- Broken Bridge
watched an American movie last night: "The Day the Earth Stood Still", translated into Chinese as "The Day the Earth Stood Still". Deeply touched, the film tells about a flying saucer from outer space landing in New York's Central Park. The flying saucer is carrying the alien advanced intelligent life Klaatu (Klaatu) that has been transformed into a human form, and his powerful heavy armored robot Goth. . Cratu came to earth because the advanced creatures of various planets in the universe held civilization summits, and they agreed that the evolving human civilization is inherently belligerent and destructive, and will destroy the ecology of the earth; because the earth is one of the few in the universe. A planet capable of hosting advanced life forms. So they decided: "Without the earth, human beings will perish; without human beings, the earth can exist." This time, Pacrato came to contact another kind who came more than 70 years ago to confirm whether human beings can be changed, such as No, the human race will be wiped out immediately. And the U.S. military kept their usual self-righteousness and old-fashioned (which is common to all governments), questioned him and detained him secretly, Kratou wanted to find someone who could represent humanity to negotiate, but no one gave him a chance, the U.S. military Fang's hostility forced Krato to flee. With the help of Dr. Helen Benson and her stepson Jacob, Krato found the "explorer" who came to Earth more than 70 years ago - a Chinese American The old man, the old man told him that over seventy years of observation showed that human nature is destructive and unwilling to change, and what is even sadder is that they know the result but do not know what to do. After being confirmed, Kratou decided to start the extinction procedure, but the old man was unwilling to leave. He wanted to stay and perish with mankind. He said:
"this is my home now."
"yourself called them a destructive race."
"that's true.but,still ,there is another side .you see ,I ...love them .this is a very strange thing .I can't find a way to explain it to you .for many years I cursed my luck for being sent here .human life is difficult .but as this life is coming to an end ,I consider myself lucky to have lived it ."
Of course, here you can also critically think that this is still the usual American movie about the virtues of human beings There are rhetoric, and the old man who chose Chinese said, I think the deep meaning is to use the care of the East to express it more strongly!
Dr. Helen always believed that Cratu told the US Secretary of Defense that he came to earth: "I come here to save the earth." That's why she helped him escape and started the process of destroying human beings. After learning the truth, she Asked why Cratu broke his promise, Cratu said that he came to save the earth, at all costs - to destroy mankind; compared with the earth, human beings are of little significance. Dr. Helen told him: "We can change!" and took him to talk to someone who could represent the real human race: In Dr. Helen's mind, it was not the government of the United States that could represent human civilization, but her mentor—a man who received a promise Bell Award old man. In the old man's house, Cratu used their super-intelligence to write the formula process that the old man was close to the result but could not get the result. The old man said meaningfully that human beings still have something in common with him. He said:
"there must be alternatives. You must have some technology that could solve our problem."
"your problem is not technology. The problem is you . You lack the will to change."
" then help us change. "
"I cannot change your nature. You treat the world as you treat each other. "
"But every civilization reaches a crisis point eventually . Most of then don't make it. Yours did. How ?"
"Our sun was dying . We have to evolve in order to survive."
"So it was only when your world was threatened with destruction, that you became what you are now, yes? "
"Yes."
"That's where we are. You say we're on the brink of destruction, and you are right. But it's only on the brink that people find the will to change. Only at the precipice do we evolve. This is our moment. Don't take it from us . We're close to an answer. "
This is the theoretical essence of the film: Humans not only have a good side under severe destructiveness, but, like Optimus Prime said, humans are still very young species, and there is still a lot to learn. They are not perfect and have their own trends. Violence and fighting and the tendency not to make progress, but if it reaches the juncture of survival and evolution, the human group still has a tendency to change. Our reason is not just the family love between people, or the dedication of the whole group. Great love, but our reason, our self-confidence at the juncture of life and death: give us the conditions, so that we can change without any other way than evolution...
In addition to these, the film also runs through the little doctor and her late husband. The estrangement and understanding of the son (by his ex-wife). All of this shows to Kratou that human beings, as individuals and sentient organisms, have a noble soul that is far superior to their evil, but this organism is full of evil and good at the same time, and evil is often the highest power given to creatures by God. : The right to the laws of natural existence. So as a whole, the manifestation of humanity is the violent tendencies and merciless destructive power of the American military and civilization as a whole... Yet how powerful is the potential for kindness within each organism, We can change, it's just that we still Not realizing our endangered situation, isn't that the evolution of every advanced civilization?
Cratu was finally moved and felt the change in his understanding of human beings. At a critical juncture, he saw the changes made by the female doctor to save his adopted son. In the end, Cratu saved humanity at the juncture of programmed extinction... At this time, Cratu brought With the departure of the celestial sphere, the radio and electric currents of the whole world have been disturbed, and all the current civilization has come to a standstill. In the ruins, the world has never been so quiet, so quiet to think about the meaning of civilization...
Maybe the ending of the story is not perfect, After all, all this is only known to a small range of people. Even so, the US military may block the news after the fact, and all the exchanges between civilizations on earth will be annihilated. Of course, another possibility is that the U.S. military announces everything and calls on people all over the world to work together to complete our evolution; but the result is predictable: as mentioned above, the wisdom of human beings as a group is so self-evident Thought that reason is so humble, ignorant and low. Other governments will suspect that this is a conspiracy of the United States, and many people will take the opportunity to conspire... The world will still be alive and dead, and the evil and destructive nature of human nature will be fully manifested after Kratou is gone!
This is human beings...
but can we let human beings perish again because of this? Walking in the human civilization where the traffic is like a dragon, the lights are brilliant, and the human feelings are brilliant; overlooking the cities and villages of the human beings in the night sky, even if you still remember that there are endless joys and sorrows, intrigue, the pressure of survival, and the ugliness of world affairs; There is your disgust, your anger, your helplessness, your cries... but when you find that they are about to vanish into nothingness and leave no trace on this planet, when you see the pyramid of Khufu It collapsed like scattered sand without water, and the Great Wall just left behind a powder. When the intelligent creatures of the next season look back, we are already inferior to the creatures of the Cambrian! Because our civilization leaves no traces! So, do you have the courage to give up this civilization? We are bad as a civilization, wildness always easily drowns out rational struggle, but we are unwilling to abandon it, because one night, when looking up at the stars, we know that the world outside us is so desolate, so ridiculously eternal Without thought, our pride, because of the greatness of another humble layer of civilization...
I think how reluctant we are: we know the result as a whole but we can't do anything, and each of us can represent the nobility of human beings when they show nobility, but As a whole, everyone wants to change and can't do anything. This is like Boyang's "Ugly Chinese" and the divided Germany! The film does not give an answer, and it is impossible to give an answer. If we have not perished by then, let this history tell the answer...
In the end, the idiot government of the US blockbuster has always been an idiot and it can't explain things with love and peace. The shortcomings of human nature to educate and other routines still exist in this film, and you should take the essence and remove the dregs, only you should be careful.
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