Man and nature - the law of the jungle or self-arrangement?

Hillary 2022-04-19 09:01:52

After watching "The Megalodon", I was horrified by the wonders of nature, that there is such a prehistoric beast, and at the same time I felt sad, sad for the people who left, and sad for the human beings who were exploring and destroying at the same time. A short history of human civilization is also a history of destruction, exploration and protection.

Prehistoric behemoth, what does this make you think of, the first thing that comes to my mind is Godzilla, (the monster background in Ultraman is supernatural), human beings are a shell on the long sandy beach in the long history of the development of the earth, Confronting this kind of monster is tantamount to hitting a stone with an egg. But why do human beings have to fight? I think it is like the spirit of "The Old Man and the Sea", "A person can be destroyed, but not defeated".

At the beginning, it was the male protagonist who rescued the unknown creature and gave up his partner to save the remaining 11 people. This reminded me of the ethical paradox in autonomous driving. When an accident occurs, there is 1 person on the left and 100 people on the right. What should I do, 1 person and The absolute value of 100 people is equivalent. Is it for the sake of the partner, the other 11 people sacrificed together, or gave up the partner and rescued the remaining 11 people, and even endured the humiliation and suffered the infamy of the remaining 10 people. The male protagonist's sentence "I know that sometimes, even surviving is not good." Maybe it was his answer. Then the screen changed. The billionaire is also an investor in this research. He said a sentence of broken Chinese to the heroine. You have a beautiful brain. , Smart is another sense of beautiful. Then there is the story of Xi Da Pu Ben, an important scientific research discovery, when everyone appreciates it, cold water is poured over, an uninvited guest visits, everyone is at a loss, thinking of the male protagonist who successfully rescued before, the male protagonist will not come back, just by Among the trapped people is the male protagonist's ex-wife, and I guarantee that the leaders of the research institute that sent the three of them into the water thought about the risk of them being trapped.

Then, the male protagonist did not hesitate to have a nosebleed and dived quickly at the risk of coma. First, he rescued the female protagonist, and then rescued his ex-wife and the meat shield. Ajun used himself as a bait and sacrificed his unfortunate sacrifice to save everyone. The male protagonist finally reconciled his injustice, and he is no longer that lunatic and coward. A real warrior dares to face the bleak life, and there is something to give in life. After everyone knew about the existence of the prehistoric giant megalodon, they originally decided to stand still. Later, because a ship was attacked in the distance, everyone decided to deal with the megalodon that broke through the thermocline because of them. One, another, the most thrilling is of course the final confrontation between the male protagonist's bare hands and the megalodon, taking advantage of the shark's cold-blooded characteristics, piercing the stomach, attracting the siege of other sharks, blinding the eyes, making the giant Tooth shark disoriented. Although in the end it was the human race that won, but I couldn't be happier. First of all, now that technology is so advanced, humans and megalodons have a lot of sacrifices, not to mention the wild prehistoric civilization, there should be more misfortunes, so I specially searched for information: "Humans and megalodons have a borderline in their existence. In the short 500,000 years, our ancestors failed to witness the terrifying kingship of the megalodon." (copy and paste from Baidu Encyclopedia "megalodon"). My dear, how could I hear the meaning of regret, shouldn't I be happy, it would be good to never encounter this monster.

Maybe the prehistoric giant megalodon was fictionalized by the screenwriter. In order to awaken people's protection of nature and sharks, for example, in the movie, there is a scene where a shark hunter is revengeful, and there are quite a few gimmicks where the younger brother is bullied and the boss goes out to do it. , and such as taking a photo with a shark as the last goodbye, the former is for the desire to speak, the latter is for showing off on social networks.

In addition to envy the muscles that Jason Statham trained with his bare hands, the whole film also has the classic sentence, "Have you never thought that nature has its own arrangements?" The existence of the stratum is nature's best choice. I admire Jun's sacrifice for righteousness the most, but his family is unfair to his wife, but since he made a choice at the moment, I respect his choice, and it is precisely because of the existence of this character that the The follow-up plot also has a dialectical point of view in this film. Sometimes the survivors feel more uncomfortable, grieve for the dead, and work harder for the living.

In the last shot, there is a picture of the little megalodon coming out of the mouth of the big megalodon. I would rather believe that other sharks got in and ate it, rather than spit it out before death like the similar Piccolo in the anime "Dragon Ball" The scene of one's own children, then this film can really be described as "The Foolish Old Man Moves the Mountain", "the children and grandchildren are endless." It is precisely the spirit of never giving up that "The Foolish Old Man Moves the Mountain" embodied is also similar to the spirit conveyed by this film. The wonderful thing, although the former is unity, the latter is individual heroism. I wish there wasn't a second one. The male protagonist, the female protagonist and the children can live happily and happily, and the revelation about marriage is mutual trust and equal communication.

Humans and nature are not the same. They exist on an equal footing and live in harmony. Humans are a part of nature. Nature has nurtured human beings, and human beings have also formed unique natural phenomena. Form, etc., the list goes on and on. The greatness and magnificence of nature comes from the achievements of biodiversity, how strange it is that there is only one species in the world. The brain hole opened: did the male protagonist lead the megalodon back to the thermocline? Shouldn't the ending be so bloody?

Extension: The megalodon had no natural enemies at the time, only rivaled by the Melville's whale , which was the same top predator as the megalodon . Melville's whale, also known as Leviathan's whale, is named after Herman Melville , the author of Moby Dick .

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The Meg quotes

  • [first lines]

    Jonas Taylor: [on radio] Look at the sonar. Let me know what you find.

    D'Angelo: So far nothing new, my friend. It just keeps getting worse.

  • Dr. Minway Zhang: Since 1875 we've all believed the Mariana Trench was the deepest place on Earth. I've had a theory that we think is the bottom might actually be a layer if hydrogen sulfide. Beneath that cloud, and a freezing cold thermocline there could be a completely different world.

    Jack Morris: Wow.

    Suyin: The Origin is about to see if my father is right. If there is warm water below, that means we're going to be the first to see it.

    Jack Morris: And what if you're wrong?

    Dr. Minway Zhang: Then you have wasted $1.3 billion.

    Jack Morris: [laughs] You're kidding. He's kidding, right?