In fact, I personally think this film is underestimated...
Perhaps when many people watch this movie, they are looking forward to sci-fi blockbusters and alien special effects, but in essence, it discusses how the order of human society is established in a brand-new environment and conditions, and it contains a lot of The metaphor, irony and refraction of reality.
The setting of the new planet’s environment in this movie is very gentle, which is particularly novel in many alien science fiction films: there are no overly cruel alien creatures, and it has a mild and comfortable climate. The only difference is that it will be automatic after arriving on this planet. Attach the debuff of "being read", and only males will get this debuff, and females have no effect.
This setting is wonderful. It suddenly focuses on the contradictions of human existence: there is no strong foreign enemy that requires a united front to fight, and the living conditions are not bad and will not consume too much energy. Once the human energy is surplus, of course, it can only be placed on Infighting is up, and the debuff for men naturally establishes the conditions of gender opposition.
The town of Prentice, where the male protagonist grew up, is a social form: a high degree of ideological unity and concentration of power, no paganism, no doubts and provocations. People living in this society need to work hard to hide all their true thoughts. Once exposed, they may provoke judgment and punishment.
After the two protagonists fled, they went to the new town of Frambuche, which is another social form: people live freely and openly, and they may expose some of their true inner life to each other, but they can tolerate and coexist with each other.
It seems that Franbuche is better, but what is interesting is that when the mayor of Prentice ordered the whole town to attack Franbuche, the order was forbidden, and Franbuche’s freedom was at this time It showed that the mayor was not good enough to speak well, everyone had their own ideas, some went to war without permission, some surrendered, some rebelled against the enemy...
It's quite interesting to think about reality.
In short, although this movie is covered in science fiction, it is essentially discussing the order, structure, operation, and human nature of human society.
Including the noise itself, it seems to be a debuff imposed on men, but some people can use it in turn to become their own special ability-constructing real illusions. Who can say that this is not a talent?
There are also representations and meanings of various roles, such as the hero and heroine, the mayor, the mayor’s son, the two fathers of the hero, the priest, the traitor who secretly arrested the heroine and wanted to surrender...The group portraits are not many but they are quite pretty. typical.
If I expand a little bit, I feel that this movie has a lot of information, a lot of metaphors, and a lot of things to express. It seems that the ending is a bit hasty and a little top-heavy. Later, I learned that I was going to shoot a trilogy, no wonder it felt like a sudden stop.
To say that the plot is logically, it is not without loopholes...
1. In the interstellar age that can immigrate to aliens, has no one/country/organization considered energy, power, and infrastructure issues? From the perspective of the infrastructure madman, how can the first batch of immigrants include highly sophisticated scientific and technological personnel and strong firepower, rather than emigrating to aliens and starting from the beginning of the small peasant economy, the technology on the earth has developed in vain. ? Now even if we go to Mars to grow vegetables, we must be scientifically planted with machinery and equipment, and the central control system. So we will return to the farming era with one stick...
2. Under the brainwashing rule of the mayor of Prentice Town, because women have one-way mind-reading skills for men, it has triggered gender antagonism and social order reconstruction. This is understandable to me, but, let’s say anything. The ruler has to think about the reproduction of species and the continuation of society. What is the operation of killing all women? It only takes more than ten or two decades to face the problems of aging and lack of labor (maybe there will be social unrest caused by unsatisfied physiological needs). Which ruler would be so short-sighted... And the film repeatedly emphasizes the mayor’s Brainwashing education, why education without offspring? If it is the imprisonment and unified control mentioned in the diary of the male protagonist’s mother, this is still a reasonable operation...
In general, I feel that the rhythm of the movie is actually well grasped, and it is not procrastinating and boring.
The noise effects of the Dutch brother really fit his image of TB, and the atmosphere of Sui Sui is very interesting.
The heroine's makeup is at least 10 years younger than it looks in Star Wars. It really feels like a girl. It's amazing.
Personally, I think this movie is actually quite interesting. Seeing the big from the small, it is much better than a movie with special effects and no story core.
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