After two days, after adjusting my viewing attitude and absorbing relevant movie reviews, I finally found the 2D field, stepped into the theater again, and completed the second episode.
After the second brush, I realized that my expectations and understandings when I watched the premiere were completely wrong.
① "Transcendence" is indeed a sci-fi film, but a sci-fi film should not be equal to an action film. It uses a very calm but delicate method to show human beings' worries about future technology. It does not have superb visual effects, and the conflict is not intense enough. Let the audience have a sense of 'the climax will end before it begins'. However, its content is rich and profound. Artificial intelligence (Artificial Intelligence), as an important branch and development direction of modern science, whether it will benefit or cause harm to human beings in the future, has attracted the attention of too many film and television works, and there are countless examples of the harm of AI. Transcendence, on the other hand, took a different approach, envisioning an AI that could create a better world.
② Unlike other film and television works, "Transcendence" does not attack artificial intelligence, but anti-tech elements and people who are worried about the disadvantages of technological development and kill new breakthroughs in the bud. "Transcendence" is unique, it designs conflict, but the audience can't tell what is right and what is wrong, we can understand both the concerns of 'ordinary people' and the self-defense of 'transcendence'. As for which side should be supported, I think the director did not intend to set clear boundaries. After all, with the current technological level of human beings, it is impossible for us to judge the right and wrong of AI.
③Depp repeatedly mentioned the key clue to support the development of the film during the promotion of "Transcendence": love. He said he was deeply moved by the love between Will and Evelyn in the film. All the expresses in the film give the audience the illusion that artificial intelligence is no longer Will, and this illusion eventually caused Evelyn to lose her trust in her beloved (trust, the loss of this last bond is doomed to the tragedy of the couple) . However, when all the truth comes out, Will has always been Will, his changes, everything he does is just to fulfill his wife's dream... When the two's best friend Max suddenly realizes, when the audience realizes, the world has truly lost its transcendence. hope.
④The reason why AI is Will is the best explanation is that when Max was in danger, Will chose to end his life and his wife's life to save Max. A machine without emotion will never be
able to make such a choice. Today's audience basically defaults to 3D as a visual blockbuster. "Transcendence" is a sci-fi drama and romance film, which originally followed foreign 2D. Nowadays, it is converted in the later stage, forcing the audience to wear 3D glasses, but it does not give any visual effect. I think this is one of the reasons for the low score of the film.
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2014.4.18 After the premiere Feelings: ★★
The premiere today, I sat in the movie theater with passion, and I was blown away by the big logo of the industry scumbag DMG company at the beginning... The essence of the whole movie is basically in the trailer, it looks like science fiction The big production actually looks like an ordinary romance film with insufficient special effects funds... The 3D specially provided by China is disgusting, I think that it is the truth that is cut out in the later stage and throw away the 3D glasses... Please invite Depp and other superstars, Just like this, from shooting to publicity is a big pit.
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