This film still has distinct directorial characteristics. In the huge background of a future sci-fi world, steampunk, dystopia, love, action and other elements appear alternately. In "The Matrix", the doubts and choices of the savior Nemo became the struggle of Jupiter in "Jupiter Rising". But the only difference is that Nemo saves himself and then saves people. In the words of "The Grand Master", Nemo sees himself first, and then sees the world. And Jupiter is a sleeping princess, always waiting for his prince. While watching the movie, I kept wondering why Jupiter couldn't put on those power shoes, but fell off again and again and was rescued by the hero again and again. This also corresponds to the original surface meaning of the title, "The Rise of Jupiter". The mainland version is translated as "Jupiter Ascending", and I have to say that some swords are slanted. In order to obtain a strange context and make the audience feel fresh and different, Jupiter, who is the heroine's name, is translated as Jupiter. Of course, it may just be that the translator has not seen the film, and according to the director's previous style, he literally translated a name full of science fiction. Compared with men, women are more likely to feel trapped in their bodies. Many women once sighed "it would be great if they were a boy" when they were young. On the contrary, boys rarely dream of being girls. . This is of course related to the subtle influence of mainstream social values, but compared with boys, girls' physical differences do give them a "feeling of physical heaviness". Therefore, even if the queen returns to the throne, she has to rely on the loyal patron of the men around her. The final destination of this seemingly philosophical film is love. So, this is not a feminist movie, but a Disney-esque prince and princess story. Today, with the continuous awakening of female consciousness, such a film that still supports traditional male values will not cause much turbulence. What female audiences prefer to watch are films like "Fifty Shades of Grey" or "Little Times" that release female sexual fantasies and impulses.
Of course, feminism was never the motif of the Wachowskis. Their topics are more religious, whether it is the "maternal body" discussed in The Matrix, the interpretation of "reincarnation" in "Cloud Atlas", or the fantasy of "longevity" in "Jupiter Rising" today, they are all about the same extension of the topic. The basic values of these three films are that everything in front of you is unreliable, and life is "like a dream bubble" and "like fog and electricity". Only by bravely making self-choice and recognizing the illusory nature of reality can we save ourselves. Maybe It can also save the people along the way. Each of us is unable to get rid of our own flesh, which traps us, makes us always worry about the present, and pursue an illusory future. Maybe in the real world, our physical body is being used by people, and everything in our eyes is just an illusion created by the Creator. But even if this reality is put in front of human beings, most people still choose to turn a blind eye. They hate the truth and are happy to indulge in the physical enjoyment of food, wine and beauty. If someone dares to come out and tell the truth, instead of thanking him, people will treat him as a heretic and criticize him, so that he no longer dares to open his mouth. Public opinion can kill people, and the masses are always being fooled. As Wang Tianwang said in "One Step Away", what the audience expects is not the truth, but the imagination in their hearts. When people see the love between a prince and a princess on TV, they look forward to the perfect love of stars in reality. For example, Zeng Xiaoxian, who has been given the image of a good man, once people find out about his failed marriage, they accuse him of hypocrisy and betrayal, but they do not. Acknowledging that, in fact, it was me who mistakenly mistook the illusory for the real, and at the same time regarded the real as nothing. Why believe in reality? Compared with the perfect virtual world, reality makes you miserable and confused. Tank in "The Matrix", even when he has learned the truth, still has to choose to go back to the "maternal body" and live an illusory life of brocade clothes and jade food, rather than in reality, in the cold cabin, like eating paste food and lead a life of slaughter. In reality, the children who say that the emperor's new clothes have broken the emperor's new clothes will not cause people to realize that people already know the truth, they just pretend to turn a blind eye.
People always hate change and get used to the old. But if human beings want to progress, they must keep changing, so we are always troubled by change and constant. To borrow a quote from Season 3 of House of Cards, may we be brave enough to change everything we can, accept the status quo we can't, and hope God will give us the wisdom to tell the difference, amen.
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