I just watched this movie yesterday, and I always have a lingering memory in my heart, a glimpse of life, which should be the theme of this movie with the title of LIFE that the audience wants to think about: what does life mean.
I really think this is an underrated movie. Although it is similar in some places to some sci-fi horror movies set in outer space, it has one of the biggest essential differences: the alien creatures here are based on the human protagonists in the same film. The same proportion depicts, from birth to growth, from ignorance to wit, even more than the hero and heroine; and the most shocking thing is that although this Martian creature has the ability and shape to make us humans fear, it does not Unlike the alien monsters in other films who are born bloodthirsty and evil, he is just a life that wants to live, neither good nor evil, will not take the initiative to attack other beings, nor will he be submissive, but his counterattack is sometimes in us humans. It seems too cruel.
If we can stand in the perspective of this Martian creature, Calvin, you will find that Calvin really did nothing wrong. For the black father, it was a loving interaction at first. After being electrocuted, he broke his hand, and it is very likely that as a newborn baby of a different species, he does not know the strength that a human being can bear, and he may not know how to eat if it is wrapped around his leg later. An unconscious leg can be fatal. The mouse was attacked after being bitten, and the same was true for Ryan's role. If Ryan didn't want to kill him, he probably wouldn't have killed him. Besides, Calvin was in urgent need of nutrients for his own growth and healing at that time. flame spray). I saw this and wondered why no one tried to feed him or try to communicate with him. Even more so when it came to the female captain, he was just eating frozen liquid and didn't kill her, but I didn't kill Boren, but Boren died because of me. Later, he pursues swallowing the spilled blood, and sucking the blood of the black father when he is dead, or further exploration of the human body. At this point, I guess Calvin, under the current conditions, should feed on liquids similar to blood and frozen liquid.
By the time he chased the Japanese and the Japanese hid in the sleeping chamber, Calvin should have been able to break through but didn't continue. Until he rushed into the rescue ship with the Japanese, we obviously heard a mess inside, (it seems that there is a girl shouting "go out, go out" in Chinese), whoever suddenly saw the monster and didn't panic, must have attacked first Calvin. Then look at the Japanese death, only because he stopped Calvin from crawling down their arms back into the cabin to survive, and began to attack in anger. But later the movie showed that he could actually save himself by his own adsorption ability, so why did he pester the Japanese to climb up? With his IQ at that time, did he want to gain the approval of his partners, or did he also want to contribute when pulling these people? After all, having been with these few people since birth, it is very likely that an intelligent young creature will be dependent on them. If that's the case, I feel bad for him. But when he first wrapped around the hostess's arm, he was forcibly pulled away by the Japanese to die together, and then he was beaten down by the hostess. Is it because the ability is stronger than that of human beings, the appearance is not accepted, and because he is young and cannot learn to express, will he be eliminated? This is full of human malice, I don't know how the young Calvin can bear it. Under such an encounter, the male protagonist was left alive in the end, just because Jake gave him an oxygen rod, but because he did not make a direct threat to him The act of life, although he knew that the male protagonist was going to exile them into outer space. Of course, many people think that he didn't kill Jake just for himself. I don't think he needs to do so with his current ability. It's okay to take a step back even for this purpose. It doesn't mean that he is evil.
I think in the second half of the movie, by all indications, Calvin has learned to perceive human thoughts and emotions and understand human language. For example, at the end, he was originally holding the oxygen rod, and when he heard what the hostess said (I think the two escape pods are in communication), he started to prevent Jake from manually operating the escape pod.
Let me talk about the human characters here. Having seen someone analyze them to represent different human errors, I think there is some truth to it. But I feel that these people show different attitudes and cognitions of human beings towards life, which includes two aspects of self-life and other life. There is no right or wrong in these attitudes. Each of them is kind and brave, but different circumstances and responsibilities have created their different perceptions of life.
The first sacrificed character Rory, he is very proud of being a member of the human species. Humans have long stood at the top of the food chain, which makes him believe in the power of human beings. Humans are the masters of everything, and all other creatures are It should be for human service. He respects human life very much, but is disdainful of alien aliens, and even somewhat hostile. Like many of us, the character is enthusiastic about the familiar and skeptical about the new. This may be the nature of human beings for self-preservation, written into their genes. Rory believes that Calvin is just an experiment, serving and being controlled by human beings. Once it gets out of control, it will be destroyed immediately. Calvin has never been regarded as an existence of equal life. So in the film, he is the only one who will go in impulsively to save people, and is the first to propose to kill Calvin. But he lost his life due to the lack of understanding of the powerful abilities of unknown alien creatures.
The female commanders are somewhat similar to the heroines at the beginning. They love human life because of their responsibilities. One is to pay attention to the entire space station, the other is to focus on alien creatures, but they only regard Calvin as part of their work. as an object of defense. After her colleagues died one by one, the heroine was full of hatred for Calvin, but she said "hate that thing", which shows that the alien life they cultivated has never been regarded as a life similar to humans. They all paid for it with their lives.
And the Japanese Sho is full of affection for his family because of the birth of the child, so naturally there is no more affection to give to another unknown life that has just been conceived. His work also minimized his contact with Calvin. Sho, who originally had no attitude towards unknown life, should naturally fear and hate Calvin as the situation became more and more serious.
The paralyzed scientist is an interesting setting, he hates his mutilated life, but has to accept it. He is full of fatherly love for the alien creatures he nurtured, but his love is somewhat conditional and purposeful. As a scientist and disabled, he hopes that Calvin can create miracles for human life. He does see Calvin as a new kind of life, so he can understand Calvin's struggle to survive. I've never been sure when he found Calvin tangled in his leg, I think it was when he was feeling sick, and although the leg doesn't feel it, there's always a reaction to blood loss. He didn't remind his companions, maybe he didn't have time, or maybe he thought that Calvin could understand their language, and it was useless to say it.
In the end, the male protagonist, David, is the only one who survives, even if this is not what he hoped. Because David has participated in wars and has seen the trampling of life by human beings, he is actually disappointed with the human community. He is a person who is outside the crowd. But he respects life, loves human beings, and is willing to sacrifice himself in order to protect his companions and people on earth. Likewise, he has respect for the unknown life. After the heroine said "hate that thing", he was still calling the alien creature's name, and the pronoun was also "he". Everyone remembers that Rory was reluctant to admit the name Calvin. It can be seen that the male protagonist has always regarded Calvin as a life like himself. Just like the scientist Hugh said that Calvin is only for survival, David should not hate Calvin, although he wants to kill him.
As arrogant human beings, our audience has already automatically stood on the side of "human beings are the boss", but the director let the characters with this consciousness in the film die tragically one by one, and only the male protagonist who did not want to be in the company of others survived. How terrifying, how mocking. I think this is one of the reasons why many people say that this movie has many loopholes and mental retardation, because we subconsciously do not want to see the failure of human life to unknown life, so we want to find various ways to avoid this ending. Although other similar sci-fi films are also full of loopholes, there are not so many people who spray them. If there are villains, or there are intelligent people created by humans, the loss is also lost in their own hands, which is easier to accept.
In my opinion, there are not many loopholes in this film, and the whole is quite logical and can withstand scrutiny. Although there are more coincidences, but all coincidences are not a book. Speaking of space station facilities, I don't know what the space station looks like, and I can't comment, but I still know that the spaceship in the Marvel movie can't be used as a benchmark.
The performance of the actors in the film is compact in structure and the design of special effects is quite good. For me, who doesn't watch many horror films, I can see the core of literary films from the shell of horror films, and I can't say that I am not surprised. Of course, it's also possible that I'm overthinking it.
Was going to give 4 stars, but added 1 star for Jake I admire.
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