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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Extended Reading

IO quotes

  • [first lines]

    Sam: [narrating] It's like we were doomed to destroy our planet. Some say it was because of the increasing pollution. I just call it human nature. A few scientists predicted what would happen. They started working on a power station that could be sent into space to harvest geothermal energy from other planets. But it was too late. People would start dying in their sleep... suffocating in the streets, the blood in their veins turning black. "An unexpected change in atmosphere composition," they said. To me it was just our planet desperately trying to survive by kicking us out.

    Sam: So one day, a hundred ships flew off into the sky.

    [numerous glowing dots across the planet]

    Sam: It was the Exodus mission. They turned the power station into a colony, like a lifeboat floating above Jupiter's volcanic moon, also known as...

    Title Card: IO

  • Sam: [in a letter to Elon] Earth is not dying, it's being reborn. I know things aren't easy on the IO Colony, but... please write back soon. I love you, Elon. From Earth until the end of the universe. -Sam.