Imagine for a second, what if you saw a robot walking in the street of your city? What if you discovered yourself in someone else’s being? What if time stopped because you wanted to? And what if you see and hear your reflections and echoes of your old age in your childhood? What if you find a fountain that can increase or decrease your age?
Seems weird, isn’t it? Amazon Prime’s sci-fi series Tales from the Loop reveals such an impossible reality. Interestingly, this series is based on an artbook. The idea or concept of this series came from a bunch of paintings. Swedish artist Simon Stelenhag create some dystopian painting with the memory of his own childhood. Those paintings go viral on the Internet. And become the artbook with the best seller tag. Nathaniel Halpern got the series idea from that artbook.
Mercer, a small town in the US state in Ohio. There is nothing to talk about this county. Moreover, the abundance of forests allows a small population around the town. However, there is a scientific laboratory in the city named Loop. So in the city forests, a robot can be seen walking; or a round iron object lying in the middle of the forest. Or the giant Watch Tower can be seen at the far end of the town.
City dwellers, even children, were accustomed to seeing this common thing in their daily life. So, the Loop and everything related to Loop is a part of the daily life of the resident here. The ‘Tales from the Loop’ series is based on eight different stories centered around the scientific laboratory loop.
Although the stories may seem very different, the connection between one story and another is slowly emerging in the series. Hollywood Reporters and other critics already been described this series as poetic. Of course, there are reasons for that. At first, each of these anthology types stories is a unique one, but there is a connection between one story and another. As seen in the verses of the poem.
The Background Music of this series has helped to strengthen this poetic genre. The Background Scoring of each story brings out the fullness of each story. So this anthology series, which has run by the beat of melody, has reached its fullness in a poetic style. Story to the screenplay, Cinematography to acting, everything was perfect in this series. Especially, if you watched the acting of those child artists your jaw will droop.
Though it’s a pure sci-fi series, still there were much reality and sense of life has seen. The stories bring out the unluckiness of science along with the luckiness of science. Especially, how a town or a man became to the core of this unluckiness. The director has tried to give a small example or message of how terrible it can be to use science by disregarding the laws of nature.
Tales from the Loop is a dystopian sci-fi story; in which a city is enlightened by the blessing of science; in which the same city is cursed by the mislead of science; in which a family sacrifices their everything for science; and in the same story, the same family lost their everything, even there lives only for science.
