For me, movies are about telling stories. The story is the soul of a movie, and those dazzling post-production techniques, shooting techniques, and actors are all auxiliary means to make a story more convincing, impactful, and expressive.
Therefore, there is no love for a film that knows the ending of the story in the first 3 minutes, and even knows how the story ends after 10 minutes. Of course, except for purely watching handsome guys and beauties being cute and rotten. But that's not watching a movie.
The reason for saying so much off topic is that I have watched a dozen or two movies recently, and there are also highly praised movies like "No Man's Land", but for me, it doesn't touch me at all.
Ender is different. There was light in Ender's eyes.
Ender can think.
Ender came with a condescending friendliness.
I haven't read the original book, nor the synopsis of the film. After I got out of the movie theater, I searched and saw that it was adapted from a famous novel. I had a feeling of "as expected", and quickly searched for the original.
It really is "as expected". The story is not told very smoothly, and some plots seem to be insufficient for the development of the story, but these shortcomings cannot be covered up. Ender is a good story, and it has a deep and powerful worldview to support it.
The charm of this story is enough to make people want to see a little more and understand a little more. Want to think, want to know. Want to discover more of Ender's world.
I think that's enough.
Some works have been successfully adapted, such as "33 Days of Broken Love", so successful that even if they knew it was an adaptation, they had no interest in watching it. Some works have also been adapted very successfully, such as "The Legend of Zhen Huan". In a trance, you will forget the original work, and you will compare it in a trance.
Maybe "Ender's Game" can't be considered a very successful adaptation, but I can only be deeply grateful that I don't miss such a good novel.
By the way, when I saw a comment from someone who felt that it was much worse than Transformers, I couldn't help but sigh about the difference in perspectives in the world.
It is this variety that allows more filmmakers to photograph their own worlds.
thanks very much.
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