Around 2000, TV-on-demand programs became popular on our side, and everyone else could watch TV programs on-demand. At that time, the most on-demand program except for "Crayon Shin-chan" was "Star Wars". Due to time constraints, a movie is often cut into more than a dozen segments for people to broadcast on demand, so we can always see these cruel and disgusting alien bugs slaughtering the earth’s army on TV, but we don’t understand what the whole movie tells. What is it that makes this movie a "childhood shadow" in the hearts of our generation.
In the past few days, I’ve been idle, I found this movie that occupies an important place in the shadow of my childhood, and finally watched it completely. Only then did I feel that this movie is actually very connotative, and what it wants to express is not only It's just as simple as conveying fear.
The film did not specify the exact time when the story happened, but through the narration of the teacher in the high school classroom, it vaguely conveyed that due to the failure of the democratic system, the world has formed a highly unified military government. Divided into two classes of civilians and citizens, only those who have contributed to the earth government can be eligible to become citizens and enjoy political treatment. The most effective way to become citizens is to join the army.
It was also in this class that several main characters appeared collectively. The first man was a blond and blue-eyed man with a national character face. His parents were big wealthy businessmen in Buenos Aires, but he was unwilling to be in the light of the family. Want to make contributions through military service. Using Zhu Shimao's words in the sketch, "Just this face is a positive person at first glance."
The first female is the girlfriend of the male one. A blond, white, rich and beautiful. Not only is she beautiful, but she also has good academic performance. She is a perfect match with the male one.
Compared with the two tall protagonists, the second man is a thin guy with a both righteous and evil face, who is good at telepathy; while the second woman is a big girl with a cheerful personality and a crush on the man.
Soon after the movie started. Four of them graduated from high school and began their military careers. The female one became a pilot because of his excellent grades, the male two became an intelligence officer because of his telepathic talent, and the male one and female two, who had no special skills, joined the most exhausting, hardest and most dangerous maneuver unit.
Ben Shanzi has a famous saying: First love doesn't know what true love is. The sticky love between the male and female students in their school days quickly fell apart after the two entered the army. The first female had a love affair with his partner, while the broken-hearted male first made a command error in training. He was frustrated and prepared to leave the army and go home to be a rich second generation honestly.
At this moment, a Zerg meteorite hit the earth, hitting Buenos Aires, the male one's hometown, and the entire city disappeared from the earth. After losing his parents and not being a rich second-generation man, he didn't leave with a "wow", turned and joined the mighty forward force, rushing to the Zerg planet. On the way to the front line, the male one met the female one again. Because of the tradition of being looked down upon by the frontline troops, the male one who was an army soldier and the one female and the boyfriend who were an air force officer squatted severely.
But this jealous petty bourgeoisie was quickly diluted by the fierce fighting. These young boys and girls who had left the campus not long ago saw the cruelty and bloody of the war. What they saw was not a single alien bug, but a melee and long range. A three-dimensional combat insect swarm combined with air power, and their leader is an ugly giant insect that feeds on human brains to obtain human intelligence.
In the constant battle, the male one gradually grew into an excellent frontline officer, and developed feelings with the female two who got along with him day and night. After the male one successfully established the "We are finally together" Flag, the female two was in the first place. Sacrificed in the second day of battle.
Not long afterwards, the spacecraft of the female one crashed into the core area of the Zerg planet. The female one’s boyfriend was sucked up by the Zerg leader. The female one who was struggling to escape was rescued by the male one and gave the Zerg leader a portable nuclear bomb. Teach it to be a human, ah, it's not right, teach it to be a worm. In the end, the Zerg leader was captured alive, and the second man who was a master of telepathy (sacred stick) went up and touched it, telling everyone that he was scared, and then happily returned with the man and woman who had killed each other's other half. Go home. (The second female's soul cried to death in the wind)
This film, which cost nearly 100 million yuan, can be regarded as an excellent hard science fiction film today. However, when the film was released in 1997, the film was controversial because people questioned the film’s performance. Promote Nazism and war ideas. Indeed, the large number of scenes and props in the film are particularly reminiscent of the appearance of the army during the Nazi Germany, especially the scene where the Zerg leader was finally captured and the male second appeared. It is a reprint of the Nazi photo.
However, now it seems that director Paul Van Hoven is actually using a form of "fan" to "advanced black". High school teachers without a left arm, officers in the conscription office who have lost their right hands and feet, and relying on their lives on the battlefield to improve their military merits, etc., are all satirizing the absurdity and horror of this complete dictatorship. On the surface, what we see is an extremely efficient and thriving earth collective, but in fact it is an "antitopia" that relies on the promotion of violence and blood to rule. But the director's satire was too high-end, so it was not acceptable to the public at the time.
The most distinctive aspect of the movie "Starship Team" is the bullets flying across the screen. In the world in the film, people have mastered various black technologies such as long-distance space flight and portable nuclear bombs, but they still use conventional firearms with bullets in front-line weapons and equipment. This does not seem to be useful. The problem of science and technology can be explained by a crooked point. In fact, this is the director’s brilliance. The bullet shells flying across the screen can make the human body feel the cruelty of war, and the alien zerg always chopped up the corpses of soldiers, adding to this cruel war. A bloody coat.
In my opinion, this is actually an extremely anti-war movie. The protagonists have just left Qingqing and my high school life, within a few days, ushered in a bloody and cruel battlefield career, watching their companions being penetrated, shredded, and sucked up in front of their own eyes, as if their dreams were all night. It was penetrated in between, and the seemingly handsome military uniform did not bring glory, but nightmare and pain. And when the last battle started, standing in front of the male one who had just graduated from high school for more than a year was a more immature face, and most of these children became cannon fodder afterwards.
In this movie, one detail is very intriguing. That is, although human beings have had friction with the Zerg for a long time, it was not until the meteorite was concentrated on the earth that the human army aggressively attacked the Zerg planet. At the beginning of the film, we learned that the earth's defense forces can destroy the meteorite. So why would the first meteorite hit the earth by surprise, and then the earth would destroy the Zerg meteorite without pressure?
We know that the entire earth society was already ruled by a centralized military government at that time, and centralized politics wanted to survive only by continuously launching external wars to maintain internal notifications. Therefore, behind this incident that provoked a large-scale war between the earth and the Zerg, I am afraid There are still untold secrets. Although there is no clear answer in the movie, these details are worth thinking about, and in real life, such things are not uncommon.
It can be said that "Star Wars" is a good film that has been buried. The meaning it wants to express is not simple and can be analyzed thoroughly. It is helpless to happen in time, and there is no sophisticated setting under the huge expenditure of money. It caused an upsurge, so that the two later sequels became bad films to pay off debts. Today, the "Alien" series have been remakes, and the "Predator" series are also being remakes. I can only hope that one day in the future, this classic work can also reappear on the big screen and derive its own A legendary series.
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