🍿 2022-05-29 17:00:33 – Paris/France.
The long-awaited return of the series 'Stranger Things' to Netflix is above all a confirmation of the platform's commitment to its star brand, which means that horror and fantasy films occupy a prominent place within its production, its casting. this only confirms it in its darkest and scariest seasonin which the Duffer Brothers tipped the scales of science fiction to its most surreal and dreamlike extremes.
So the other side is now hellish territory where there are not just demogorgons, anatomically incorrect, but diabolical, consciousness-altering figures, entering another realm different from the creature characteristic which has been deployed so far. From the outset, season 4 surprises with its tone which plunges into high school horror, mixing satanic panic and heavy metal with some body horror scenes that could be part of a sequel to 'A Nightmare on Elm Street' (A Nightmare on Elm Street, 1986) or 'IT' (2017-2019).
From now SPOILERS of the season in the text
But its dark tone not only goes to its desire to fully enter the genre, but it's one of the pillars to confront Eleven's past and everything that happened in the Hawkins laboratorybuilding chapter by chapter a crescendo that has its reward in a masterful ending, a great work of itinerary that transforms the season into a direct answer, finally, to the questions that the beginning of the series generated in 2016. what to do Eleven with De on the other hand, what relationship do the experiments have to the evil that afflicts Hawkins?
The first episode sets the tone, and its 75-minute runtime makes it an introductory mini-movie. Already the opening scene is brutal and changes everything for Eleven, testing herself at the end un cold opening justified and key to understanding not only the season, but the mechanics of the series. As the characters deal with the tragedy of Season 3, the various storylines take a trail in various directions which, as discussed elsewhere, increases the scale of the narrative.
An absolutely sensational season
And so far, we can point out that everything said about this season is true. It's more ambitious it shows it has 30 million per chapter and for the most part it functions as an exploration into the mythology of the series ignored in the previous two seasons. New characters, like Argyle and Eddie Munson — a heavyweight role named after an Iron Maiden character from 'Deathgasm' (2015) — are great, early forms with Johnathan an original version of the 'Wayne's World' protagonists ( 1999) Let 'zero in driving' (Detroit Rock City, 1999) and the second is the metal monster we all met once in class.
Max has a major development and is the main contact with the nemesis this season and Robin continues to demonstrate the great discovery of Maya Hawke. However, despite the spatial expansion and the breaking of certain patterns inherited from other seasons, this time it is there is an attempt to return to the origins represented by the conflict of the Elevenwho has to deal with the loss of his powers by looking back on the most traumatic stages of his upbringing, forgotten in memory, reconnecting the mystique of the series with 'Beyond the Dark Rainbow'(2010).
It also changes the main dynamic of the series and turns into a mystery in which the Hawkins gang looks like the junior investigators of the new Nancy Drewwith recurring moments the biggest hits cinema called by the very success of the series, such as the visit of a mental hospital and spiders as in 'Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark, 2019) and many visual cues cousins of the double'OBJECT' (2017-2019), such as visiting Mrs. Kersh, kidnapped levitating Max, and that Freddy Krueger and Pennywise think it's Vecmawhose modus operandi finds an explanation in the result.
return to the rainbow room
In the first episode, there's a tendency to overstretch some redundant moments, but the rest of the season overlaps and saves the constant use of unnecessary flashbacks - looks like someone from Netflix's production wants to make sure that people can become addicted from the 4th grade—, the length of each chapter does not drag the pace and all the subplots come together harmoniously in a monumental final episode in which his 100 minutes almost ran out.
As all the plot lines come to a climax, episode 7 focuses on Eleven and goes back to the beginning, exploring the root of the evil that afflicts Hawkins, with the girl forced to relive painful memories in order to recover his powers, while floating in the water tank, his mind travels to the past and it is revealed that Brenner's assistant is actually his first patient, number 001, a very neat development that shows us the claustrophobic sessions in the rainbow room and how he cheats on her.
A scenario game that allows us to see Brenner's atrocities and the rivalries between the various students as a distraction, so that in the end the revelation has an extremely shocking effect. The retaliation against the assistant and the memories of the massacre range from suspecting Eleven, then her adversary, to convincing her that she must flee, causing her to remove the tracking device implanted in her neck, which is when the assistant's true identity is revealed as patient 001 and we know that the chip was not such, but a power suppressor.
The Origin of a Great Villain
The script does later a triple somersault and joins the story of 001 with that told by Victor Creel, played by Robert Englund, it turns out that his son Henry Creel is Hawkins' first patient. Henry was the one who made it look haunted - this whole flashback is reminiscent of Amityville - and when he became aware of his psychic power he haunted his family with visions before eventually killing them to leave most of them to himself, leaving his father to be framed for the murders and locked up in a mental hospital as a deranged serial killer.
Henry then finds himself in the custody of Brenner, who kicks off the whole show Eleven enters. The Duffers script will carefully pulling together all of the boy's motivations and obsessions to explain the season's big bad, neighbor. Everything fits together, and the appearance of spiders in Max's dreams, the jars Nancy finds, and the victims who appear placed in "cocoons" in Vecma's mental space, respond to her fascination with the logic of black widows and their predatory mentality of the weak. .
This also explains his position reigning on the other side as if it were a spider's web where he can obtain his prey by breaking their dimensional perception, also realizing that psychic contact and his death open small breaches in the real world, which explains his relationship with the big villain of the Upside Down. But before getting there, Henry only seeks to kill in 1979, because he considers the others, with the exception of Eleven, to be weak, he considers her the only one on his level, which makes him have a rather murky involvement, considering his age.
Men accessories Eleven faces using a happy memory, instead of a sad memory, adding a shade of positive or negative strength, along 'Star Wars' according to the source of your powers and dominate it. There is a magnificent duel here which recalls more than ever 'Scanners' (1981) by David Cronenberg and when he kills Creel, he opens a portal to the Upside Down and locks him in the dimension.
Two major elements of the series come together
We see how Henry becomes the monster that now terrorizes Hawkins in the present as Vecna, possessed and mutated into a monster in a plot very reminiscent of Dr. Channard's cenobite in 'Hellbound: Hellraiser II' (1988), included even in the conception, being similarly humans locked in a hellish dimension in the service of the evil lord, even the hellish space of it has some commonalities. As this is revealed to us, we connect with what we knew in the first season, that the hole in the laboratory was opened by Eleven.
This relationship between the evils and terrors that appear across the gap ultimately unites the two "Stranger Things" storylines that seemed unrelated to each other, the boys with powers and the world outside. 'towards,now we know that there is an "anti-Eleven" who rules everything on the other side and that his birth has to do with the experiments, humans with powers and their ability to alter the boundary of the two dimensions. Vecna's search for victims, on the other hand, has a similar point to Stephen King's mythology "The Dark Tower" and may have more implications than explained.
There are two episodes left with nearly four hours to end the season on July 2, and many situations still need to be resolved, including how Eleven's regaining her powers will affect her confrontation with Hawkins' demons, now that she's "supervised." by a government faction that believes in it, the ladder has become a giant thing and it remains to be seen how it plays out in a final season. With 4 to go, we can say that it's the best since the first one, much more mature, well written and without ever losing its essence.
SOURCE: Reviews News
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