Space Heroism: When Cockroaches Are Like Humans
——The ideology of "Space Rescue"
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The Russian movie "Space Rescue" staged American heroism with Russian characteristics. It is adapted from a real space accident. It should tell real things, and at the same time, it should also show real human nature and real heroic colors. So it unearths historical events and puts them into organizational and personal contradictions. Organizations and individuals are both flawed. Organizations do not have a glorious aura, and heroes do not have lofty crowns. Organizations and individuals are interdependent. Organizations need heroes in times of crisis and will abandon heroes when necessary. Heroes love organizations. , but will not shout slogans like "for the glory of the motherland" to show it off. They share the good and evil of human nature, which is what makes them so heartfelt.
The historical event the film is based on is a space station accident at the end of the former Soviet Union. In 1985, the former Soviet space station Salute 7 malfunctioned and stopped working. In order to deal with the malfunction, the organization sent Soyuz 13, carrying two people and necessary supplies, to repair Salute 7 and make it work normally. The Soyuz is specially designed to send people and materials to the salute space station. They need to be docked as a whole in order to send the people and materials on the Soyuz to the space station. It turned out that when the docking was performed, the Soyuz and the Salyut space station "cooperated with each other" and coordinated with each other. In this accident, the Salyut 7 was not functioning, so the Soyuz 13 was required to dock with the out-of-control Salyut 7 alone, which has never happened in history. The movie "Space Rescue" is mainly about how two astronauts dock and repair the process of salute 7.
According to the current understanding, the movie "Space Rescue" has adapted this event in order to highlight individual heroism and the contradiction between individuals and organizations. Space exploration is an extremely complex project that requires the cooperation of many scientific and technological personnel. What it requires in most cases is not individual heroism, but the concerted efforts of all. Regarding the docking test between Soyuz 13 and Salyut 7, the movie shows more failures. In fact, technicians at the time are said to have estimated a mission success rate of between 70% and 80%. Organizations don't seem to lose their minds to get things done, although it often puts pressure on individual sanity. In another episode, the ground technicians were arguing about how long the two astronauts could stay on Salyut-7. A female technician said that it was two days at most, but the supervisor finally allowed the two astronauts to stay for five days. It's probably just to create suspense or tension, not to say how ruthless the executives are, ignoring the life and death of the astronauts. It is said that in the actual historical event, the two astronauts stayed for more than ten days to repair the Salyut 7.
Of course, the ruthlessness of the organization is still necessary to highlight the amazingness of individual heroism. The historical dimension of "Space Rescue" that creates tension is the introduction of the Cold War or space hegemony between the former Soviet Union and the United States. In the story, the leaders of the former Soviet Union worried that the American Challenger would steal the Salyut 7, and hurriedly sent astronauts to repair it. The leaders of the former Soviet Union were worried about the strategic position of the Salyut 7 at the national level, and even chose to sacrifice astronauts when they thought it was necessary. Only from the perspective of the utilitarian degree of the result, the organization sacrifices the individual because of the victory of the overall situation, and the individual sacrifices himself through heroism, which is similar. However, the emotional value of the two approaches is completely different. The American media in the film also chose a ruthless character in a strategic sense, and they were keen to play up the threat of the salute 7 accident, and even played up the possibility of nuclear weapons on it. The media of the hostile camp does not miss any opportunity to slander.
It is in the face of that large-scale ruthlessness and indifference that the film shows small-scale, personal warmth and touching. The strength of the organization looks beautiful, as the space looks so fascinating. On Earth, the organization forms an oppressive force on the individual, and it operates differently from the individual's emotions, but the warmth of home can make the individual feel immediate comfort; just as in space, the individual is so small and As for leaving the space station or spacesuit, it will die quickly. Space makes everything seem small, the differences between people, and even the differences between lives seem small. In "Space Rescue", the attitude of the two astronauts when they encounter cockroaches is like this. If he saw a cockroach on earth, he would ruthlessly trample it to death, but in space, cockroaches have become the same kind of people, standing together on the standpoint of life, facing the ruthless space.
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