It's a typical American disaster movie. The story begins with an insignificant little person in a big project team, fronted by a happy family. Or another woman breaking up with a man, which is also a common practice in Hollywood disaster films.
The company was doing a project worth hundreds of millions of dollars, but for some reason, the construction progress was delayed. Influence capital to capture high profits. Capitalists are impatient and keep urging. So in a coincidence, a man-made tragedy.
Explosion, fire, etc. are logical and natural. It can be expected that the aforementioned little people will instantly become heroes of saving lives. A series of plots morphed into the hero's personal feat. Once again, American values have been fully validated. The collective power of the collective team is missing. (Captain Sully is also the same routine). There is nothing new about the old-fashioned story, which is better than the compact plot and good special effects. It's just that Chinese audiences are not buying it, and the box office failure is also reasonable.
Hollywood goes to great lengths to promote a positive image of America in this way to the world. Western financial monopoly capital represented by Wall Street in the United States is at work. Soft power is an important part of the overall power of the West and one of the supports for American hegemony. It is undeniable that such marketing methods have become very mature after hundreds of years of polishing. Ordinary audiences in poor and backward countries in the third world who are exposed to such films for the first time will inevitably not yearn for the hard work of American personal heroes. The wealthy and comfortable life in the Western world attracts ordinary workers who are struggling at the bottom of society. Struggle, improve their living conditions, and successfully enter the upper class, so the worship of the universal values of the United States arises spontaneously. The power of example is infinite. Over time, the younger generation will fully embrace Western values. If there is widespread dissatisfaction with the local social reality, such as serious corruption, high unemployment, lack of promotion channels, etc., there is no hope of realizing one's own value, the living conditions are deteriorating, the government does nothing, and Western capital The media added fuel to the fire, fanned the flames, and kept accumulating. At a certain point in time, the sudden occurrence of a certain event will explode in a concentrated manner and turn into a mass incident, which will cause social unrest, even subvert the government, and fall into a vicious circle. Young people are the most impulsive and most easily used by certain politicians and political forces to achieve their ulterior motives. Capital can do anything for profit. (Arab Spring, etc.)
For China, which is currently undergoing economic transformation, Xi Jinping has severely cracked down on corruption, understood the suffering of the people from all aspects and gradually improved them. It was recognized and welcomed by the crowd. People's living standards are improving day by day, which is real. In the more than 30 years of reform and opening up, the dissatisfaction accumulated by the society has been vented to a certain extent. However, Western capital will not die for the sake of its own interests. On the practical level, the so-called public-known universities V, Meidog, etc., which accept a large number of Western economic aid, continue to publish rumors through the Internet to slander China's achievements and historical heroes, and stir up social conflicts. It is no exaggeration to call these people traitors. The wise does not buy rumours. The strongest castles are always breached from within, as evidenced by the collapse of the Soviet Union.
In fact, in the field of international economy and trade, China is a country with vested interests. The biggest profit, no country in the world can compare with China, even developed countries. China has instead become a staunch defender of capitalism. China is striving to integrate into the international economic order dominated by the United States. Chinese capital competes fiercely with Western capital in the global market. The internationalization of the RMB is one of the important manifestations. Greatly damaged the Western financial capital to seize huge vested interests. The Chinese always compete with the West by playing Tai Chi, both soft and hard. Rather than a head-to-head confrontation (the former Soviet bloc). (WeChat official account: History is interesting) The West has no choice, and it is quite a headache.
The only fly in the ointment is the output of soft power. Western capital controls the media and is powerful. There has always been a double standard and deep-rooted bias in reporting on China. Wearing tinted glasses, deliberately blackened the image of China. Unaccustomed to China's rise, fear of China's competition (recently, Europe, the United States, and Japan have not recognized China's market economy status), and jealousy is regarded as a threat. Still paranoid clinging to the so-called sense of superiority. China's voice is always suppressed. The small belly chicken intestines of Westerners can be seen.
Returning to the topic of movies, several American blockbusters are imported every year. Chinese audiences have seen so much about such genres, and it is inevitable that they will get bored. Unless there is something special, the audience can fully accept it is just an extravagant hope. It can only be used as popcorn, one of the ways of entertainment. On the surface, Westerners strive individually to respect personal privacy, but psychologically they are collective. There are certain religious reasons, the content of the film does not really reflect the reality of Europeans and Americans.
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