What underpins our "exploration"? human nature? Still inhuman?

Kyra 2022-04-22 07:01:07

The pictures are beautiful, the soundtrack is ok, and the planets in the solar system look very beautiful, but the vision for the future is much worse than "2001 A Space Odyssey", but the director seems to have said that it is not a hard science fiction? The light and shadow colors are also not as good as the last part of "2001: A Space Odyssey".

Speaking of the content, I think some points are useless. The part of repeatedly conducting psychological tests on Roy can be handled a little better, making the whole film more seamless. The topics discussed in the whole film are relatively concentrated. When you find your father later? I haven't gotten to many places in front, and I don't know what to shop.

The last place I feel is throwing questions at us - what are we looking for? Roy is looking for Dad, Dad is looking for alien civilizations. What keeps us going? What supports Roy is emotion, and what supports Dad is reason and faith. It also reminds me of Cheng Xin and Zhang Beihai in "The Three-Body Problem", which represent human nature and inhumanity respectively (no human nature is not a derogatory meaning, but I don't want to use the word rationality. I always feel that rationality is also a part of human nature, even if ordinary people cannot I understand the feeling of paranoia), and it’s hard to say who is good and who is not. According to the director’s opinion, it should be human nature, human feelings, and finally Roy’s psychological test and the interpretation of his ex-wife (or his wife), should have stated this.

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  • Charlene 2021-11-22 18:54:14

    The beautifully restrained space pictures, the Cthulhu-style story structure, the still handsome Brad Pitt, the extremely comfortable literary soundtrack and rhythm, these are the charms of "Interstellar Exploration" that attract me. Many people commented on the film as anticlimactic. On the contrary, I think this is the quality of the film that is different from traditional action science fiction films. It highlights the style of space opera. Some people like it very much, and some are drowsy. The significance of the film is that everyone is looking for the answer to their own life throughout their lives. The infinite space may allow you to find the answer, but the desert space of the human spirit cannot nourish it. Mankind is great, mankind is small.

  • Bartholome 2021-11-22 18:54:14

    The most attractive part of space science fiction is often the abstract processing of extraterrestrial, universe, and technology. Whether visually or emotionally, the more abstract I see, the more exciting it is. In this sense, the epilogue of "2001: A Space Odyssey" is really overwhelming. In fact, space is inherently abstract to humans. The big screen often visualizes it to make it more visible and knowable. However, for me, the crisis of being named is never more shocking than the nameless. . There are still many wonderful clips in this movie, but the shot I am most impressed with is the moment when they opened the door of the spacecraft in response to the distress signal, the two astronauts’ helmets showed two groups of dark black holes, human faces, The body no longer exists, technology and reason no longer exist. Human beings stare into the universe as they stare into the abyss, and there is nothing but darkness in the abyss. I can watch the process of a certain human being slowly going crazy while flying to Neptune alone for ten hours and then finding nothing when it arrives.

Ad Astra quotes

  • Roy McBride: I'm so selfish... I'm so selfish... I'm so selfish... I'm a selfish person...

  • Roy McBride: Why go on? Why keep trying?