What is the general definition of "science fiction"? science fiction.
The explanation of this term cannot be thought about carefully. Once it is carefully studied, I am afraid that it will easily fall.
"Use the form of fantasy art to express the impact of scientific and technological prospects or social development on human beings", like a beautiful dream that is plated with a metal frame, shining with a charming luster.
On the basis of "science fiction", we still have soft and hard points.
"Soft sci-fi" focuses on the humanities, while "hard sci-fi" focuses on showing the changes and influences of science and technology on the progress of human society.
The latter is more obsessed by most sci-fi fans. From "Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea" to "Ghost in the Shell", from "The Matrix" to "Blade Runner", the technological fantasy presented by "hard sci-fi" is cool and magnificent. , there are reasons for people to have to love.
Blade Runner 2049
And "soft sci-fi"? Because it focuses on the discussion of the humanistic significance of science and technology, most of the time it gets far less attention than hard science fiction.
However, in real shooting, it can give the audience the surging texture, which is not bad at all——
"Circle Story"
In 2019, a "Love, Death, Robot" may be unforgettable for many people.
With the theme of "love, death, robot", more than a dozen directors showed their skills and shot 18 short short films with different characteristics.
"Love, Death, Robots"
If "Love, Death, Robot" is a crazy midnight carnival, and "The Ring" is a solitude meditation on a quiet winter evening.
One episode, one story, light and heavy, tender and sentimental.
The prequel of the whole play is that an old scientist established a scientific research organization in the underground of this small town, called the ring.
In his words, the ring is used to unlock and explore the mysteries of the universe.
But in fact, when you actually watch the story in the episode, it seems to be somewhat different from what he said.
Do not believe this story.
Two boys, a pair of best friends.
The short Jacob is introverted and usually reticent. Study hard, have no bad hobbies, and usually just draw and write as a hobby.
Although he doesn't like to study, he has high ambitions and plans to go to work in the ring after graduation. This is the best job in the town.
The personalities are completely different, and it does not prevent the two from becoming good friends.
They were at the same table at school, and Jacob could risk copying Danny's answers during exams;
Most of them are inseparable outside of school, and Danny and the girls always bring Jacob to the social scene.
One day, they wandered into a wood.
Everything is silent, the forest is covered with fallen leaves, abandoned robots, and a rusted inner hollow iron ball.
The two were curious, laughing and you pushed me and pulled, and decided to send someone into the ball to take a look, and Jacob went in.
A noise, the world is dark.
When the two woke up, they were shocked to switch bodies.
Danny's soul lives in Jacob's body, and vice versa.
The first time the two of them panicked, and they tried again, it seemed a little interesting.
As soon as they totaled, they decided to use the other person's body to live a novel life for a day.
Strange indeed.
At first, the audience looked strange.
Jacob, who was originally short, was even more timid when he walked beside the tall Danny; and Danny, who was excellent in appearance, didn't need to dress up deliberately, and his eyebrows were full of arrogance.
And once the soul changed, it would be strange to look at them from this perspective.
The arrogant Danny lives in the short Jacob's body. Looking at it now, his eyebrows are raised, and he is quite high-spirited; while Jacob, who lives in Danny's body, is still timid, even with the originally tall man. Danny, all with a cowardly air.
More than that, after changing the body, the world has also changed. It also gives each other a whole new perspective on others.
Jacob, who has always been inferior, secretly envy his friend Danny.
He is high-spirited, even if there are many girls who adore him, it doesn't matter. And he himself, fell in love with a girl at first sight, but did not dare to take a second look.
Living in Danny's body, for the first time, he experienced the feeling of being adored by a girl.
When the other party invited him to a private meeting in the warehouse, he would kiss him and even invite him to touch his own body.
But Danny's life is not necessarily what Jacob has always seen and imagined.
He lived in Danny's house, only to find out that this sunny friend kept a cold-blooded animal; his parents quarreled in the dim room from time to time; his mother called him delusional about his plan to go to work in the ring, and hoped that he would Can go to work in uncle's quarry.
Danny's life is not as sunny as it seems on the surface.
On the other hand, Jacob's life, as Danny's mother said, has many choices.
His grandfather was the creator of the ring, and when his family wanted him to go to work in the ring, he just wanted to choose his hobby - painting.
After exchanging lives, an absurd situation is formed:
It's only when Jacob discovers that Danny can date Jacob's favorite girl with his charisma, even with Jacob's body.
The appearance of his inferiority is actually not an important factor in his frustrations in life. He wanted to go home, to return to his body.
And Danny also discovered that living in Jacob's body also meant that he could have Jacob's life, and that life was what he had always wanted.
Finally, a pair of friends split.
By accident, Jacob lost his body forever, and his soul resided in the machine.
Although the protagonist of "Ring Story" is different in each episode, the sense of fate conveyed is highly the same.
In another story, a little girl finds after returning home from school that she has lost her mother and home forever because of a stone.
Under the staggered time and space, the young woman she meets is her future self, and her grown-up self, like her mother, cannot give her children a sense of security.
With the help of a technology that does not obviously exist, the sci-fi feeling created by "Ring Story" is straight to the heart.
In the story, it shows the audience all kinds of amazing encounters that people have had because of technology, but at the core, it explores people's search for themselves.
In Tale of Two Boys, Jacob breaks down and becomes apprehensive when he sees Danny taking his body on a date with a girl, and he defends the people:
"I'm not me."
At the end of the story, Jacob took Danny's body to sleep in the iron ball and never woke up.
Danny returns to his home, grabs his pet and prepares to officially go to Jacob's life.
He said to his young and deaf sister:
"I'm still here."
"I'm not me", "I'm still here", to outsiders, the situation in which these two said these words looked like lunatics.
And if souls can really be interchanged and run, can a person's body really represent that person?
"Ring Story" seems to be hypocritical in thinking about this kind of fate, but as long as the changes in the fate of the characters are brought into it, it will be more embarrassing.
The director of the episode of the little girl looking for her missing mother was Mark Romanek, who had directed the movie "Don't Let Me Go".
This sci-fi movie about a group of clones who are destined to become organ donors has minimized the proportion of sci-fi in the story, and the love and hatred of young people has been magnified. It is not until the final comparison with cold technology that people feel cruel fate.
"Don't Let Me Go"
There is no doubt that the profile of this sense of fate is similar to that of Ring Story. Technology is developed by people and used by people to explore and unlock the universe.
However, under science and technology, as long as human beings have watched themselves tenderly, the absorbing power that bursts out is far beyond that of science and technology.
"Ring Story" tells a grand "Story of Your Life" in another way through the interspersed combination of a series of characters' fates.
And choosing to start with science fiction, I also want the audience to be able to watch and ask their hearts more from the mainland through the appearance of science fiction.
From framing to shooting, the whole drama presents a cold and gentle style of northern Europe.
Under the subject of science fiction, this minimalist image style also magnifies the insignificance and persistence of human life in it.
In each story, there are always those thick setting suns, which also paint vivid colors for these life stories.
In the end, it is human life that makes sci-fi burst out.
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