Later, I heard that there was also this old version of "The Great Shift in Time and Space". In addition to technological advancements in Simon Wells’s new version of the movie, many of the plots are actually based on the original settings of the old version of the movie. They are all elements that have been abused in recent years. After an incomparable pot of simmering, it is heinously arrogant and overwhelming. Due to political realities, the director's great-grandfather's thoughts are quite taboo, and castration of the spiritual core may be a helpless move, but the four words "forgetting the ancestor by number" are inescapable anyway.
The old version was shot during the Cold War, so it has a unique apocalyptic atmosphere of that era. The whole story frame generally follows the original novel, but the three episodes of World War I, World War II, and nuclear war are added to the time travel, which has a strong sense of reality and modernity. The new version was shot at the beginning of this century. The anti-war awareness of the people of the only remaining "superpower" has long been worn out. It is reflected in the literary works that the destruction of civilization is actually due to the inexplicable "moon development". By virtue of the imaginary style, he has been separated from the real society for no less than one hundred and eight thousand miles, and it is suspicious that the choreographer and director is the party's possession of the small and fresh feelings of agriculture?
The main plot is the Earth 800,000 years later, and the treatment of the two versions of the movie is quite interesting for the vision of the future society.
Both coincidentally avoided the most acute point in the original work, the true origin of the two descendants of mankind. According to the original author Wells's setting, the people on the ground who only know how to eat, drink and play are actually the offspring of capitalists, while those who work underground all day long are the offspring of the proletarians. In the age when Wells was in, London saw many factories moved underground, and workers never saw the sky. Based on this reality, the author used bold artistic imagination. After countless years, the class division will eventually evolve into two major races. Parting ways: the people on the ground are full of food all day long, useless, both mental and physical abilities are degraded, and they can do nothing but enjoyment; the underground people work all day long without seeing the sky, the brain degenerates sharply, and the body is highly strengthened, becoming a savage who has lost even the basic language ability. . Below and above the ground itself are also a pair of metaphors. As for the end of eating and being eaten, it can only be said that it is good for God and bad for retribution.
What needs to be emphasized here is that the original author Herbert Wells is a socialist and a complete leftist. The social and cultural criticisms in the works are based on this position. Some of them can see black communism. , The wizards of black socialism, I can only say that your brains have been washed away by the literati elite and bureaucratic dignitaries, and you can't distinguish the north, south, east, and west.
The old version in 1960 was changed more ingeniously, directly continuing the nuclear war ahead, making it difficult to survive on the ground. People with a spirit of exploration went deep underground and opened up new horizons. Although the results were not satisfactory, you can imagine the ancestors of the underground people. Still worthy of respect. In terms of details, the functions of the people on the ground and the underground are messed up: the language and thinking abilities of the people on the ground are too good, and there is no sign of deterioration in the body; the language ability of the underground people is gone, but there is still the ability to organize? ! The combat effectiveness is the same as scum. In short, the social pattern reflected in it is obviously difficult to be self-consistent.
The new version of the film in 2002 is completely incomprehensible, and it turns into that ghost anyway. What is the difference between people on the ground and ordinary tribal peoples? ! The underground also came up with an omnipotent controller. When I saw him appear, I couldn't help but ask, where did your kid come out? !
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