It is said that the plot of "X-Men: Dark Phoenix" can be summarized as "the blackening of the Phoenix girl".
After watching it, I think that what I like most about this film is not the blackening of Phoenix Nuqin Gray, and I don't even think she has been blackened, because in the previous series, she has been splitting herself. , Uncontrollable characters, but in this episode due to the influence of cosmic energy, the split cannot be controlled to the extreme.
The most refreshing thing about this movie is that Professor X has finally turned black!
This guy with thick eyebrows and big eyes, a suit and leather shoes, and a bald wheelchair finally has a day of blackening. I am very pleased. And the one who dared to scold him and start an uprising turned out to be the one who seemed to be the most loyal on weekdays - the technical director of the X-Men team, the beast.
Because Professor X paranoidly believes that mutants must stand up in times of crisis and save the world in exchange for human respect and tolerance for the survival of mutants. That feeling is like when you eat someone else's food and you have to help wash the dishes, otherwise you will feel guilty.
Professor X's all-encompassing efforts killed Mystique and almost killed Qin.
But humans have never thought of it this way. It never occurred to me that something had to be done in exchange for the right to exist on Earth. To put it bluntly, in the world of "X-Men", humans are always the masters and mutants are the guests. When the host is happy, he can allow the guests to live. If the host is slightly dissatisfied or suspicious, he will immediately order the expulsion of the guests, and even put on a control collar to kill.
This kind of human guts and capriciousness, which appears frequently in every film of the X-Men series, constitutes the biggest fuse of contradictions in the story.
The most important thing is that no matter how many times the X-Men saves the earth and saves human beings, they are not grateful. When the next crisis comes, the first thing the government thinks of is to arrest the mutants.
The so-called glorious cause that Professor X has done is always to seek a peaceful life for the mutants for a while, and it will not last long and will be overturned at any time. His presidential line will be cut off as soon as something goes wrong.
Professor X acquiesced to the "abnormal" attributes of mutants, and tried to make humans feel "normal" through his efforts. He even enjoyed making phone calls with the president, attending the White House dinner, and giving wonderful speeches on stage. This is the mentality of a good student who takes the test, but he never thought about the problem of the test itself.
Becoming one of the "normal people" is his greatest desire and vanity, and it is also the source of all his philosophy of life.
He is the leader of the mutants, and his inferiority leads to the low status of the entire race.
Such a character, if he doesn't take advantage of the 20-year finale, he will be really sorry for the many brothers and sisters who died in the "first battle".
So far, the most important characters in the X-Men series: Professor X, Magneto, Mystique, Qin, and Wolverine have all experienced the process of blackening. No one is always wrong, and no one is always right. Originally, I thought that Professor X would complete the 20-year curtain in the image of Wei Guangzheng, but now it seems that the screenwriters have not let him go.
Why does it have to be blackened to be perfect? Because "no number of loyal and traitors" is the most powerful protagonist character of the X-Men series. This setting makes these mutants more like ourselves, and superpowers can't teach them how to choose Phoenix. For example, Magneto, almost every episode will experience repeated struggles in black and white. It would be too fake if Professor X was only white and not black.
And the most profound implication behind this is that even if human beings have the super power of going to the sky and moving objects through genetic mutation, and become mutants, they are still right and wrong and how to choose this issue. Like ordinary people who have no mutation and are timid, they go back and forth again and again, become suspicious, sometimes they are right, sometimes they are wrong, sometimes they are loyal, and sometimes they are traitors.
To give an inappropriate analogy, it seems that evolution has made mutants IQ explode, but emotional intelligence is still not high.
From this point of view, the sentence Mutant and proud seems to be a question mark. Since it has evolved, it is still "loyal and traitorous", so what else can mutants be proud of?
I think that's probably why "X-Men's 20th Anniversary" has Jean as the protagonist. Because she is the most vivid embodiment of the two sides of mutant gene mutation: she is the most powerful, but also the most difficult to control.
Mutation brings evolutionary surprises, but it is also full of unknown surprises.
"Dark Phoenix" used an entire movie to slap Professor X in the face: what Qin needs is a family and a sense of security in order to control herself and burst out the power for good, instead of deceiving her and blinding the truth of her life experience. His expedients are not always right.
Although it is far-fetched to explain Qin's instant loss of control with the stimulation of life experience, and although Professor X never apologized, the film logically reflects on Professor X's values: as a mutant with genetic mutation, this matter itself It is already very proud, at least not worth shame and hiding. Blindly pursuing Qin's personality stability, only using her abilities, but suppressing her instincts, aggravating her split, will only lead to more terrifying consequences.
As for whether evolution is good or bad, it depends on the environment, the heart, the stimulation, etc., but that has nothing to do with pride.
Just like being gay is something to be proud of, you don't have to be a successful gay person to be proud. Professor X is more like a "tiger mother", who unscrupulously forces the children to "grow up", applauding their success, but never applauding their unique existence.
Magneto's heart was twisted, Professor X made a name for himself, Wolverine hurt himself in pain, and only after seeing this one did he realize that only women are always right. Mutant and proud, although this sentence came from Professor X's mouth, the person who finally believed and practiced this sentence was the Mystique who was the least confident in himself at first. Right or wrong, I'm a mutant and I'm proud.
Tanya Cai sings: I read the theory of evolution, I believe in Darwin, and evolve into a better person.
Whether it is good or not is the evaluation of others. What is proud is not necessarily better, but at least it is still evolving.
Therefore, this X-Men is revisionist, correcting the one-sided positive image and "political correctness" of Professor X in the previous series. And released Phoenix's "true self": a "disappointed" mutant, a dangerous but charming mutant.
In addition to the major revision of the mutants' view of history, the biggest attraction of this film is the special effects. "Dark Phoenix" must see the IMAX theater version. Because it can be seen from the language of the lens, the visual effect is one of the starting points and cool points of the film, and a large number of scenes with strong visual and auditory shock are arranged.
For example, the opening car crash with broken glass matrix, spaceship launch and solar flare eruption, multiple helicopter battles with superpowers, the X-Men split three-way melee on the streets of New York, and the final train battle.
Action and special effects have always been one of the selling points of the X-Men series, and it can be seen that the creators try to incorporate the latest technology and popular elements in each film to set up action and special effects scenes. There have been sci-fi movies, disaster movies, magic movies, and action movies, and the final battle design of this "Fire Train" is more like the height of the first four. fusion.
Due to everyone's super power settings, it feels like a lot of the special effects money in the past few movies has gone to Magneto, because he will move the Golden Gate Bridge, the entire football field, and hundreds of missiles. Cyclops and Storm are just different colors of the light.
This time, the final battle takes place in a moving train car, where every X-Men's superpowers are displayed in a narrow space (it's a shame to lack Wolverine and Quicksilver), as well as X-Men, aliens, humans The three-way melee, but also the ultimate expression of Qin's power of "fire burning all things", especially in the progressive rhythm soundtrack of Hans Zimmer's "cosmic melancholy temperament" , Qin twists several carriages like a soda can Transformed, dragged off the rails, and burned in one of the best endgames in the entire series.
In front of the giant IMAX screen, I do have a sense of shock from watching the battle at close range. Listening to the soundtrack of Hans Zimmer, the sound effects of the helicopter propeller rotating, the high-speed train rubbing the rails, and the machine gun shooting, you will feel that the entire universe is screaming, This is a great war leading to destruction.
The fly in the ointment is that on the giant screen of IMAX, Goddess Sansa's figure looks very Armstrong, and she even saw a double chin in the sleeping scene! She is a little bird! Is the food of the "Game of Thrones" crew too good?
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