Very strong British humor, grotesque worldview, and various disharmony that are far from the world and history we know well, it is indeed a nearly perfect combination. The structure is compact, the rhythm is brisk and the ups and downs are not lost. What is more commendable is Tasting carefully, you will find more and more that the richness of the connotation expressed in the film will bring constant surprises.
From a cultural perspective, what is more suitable for expressing the image of British culture in people's imagination than the background style of the 19th century? This is the cleverness of the screenwriter (or the author), integrating everything into this most appropriate cultural background. Of course, the film is also interspersed with familiar elements from various European myths and legends: such as werewolves, batmen, mud golems, etc. Who ever said such a sentence: the more national, the more global. After watching the film, I suddenly understood the true meaning of this sentence: It is because of its nationality that it highlights the integrity of the entire worldview. Imagine that if you add elements of Eastern culture, such as a flying dragon in the sky; or simply a bamboo forest and peaceful lake; or the appearance of an angel from the same European culture, it will make the original world appear abrupt, because it will feel -The taste has changed.
From the perspective of science fiction, although there are not many so-called "hard science fiction" fantasy based on current scientific theories, but in my opinion, it is more science fiction than any science fiction. Because he created an independent worldview: all this is a story that happened in a place called the butterfly world. I think people familiar with history will surely smile when they see the butterfly-shaped continent carried by the giant tortoise in the movie, because this is actually one of the romantic and scientific illusions that people had about the world they lived in before the theory that the earth was spherical proved. He is said to be scientific because science is nothing more than a theory that explains the world we observe. Therefore, the audience will not think that making a werewolf is obtrusive or that making a vampire becomes vulgar and uncreative. Instead, they think that maybe this thing exists in that world.
However, who can think of such a bunch of weird elements combined to express, it is a story of competition between modern and traditional enterprises. In this story, there are all kinds of modern enterprise competition methods you can imagine, including advertising warfare, technological innovation, information warfare, news warfare, and even involving commercial espionage, underworld methods, and even belief. Of course, there is also the tortuous love that is indispensable in almost all movies. At a deeper level, the film discusses the conflict between corporate profitability and morality and traditional values. When the negative boss came up with various theories, I couldn’t help but secretly admire its thorough image of profit-seeking. It was even more because of its thorough disregard for morality but the simplest language to explain its way of employing people and its way of advertising. Attracted; when the protagonist, the originally thorough commercial liar, reflects on the social consequences of his original behavior in the second chance of his life, my thoughts are also quietly led to think about whether human beings are also hidden behind the desperate business competition In the darkness; after the heroine’s Ruoyouruwu kiss came the sentence: "Sometimes, surface mail is more effective than express delivery", do you have the same throbbing in your heart that you were expecting a letter from your lover, like me? Are you unconsciously thinking about whether some primitive beauty is missing behind the convenience brought by technological innovation?
To make some concluding remarks: The film is a rare literary, social and ideological film that I have seen.
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