"Superman: Man of Steel" has assembled an excellent creative team. The director Zach Schneider is good at gorgeous special effects, and the soundtrack Hans Zimmer created the hot epic blockbuster music style in the new century. The producer Christopher Nolan worked in unconventional narrative and multi-faceted character creation, and the huge structure of DC comics. The excellent team of Warner Bros. has almost all the available popular and commercial elements.
Although it is hard to match the majestic and heart-wrenching of "Batman's Prequel", this "Superman: Man of Steel" also inherits a bit of the melancholy of the black hero's "floating life experience". Compared with the gag-like humor in recent Marvel hero adaptation movies, it looks more serious and deep.
On the screen, the film uses dark, cold, low-key colors, mostly shakes the lens, and pushes and pulls quickly, which is quite aesthetically interesting in an artistic film.
In terms of the presentation of 3D effects, compared to the recent superhero movies-"Spiderman" or "Iron Man" which was bombarded indiscriminately, "Superman: Man of Iron" reveals more of the primitiveness of the human body. beauty of. It maximizes its speed and power, and uses its bloody sense of movement to use itself as a weapon to confront the loaded guns of the hot weapon era.
Due to its special tone, composition and mirroring, the film gives people the illusion of a news documentary and at the same time reveals an uneasy temperament. The first half of the film asks "who am I", and the second half reflects on "what should I do".
Superman's hesitation has also become one of the two main problems that foreign media criticized and questioned about this film (the other question is that the contradiction between the battle section and the development of the plot is justified). Superman has always been a healthy positive energy transmitter. Why is there such a sudden increase in self-injury, self-pity, and self-pity? The superman in people's mind is positive and upward, not the dark system of suffering and dying until "genocide" and "killing".
The reason why "Superman: Man of Steel" came up with such a subversive image of superman is that the era requires people to pay more attention to the mind through the body, and the characters who have flesh and blood but also have wisdom and insight are more full. The main possibility lies in the definition and orientation of the two words "fear" and "justice". In the context of today's world, it is no longer the same as calling heroes in the 1938 war years.
IMDB's classification of "Superman: Man of Steel" is "action/adventure/fantasy/sci-fi". Apart from other aside, "the basic theme of the Hollywood sci-fi horror movie: the fear of science science once replaces the traditional values and beliefs, society would fall into chaos, because then mankind will lose control of the evil."
This Fear was originally the giant apes smashing the building in early Hollywood. It was a nightmare that the booming economy would be interrupted and destroyed by external forces. Later, "2001 A Space Odyssey" began to question its own existence. Today, perhaps robots have not fired lasers at humans, and external forces have not destroyed us. However, the internal decay has begun to erode outward. The countless spare clones in "The Moon" and the Xingmei Robot Manufacturing Factory in "Cloud Atlas" are fears of loss of personal value and a weak sense of existence that can be replaced at any time. "Humanity loses control of evil" is not evil on the outside, but evil on the inside.
As for Superman, his biggest fear is not not being unable to defeat powerful enemies, but how to successfully establish his prestige and status in the universe and the earth, and in human society. It's very simple. What he needs first is to be recognized and realize personal value on the premise of realizing social value, and this can't just rely on muscular brute force. People today have too much distrust in their hearts, just as the movie expresses "people are afraid of things that are strange and unfamiliar."
People who believed in the messengers of justice in the last century to gain trust and affirm value may ask today: Where did the messengers of justice come from? Why are you here? Just as some people questioned the surrealism of Doraemon, it was too frankly recognized by Nobita's parents. Superman fears people's fears, and the word justice is vague in the face of the fears of these two parties.
What is justice? The justice of one side in "Killing Commandment" is the end of the other side, and the justice in "Old Nowhere" becomes an old and useless lament. If today's justice still remains at the binary opposition of catching thieves and punishing robbers, it would be a simple and innocent idealization. Or the so-called justice in the name of the United Nations is also based on the perspective of interests and safeguarding oneself. In fact, the increasingly complete system in the peaceful era allows young men such as the Earth Police to be enough to settle the small criminals. In this age when things need to be discussed in two ways, it is often necessary to discuss whether the other party is a "bad guy", and it is better to be wise to protect your life if you are rashly just.
The "villain" General Zod and his army in the film are the survivors of the destruction of Krypton and the fire of civilization. Not to mention whether he has the personality charm of a clown or the comedic effect of Rocky, it is difficult to erase the identity of the elders of the same family and the desire to rebuild his home. The root of Superman's final hesitation in a duel was the question of whether his actions were truly "just".
The role of Zod is very similar to the old robot fending off natural enemies in "Transformers 3", and the two movies also have many similarities in the plot structure. Regardless of whether their attempts are restoration or retrogression, their sins have not yet reached the point of being wiped out. From the same perspective of a human being on Earth, Optimus Prime hardly hesitated, but Superman hesitated. Despite the hesitation, he still started, so the audience exclaimed "Superman is annihilated" and "Superman has killed."
Why did Optimus Prime as an Autobot and Superman as a Kryptonian end up destroying their own clan to defend the earth? If it is purely an earth hero fighting an alien enemy, or even Ultraman and a little monster fighting with the earth as a battlefield, it is easy to understand. Carl El, who wants to use his Krypton name here, seems to have become a traitor, a traitor, and a spy. However, due to his ignorance, most of these titles were derived from involuntary factors, and his final status was in fact-immigration.
For the time being, irresponsible, far-fetched, and excessively explanatory attempts to compare: if the earth corresponds to the United States, then Krypton corresponds to a highly civilized and glorious country that was defeated and impoverished afterwards. Viewed in this way, the story is completely an alien text that has been transformed and assimilated. It can be simply translated into:
When an ancient country was in decline, a baby boy was sent to the United States to immigrate. Baby boys grow up to become men, but they are always separated from the natives in the United States. The adoptive father knew that he was a foreign race, and advised him not to stand out and live with peace of mind. Later, the army in exile from the ancient country came to invade the United States. The army in exile was powerful and required the baby boy to come forward and attempt to rebuild the civilization of the ancient country in the United States. After a ideological struggle, the man allied with the American military, fell in love with American journalists, killed the elders of the old country who had committed crimes, obtained a green card in the United States, and became a figure recognized by the American society.
The bizarre technological civilization and even dragon-shaped creatures on Krypton are just like the ancient country on the earth that was once glorious but is now impoverished. The most important thing is the social structure of its dictatorship and the occupational distribution that restricts the people's freedom. The destiny from birth to old age is very similar to the combination of feudalism and Soviet-style socialism.
This is what the earth (the United States) wants to overthrow and improve. Capitalism gives everyone the right to freely choose their careers and supports him in deciding the life he wants within his ability. There are several growth memories in the film, which all reflect the characteristics of the earth (the United States): the tolerance and understanding of the school, the freedom of speech in the bar, the unity and enterprising of the oil well, the dog in the hurricane saving the dog section can be regarded as the symbol of the American family. At the end of the film His childhood silhouette is the epitome of the American dream. Not to mention the problem of English speaking by Kryptonians. Zod uses languages from all over the world when he broadcasts globally. It seems that the United States advertises globalization, but in fact, only English can communicate with him.
Carl Al’s “fear” lies in his alien identity, while “justice” lies in the position of the United States. "What the Hollywood film machine must do is: to balance power and rights. This is also the measure that American politics must grasp. It protects personal rights on the surface and actually promotes power."
So although he hesitated, the foster parents The idea has gone deep into the bones. As a result, he can be indifferent to his biological father and embrace his adoptive mother without asking the biological mother. American education has long allowed this alien to brainwash and transform, and there is only one thing he has to do-change the surname of the hermit, and become a qualified American citizen. Only in this way can he gain social status, realize value, and overcome fear.
After this, it is the topic of justice. A person's justice can only be marked as justice under the aegis of the power machine. Is it justice to destroy the city and kill Zord? These small mistakes, personal grievances, emotions and emotions in the battle for "Truth, Justice and America" (Superman Language) will be wiped out.
After hesitating to choose, then Karl El-Clark Kent, is qualified to become Superman. Of course, he is and only an American superman.
Thinking of the absence of Chinese superhero movies or science fiction films when watching a movie, apart from the old-fashioned system, policy, censorship, technology, and the creator’s own imagination, there may also be "fear" and "justice" shackles.
China has not experienced the scientific revolution or industrial revolution in modern times, and most of them passively accept and process imitations. Therefore, the fear of science is hardly mentioned. The ambiguity of justice has been held in different ways in the various schools of thought. Concepts such as red tape, elder and inferiority, benevolence, justice, etiquette and wisdom have restricted the simple model of opposition between good and evil.
And in time.
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