Judging from the human future developed by the film works in the past two years, it seems that we have nothing to be proud of. In fact, starting from "The Matrix", the future of human beings on the screen The living situation has already worried us under the screen. The artificial intelligence machine has turned human beings into a "battery" that supplies energy, so that every human being connected to the "maternal body" lives and dies in a fantasy. This kind of "future utopia" genealogy has begun to flourish in film and television works. It is ironic that no matter from which angle the future of human beings is drawn, the future of human beings is bleak. Weapons seized most of the world's territory and population, and the survivors could only hide behind high walls to survive), "The Day the Earth Stopped" (recently remake, the destruction of the earth's ecological resources by human beings has even annoyed aliens, and it takes a A future "Great Flood" will end the human lineage), "Babylonian Chronicle" (cloning technology and the era of hairy and bloody times conspired), "Blind Influenza" (blinding influenza hits the world, everyone, except the blind, become blind, only The remaining one still miraculously retains sight)... In short, in any case, human beings seem to be doomed. Even if there are no natural disasters, human beings will dig their own graves. This point has been reached by Hollywood filmmakers. Just like the "Twilight City" I just finished watching, it is also a "future utopia" movie.
The background of the story provided by the film is still the future. The director did not repeat the mistakes of similar films. The work directly omits those fantasy and wordy. At the beginning of the film, a group of people who look like scientists will take a piece of paper and a key card and tell them about the robbery 200 years later. The expectations of the post-reborn human beings were locked in a lockbox and handed over to the first mayor of the "Glimmer City". At the same time, humans entered the underground "Glimmer City" where the sun was not seen, and began a long dark life. .
It seems that from the director's point of view, there is no need to spend more time on "why go underground". On the one hand, the audience already has a lot of reference works to imagine; on the other hand, perhaps the film and the audience have reached a consensus, that is, no matter what Whatever we do, human beings will come to this point in the future, and maybe even worse!
The timer of the lockbox counted down from 200 years, and it was rolled in the palms of a pair of men and women until it fell from a pair of hands, and then was placed in an inconspicuous corner. No one cared about the lockbox, but the timer was still faithful. Counting down until the day when it returned to zero, the box was quietly opened.
At this time, "Gloom City" ushered in the big day of "Distribution Day". Although this humanistic city that relies on giant "generators" to maintain its operation, the recent frequent power failures seem to herald something, but in the story The hero and heroine are still looking forward to the arrival of the "distribution day". At the "Assignment Day" ceremony, these young people of various ages will join the ranks of maintaining the "Glimmer City" as adults.
The male protagonist is a typical warm-blooded young man and hopes to join the "dynamo" working group. He has a premonition of the ominous power outage and is determined to find out what is wrong with the city; the heroine is an orphan who lives with his grandmother and sister, and his parents left behind 's telephone answering tapes became her only memory. Although the two failed to return on the "distribution day", but the two changed jobs, the young man became a "pipeman" (Super Mary?), and the young woman became the coveted "Messenger" to deliver messages to people.
The unease and doubts of "Glimmer City" are not only due to the longer and longer power outages. The young man found the secret room in the dilapidated pipe that was powerless to return to the sky; the young woman found the password box in the storage room of her own house. And began to restore the pieces of paper that were broken like a puzzle. While the citizens were preparing for the grand festival with their devout religious feelings towards the "city builders", some people tried to leave the "Glow City", but they were unable to escape and became the mayor's prisoner.
The young men and women accidentally discovered that the mayor was looking for a way out for the days after the "dynamo" stopped. The secret room between the pipes was the mayor's last Eden. The young woman was about to expose the mayor. Of course, this effort was tantamount to plotting against a tiger. Through the darkness and chaos, the young woman grabbed the mayor's key card and fled; and the young man also discovered that his inventor father was the One of the young women's parents who dig a tunnel to escape from the "Gloom City", and the young woman's parents sacrificed in the tunnel digging project.
"Glimmer City" began to search for young men and women, and the two escaped the siege with the invention of the inventor's father. The two took the young woman's little sister and stumbled towards the light according to the broken instructions in the lockbox, and finally, left "Glimmer" City", after 200 years of saying goodbye to the sun, human beings finally ushered in a new life on a clear dawn.
The general idea of the movie is like this (I am not very good at storytelling), there are a few things worth pondering about, for example, "Twilight City" doesn't seem to see such things as school classes, most people are not literate, and their work is almost a master Word of mouth with apprentices. The only prints are the Young Men's House books and his last wanted notice. It seems that the scientists who left the lockbox have already expected that human beings have already spoken, so the instructions in the lockbox are also simple and clear, with pictures and texts; at the exit of "Gloom City", a large number of icons are combined with a small amount of text to provide visitors with information. guide. However, fortunately, "Glimmer City" has not degenerated to the point of knotting memorabilia. Although people are not literate, they are not illiterate. This residual knowledge also provides the necessary conditions for the final exodus.
Also, the villain in such "future utopia" movies, in "Glow City" is the mayor. As you can imagine, the role of Dafan is all the same, sanctimonious, full of words, and in private, he uses power for personal gain, regardless of the life and death of the people. Naturally, the mayor of "Gloom City" did not disappoint me either. He was finally swallowed by the "Alien" in the secret room.
Also, the old plumber Suer, who seemed confused, stepped forward at a critical moment and removed the obstacles for leaving the "Gloom City", and finally made the young men and women go down the river for a lonely expedition.
After watching the movie, I was thinking, what exactly saved the fate of mankind, the box that carried the secret 200 years ago? Or young men and women? If the box is never found, will human beings die silently in the dark? I also saw that, like inventors, the parents of young women, and many people who did not appear and do not know their names, are they determined to open up the connection between "Glow City" and the outside world without knowing the existence of the box? The efforts of these people may be the driving force that truly supports mankind to return to the earth and bathe in the sun. Like the mayor in the movie, we see the inherent greed and selfishness in human nature, but the persistence and struggle of those ordinary people, those who keep the bright side of human nature (Inventor Father, Sur, Flower House) Aunt), aren't you raising the spirit of human beings and proving yourself to life?
At the end of the film, young men and women overlook the "Glimmer City" from the ground and cast a stone with a message written on it. In the vast darkness, the bean-like light of the "Glimmer City" is the light that has been carefully cared for by human beings for 200 years. fire. I'm a mortal who doesn't know where the fate of mankind will go, whether it will be as bleak and dim as in the movie, but, just like the name of the movie, hope is as weak and dim as a shimmer, hold it tight, protect it, don't let hope Extinguishing in our hands, this may be something that human beings should and must do.
2009-2-24 night
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