Richard Night's Nightmare flies aboard a plane to Boston, but no one notices until a passenger begins literally liquefies. The epidemic raging lightning, but guided by the autopilot the aircraft lands without damage, delivering her safely to the macabre and ironic load of skeletons.
are the first, horrifying scenes of Fringe, the new serial by JJ Abrams, creator of Felicity, Alias \u200b\u200band Lost lucky, the TV series that began with another plane crashed on the mysterious island. Maybe syndrome September 11, the fact is that the Fringe strangeness at high altitudes are at home.
Produced by Warner Bros. and Bad Robot Productions, aired on Fox 8 last September and by January 31 on Premium Gallery of Mediaset's digital terrestrial (but waiting to land within a year of general networks) Fringe promises to be the natural successor to X-Files Chris Carter or much older The Twilight Zone. As you know, "fringe" means "edge", "fringe," but also "borderline", ie the limes, which once separated the land from the regions known wonderful, mysterious or terrible, placed beyond the mythical columns of Hercules. But
translated "Fringe" stands for "pseudoscience" or "parascience" categories indicate that those searches that go beyond the strict boundaries of rationality, from time travel with teleportation, psychokinesis but also from suspended animation to control the mind. Here is the keystone of the disturbing new the serial narrative structure more like a hypertext in a linear script, which manages to combine the themes of science fiction without smudging or borderline at the spy-noir story.
fact, when the flight 627 from Hamburg landed with his belly full of dead passengers and liquid enters the FBI agent Olivia Dunham (the beautiful, intriguing Anna Torv). The case seems unsolvable. It then sought the help of Dr. Walter Bishop (John Noble), the universal genius, who in the '80s at Harvard University held secret research on behalf of the military. There's only one problem: seventeen years Bishop was in a prison mental hospital and the only one that to release it under protection is the son of the scientist, Peter Bishop (Joshua Jackson), brilliant as the father figure but reckless, rebellious, always around the world, upset in the deep by a parent that a child out of the ordinary seemed distracted , that is.
forced by events, reluctantly takes the child under supervision his father, so the traditional roles are reversed, and the beginning of a mutual discovery. Birth of a dialogue between generations too long shunned, but also shows intellectual understanding, based on our common passion for the mysteries of the universe.
Abrams and his collaborators Alex Kurtzman and Roberto Orci have focused on the exaltation of values \u200b\u200bthat seemed sunsets: family, friendship, team. If at the beginning of the main characters are like monads unhappy, without roots, scattered by the trade winds that blow in a globalized world and meaningless, with the progress of the bets they intertwine complex emotional ties. The estimate, understanding and even love their way through the hardships of the chaotic present and anxieties of a dark future, announced by the strange cases that the protagonists are from time to time resolve.
something for every taste, from the lethal virus mutants demihumans from time capsules to "observers" to other dimensions. At the center of it all stands the figure of Bishop, a synthesis between Einstein and Dr. Frankentein, but emotionally fragile, helpless, as bright as naive, and the name was not random. Bishop stands for "bishop" and "bishop". In one episode draws attention to the polysemy of this surname. A name, a destiny. The laboratory is his board and his church, but if the day between retorts and stills, he studies the clinging of the mind or the "openness" of DNA, it can be seen at night wandering around with a Bible in his hands, as was also Newton .
In reality, the figure of Bishop in many respects is based on that of the heterodox neuroscientist and inventor John Cunningham Lilly, known exponent of the psychedelic movement in California, investigator and psychotropic substances and by the way inventor of the so-called "sensory deprivation tank, then used by NASA to simulate a state of absolute detachment from the world situation considered similar to that experienced by astronauts launched into deep space. The figure of Lilly inspired Ken Russell's Altered States, sci-fi cult '80s, Abrams makes no secret that you have thoroughly looted. In the old film a professor of psychophysiology in search of experiences extrasensory experiences the tub taking hallucinogenic substances that cause biological mutations and genetic return to the brutal conditions of early (and here comes the salvation of human relations, the relationship with his wife and daughters that extracts the hero from the abyss of unknowns when he was about to lose). In laboratory
Bishop stands precisely a tank of its kind, the scientist becomes a sort of mental spacecraft agent Dunham, who experiences thus indecipherable immersion in the unconscious of a fatally wounded colleague. We are beyond the limits of plausibility? Not necessarily, because the great innovations have always broken prejudices considered "scientific." Instead, they must grapple with the mystery as a challenge, an opportunity to emphasize that there is no boundary or limit that man by nature has a duty to overcome. But there
other. Just because I look back over the past decades to establish the extent to which science and technology have affected the system of thought, shaping beliefs, hopes, beliefs, fears, desires and expectations.
In Fringe the new framework that would replace the current is called the "Scheme", a ghost that lingers in every episode, although the original English calls it "Pattern", a term of the psychology of more nuanced form of its translation. Because the pattern is a pattern, a type, an ideal.
Productions widely consumed as Fringe suggest that we must get used to the idea that scientific categories of our present in less than a quarter-century will change drastically, and they also spread the technology. You must put aside the idea that our conceptual frame of reference is the only existing and valid. The Scheme, or patterns, whatever you want, is just that: an entity of the reasons unspecified, that changes our reality, making old dreams of science fiction, from cloning to genetic mutations induced by time travel, teleportation, from cyborgs to superdroghe . And speaking
. On this factor governs the "acceleration". An agent systemic, unavoidable and collectively, which took into account seriously sputtering Enchanted certain ideology deconstructive one that has' time is the most popular in political circles or intellectual regressively "progressive." Such as the ideology of "decline", advocated by sociologist-economist Serge Latouche.
Fringe, like other similar products, suggests instead that technological acceleration is inescapable, that the driving force, if you want to Promethean, sometimes even destructive, it can not be stopped in any way. In
Fringe organization that embodies this is the Faustian desire multinational Massive Dynamic, the giant economic and scientific ambiguous role, incidentally, founded by Bishop's closest collaborator, so that while the second gear in a mental institution, the first was stealing the ideas and getting rich. The heads of the FBI is using the Massive Dynamic technologies continue to draw on for generations, but one senses that this structure through its superior science seeks to gain absolute power. But we have to wait for more next month. After thirteen episodes, the production is now paused. From the opening shot of the next seven, with a finale that promises to be breathtaking, far beyond the "Twilight Zone".
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