In the first seventy minutes, I thought it was just a soft science fiction passing grade. It was not until the baby was born that I realized that it was a modern version of the nativity story. The script directly assumes the background as the barren stage at the end of civilization: human beings have lost their fertility, the last generation of life on earth is faced with an inescapable figurative nihility, and art, order, and health have lost their meaning.
The movie directly points to one of the most profound questions-when humans are pursuing the meaning of individual existence, they will never be able to avoid the deeper troubles: where should the meaning of the world fall. When the refugee gave birth to the only baby in the world, those who had lost all their faith regarded protecting her as the sustenance of all their existence. Only if this baby survives, human civilization has the possibility of continuation, and only civilization Without interruption, every individual and every thing in history can be proved to be "true".
Here comes another complicated issue: the spirit of race reproduction and continuation rooted in various biological instincts and the worship of blood and ancestors in human civilization actually covers an extremely deep mechanism under the rough surface, and this mechanism is very likely. It points to the ethereal divinity. The fragility of human beings also lies in the fact that after the birth of the baby, the fundamental question has not yet been answered, but has been replaced and postponed, and the fundamental pain has continued.
ps. The film’s industrial level and plot logic have dragged its feet, but Zizek once gave a very high evaluation of "Son of Humanity" from a sociological standpoint. Some of his views, such as the infertility in the film In fact, pointing to "completely lost meaningful historical experience" is very meaningful. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UVa-QpbL0v4
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