Ten years ago when I was a child, I saw this kind of confined space movie about deep sea exploration, with giant sea monsters. Slowly it turned into space exploration, and it became a mutated species in space to endanger human life. The core of this type of film has not changed, we have been exploring and fearing the unknown, from the ocean age to the space age, this curiosity makes us progress and make us self-reflection. That's why this movie adds thinking about morality and freedom.
The freedom that g said, coupled with the illusory lens, really gave me a psychedelic illusion, which made me think that in the beginning of human civilization, there was no shackles of these things, and progress and shackles went hand in hand. Just like that Vietnamese character, when he met the little monster for the first time, he didn't hesitate to kill it out of beast or self-preservation instinct. However, his human companions forcibly applied the idealized moral cognition established by human society to this unknown creature, and used human compassion and fraternity to purify a monster that looked like a child. So when he saw this child for the second time, he couldn't do anything. He lost another attribute because of his "human nature". To a certain extent, he was not free at that moment. A moral sense that proves worthwhile, or a humanitarian spirit, is deceived and eventually killed.
I think this is a very interesting proposition, thinking about morality and freedom on the opposite side. We will explore morality and human nature in our works, but unfortunately, everything ultimately points to the relatively unified values that human beings have gradually formed over the millennia, advocating benevolence and fraternity. But this may just be the fruit of history. Like every real thing that still exists, it is a value formed by coincidence due to some historical factors. Ruling the world with love and ruling the world with force will have different judgments under different systems.
I can give this movie a 4, maybe because it opens up a little, even a little space for thinking, giving us a chance to think if human beings return to the starting point, whether individual freedom is more valuable, or collective norms more meaningful. At the same time, it gives more and more possibilities, allowing us to figure out the whole process of new human development.
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