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－－－－－－－－－The advertisement is over, I give way－－－－－－－－－－－ For the related information of "The Ninth District", the most popular now is the reprint of the essence of the so-called official FAQ. If the plot design is like these, it will really help the film's understanding of the plot. Aliens, spaceships, cutting-edge weapons, violent blood...The "Ninth District" under the shell is quite attractive, with awesome special effects, fierce war scenes...Too many commercial elements are also reflected in this place. But if you just stick to these entertainment points, it would be too wasteful of this film. Under the shell of the consumption stimulation point, the deeper things are obviously more worthy of consideration. This is also a new bright spot in the badly photographed theme of aliens and earthlings. 1. Plot clues The alien host ship strayed into the earth and came to the sky over the city of Johannesburg. In the case of a suspected malfunction, hovering in the air for three months, three months later, humans wearing biochemical protective clothing entered the spacecraft with live ammunition, and found a group of aliens who appeared to have gone through a disaster, and there were a large number of them. . After being transferred to the ground, this group of alien creatures were arranged in a gathering place not far from Johannesburg, where another group of armed Nigerian armed terrorists lived in this gathering place. Twenty years have passed here. In the past two decades, humans and aliens have first communicated in language, but then they have conflicts and even conflicts. As the conflict intensified, an international joint organization called MNU stepped in. Prepare to use force and threats to drive these aliens, who are considered inhumane, to a place similar to a concentration camp. Of course, the whole process has been rendered as a kind of safety guarantee for the citizens of Johannesburg and a safe transfer based on equality and cooperation for aliens through mass media reports. The movie's protagonist Wikus, the chief executive officer of this action, has gone through the entire process from the executor of power to the victim of power, and then to the rebel of power. The specific meaning will be mentioned later. The ending of the story ends with the two alien protagonists returning to the main spacecraft. Of course, at the same time, millions of aliens are left to thrive in this area next to Johannesburg. two. The protagonist Wikus Wikus is an extremely rich character. Whether it is the connection of the plot, the development of the story, and the expression of meaning, this character has played a vital role. First of all, in terms of personality, the characteristics of talking, glib, and slightly stiff, include a powerful but cowardly personality (very similar to many civil servants around us...). He has a happy family, a beautiful and kind wife and a father-in-law who holds the power of MNU. This kind of performance and even flattering, as well as a powerful family relationship, seems to have played a certain and no small role in him becoming the chief executive of this deportation operation. As mentioned earlier, in the development of the whole story, he has experienced the whole process from the executor of power to the victim of power, and then to the rebel of power. Specifically, in terms of identity, he went from a human, to a half-human, half-alien creature, and finally to a pure alien creature. And his identity verification to emotional changes are the key points. When he was a human being, his actual execution ability and his own character determined that he would not have any sympathy for these filthy and corrupt alien creatures, let alone respect for their right to life. For the purpose of "expulsion", he is unscrupulous and merciless, but his appearance is not pure cruelty (like the colonel), but a cunning cruelty. As a half-human and half-alien creature, the self-identification first produced fierce conflicts, and the collapse brought repeated denials. But this state was quickly changed before he had time to develop or make adjustments. As a human with the identity of an alien, he has become a monster. It can be seen from many plots that his new identity has a more special meaning for other people (this includes MNU, the supreme ruler of power and ordinary people), and this meaning breaks through many of his original human nature. . For example, he brought the possibility of spreading the virus, brought a threat to life, and brought a growing collective unconscious fear; for MNU and the people behind it in pursuit of power and benefits , He is full of scientific and technological benefits, and this kind of scientific and technological benefits comes from huge economic benefits in the final analysis. So he became a scientific experiment, a pure scientific experiment, rather than an organism with many human essences (such as human rights). In the end, great physical torture and mental torture mixed together and got an explosion. The consciousness of survival forced him to the ninth area, a gathering place for aliens, sleeping in the garbage dump, and swallowing corrupt food. At the same time, his feelings for the aliens around him changed. But this change is not rapid and complete. This is a contradictory process. He has still completely distrusted the dirty "lower creatures" around him for a long time. For the red shrimp and the children of red shrimp, all the power he can control his calmness comes from the fact that he "turns back to humans". Hope. When everyone around him no longer trusts him, and when his wife becomes weak and vacillating instead of resolutely supporting him and loving him, "turning back to humanity" is the prerequisite and basis for saving everything. When all hopes were shattered, he found that these alien creatures also had the same life pursuits as his own. The identity of a rebel of power appeared, and the director gave him a chance to relieve the audience. The mastery of cutting-edge weapons turned him into a hero with a rescue function at the last moment. At the end, as a completely alien creature (complete variant), it lasted less than a minute at the end of the film. The flower in his hand was the same as the flower his wife had previously held. It is the flower gift he made. We know that he is still very concerned about this initial wavering, but in the end still loves him, and it is also the only wife in the world who supports him until now. And there is reason to believe that he will put his hope on Hong Xia's promise of "come back to rescue him in three years". three. Representation of symbols: Like other movies with profound meaning, the meaning of the story is not expressed through direct narration, but is accumulated on individual symbols with connotation. The director expresses the exploration of human nature through the expansion of drama conflicts and contradictions. This expansion is not difficult to understand, and it can even be said that a little attention can be obvious. For example, why did you choose Johannesburg, a South African city, as the location of the story. Specifically, it is obvious why they chose to develop in this slum area on the outskirts of Johannesburg. The polarization of the social class, and the contradictions brought about by this polarization, are fully manifested by the emergence of vulnerable aliens. The people in the slums and the cultural characteristics of these people have disagreements with the upper class and mainstream culture of the entire city, and the former are despised by the latter. The gap between the rich and the poor and the contradictions that come with it, in modern society, in addition to the real active adjustment, usually rely on all means to appease. These methods include mass media, as well as some social welfare policies. It seems that in this state, an overall balance can be pursued. But as mentioned earlier, this balance was completely broken with the arrival of weak aliens. These aliens (according to the explanation of the so-called official FAQ are a group of engineers who have lost the central leadership without a purpose), their lives are based entirely on an instinctive pursuit of survival. This kind of pursuit has turned into violence, terror and cruelty, such as robbery, murder, etc., without cultural education. In other words, isn't this a manifestation of the expansion of our current society? The identity symbol of aliens has become a magnifying glass to see through society in the film, and the roots of social contradictions can be seen in them. The human rights organizations that stand in front of the military vehicles entering the gathering area seem to have become a joke. They are merely appealing for the protection of dirty and violent alien monsters that "should be eradicated." But if behind these human rights organizations is a slum full of violence and terror, how many people can give them their understanding and support? Another example is a significant comparison. The leader of human armed terrorists in the slums hopes to be able to eat the protagonist's mutated alien arm, and replenish his energy (lower body paralysis), perfect his abilities, and finally obtain the power and benefits he wants to pursue. The brightly dressed and knowledgeable scientists in the city, as well as the power dominators behind them, do not hesitate to conduct cruel and dehumanizing physical experiments on the protagonist. Don't they ultimately want the same power and benefits? It's just that compared with the former's physical disability, the latter represents a kind of human disability, and this kind of disability is unreasonable in our dirty system. Such mainstream cultural dominators portray those armed terrorists as evil and cruel representatives under the media exaggeration. But they are exactly the same in terms of process and results. As ordinary people, the residents of Johannesburg are totally unconsciously swayed under the guise of various mass media and political language. Their outlook on life values is instilled in a non-active form. So are you the same as these people in the movie? Four. The meaning of the film: As mentioned at the beginning, in the true sense, all entertainment elements are nothing more than tools to attract people's attention. Those bloody flesh, weapons, shells, and alien spaceships are just appearances. The director’s discussion of human nature, using the protagonist’s story and emotional development as clues, ran out of a very difficult but extremely simple question: What is survival? What is human nature? What is the relationship between the two? The emergence of the Internet has made it easier for ordinary people like us to discover that people in other corners of the world are also facing the same problems as us. This kind of fundamental problem, no matter what social system, no matter what environmental background, cannot be changed and influenced. And this is a problem that has been going on since the beginning of the emergence of the true meaning of human beings. With the help of the protagonist, the alien successfully boarded the way home and was redeemed. The other aliens left on the earth, even the protagonist who was completely mutated from humans to aliens, we have reason to believe that they will be saved in three years as promised by Red Shrimp in the film. But what about the people in the slums, the people at the bottom of society? Should there be hope for them, or where is such hope? The flower in the hands of the protagonist at the end of the film is only a representative of the word "hope", not a designation. Including the director, all our audiences, and everyone in this society, none of them can clearly indicate that it is feasible. path of. But at least, there can be discussions about such "hope", it may be "hope" itself.
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