The tight rhythm should be attributed to the ease of using the language of the shots. The film uses lines and pictures to tell the story, and the content conveyed by the director using the language of the shots is compared with the lines of each character, and the lines are just supplementary notes to the language of the shots. . Or from another point of view, the director has precisely arranged the "lines" into every action, expression, and eyes. In other words, this is really difficult for the protagonist of Xiao Zhengtai, because some parts may be a little technical for a young actor, only Rely on the two adults to supplement the explanation with the lines (but I can't be too demanding of Xiao Zhengtai. If he can perform it completely, it is estimated that he will be nominated for an Oscar. After all, acting is a very delicate thing).
This is a science fiction film about interstellar war with doomsday feelings. Based on my superficial experience of reading and watching science fiction literature and movies for many years, as long as it is about war and involves the life and death of planets or races, it will be more or less or more important. Or light will make some humanistic thinking on the diplomatic communication between interstellar civilizations (although aliens are not necessarily "humans"...don't care about these details). Of course this movie is no exception. Because the attitude and style of human beings towards this interstellar war is obviously the consistent old American logic: we repelled the invaders, but they still have many weapons of destruction hidden in their homes, which must be used against us. , we must go and destroy their home, otherwise it will be a big threat to us! (Do you have a little "celestial threat theory" feeling?)
The great ancients told us that fighting to end war is always the last resort. Mr. Sun, a famous master of war in Chinese history, once said: "Those who use troops are the best for the whole country, and the second for breaking the country; the second for breaking the army; the second for breaking the army; the second for breaking the brigade; For the top, the broken soldiers are second; the whole army is the top, and the broken army is second. Therefore, a person who wins a hundred battles is not a good person; a soldier who subdues a person without fighting is a good person.” You see, destroying people Just because you can fight, doesn't mean you're good at fighting. Brother Ender squeezed his neck and said, "They should choose me!" In fact, I think his brother is half right. For starting a war, the candidate can be his brother, or someone with the same fighting strength. Because of the injury at this point, Ender wasn't the only one with that ability, and he wasn't even the best. Ender was selected because he counterattacked a classmate and couldn't fight him. The reason given in the end was "this will save future conflicts", and then he was considered brave and resourceful and was rejected. Special trick. But the problem is, no matter if his reason is "to prevent the war from happening again" or "I just kicked him well anyway!", the essence of this matter is that Banba can't afford to be kicked. So Ender is not so unique in "strategies". Just imagine that in a war, your enemy will only remember the punches and kicks you punched, but will not understand how you define the punches and kicks you punched against yourself in your mind; even if they did, it would be meaningless, because for the enemy , the point is to be flattened by you.
Does that mean the protagonist is redundant? Certainly not. I will watch the "war" between him and Banba again. In fact, before the substantive war began, facing Banba's provocation, Ender just kept evading it, and at most only issued a "solemn statement": if you want to come, come and challenge yourself. ! (Is it a bit of a "news broadcast" intimacy?) However, he has always maintained restraint and always strived for peace talks. It was unavoidable that he used a surprise attack on the leader to shock the rest of the party to quickly end the battle. This "non-war strategy" of avoiding war before the war and avoiding the loss of both sides after the war is actually Ender's specialty. It's a pity that the adults who have been watching are only attracted by his "strategies for combat" and ignore the importance of "strategies for non-war". Grasp the wrong direction but choose the right person, hit the wrong way, but know that people are not good at use. It's like getting a first aid kit, but only using the scalpel to kill someone, and telling the first aid kit that you only need the scalpel.
Another feature of this film that impressed me is that the centripetality is particularly obvious. Except for the protagonist, other characters do not have a more detailed description of their personalities, and even the personalities of some characters are only to shape the existence of the protagonist. And one thing that I think is more interesting is that the official reason for training commanders in teens is that "teenagers have stronger image integration and spatial processing capabilities." Is this the real reason? I don't think so. When Ender entered the hibernation period of interstellar voyage, his classmates were learning combat skills such as drone driving, mothership control, and the launch of ultimate weapons; and Commander Ender's arrangement was to wake up a Watch the video after you wake up. For traditional human warfare, the supreme commander usually starts from soldiers (or junior officers) and gradually rises up. When you need to force yourself to clear your natural attention to detail and focus on the big picture. Ender, on the other hand, skips the normal steps to learn to be a commander, minimizing his attention to the details of the battlefield to ensure macro control. This seemingly castle-in-the-air training method doesn't work in the adult world, so it can only be found in teenagers (as for why it doesn't work, you should be able to write a paper to demonstrate...). It seems like a castle in the air, but it actually works. Pilots only learn to fly drones, captains only learn to operate warships, and commanders only learn to command. Will this model look familiar? It is exactly like the combat ecology of the enemy (Zerg), the queen ants are only queen ants, the worker ants are only worker ants, and the soldier ants are only soldier ants, and the full-time job does not cross the line. When trying to defeat the enemy, in fact, humans themselves began to become the appearance of the enemy. Moreover, after being invaded, is it reasonable to take the initiative to attack or even exterminate the aggressor country?
It's better to stop there, and then it will become a matter of ideological awareness, a movie, as for it? Ha ha.
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