"Super Body": a brainstorm of nonsense

Arjun 2021-10-13 13:06:42

The outdated French director Luc Besson seems to want to replicate the film model of "The Fifth Element" and regain his career success. Although there are goddess Scarlett Johansson and old drama bone Morgan Freeman, but the crappy science fiction content The production level of following the trend of superhero movies is different from the commercial production of superheroes in terms of quality and form. This also makes the movie a test of the next three worst in terms of temperament and quality. Talking about superpowers on the issue of brain utilization seems to be a very new sci-fi thing, but the random thoughts that make up the brain really damage the sci-fi nature of the movie itself, which reminds us. Another similar sci-fi blockbuster "Transcendental Hacker" this year is also a brainstorming, but the latter is based on realism and grafted to the Internet, making the content of sci-fi more substantive and convincing, thus extending sci-fi The content's dominant influence on the movie itself. We do not reject the movie’s good ideas for exploring new sci-fi content. It’s just that things like flying through time and space are too far away. Humans can follow the instructions of the brain to change their bodies at will. This so-called super mutant human body It is impossible to think about Transformers. The film is different from the comic ideology of the "X-Men" series. The innovative sci-fi content is essentially not supported by credible theoretical basis, so it breaks away from social reality and becomes a kind of delusion.

We can feel the director’s creative frenzy in the film. The film is no longer able to combine an orderly film plot. Randomly insert some absurd ideas in it. It simply does not fit the audience’s ability to understand and accept, and we cannot follow. The meaning that the director wants to express, that kind of jump-like structure is even more raw and difficult to understand than the "Fifth Element". The movie itself is a very simple story, but the director deliberately complicates and demonizes the event. The content of the movie itself has not constructed a reasonable and clear outline of the story. The whole storyline is in a disordered state, happening for no reason, changing for no reason, and an ending that makes people confused. . Although we can't stop the film's interpretation of this kind of brainstorming, it's just that the film itself has been separated from the basic content of building a complete component, which makes the film very absurd, very obtrusive, very alternative, and very rubbish. For Scarlett Johansson’s performance, it is also a very disappointing place. Her performance in the movie is entirely a continuation of the form of the Black Widow. The panic and timid struggling scene did not highlight the desperate atmosphere. It was her. The perseverance in the eyes turned her from a weak to a strong in the movie. This change in perception is undoubtedly a devastating blow to the interpretation of the film. Once the film has a qualitative change in the positioning of the role type, the film’s The content expressed and the thoughts are undoubtedly different. The director seems to have seen this happen, and deliberately used some auxiliary lenses to bring out the situation of the character, which not only adds to the funny atmosphere of the movie, but also gives the atmosphere that the movie wants to express. A kind of extension, the director is still quite clever at this point. However, the director of Morgan Freeman's film is not so clever. It is completely reduced to a dispensable supporting role. It hardly shows the importance of the role to the film. It is a super power. With the appearance of footnote characters, this arrangement is simply a waste of the use of the golden supporting role of Uncle Morgan Freeman, making the movie completely a one-man performance by Scarlett Johansson.

As a human organ, the brain mainly controls the behavior and activities of the human body, and has little effect or connection with things outside the human body. For the superpower thoughts described in the movie, it is completely obsessed with the expansion of brain functions. No matter how developed the brain is, it can only be related to the functions of the human body. As for taking things from the space outside the human body, the control of consciousness is a fantasy. . Even with superpowers, it is impossible to know everything instantly. It is just that the time for learning and understanding is shortened. As for the sound waves and information that control nerve sensing, it is even less likely that the eyes can feel it, even if the brain can. When it develops to a corresponding level, other parts of the body must be configured accordingly. It's just that the human body functions to change this situation, which doesn't even have a spectrum.

I can't understand the thoughts and meanings of Luc Besson's works more and more, and I can't understand how he makes movies. Regardless of the level and production of the film, there is a situation of not advancing and retreating. Not only does it lack the previous persistence and affirmation of the exploration of film thoughts, but also does not concentrate on the content of the film. It just blindly pursues the previous success and gives up. That thought and research on the movie is really a pity. From the point of view of the production model of the movie, it is completely overdrafting Scarlett Johansson’s personal charm. Not only does she copy her image in superhero movies, but even the movie format deliberately imitates and copies. For this purely commercial desire to obtain Success, there is really no intention at all.

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Lucy quotes

  • Lucy: [Seated on the jet about to land in Paris, toasting herself with a glass of champagne and before she begins to disintegrate] To knowledge.

  • Pierre Del Rio: [During the high-speed car ride through Paris with Lucy driving] I'd rather be late than dead.

    Lucy: We never really die.