Bystander's Game

Darius 2022-04-19 09:01:38




As a third-rate movie lover, when I first heard the title of this movie, I had no hope for the content, but after looking at it, the effect still exceeded my expectations.
In fact, there are countless foreign sci-fi blockbusters, such as last year's "Gravity" and "Pacific Rim". Foreigners always like to win with perfect effects. Indeed, I was conquered by the impact of such a picture.


Closer to home, the movie revolves around a kid Ender. He has a high IQ, emotional intelligence, and leadership talent. He was selected to enter the Zhanzheng Academy, and then he became the commander of the international fleet step by step. In the process, he must learn to shield his own. Feelings, learn to transcend, learn to communicate, and finally have enough leadership ability to defeat the Zerg.
Just like a level-breaking game, Ender has gone through three levels in this movie, one is in the class, because his ability is excluded by other students, the second level is in the combat academy, from being depped The soldiers reprimanded, until they were sent to the Salamander team to face off against Bonzo, and then led the Flying Dragon team to the final victory.
It was supposed to be smooth sailing, but Ender flinched after accidentally hurting Bonzo.
I don’t know if all the viewers have the same feeling as me when they see it. It’s like a hurdle in life. There are ups and downs, moments of being a hero, and moments of loneliness and contradictions. Here, the leading sister of his life appeared. , gave him the dawn, which is to lay the groundwork for the third level.
It can also be said that the most generous part of the whole movie was in the third level. He was sent to the Military Academy on a distant planet for further studies. He met the hero of his dreams, and then a series of cool special effects to simulate defeating the Zerg appeared.
So here comes the point, let’s talk nonsense first, because I haven’t read the novel, so I don’t know the development of the later story. At that time, when I saw that Ender was going to take the final exam, the top officer of the Star Military Academy also came to watch the simulated war. , I subconsciously thought that it was just a simple graduation exam. I didn't expect that it was a real fight against the Zerg. When the war was over, Ender cried and shouted "He fainted and destroyed a race". In fact, I felt bad.
For Ender, he is just a child. No matter how talented he is, he will be overwhelmed by some compassion of human nature. In other words, we can't be so ruthless that we are not afraid of anything. When under the pressure, in addition to being at a loss, it is collapse.
Here's a scene from the previous movie where Major Anderson said that she was "just trying to heal the children of the war", which is interesting in retrospect.


There are actually three levels hidden in the movie.
It's the little mouse in Ender's tablet game.
In fact, everyone will understand after seeing it. In fact, the so-called little mouse is Ender himself, and the queen of the Zerg uses games to communicate with him.
In the first level, he chose to kill the tree man when he wanted to choose which glass of poisonous wine to drink. Therefore, he was sent to the salamander team. In the second level, he saw the ant queen transformed from leaves. , turned into his sister's face again (it should be his sister... can't remember exactly), in fact, the place where it happened was in the military academy (written later), he saw his brother say to him "You finally became In the third level, after he defeated the Zerg, he suddenly realized that all this was not just a game, the Queen was trying to communicate with him, so she found out how important peace is.
The story seems to end like this here. Ender became the highest officer, and everyone must listen to him. He maintained peace and there would be no more wars. He fulfilled his promise and took the offspring of the queen to find one. A planet suitable for their descendants to live on.
It all seems like such a perfect ending.
But who knows, after the destruction of one race, there will be another race to invade.
Of course, these are just storylines that will happen in the movie, and we don't even dare to imagine that in reality.


In addition, in fact, Butterfield played Ender's eyes in certain places, and the only hope is that he will not be disabled.

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Ender's Game quotes

  • Colonel Graff: Let's see how he handles rejection.

  • Bean: [to Bernard] Your mother cheated, that's why you look like a plumber.