In the near future, the International Space Station intercepted a probe returning from Mars.
To the astronauts' surprise, there was a sleeping Martian life form in the sample.
And the big brother black, a biology expert, did a deadly thing - give it a suitable living environment and wake it up.
The news made the world boil over, and even gave the creature a name - Calvin.
However, when everyone was immersed in joy, an accident happened.
The balance of the laboratory gas environment was destroyed, Calvin fell asleep again, and the black eldest brother gave him an electric shock to save his beloved "child".
Fortunately, Calvin woke up; unfortunately, so did a demon.
Calvin broke the palm of the black big brother, and it also broke the shock rod, pierced the glove, escaped from the experimental chamber, and began its survival method - killing.
The astronauts were terrified and helpless: they witnessed Calvin's incredible stamina, aggression, and high intelligence.
Then the tone of the whole film becomes tense, hesitant, helpless and fearful, and the storyline becomes more tense because you can't imagine where Calvin will show up and what he will do next.
You'll slowly sink into the character's anxiety and fear, and then watch tragedies unfold until the end of the film.
Although this "Alien Awakening" made a stunning appearance at the closing ceremony of the South by Southwest Film Festival in the United States and received unanimous praise from the media, it was criticized by the audience after it was released in North America. "The outer shell of "Alien" was filmed.
It is true that the background of the story of "Alien Awakening" takes place on the International Space Station, which is almost the same as "Gravity"; the protagonist of the story, extraterrestrial creatures, invaded the space capsule and brutally killed humans step by step, which is also similar to "Alien" .
But what I see is that what "Alien Awakening" wants is not to create the horror and coldness of "Alien", nor to imitate "Gravity" to show the beauty of space through long shots, its core theme is to explore the basic meaning of life .
The original name of "Awakening of Aliens": LIFE, which literally means life.
From ancient times to the present, we have been exploring life: what exactly is life, what is the meaning of life, and what are the unknown creatures on earth. Today, when we can explore space, we have a further question: whether there is life in outer space.
The first priority of life should be to survive.
As the black elder brother said in the film,
this life from Mars made a series of actions
just to survive, there is no difference between good and evil.
From our point of view, just like what Miranda said to David at the end,
I feel resentful, Pure, damn, hatred for that creature.
But from Calvin's point of view, in order to survive, it has to kill to obtain survival resources.
The black elder brother said that Calvin is wise, and some other people after the film can't help but ask "how smart is this thing?" At the same time, it is equivalent to judging that it is wise and highly wise.
And for such an intelligent creature, what is it doing to survive, is it good or evil? Is it the choice of wisdom or the drive of survival instinct?
The parasitic beast "Little Right" in the Japanese movie "Parasitic Beast" does not understand why human beings can treat such behaviors as eating chickens, pigs, ducks, etc. in a very common way, but cannibalism is not recognized and hateful. This is only from a human point of view.
Whether extraterrestrial life is good or evil in the history of movies can be divided into three genres: one is like Spielberg's "ET Alien" shot in 1982, which believes that extraterrestrial life is kind, and they can live in harmony with human beings coexistence; the other is just like the "Alien" series by the old man Ridley Scott, extraterrestrial life is ugly, terrible, and evil; there is another kind of coexistence of good and evil, such as Bomb Bay's "Alien" Transformers series.
The Decepticons in "Transformers" may be essentially the same as Calvin: in a new living environment, only by plundering survival resources can they continue to survive.
However, no matter how the movie tells about whether extraterrestrial life is good or evil, it is just a kind of obscenity in the judgment of our own values. When we use such a standard to measure an unknown extraterrestrial life, we are undoubtedly looking for a sword.
From this point of view, "Alien Awakening" explores the meaning of life in depth: it is really difficult to define the good and evil of all the killings done for survival.
As the astronaut in the film said, in fact, when we were excited to discover an extraterrestrial life, we also realized the cruelty of life.
Hawking believes that if aliens arrive on Earth, like Columbus landing in the Americas, it will not be a good thing for the indigenous inhabitants of the Americas. This shows that human beings are still more afraid of the unknown universe than expected. And Liu Ci'en also said in "Three-Body Problem": "The universe is a dark forest, and every civilization is a hunter with a gun."
I just hope that when that day comes, it is not us humans who are hunted.
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