"Chappie" has received a lot of anticipation from its director Neil Blomkamp, whose last two films were "Elysium" and "District 9." This time, "Super Chappie" and "District 9" have a lot in common, both of which are set in Johannesburg, South Africa: the gap between the rich and the poor is serious, the crime rate is high, mixed people of different skin colors, hip-hop and The street science fiction of technology mix and match is full of sense. The director's personal style is very prominent. As a technical director, the scene arrangement, details, and music of the film have a good performance, which is very flavorful.
In terms of stories, it is still the old stalk of robots with artificial intelligence. For hard sci-fi fans, there are too many loopholes and flaws, and there are many problems that can be deeply thought about. On the contrary, the process of robot consciousness formation is like the growth of a child. The impact of different education methods is more interesting, and the robot Chappie gradually recognizes the fact that death is also the same as the process of our human growth.
Chappie is a robot that should be scrapped. Because of a sudden inspiration, Dean, the inventor, planned to install Chappie's sensory program without the company's knowledge. As a result, he was kidnapped by the three robbers just after smuggling Chappie out of the company. gone. The robber simply wanted a "remote control" to turn off the robocop, and as a result, he got the robocop, so he simply came to a robot rogue development plan...
Dean, who created Chappie, is a typical controlling parent. Pi placed infinite expectations and his own ideas, and planned a series of intelligent development plans for Chappie. It seems that Chappie is allowed to develop freely to provide him with brushes and books, and he stands on the side full of expectations. Do you see in Dean the figures of parents around us who are constantly enrolling their children in various remedial classes and hoping for their children to become dragons? Saying that it is good for the child is more about satisfying his sense of accomplishment, so when Chappie asked him why he created himself, Dean had a hard time answering.
The head ninja of the robber trio is a tiger-like parent, utilitarian and strict. He only had the desire to use him to rob Chappie, and he had no patience for Chappie to learn. He wished he would rob a bank with a gun on the first day. So he couldn't get used to Chappie playing with dolls or painting, and he threw Chappie into a chaotic neighborhood and let it die on its own, claiming that it would learn what the real world was, and as a result, Chappie almost got split. However, after that, he seemed to feel guilty about Chappie. Although he also instigated Chappie to rob cars and money, he finally stepped forward and was very responsible.
The most touching thing is Yolandi, the only female member of the trio, who is completely motherly. When I first saw Chappie, who was terrified and ignorant of the world, her mother's love broke out, and she took the name Chappie. When everyone used Chappie, only she cared about Chappie, hugged him, and told Chappie fairy tales. When Chappie was afraid of death, she hugged Chappie and told him that his soul would go to another place.
In order to add drama to the plot, the robot police is set so that the battery and the fuselage cannot be replaced. Although this setting is ridiculous, but Chappie has only five days of life from the beginning of consciousness, and it also has another poignant and poetic. Chappie doesn't distinguish between sleep and death, to the sinking of the dead dog on the street, Chappie gradually understands death and fears it. This is a typical growth awakening, but Chappie does not satisfy fairy tales or compromise death like we do, he And Dean switched to another body through consciousness transmission to continue life.
In the end, the film left a lot of space for the sequel. In general, this film is still very enjoyable to watch, and it can be regarded as one of the science fiction films worth watching this year.
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