I'm the kind of person who can speak beautiful words, but only realizes that there is such a gap between imagination and reality when things happen, and then after struggling for a period of time, I feel that I should bow to reality. Things like movies are often infused with a certain value-usually a value that meets the expectations of the public, so I don't like seeing this embarrassing situation. During the screening, I had to change my habit of watching movies, constantly thinking about things outside the picture to distract myself, so that I don't get too involved in the story.
The time was pulled back ten years ago. The teacher asked in class, "Do you believe there are aliens in this world?" The class raised his hands all together, and the teacher said, "It's really rare." Rarely, because of the existence of aliens outside of human knowledge, this group of children in the class naturally raised their hands not thinking about fighting aliens. They believe that there are aliens, so they are not afraid of such unknowns. Human beings are the only intelligent creatures on the earth. By virtue of this advantage, they naturally regard themselves as the master of the earth, giving and receiving requests, controlling the fate of other creatures, and eating their flesh and skinning them with confidence. Aliens are a threat to the dominance of mankind, because the basis for human beings to dominate the earth in this way is wisdom, so once there are more intelligent creatures, humans will naturally feel that they are in place. I am afraid that one day I will become a fish on the sword of others. Why should the strong be polite to the weak? It is natural to think this way, because humans do this, and we are comfortable relying on ourselves as "advanced" creatures. Deforestation and occupation of grasslands, of course, I think that if others are more "advanced", they will also want to tear down our buildings and invade our homes. Therefore, most of the film and television works that involve aliens are fighting.
Fighting for resources is a relatively acceptable situation, because the weaker eats the strong, and the winner is the king is also a universal value. What makes this movie uncomfortable is that the aliens in the movie are not showing an attitude towards external threats, but looking at internal rifts. Of course, their technology is still very high, and they are also very smart-otherwise the prerequisite for the spacecraft to land on the earth will not be established, but its lethality is at best a tie with the people of the earth. So what they embody is not the threat from higher intelligence, stronger force and higher technology, but the invasion of another state of existence. We instinctively resist the things we don't understand, feel insecure, and put it in a more popular way: "If we are not our race, our hearts will be different." Today will be the same, and tomorrow will be the same. Alieen, the original meaning is "heterogeneous".
If these aliens look like humans, eat like humans, and reproduce like humans, and it is better to have the same moral standards as humans, then they may not be treated like this. Isolate them, precisely because of their incompatibility, the beginning of the film borrowed from Passer A to say "If they are from another country, it's fine, but they are from an alien", from another country. What is the difference between the aliens and the aliens? Because I'm not used to it, because I don't understand, I reject it. But if they are really strong, or there are a lot of them, humans can't deal with them. Even if they feel uneasy, they will certainly look friendly on the surface. But because they couldn't fight back a handful of them, it would be fine to confiscate their weapons, force them to relocate, and use their living bodies for anatomy experiments.
This sentiment is not only aimed at aliens, but is inherent in human beings. The sense of identity with "my race" comes from appearance, from living habits, and from mutually recognized ethics and value standards. If you accidentally become a "heterogeneous" or a "minority", will there be fewer instances of vulnerable groups being isolated and discriminated against? Or to take a more personal example, the human experiment conducted by the Japanese army in China during World War II also held this mentality. This is not which ethnicity is disgusting or which ethnicity is kind. It is the cognition of the whole-non-self race, and weaker than me, can be deceived.
As long as it is not "my race", there is no need to exercise the same set of moral standards with them. It's like a sentence in martial arts novels that I despise but many heroes say that they are not soft-"What do you say about this kind of evil? ". It turns out that "Jianghu morality" is not because of what is right or wrong, and it is not because of what is right and wrong. "Class" does not matter. So the protagonist was very happy to burn other people’s eggs at first-if these little aliens were born like human beings, he probably wouldn’t be able to do it this way, but the way humans reproduce is very much from a human point of view. It's disgusting, so when the offspring of others burned up, they shouted "like popcorn" cheerfully. Everything is carried out in the way of "my race"-legally migrating them, although they were forced to draw with guns; they are given human names, but basically our audience has only heard the name of one, on the surface The morals of the gangs and lakes on the road, in the bone...Who is not an evil devil?
After the male protagonist has mutated, he is no longer "my race", so the standard of "life is above everything" is no longer used. Have scientists ever pityed the mice? Did anyone have pity for the frog on the dissection table in the biology experiment class before? So for a better and more glorious future for mankind, what a natural decision to cut the actor-he is no longer human anyway, and will eventually grow into something completely unlike humans. Ironically, when he picked up the tube, he said loudly, "I don't believe those guys, they are too dangerous" (I honestly think he used "it" when he said this). In seconds, he became a dangerous and unbelievable member. After that, the male protagonist can be said to have lost his race, from being unwilling to shoot aliens at the beginning, to later shooting humans unscrupulously for the purpose, for a...thing that has lost its belongings, anything The standard no longer exists, and we return to the most primitive, the most original, our nature.
Of course, the main theme of "being good at the beginning of man" exploded at the last moment. In other words, under the appearance of all kinds of "different", the director and I believe that after all, life is common, and this commonality comes from wisdom, which restricts, and sometimes even influences our instincts. This is not "humanitarian" or "fair principle", but sentiment. D asked me, "Do you think that alien will come back?" I said "I will definitely come back", and Yi smiled and said, "As expected to be such an old man who still likes the little prince", I think Peter Jackson is also willing Leave such a hope, otherwise it’s fine to finish directly, without the flower—but this is another thing I don’t like. I always feel that it is logically naive and unreliable to let a very weak person escape. , But I really want to believe the facts. This is a movie that I can’t find a foothold, because actually listening to my heart, I understand the greedy thoughts, and even some of them (such as cutting off the leading actor), but after thinking about it, I think it’s really Dirty thoughts.
There are many science fiction novels that explore the essence of human beings in the background of science fiction, but not many are actually shot, because science fiction is still relatively easy to associate with some technological gimmicks. I don't know if this movie will start a trend.
As someone who likes to watch Discovery and BBC documentaries, I really like this shooting technique. The last time I saw this third-party follow-up method was in REC, but those were still subjective shots. This film simply takes the photographer as the perspective and spreads interviews with passers-by A, B, C, D. In addition to enhancing the sense of reality, by looking at what they say, and comparing what happened to the male protagonist, you can see the original humans more clearly. What kind of creature it is. The only regret is that a little subjective perspective of Christopher (I think this name is a joke) inserted in the middle, like when writing a novel, using the protagonist’s POV where the writing is unclear and having to pick up a few chapters to use a third party The POV feels very abrupt. If it is not about the level of the story, it is too low-estimation of the audience's IQ (I think there is no need to introduce how the things in the test tube came from, this paragraph should be cut off).
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