One, creativity. Although the actor's performance, story fluency, and soundtrack are all in place, as a science fiction film, the core concept is really not good for science fiction fans who have seen many time and space travel themes. Going back to the past and changing certain key events created another so-called "new world", which, to put it bluntly, is the long-used parallel cosmology.
Of course, the science fiction ideas about time have been exhausted, and it is really difficult to come up with any particularly novel ideas. However, the similar theme of "People without a Surname" can make it look more novel-it is not the novelty of the idea itself, but the director through the real and magical lens and the complicated narrative method, the several different life The routes are interspersed together, immediately making the time-travel tricks that have been overly vulgar, three-dimensional, and fuller and more tortuous. This is the structural problem to be discussed next.
Second, the structure. The main plot of the whole film of "Source Code" is the different choices made by the protagonist in the same 8 minutes. In my opinion, "The Moon" is actually a similar narrative framework, but the focus of the story in "The Moon" is basically only on two people and a machine, although many clones have similar fate in the film. It’s been staged many times in the worldview, but it was in the background and was not put on stage. In this way, only the focus of the whole film is focused on a specific character experience, and the plot and character image can be shaped more in place and in-depth. Some people would say that the main premise of the "Source Code" story is to find variables and solve the crisis within 8 minutes. This is true, but it is precisely because of this already limited and difficult to change premise that the whole film looks a little bloated and not refined enough. Although there are many different 8 minutes each time, none of them is particularly in-depth and detailed.
Three, emotions. In my opinion, great movies often fall into these two situations: all the details are only to support the only one or a few undoubtedly the highest themes; the countless details reflect countless possibilities, making the film a An extremely intriguing subject that can be interpreted in countless ways. The former can refer to "At the End of the Day" and "Shawshank's Redemption", the latter can refer to "The Matrix", "Three Idiots" and so on.
The reason why "Moon" is higher than "Source Code" in the handling of character emotions is that there are many details and many different angles that can reflect the struggle of human nature, the pain of the characters and the emotional bond. For example, the protagonist’s hallucinations, video calls, the machine’s simple but sincere expressions, the interaction of two clones... And in "Source Code", what are the key details to interpret the characters’ emotions?
The entanglement of the female police officer can be ignored. In the end, her role is to perfect the male protagonist, and the film did not give enough role motivation to make the audience feel that the female police officer made such a decision is very important and very struggling.
The remaining entry points are actually two: the male protagonist falls in love with the woman on the train, and the male protagonist is bound to his father. The handling of the former is really lackluster, just because the actor happened to be transferred to the man opposite the woman, and the woman looks good, and she can’t help thinking that the actor who is dying should consider and choose carefully, so she seized the opportunity. Fell in love? Are there more details and better reasons? no. Such a hurried and casual love is not much different from those who go to a nightclub drunk and find a situation, to some extent.
The latter is even more...very vulgar, very vulgar, that is, he didn’t get along with his father before he was alive. After he died, he called his father to confess, express apology, and then feel each other...not to mention the lack of sufficient grounding. Let this common bridge segment show a strong appeal. Finally, Hashimoto, who called his father through the mouth of others, should have been a flashpoint, but because he didn't do enough work before, he couldn't explode much power...
In addition, there were also some imperfections in the plot. For example, I don't always give enough information to the male protagonist. I think it's really tangled. Anyway, if something is not clear, he won’t be able to carry out the task with peace of mind. This is basic human nature, but the plot of the film is set so that every time the male protagonist dies, he turns his head and makes noisy tempers, and the talents outside milk milk. Just give some hints. Isn’t it okay to say something clearly at the beginning? Of course, things like "you are dead" can't be accepted from the beginning, but for questions like "where am I", "what's going on with this technology" and so on, you can explain to him clearly how difficult it is. Ah? Even making up a lie that sounds reasonable can give him a lot of peace of mind and perform tasks more efficiently.
There are a lot of bad things, let’s just say good... actor, the actor is really good, needless to say Uncle Jack, so many people will be crazy and fascinated as long as they look at his static face, and of course the acting is also It's worthy of recognition. The two heroines also performed features. It was the man on crutches who thought he was acting as if he was sleepwalking...the feeling that he didn't enter the scene until the end.
Generally speaking, this film is still worth watching. The plot is compact and smooth, and it can catch the audience for a long time of one and a half hours. But it still means that, in many respects, the processing of this film is much inferior to the director's predecessor, "The Moon."
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