and, especially, the surprising but wonderful combination of various versions of spider-men based on the Spider-Verse theory. I was not surprised to find that the audience could not help to shout “WOW” when different kinds of spider-men, say, Lego spider-man, real world spider-man, and so on, showed rightly on the big screen.
Then we need a manager for the variety of universes. So here come the major questions, who should be the manager, or in the management group, and how to manage them.
As you can see, these are some really old-fashioned questions. This film, which lays out these questions before the audience, is the second one of this “Spider-Verse” series and it seems that the third one will answer these questions (and I hope it would do a good job).
Except the impression of the highly rated video effects, with what was I left after watching the film? Unfortunately, not so much. The questions it raised are rarely new. The relationships between the characters are not complicated. The hidden identity part was not dealt with very well so I just did not understand why Miles should hide his identity from his parents?
But the quality of this film’s video effects is incomparable and worth the money alone. I will support its third film and buy a Blue-Ray to enjoy every unique frame on my 4K TV.
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I also finished “水族館の殺人”, the second book of the famous Japanese detective story series by 青崎有吾. This novel, in my opinion, is worse than the first one. The laying of the novel is strange because the favorite character, the detective who is of odd characteristics but unmatched detective ability, goes on to the stage too late.
Readers like me keep asking themselves to be patient because the detective should show in the next section. But not. Okay, then in the second chapter. Unfortunately, there is still not.
Besides, in the early chapters, the author introduces a number of new characters (more than eleven) and it is a headache job to remember them. Since you know remembering their names, genders, occupations are important for a smooth reading experience of a detective novel, this difficulty keeps haunting you until you bring out a piece of paper and write down the information.
My suggestion, why not give the characters some special names containing the information of their genders and occupations? In Japanese or Chinese, since characters are used, this is a rather easy task.
But after the detective appeared, such impatience disappeared, for I am really interested in the high school life the protagonist leads and the relationships between him and his friends and fellow students. Furthermore, as the story of the second book happens nearly half a year after that of the first, it provides more information about some characters, whose stories stop suddenly at the end of the first book.
Overall, it is a good novel and I will read the third one of the series hopefully next week.
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