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"Children of Men": dead end in the hope □ text / Vulcan Ji give us the slightest bit of starlight when we despair; we will stubbornly believe that it is a whole sun. Later, my physics teacher told me that every point of starlight is really a sun. ——Vulcan Ji. Inscription.
With a rich image style, "Son of Man" is enough to make you engrossed. If one day, human reproduction ceases, then what will this world be like? Based on this assumption and a sad tone, this movie kicked off. The last child born became the person most concerned about by the public, and became the most dazzling star; for the public, that was the last hope and the heaviest expectation, because he refused to sign his own Fans. The crazy admirer who couldn't control himself was assassinated to death, which plunged the whole world into heavier despair. Such a beginning made this movie permeated in a kind of crazy despair from beginning to end. All people will die. When mankind ceases production, no matter how brilliant the civilization and history that mankind has created, it will only be a hundred years away. With the death of the last human being, everything will die together. As a result, the earth will enter another long prehistoric era. In my imaginary, we will use various methods to preserve the civilizations we once had as much as possible, until another species has undergone a long evolution. At that time, if they discover our ruins, our civilization will be deciphered by them, and we will become their prehistoric civilization or gods and gods, or someday when extraterrestrial creatures pass by the earth After discovering the traces of our lives, we became their extraterrestrial prehistoric civilization or a typical negative teaching material for the doomsday and a reference sample for improving their own life patterns. Fortunately, this movie is not as desperate as I am, at least it leaves us with a good hope. Pessimistic science fiction movies seem to account for a relatively high proportion of the entire science fiction movie, and this movie is a very typical pessimistic science fiction movie. This is a manifestation of mankind’s concerns about the future and lack of self-confidence. In addition to the current general trend of only seeking development without considering the consequences, the more and more prosperous modern development is based on more and more serious environmental damage and increasing The more unplanned the exploitation of non-renewable limited resources. The future in the eyes of the optimists is that people can always solve all problems, and human beings have enough wisdom to change everything that should be changed by us, so tomorrow is very beautiful. What the pessimist sees is an earth that is about to be dilapidated and surviving. With the destruction and pollution of the environment, the development of mankind has become a self-destructive behavior that is as powerless as a snowball to stop and cannot be reversed. One day, will the earth become no longer suitable for human existence because of human beings itself? At that time, where will we go. Such reflections will be more reflected in the science fiction movies we have seen. Regardless of whether the optimist or the pessimist view is closer to reality, it is always better to look at the future with an optimistic desire. What science fiction movies do is to make appropriate fantasy based on the existing scientific theories and project our hopes and worries. So this determines that there is no such kind of completely desperate movie, no matter how heavy human worries, it will eventually leave itself a back door. This movie is no exception. After the youngest life passed away, another young life took over his mission, and the younger life was born, taking over the hope of the entire mankind. After poor mountains and bad waters, there will always be a happy side and a more holy side. The Chinese always say: Liu Yinhua is another village. After all, there is no permanent night, nor will there be thick dark clouds that will cover the sky forever. How to find a way to a bright future, in science fiction movies, the final redemption has become the common theme of optimists and pessimists. Whether it is worry, hope, or despair, no matter what kind of ending is in the end, such a movie has foreseen it for us, and therefore, we will reflect on everything we have seen. Suffering from gains and losses, we are always experiencing hope and despair. Therefore, science fiction movies like this, whether they are optimistic or pessimistic, are more realistic and positive than movies of other themes. Rather than worrying all day long, it is better to take advantage of the present to change our behavior patterns and avoid everything that pessimism foresees and head towards the better direction that optimism has designated for us. The assumptions in this movie are not impossible to come true. It is not easy to predict what the final outcome of air pollution and environmental changes will be. And what kind of impact will the overall change of the earth bring to our human body, and what kind of inducement will it be in the evolution or degradation of human beings? This movie walks on a path of pessimism, showing us a terrifying and devastated scene. Madness, riots, war, expulsion, isolation, poverty, decadence... However, the movie also flashes a kind of humanity. When the baby was born and walked down the dirty and narrow corridor, everyone became quiet and peaceful. There is only a handful of crisp babies crying in the whole world. For them, such a sound is too strange and familiar, too sweet and too eager, so fragile but so firm. I always imagined what kind of voice can be described as "like the sky". In this scene, I suddenly understood. The filth, ugliness, madness, and desires that have been extravagant before are just for the flash of this holy moment. People were crying, worshiping, and stretched out their hands eager to touch this baby who will carry the hope of the entire mankind. The soldiers who fought forgot their guns and the tasks they were given, the brutal rioters also forgot the desire to kill, the impoverished people forgot the lives of hunger and despair; no matter who it was, following the baby's cry, people were all Seeing the most beautiful hope, they will unconsciously give this newly born baby a path to a bright future. This is perhaps the most touching scene in this movie. Full of human brilliance and loving compassion. At least at that time, we may be just like them. This is a kind of tacit understanding that mankind depends on for survival and development. The goal is that all people will do the same thing. I don’t know if that boat leads to a bigger Noah’s Ark full of hope, and more importantly, this Kind of flickering light. It is precisely because of this light that we have walked all the way through the tribulation to the present, through all the haze and gloom. All kinds of people with ghosts in their hearts, as well as brave men who work hard to death for the entire human race, all the hope of all: inheritance, reproduction, and life. Without all this, we will have nothing. The hope in the end is more than just hope. More often, that becomes everything we have. It's not just us, it's all the inheritance of the entire human race. 2007-04-29; Jiachen month and Guisi day of Dinghai year.
Note: The movie data extension link. ■Title: "Children of Men" ■Translation: "Son of Man" ■Director: Alfonso Cuarón ■Starring: Michael Caine, Clive Owen , Julianne Moore ■Genre: Thriller, Story, Sci-Fi, Adventure ■Length: 114 minutes ■Country: United States, United Kingdom ■Language: English, Spanish ■Release: Universal Pictures ■Released: October 2006 18th
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