IO-balance between hope and despair

Carmela 2022-06-02 16:53:39

I don't understand why this film has such a low rating. The heroine has found a good balance between despair and hope. The earth and life are the reasons for her stay.

She treats life on earth peacefully, because for her, it is not the end. Looking for hope is already her daily life.

A very good open-ended ending. The little black boy means that the heroine has found the hope of mankind, but the seemingly realistic plot is interspersed with dream scenes.

The heroine's father conducted a series of experiments to allow humans to survive in the harsh environment of the earth. Even the heroine's mother may have died as a result of the experiment. But gave birth to the heroine, the first generation of evolved humans. She hadn't seen the earth full of life in the past, but she was very yearning for it.

What the hostess injected into her stomach should be the drug her father gave her mother the experiment. After a night with the male protagonist, she was pregnant with the second generation of new humans. She will not leave the earth, and because her mission is here, the purpose of her birth has long been determined by her father.

Can a whole new human race be reproduced by the heroine alone? It does not matter whether there will be other humans to continue. Like the surviving queen bee, it doesn't matter. The meaning is that with life, there is hope.

The plot of the film is smooth, and the stories are well connected, interspersed with the narrative of the two people's life experience, and the foreshadowing is not obtrusive. The ending is not muddled and open, leaving room for thinking. The only cause of low scores should be the title, especially the Chinese translation...

The theme of the film has surpassed the continuation of the human race, nor is it about understanding hope from a human perspective, but the rebirth of life on earth. The earth can be without human beings, and the reborn earth will become the home of other life.

After all, people who abandon the earth are already moving towards a new home.

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IO quotes

  • Sam: Do you think it's absurd to love someone that's millions of miles away?

    Micah: Not at all. So ancient is the desire for one another which is implanted in us. Reuniting our original nature, seeking to make one of two and healing the state of man.

    Sam: What's that?

    Micah: Plato. Symposium.

    Sam: What does it mean?

    Micah: He says, humans originally had two faces. Four arms, four legs. And they were happy like that. Complete. Then they defied the gods, so the gods split us in two as punishment. Tore us away from our other halves. He said, each of us, when separated, is always looking for our other half. It's our nature. But when one is met with this other half... the pair are lost in an amazement of love, friendship, intimacy. And one will not be seen out of the other's sight. See, the reason is, human nature was once originally one. And we were whole. And the desire and the pursuit of the whole... is called love.

  • Henry: Sam... Don't underestimate the power of human connection. That's all there is. There is no bigger meaning. Just human connection.

    Sam: You used to say that about science.

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