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The little magic flower is not only a commodity, but also a little joe, a projection of family members. This makes the film’s duality determined from the beginning of the movie. In terms of genre, it is a science fiction movie. It can be said that the subject is not completely satisfactory, especially in the details of the plot, there are many logical flaws, and the fantasy part is even more thin. This is the part of its negligence. However, when we turn to look at it, As a rewrite of Tianwai Demon Flower, it also has its merits.
When I first saw the translation of Little Magic Flower, of course, I first thought of the famous invasion of The Body Snatchers in the history of sci-fi movies. There are many versions of this movie, but it is about alien plants coming to the earth through various infiltrations. Method to implement its expansion. Therefore, a comparison of "Little Demon Flower" is of course very similar to a certain contemporary revision of Tianwai Dehua, except that it has taken the "future is now" style, and changed Tianwai Dehua to a product of contemporary human basic reform, which was born in a similar way. Monsanto’s large corporate laboratory, and the heroine is Xiao Mohua’s "mother", but she gradually feels uneasy about the product she is proud of, because she finds that this product/son she is proud of seems to change the people around her, even Changing her own son, Joe, made her feel that his precious son was turned into something different.
The so-called "alien" is no longer a symbol of the invasion of some external communist forces, but a symbol of alienation that grows within capitalism. This is how the little magic flower makes a reverse contrast with the past. , Which reveals why capitalism is so strong, because it is in accordance with human nature, and the inhumanity becomes a necessary evil in the system after a little measurement, such as the company’s first association with its own dog The neurotic veteran colleague who came to the poison of the little magic flower predicted everything as a mad prophet. She declared the struggle against alienation.
"This is not my dog! This is not my dog!"
Then she took her dog to euthanasia. As an opponent, she also has her own necessary evils.
In other words, this film touched on the less touched aspect of general commercial science fiction movies, that is, if alienation is real, but it is in a direction that is good for others but not good for us, we have to accept the alienated " Does he" and respect "him"? This issue was gradually fermented after the hostess discovered the gradual change of her son Qiao, so she had to take the position of that neurotic veteran colleague and take this issue seriously, including examining the gradual change of her admiring male colleague.
At the beginning, I mentioned some of the flaws of the film. For example, as an unreleased prototype of high economic value, the small magic flower is so easy to be stolen, and the laboratory only needs an id card to enter, and the building is on the first floor. The absence of guards on 24-hour shifts makes this so easy. These things are impossible to think about. Perhaps it is also the film director who did not want us to think about.
As far as the atmosphere is concerned, the film is not bad, especially compared to the spectacle and scary routines (of course, the film still has jump scares), because of the low cost, the background music must have color and sound effects in this film. The above allows the audience to feel a weird atmosphere. The use of some oriental music may add some mystery to the ears of Westerners. The high-frequency sound effects almost detonate the eardrums of the audience, and the sound effects when the little magic flower blooms. It also makes people feel uncomfortable. Even though it is such a "monster" that is passive rather than aggressive, it is because the film lacks a high-kinetic plot that makes the audience more sensitive to such small sounds. You can compare it with earlier Compared with Universal's "Invisible Man", the two films are also low-cost movies, so they all adopted a lower limit method to shoot, using the relativity of the audience's senses to save resources, so the "fiction" of this film is not a kind of Derogation, but praise.
Don't you know what is spreading, it's the little magic flower virus that is infecting everyone? Or is it the hysteria of old employees? Or is it the heroine's own guilt? The film deliberately does not talk about breaking but makes everything more anxious, because it is no longer an other that can be drawn and then broken. For example, as a symbol of communism or socialism, it is possible to interpret the little magic flower from the symbol of capitalism. It's just my wishful thinking.
Just like the method of going to the empty background that often appears in movies, the whole film is oscillated between "thinking too much" and "incurable". The little magic flower changes people, but is this a bad thing? Like computers, internet, mobile phones...have changed modern life, we can only ask ourselves in the end, and when we don’t like it, we can only accept that we have become a minority, and there will no longer be any established answers, nor will there be any changes. Possibly, as the heroine went from being alone and helpless to accepting everything.
If we judge good or bad from a science fiction film like "against alien forces", the film will definitely be mocked for lack of IQ, but on the other hand, it also tells the truth of contemporary people's mind. , That is, capitalism has changed everything, and we should not remember those changed things, including our family, everyone has their own life, their own choices, your past unchanged may be an unbearable hell for others.
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