In 2021, writers Lana Wachowski, David Mitchell, Aleksandar Hemon found humanity in the form of strawberries in The Matrix Resurrections. (And one easily destroyed by fungal infection.)ĭruckmann and Mazin aren’t alone in finding solace in the strawberry.
The bite of a strawberry in The Last of Us is a taste of hope. And not only is the ground fertile enough to allow for rebirth, in this case, the missing ingredient was love. From the decay of a fungal overgrowth erupts new life, the strawberry. The scene is easy to read: The strawberry, in all its glory - aromatically sweet, tart on the tongue, maybe even a bit leafy - is the fruit of a former world. Bill’s face says it all: That’s the stuff. Bill sinks his teeth into one of those post-apocalyptic strawberries and, damn, it’s juicy.
#Strawberries political wire crack#
The one that stuck out to me: To crack the hard shell of his loved one, Frank trades a gun to Tess (Anna Torv) for a few strawberry seeds and surprises Bill with a well-tended garden. While the episode’s been lauded for deepening the game’s portrayal of Bill and Frank’s unspoken-in-the-games relationship and tearjerker ending, it’s the little moments that really let it spark. What starts as a meal evolves into a loving, long-lasting relationship filled with the romantic highs, heated fights, and the sweet gestures of a normal-times marriage. In “ Long, Long Time,” doomsday prepper and Cordyceps survivor Bill (Nick Offerman) finds his world rocked when Frank (Murray Bartlett) shows up at his doorstep. But The Last of Us episode 3, “Long, Long Time,” marks a new blip on a trope timeline that feels far less obvious: the power of a sweet, sweet strawberry in the worst of times. Many of the references are obvious: Joel and Ellie are successors to the familiar Lone Wolf and Cub protector/straggler dynamic, while the zombie of it all speaks for itself. Naughty Dog built The Last of Us on a bedrock of science fiction tropes, one showrunners Neil Druckmann and Craig Mazin easily reconstructed for their HBO adaptation.
0 kommentar(er)
