Ability to be high, eye-opening, low-"Alarm No. 8"
Let’s talk about the movie "Alarm No. 8" today.
Title Code 8 (2019), alias 8 Level Alert (Taiwan) / Bafang Emergency Assistance / Code 8.
This film is adapted from a 2016 short film "Code8" (Code8), the director and screenwriter are all Jeff Chan Jeff Chan. The feature film "Alarm No. 8" stretches a 10-minute short film to the length of a regular movie, telling a futuristic world.
To add a digression, the direct transliteration of Jeff Chen's name is still a bit of an advantage.
The story of "Alarm No. 8" takes place in the future Lincoln City. In Lincoln City, 4% of humans are born with superpowers. Superpowers use their superpowers to play a huge role in various social work. However, not long after the good days, ordinary humans use technology to develop and introduce a large number of robotics. Replaced the superpower.
The superpowers who have lost their source of life have become elements of social instability. The two groups are full of hostility. The superpowers want to use their superpowers to mix and eat, while ordinary people treat them as aliens.
From the point of view of the film settings, "Alert No. 8" is a low-profile version of the X-Men, with super powers similar to mutants. Moreover, in the story frame, superpowers are also quite like social minority groups, working hard for equal rights, they have to endure the pain that ordinary people do not understand, and they have to survive in a discriminatory social environment.
It is like condensing a variety of social issues together, putting on the cloak of superpowers, and discussing the problems of survival under an unreasonable system.
It is also a feature film adapted from a short film, "Alert No. 8" is obviously inferior to "Supermarket Sleepless". A clever idea is enough to support an excellent short film. If it is adapted for a long-term film, it will either have a minimal cut like "Supermarket Sleepless", or it will have to be supported by a larger and more self-consistent worldview.
"Alarm No. 8" is like cutting a cut with a nine-back serial machete. The worldview and the story of the film can't support it at all.
When "Code 8" made its stunning debut that year, it really attracted the attention of many viewers. Cool pictures and imaginative superpowers are the great highlights of the short film. When all the essence is condensed in a 10-minute short film, the audience will not think too much about the causes, consequences and worldview settings, and can tell a cool short story.
Success and Xiao He defeated Xiao He, and the original highlights after making the long-length film became the film's cumbersome. Since it is similar to the X-Men, the discussion of similar social issues has long been a familiar topic for the audience. The discussion of mutants has been going on for decades, and the struggle of minority groups for equal rights even has a history of more than 100 years. The huge worldview wants to be compiled in a movie, and "Alarm No. 8" is obviously not done well. The superpowers here can only be reduced to street thieves, far from the utopian setting of the future at the beginning of the film.
After all, the script lacks polishing. The film opens with different superpowers, but these obviously more useful abilities are only used to build houses. The strong contrast is not only the irony of the government's governance capabilities, but also the vision of the director. The manifestation of parochialism.
It's like these cities can use superpowers to run into the communist society, but they have to break their meridians, instigate hatred and start a struggle, so that all superpowers are wasted in meaningless internal friction.
With a powerful ability setting and a low-level worldview, it is not difficult to understand that the audience feels weird when watching the movie.
But having said that, people who have lived in the dire and fiery capitalist environment for a long time can only see the cannibalistic side of capitalists. Their imagination is to the extreme, that is, capitalists can eat people more efficiently. People with all kinds of superpowers don't think of benefiting the people, but to move bricks to grab banks, and the level difference will be immediately apparent.
Superpowers are like gorillas with nuclear weapons. They lack thinking about social issues and can only be satisfied with the banana in front of them. They have neither political demands consistent with their identities nor a mature system program, and in the end they can only become lambs to be slaughtered.
Only those who recognize the unity of the proletariat around the world can bravely practice the people's yearning for a better life. The capitalists who are accustomed to eating human blood will try their best to prevent the superpowers from uniting, launching the superpowers infighting, and launching the people to fight with the superpowers.
Ability is high, eye-opening low,
Set a tiger's head script and a snake's tail.
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