Hello, ladies and gentlemen. Today we will talk about the “scientific and fiction” mini-series of 2020 called DEVS. You will soon learn about the cause of quotes, but for now you are in no hurry.
ATTENTION Spoilers. Without them, nowhere.
Name
The name itself is not only translated not entirely correctly, but also lost its charm during localization. Americans, with their inherent humor, turned on the game of words deVS-deUS (soda-god). In part, the creators could take the right translation option, but this is a lyrical absence.
Characters
The authors did everything to get as bad as possible. I am not against diversity and strong women, but the way it looks in this series … This is indescribable.
Central character – Lily – woman with such a short haircut and unpretentious appearance that if not for the occasionally protruding nipples (Due to the lack of a bra, which is quite logical, given the zero chest size), you could not even guess about the hero’s field. The acting game as a whole also does not shine, but we will not find fault with this.
Her basic young man – WICKED Ruzzke Spy, about which she did not know anything (Get ready for periodic whining, I did not know him at all) and which you will be introduced at the beginning of the series, after which they safely cut it out almost immediately. Why, for an attempt to steal the code, you must certainly kill, no one will give you an answer (philosophy does not count).
Her boss – The head of the company is funny Fool, In front of the eyes, in the best traditions of melodrama, a wife and daughter died in a car accident, as a result he had a shift in phase, tank specifically Give a leak. And now he is the ingenious director of the IT-company, who developed a quantum compulser of incredible power, and no googles with endless money could get around them. But we will return to the plot.
Her former – Initially, when he, at the first meeting, two years later, after the request to help investigate the murder of her Russian guy, will send her in the ass, you can decide that this is the only strong and solid character in the series, but this will be a big mistake. Because then, in the best traditions of the henpecks, he will do everything in general for her, including risking his life and the life of his own family (speech about parents, in a relationship, he does not consist that you, he Still loves her)
The head of the security department – Very interesting schizoid Of the former CIA. The hero is rustic and straightforward, but against the background of the entire series is quite tolerant. Although actions, committed by him, often extremely Doubt.
Home Girlfriend of the head of the company – Absolutely Small Madmazel, which is just working on a computer, part -time Sleeps with the boss, because Better than someone else. What a charm.
Bomzh, living at the door of the heroine, of course, will also be implemented Russian spy, although who can surprise it, I will not know the mind. Everything is obvious almost immediately.
Two characters – School and chubby – The most important characters In the DEVS department, which several times in the plot Play the role of pawns, allotted by him by the authors. (It turned out that a girl plays a student. I don’t know, perhaps the student should be called another pronoun, and not him, but since I am not in the know, I ask you to forgive me my dense)
The list can be finished on this, the rest of the characters are not so important. However, I note that this is the series where All characters are actively striving for drunk in vaulting ways, that I condemn in every way.
Genre affiliation
And let the tags not lie to you. It is at best Just a thriller, With a small application for a detective and a huge a claim to scientific, what is not there and close.
Plot and his stupidity
In fact, it would be easier to say that there is smart than the opposite, but so uninteresting (Yes, and there is no smart one).
Boy (the same ruzzka spy) our heroine is successfully transferred to the super -secret department of DEVS, where the code for a quantum computer is being developed. After trying to steal code He dies safely From suffocation (not without the help of the security chief), then the management of the company that killed him, stags his self -burned self -combustion. Our heroine, of course, does not believe in it. And the search for truth begins.
And then they begin https://gamblingsitesnotongamstop.co.uk/review/gxmble/ to dump on us Determination And The quantum of the computer. The authors looked into Wikipedia and decided to blind based on the series read – this is if briefly.
The basis of the plot is assumption of the head of the company that All In the world predetermined, which means that it can be calculated, for which the quantum computer is created. Alas, man Just I went the roof, And he tries to prove to himself that he was not to blame for the death of the family, but everything was predetermined, which means he could not prevent her death. He does not have other motivation, even if it seems to you otherwise.
No explanations for the work of a quantum computer, what it is, as it was created, what kind of code there, who originally wrote it and so on, will not be given. The viewer is simply shown a candy wrapper from afar, they say it is candy, And that’s all.
And so Our heroine recalls her former, who, working in the field of protection of web applications, for some reason turns out to be a first-class hacker. After the henpower shows its true essence (floods the mitten and agrees to help, realizing the absurdity of what is happening), He Hacks the phone dead Russian guy our heroine with some encrypted Russian messenger (This is not telegram). Our Lily (heroine) goes to the curator of the failed coded thief, after meeting with which, given Russian important The spy safely cuts out Security Head of the office.
What is characteristic, and so the whole plot, is the chief of security so much that it tracks the heroine before meeting with the Russian curator. However, all her trips to the former ignores a little more than completely.
In one of the series, the heroine portrays a schizophrenic, after which he runs out of the room, climbs onto the curbing of the window, imitating an attempt to self -powder. And while the security chief is personally trying to return it, Lily’s friend in his office downloads the recordings from the cameras to help understand what happened to the roume of the spy. Ib such IB … logs … a ban on connecting unregistered carriers … did not hear … and this is with an overwhelming suspicion of our CIA. funny.
After visiting a psychiatrist (Checking for the reality of the depicted schizophrenia) Security Head pretends that he believes in her lie (Having previously learned from a psychiatrist about the simulation) And Trying isolate (to kidnapit to ensure safety and concern for the state. Lily, by sending a car during the abduction at full speed to the chipper, Running away. Then Heroine the former in the apartment Police finds and directs to a psychiatric hospital, the Cencial man threatens and breaks a finger during interrogation to our henpecked, after which his desire to help Lily only intensifies.
Kabluk Donjuang kidnaps her from the ward, and they go home to the boss, where he, in bed with an assistant, is already waiting for them. And a long story begins that everything is predetermined, everything has a reason, which means everything can be calculated. The quantum computer works, it has already predicted everything, including its arrival, and its visit to the DEVS department literally in the next series.
Lily does not hold a grudge for the death of his boyfriend, they diverge peacefully.
And the next day begins The denouement of the plot (massly drank heroes). The brave Crushnik penetrates the apartment to Lily and her ex, where they slept (not all your life to be sad for the former, especially since it is Russian), and now they cooed sweetly. After the murder her Heel, our Safety, In turn, He throws off hooves at the hands of the homeless who successfully penetrated the apartment. The Russian-bum under the cover says that now he will hide, which is advised by our heroine.
That In shock He goes to DEVS (which, of course, was predetermined).
A little earlier, in the afternoon, goes there Assistant to the boss, Having captured on the way Schoolboy, Stopping at the dam with which, Better Baitit his Self -drunk (to prove many worlds and predetermination, naturally).
Then we begin action directly In the bowels of DEVS, where everything turns out to be predetermined until the moment x, after which the computer for some reason sees nothing, but exactly known, What Lily kills the boss, A Then unsuccessfully It is accidentally cut out by itself.
However, in the best traditions of the authors of shit, at the very last moment Lily throws a pistol from his hands, breaking predetermination (and proving his divine essence, committing original sin – What the authors smoked?)
But alas, The process of cutting the heroes is non -state, So here, in time, the puffy is nearby, enters a secret code, after which the elevator falls down and The boss with the heroine still die.
Everyone who could die, Happy End.
But it wasn’t there. The quantum computer simulates the simulation (just like the authors of the series), and our characters live in some paradise inside it, where everyone is alive and healthy (Both the Russian spy and the daughter of the boss) (an amazing world in which there is no scriptwriter DEVS?) The ending is merged
Now the end
The video sequence of the series
Here I just briefly note that I liked the series visually, but constant pauses when communicating characters, just silent scenes and rops of faces, frozen with a thoughtful look for a minute, spoil at least something good in this series.
Scientific
In addition to constant attempts to quit Wikipedia and articles about determinism, coupled with attempts to tell about the quantum computer, there is nothing scientific in this series. This is just a decoration. But in fact, we have a banal thriller with a poorly plot and medium actors.
Predestination is used only when it is needed, and only in those interpretations that are currently beneficial. But you can always change the theory used by the heroes, simply because gladiolus. But this allows you to very conveniently justify a bunch of characters’ actions, so it was predetermined.
A quantum computer is needed simply as a justification of the possibility of predicting something there. No more. Briefly shown an attempt to struggle the state in the person of the senator for the right to possess this miracle machine and its use for the benefit of society (or army) does not receive development at all.
And there are also a lot of religious references a la: the first video of the quantum computer is the crucifixion of Jesus; play in the name of the department; entertaining stop cadres and other.
Verdict
The series is a complete shit, you should not be your attention from the word at all. Nowadays, when there is a sea of content around, I regret that I spent my time on it.
The best comments
I watched "to the stars", this is a shit of lean. What did you like there, if not a secret?
A melancholy narrative, a beautiful verified picture with some Summer Odyssey (in particular, operator plans at the Martian base), trivial, but this is no less relevant about the prevalence of human vices even at a high technological stage of development, even the endless expanses of the become available cosmos (lunar pirates are also fiercely robb They continue to make dirty deeds at the stations, putting on people), the problems of human empathy for the world around him and society.
Classee technodemo
On self-isolation, relentlessly devouring money and interesting classes, I finally decided to get the films left from the "nursery" left due to a lack of free time earlier. And, after the magnificent Ford against Ferrari, Gentlemen, “Get Knives”, especially “To the Stars” (which for me became a breath of fresh air in the genre of cosmophantic), came across this creation. The expectations were high, since “from the car” and “annihilation” at one time made a purely positive impression … However, everything turned out to be not so rosy. Even too much.
The fact is that, like many other works of some “cinema artists”, the series “Rastens” plays a submarine dramatic performance with tons of author’s narcissistic. “Look what picture I give you!", – as Garland says. “And one more! Yes, and here I wrapped! Take a look, the effects still threw it on top, you will break out!" – but behind this all, except for the prepared sketches of the author’s vision, there is nothing. The statement is bold and still impudent, therefore we will analyze a little on the points.
1. Plot. Declared and many critics noted “real scientific” (from this expression I always want to yell, since the time of mediocre “arrival”) is limited to very standard and streamlined interpretations of the words “quantum”, “simulation”, “determinism”. Plus-minus two or three more mentioning multi-major and scientific theories told by terms from Wikipedia. All. This is all the "scientific". And the central plot of the series simply bypasses all this background – this is the department of unknown geniuses, which, using a computer algorithm, tame a quantum computer. How? What exactly this simulation program is? How it was created and, in principle, this quantum monster works? Think about yourself.
And the mechanism of work of such a movie or a series becomes clear: you are being put under your nose a bright picture that gives a depth, they throw several scientific terms so that you are amazed at these “knowledge”, also fixing this minced meat with philosophical thoughts of self -knowledgeable type. Ready, delighted. As from tens of thousands of videos, articles like “10 facts that you could not imagine about!". The brain is saturated with this information, losing the ability to analyze, and you think about the grandiose replenishment of your baggage of knowledge.
I will note another obvious plot problem: it is smeared like ten grams of oil on a loaf of bread. A bunch of unnecessary scenes, obviously protracted transitions, monotonous dialogs in static poses, the words from which can be officially introduced to the guide “Writing“ Scientific ”science fiction for beginners: 100 standard dialogs”. And in this place I will say right away – I love viscous, atmospheric films and books, I do not need conditional Avengers with a bright non -stop action. I love Zodiac, Oil, Running Blade and many other similar paintings. However, in the “development” a huge amount of timline spent on the next exposition of the city or motionless spiritualized faces (well, seriously, in the same series of the city landscape shows three times, as well as heads with serious eyes – beauty is such beauty that the director literally stuffs it into you. The author, he sees so), exhausts, especially when you understand that it is nowhere, does not lead anywhere … Perhaps, to the next.
2. Acting game. It would seem that it can be spoiled in a regular series of not the most lousy technical quality, with a talented director at the helm? True: casting for the leading role. From what time did we reached the fact that some androgenicity, the complete absence of femininity (it was in the context of this role, in the “ex machina” she looked well), coupled with the range of emotions in the area of the broken pendulum, is considered the norm? Already from the second series of its “waging” and even the appearance begins to strain, and by the end I want to rewind her eternally charred tensioning face with a constantly open mouth, sighs in any situation, and simply killed with an emotional tension killed tightly. Scenes where Sonoy hysteria is just a bomb. Dirty, smelly bomb that they throw in your face. Unnatural moans, open mouth, whine and of course heavy sighs: no matter what happens on the screen, whether it is an emotional scene or a car accident – symptoms of a hysterical clowning of the same. It’s horrible.
3. Well, the latter, perhaps, is tired of describing this disappointment. Style. Someone has acquaintances among the costumer, make-up artists and other masters in this area there? If so, then send them the addresses of at least a pair of clothing markets and photos of women in real life. I understand that the series is “Gikovsky” with the preservation of stylistics, but there is a small problem: “Gikovsky” in this work a teaspoon. No talk, no terms, no recognizable symbols. Only a parody. Heroes are trying to talk about something distracted to the sphere of IT culture and science all over eight hour episodes. Instead of working out this direction, to create an authentic atmosphere, the authors simply bought wide trousers with no less huge sweaters, cloaks (I do not understand all the names of the jacket – I’m a man) and sneakers) and sneakers). It looks amazing. Dozens of robotic female creatures (several secondary men are attached) are walking around in square trousers protracted on the chest, and some kind of curvature-time-time-matches-mikes. Only one thing is good – all the secondary characters are so worthlessly spelled out, only for the sake of creating the illusion of the script that their appearance is limited by several attempts, in between the author’s compositions of the soaring golden cube and urban development.
Result. A prolonged multi-part film with a bunch of author’s pride and an attempt to proof of the presence of a deep idea that would be enough for one or three series, no more. As well as the "scientific" of what is happening. Deep disappointment.