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"Rear Wing Abandon Soldier" opens with a first persona, the female protagonist, a young girl with a stunning likeness, who wakes up from a luxury hotel room, not on her own, by the hotel housekeeper knocking on her door. The butler speaks French, and odds are she's in Paris. The young girl has a hangover, her makeup is still smudged, she's cursing and scurrying around, and she has to get in the bathtub to cool off before leaving the house, so it's clear that she's just come off of a big drinking session, this is France, and maybe she's done something a little more excessive than drinking. Out of the room, she had cleaned up properly. It was the battlefield of chess she was walking towards, all boys, people saluting her as she sat down in front of a boy who had been waiting for her for a while.
Netflix's seven-episode miniseries goes backward from Paris to tell the story of this talented young woman, Elizabeth Harmon. Harmon, who survived a car accident, first encountered chess in the basement of an orphanage, and was so gifted that she soon won the state championship, went on to play in the national open, then to Europe, and finally to the ultimate battle in Russia, where she defeated the best player of the day, Bogov, a generation or two her senior, on the other side's home turf. While watching this drama, I was reminded of a web novel I read some time ago.
Take "The King Spares His Life" for example, the protagonist's brain is thundering on the ground, and it even contains a "system", which assigns him a "task", and if he completes one, he can obtain skills and weapons, which is equivalent to the literaryization of the game. However, the logic is not too different, are penniless teenagers, all the way to upgrade and fight monsters, and finally achieve success. It doesn't matter if you have a low starting point, you can walk the world with a special skill. In "The King Spares His Life", the "system" is the hero's skill point. In the past, there was a popular travel article where the protagonist was familiar with poetry in modern times, and when he traveled to a certain dynasty, he only needed to recite a few poems to gain a reputation as a talented person (the main character of Qing Yu Nian has this skill, too).
The story logic of "Rear Wing Abandoned Soldier" is similar to these cool articles, the heroine's super skill is high IQ, the upgrade path is in the chess world, how can she grow from the basement of an orphanage to become the new champion who defeats the world chess grandmaster Bogov? That alone makes this story compelling enough.
Harmon's life is a bit like Yang's. Both lost both parents at a young age and became orphans, with the previous generation leaving them with mostly burdens other than a good mind. When Yang had to bear the burden of her father's reputation as a thief, Harmon's mother drove her into a truck. Her mother didn't say so explicitly, but it was clear that she intended to take her with her to her death; she just didn't expect her to survive unharmed. Yang meets a famous master in an ancient tomb and teaches him kung fu. Harmon meets the cleaning lady in the basement and teaches her to play chess. After learning a little, they go out and make a name for themselves. In the process, they not only practice their skills, but also face their past and their inner fears. To defeat their opponents, they have to defeat themselves even more.
Telling it all seems like a formula. That's how most of the most popular kinds of stories in this world are. We read them with gusto, deriving great vicarious satisfaction from stories of weakness to strength.
The passage where Harmon takes on Bogov for the first time is quite moving to watch. It's the ultimate king she'll eventually face, but meeting it halfway through when her own skills aren't yet sufficient, the soundtrack is already telling us that this one is doomed. The look in the eyes of the crowd on the chess field and Harmon's monologue after the match are all leading up to the tragedy. Everything was firmly in her opponent's hands, she didn't have half a chance, every move, every variation, was expected by Bogov. It was the first major blow that had befallen the talented young woman, and the opponent she feared was just as formidable as she had imagined. Harmon was undressing as he was recounting the battle to his foster mother, who was lying in bed. A hand reached out to touch her, and her foster mother was no longer breathing.
A double blow in the same night. There are several stereotypes on the gifted teenager; communication impaired, not easily approached and heavily drug dependent. For Harmon, the fact that her mother was abandoned by her father, some of the things her mother used to tell her, the fact that her mother was going to take her with her to commit suicide, were reinforcing the barriers in the teen's mind. The trip to Paris raised that wall a whole lot higher.
I kinda like the adoptive mother character. It's only 7 episodes in, and almost all of the ink is spent on Harmon, and the plot bulldozes forward as a result, leaving not a lot of wiggle room for the supporting characters. If there were 20 episodes, the adoptive mother would inevitably get a spinoff to expand on why she has a sweeping melancholy about her, how she lost her own child, why she hasn't exercised her talent at the piano and is afraid to perform in public, why her husband was so impatient to leave after adopting Harmon, and what's in Denver that's best left alone?
She is rebellious at heart and a grieving mother. After learning that her husband would not be returning, she told Harmon, "I'm no longer someone's wife, but I can still learn to be a mother." She looked at the first check her child had won back and smiled for the first time, a smile that implied, "Here comes a new hope for the old mother's life."
She smoked, drank, had a few days of fast fun in Mexico with an online friend, and then died suddenly. Of course, I think it's basically functional to write her death here, to create a major setback for the heroine, to put her to death, and maybe even as a nod to the title, "Backwing Abandonment" - queen's gambit is A chess opening that involves sacrificing one of one's pawn pieces to gain an advantage.
When "Queen's Wing Sacrifice" first came out, Douban called it "Queen's Chess Game," and then people argued over which name was more appropriate. The novelty of this drama is chess, which is a game for the highly intelligent. I don't know if you've ever wondered this, but I've often stood at the foot of a mountain and looked up at the geniuses and wondered the question, is it not a matter of fate and timing what the highly intelligent go on to do? Only Harmon first encountered chess, some geniuses went to play Go, some born in wartime, went to decipher the code, some people calm, in the study of particle collision, some people jumped into the hottest field, in the level of artificial intelligence to make a big splash. Chess, on the other hand, is a relatively unexposed athleticism for our generation.
But not knowing anything about chess doesn't stop us from having fun with Backwing Abandonment. Every time I read The King of Chess, I have to catch my breath in the middle of that wheel fight. Especially that bowl of cold water, drinking a thrilling, first to his hand, took it, was about to drink, it was his move, he was in the hands of the chess move, just to his mouth, and then reported a game, his mouth "fixed in the bowl", and then a sip of water, and then before swallowing the next move. "He handed over the bowl, eyes look at me, there is a kind of indescribable things swimming in it, the corner of the mouth slowly flowed down a drop of water ...... ", this paragraph read down, the hand is full of sweat. In actuality, I don't know chess at all. The same goes for "Backwing Abandonment," which does a good job of creating an atmosphere that makes it possible to judge the battle situation just by listening to the soundtrack.
The original Backwing Abandonment was published in 1990 and was on Hollywood's radar at the time. But the project didn't come to fruition in the '90s, and the next time it was mentioned was in 2008, and a director's deal had even been signed for a director in the form of Heath Ledger, who is quite obsessed with chess, and a leading lady in the form of Ellen Page, who is certainly not the right age for it now, and who, in 2008, in her early 20s, became a huge hit for her role in "Juno". Page is much more modest in appearance, and not at all the same type as the current model-actress who looks like a 3D-printed face. After Ledger's death, plans were put on hold again. Until this time, it was made into a TV series.
The show is said to involve nearly 300 chess games, and the cast and crew enlisted the technical direction of Garry Kasparov, a Russian grandmaster who became the youngest chess world champion at the age of 22. He said in an interview about the game and the atmosphere of the game, "Believe me, it's the best that can be presented in a movie or a TV show.
Besides that, "Back Wing Abandon Soldier" is also quite exquisite in terms of image temperament. Harmon's diligence in changing clothes is no less than that of Emily next door in Paris, and it's also much more atmospheric than that fancy Emily, so it's true that the retro classics of the 50s and 60s still have a strong vitality. Episode 2, the other female chess player that Harmon runs into in the bathroom, the moment she appeared I thought I was watching Mad Men, the fifties and sixties middle class housewife style was simply striking.
Interestingly, the writers also have three bed scenes for Harmon, all of which are pretty obscure, but each of which shows her growth. The first time is with her Russian-speaking classmates, apparently quite a bit older than her, and Harmon lies on her back, staring at her with a newfound curiosity as she asks, "How much longer?" In the second, there's no in-process footage, just the aftermath, when Harmon lights up an aftermath cigarette and is already grabbing a book to read, with Harry's innocent eyes in the background, timidly asking, "So, do I stay or do I go back to my room?" The third time is Benny, a New Yorker and another talented chess player, the difference being that this man is the one Harmon herself has taken a liking to, and her way of expressing it is, "I like your hair," which is miserably rejected, and then Benny tries to revive the ambiguity by asking her, "Do you still like my hair "
There are many more of these kinds of coming-of-age details. Although it's a big female drama, highly condensed, centered almost exclusively around Harmon with no wasted scenes, and doesn't portray much of the supporting characters, it does portray Harmon adequately enough, a sophisticated and unadulteratedly cool drama, so it's no wonder that it's getting so much love from so many people.
If you're interested in the gifted teenager genre, I recommend watching these two movies, they're not too good from a movie standpoint, but there are scenes that show how geniuses can amaze ordinary people, and they're pretty cool to watch. One is called August Rush and features a musical prodigy. One was simply called Gifted, where the little girl is a math whiz who lives with her uncle, played by your Team America.
The dark clouds of summer gather and disperse quickly, the chaotic raindrops whisked away by the sound of thunder, and the sunshine of the flowers, plants and trees are full of vitality. The cucumbers, tomatoes and purple eggplants in the vegetable field are hanging down, and the water is dripping. Stupid ducks with red strips of cloth attached to their wings waddled out of the yard, playing with the children in the standing water in the low-lying areas of the road. The golden flowers in the yard are getting more and more dazzling, and a dozen or so large pumpkins that have already grown and opened up are lying curved in the sunlight, green and coloring the heart. The big acacia tree covers a green shade, the water droplets on the leaves in the breeze constantly dripping, the sunshine under the pearl fall into pieces. A few pumpkin flowers on the fence wall rain evaporated particularly fast, a few industrious little bees climbed out of the cobwebs from the warmth of the flower core, full of golden fluffy, lovely.