Hollywood loves Verne, I think it's a combination of three preferences, love science, love fantasy, and don't want to grow up. Therefore, people who also have these three tendencies will also involuntarily tend to love movies related to Verne. It's a bit like a Verne fan club event.
I seem to have a little bit of that tendency too. I'm ashamed to say that I'm not a science fan, because the element that appeals to me is never science. However, the reverie about the seabed, the center of the earth, and the starry sky is always attractive, and the adventure in it is quite romantic.
The last favorite Verne-related film was the Back to the Future trilogy. One of the professors loved Verne, and traveled through time and space to the nineteenth century to find his beloved wife. The matchmaker was Verne, because the girl also loved Verne, and the two fell in love by looking up at the stars and talking about their love for Verne.
The film proves that Robert Zemeckis and (director) Spielberg (producer) are really childlike, making the film feel very cute, and the story structure is full of smiley creativity.
This time, "Journey to the Center of the Earth" didn't have so many personal creativity in it, but this time it played with 3D visual effects. It is quite attractive to show the center of the earth described by Verne in 3D. From the process of watching this movie, I summed up a mentality that one should have when watching this kind of movie. That is, stay open, don't comment, give up the left brain, activate the right brain. Because logically speaking, the movie must have a thousand windows and a hundred holes. However, if you let go of those logics and go around the center of the earth by yourself, this feels quite good!
Ride the roller coaster once, and descend to the center of the earth with them; see the fluorescent birds flying in the sky, like stars; and the sea, the light in the sky is like a sunset, but it is a strange red. All of these, when you put your mind down to experience it and put yourself in it, you will be moved and shocked. At that time, a voice in my heart said, "I love this illusion!"
I knew it was an illusion, but what about the illusion? The feeling is real, and the joy that arouses in the heart is real. Aren't we busy pursuing such an experience in our lives but not being able to?
I suddenly had a strange idea. Maybe in the future, when the technology is developed enough and the environment is bad enough, we may go to the cinema for outings. Maybe we will get the real pleasure of traveling from the illusion, fly to the sky, cross the ground, dive into the sea, and experience a wider real world and fantasy world. Maybe at that time, when children were in class, they could watch the stars, learn about marine life, understand geology, and understand various natural phenomena in this way. What would be the effect?
Perhaps when we become addicted to such experiences, when we are so immersed in such illusions that we cannot extricate ourselves, it is somewhat sad. Perhaps then in a society dominated by the media and entertainment industry, hallucinations became people's biggest consumption. People have developed brains and degenerated limbs. Some people of conscience, like Nio in The Matrix, want to wake up people who are already intoxicated and can't tell the difference between the real and the illusion...
I am indeed a little scared when I think too much, but I am still somewhat looking forward to the era of free consumption of illusions.
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