At the end, I was a little confused as to whether this is an American personal heroism film, a disaster film, a religious film, or a thriller. Could the director focus on portraying it, please? even one place.
I didn't say that this film is good or bad, but the lack of focus, the unclear central idea, and the inexplicable ending are indeed the places where this film can be scored several grades. At the beginning of the film, on a primary school campus, the teacher greeted the children to enter the classroom. A little girl named Lu Xianda stood aside with her back to the camera, ignoring the teacher's orders as if nothing, and looking at the sky alone, it was really weird. Then the camera cuts to the classroom. When the teacher says the time capsule, he vaguely guesses that the story is related to foreseeing the future (because the Chinese translation is called mysterious code, so I didn't realize it before), and the children have to imagine the world 50 years later. It looks like, draw it, put it in the container of the time capsule, and open the time capsule in the school celebration 50 years later. In the end, when the camera moved to Lu Xianda's paper, it made people's nerves tense. It was a dense number of numbers, and the little girl kept writing. At first, I thought it was some kind of combination of numbers and shapes, but finally the disappearance of the little girl, the blood on the door, and the words Lu Xianda said: "Who will organize them...", all made people a little puzzled. What do the numbers represent? who are they? So the audience goes into the "body" of the film with questions like that.
John Kessler, played by Nicholas Cage, appeared, still with the expression on his face that made him want to die... I have to say that if he stretched his brows and played, he should have expressed more things, but this Don't blame him, after all, it's the setting of a middle-aged wife who lost his wife. Due to the strict control of his son, there has always been a gap between the two. The son participated in the 50th anniversary of the school and obtained the "digital prophecy" written by Lucienda 50 years ago. By chance, John Kessler After discovering the secret of "digital prophecy", the audience added a new question to their hearts when unraveling this big puzzle: Who are those mysterious men in black? What will the protagonist do next?
Then it became the fabled disaster flick, and then "Adam and Eve" (really kind of), the pure child became the hope of humanity to another planet END.
Apart from the initial tense atmosphere, the film has no other highlights. What I want to say is that the soundtrack is not bad, but it is old-fashioned enough to make the audience feel immersed in it.
In fact, it can be seen that the director has put a lot of effort into the plot. He wants to get out of the traditional American heroic ending and give the audience a quiet time to think, so he adds a religious color (I don't like it). However, the audience does not seem to buy this kind of innovation. I personally think that there are some problems in the distribution of the structure. The plot is compact enough, but the distribution of themes is too uniform, so there is a question at the beginning of the article: what is this film?
In any case, the director's innovative spirit: softening various elements together is worthy of recognition. The whole film is more enjoyable to watch and is more suitable for a family of three to watch. But if you want to dig out the struggles of society's dark human nature and other issues from the film, I advise you not to do it, because I believe that this kind of film that faced the doomsday resolved the conflicts with the family for many years and then died. You have seen too much.
What's the use of knowing the end of the world? All this is fate, we have no right to change anything, maybe this is the intention of the film to convey to the audience.
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