The original English title of the film was "The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy". The word Hitchhiker was a bit rusty to me, and I looked it up in the dictionary and it turned out to be "hitchhiker". The Chinese name "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" does not express the meaning of this free-rider, so it seems too formal. In fact, this guide is for backpackers with empty wallets, maybe a bit LP. (LP=Lonely Planet)
The hero Athur in the movie is an Earthman who roams the Milky Way with an alien partner who is the author of the "Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy".
So why did this Athur go hitchhiking around the galaxy? The film explains this at the very beginning.
Athur woke up one morning to find a team of construction crews approaching his home to tear it down because the expected highway was passing right through it. He was surprised, why he didn't know. In fact, this proposal was formulated three months ago, and there has been no objection for three months, so there should be no objection, so it is necessary to demolish his home to repair the highway.
At the same time, a fleet of aliens also surrounded the earth, ready to blow up the earth. Because 50 years ago, the proposed galactic highway would pass through Earth. There has been no objection for 50 years, so there should be no objection, so we have to blow up the earth to build the galactic highway.
As a result, the Earth was blown up before Athur's home was demolished. However, compared with other people on earth, this earth person who was about to lose his home was very lucky. He has an alien friend who has written a book called Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, and is a galactic know-it-all. So Mr. Know-It-All, took the last purebred Earthling and started roaming the galaxy.
This novel is simply wonderful.
In fact, blowing up the Earth caused a lot of trouble for the galaxy. But I can't go on about it, that would be a "spoiler".
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy is full of this quirky, but ironic, plot.
For example, one of the passages talks about religion. No one knows how the Milky Way came into being, but many believe that the Milky Way is the phlegm that the green-haired monster sneezed out of. One day, the green-haired monster will have a bandanna to wipe the phlegm away. So the galaxy will return to its creator, the green monster.
The protagonists witnessed such a religious gathering. The leader stood behind the altar, leading a large group of lifeforms of various clans to reach out to the sky, praying for the bandanna to come soon.
Later, the protagonists met the leader in the background, only to find that the leader was a very strange thing. He only had his upper body exposed outside the altar, with a bunch of mechanical feet underneath. His eyes are directly displayed on the glasses, and after taking off the glasses, there are deep black holes behind.
People like me who are disgusted with any religion will of course laugh when they see such a scene.
And similar jokes abound in this film.
In addition to these, the film also describes people's loneliness very delicately, and the love that resolves loneliness. In those passages, she no longer had a smiley face, but a look of deep affection, which made me sigh softly.
I love this movie. Of course I admit that this is mainly due to the original novel.
The heroine of the movie is played by Zooey Deschanel. I think she is very beautiful in this movie. Checked MSDN and found that she has not acted in any major movies other than this "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy". The only character I have an impression of is the hero's sister in "Almost Famous". There are only a few scenes of her in the movie, but she is also very beautiful.
IMDB score of 6.7 (28,498 votes), I give it an 8. (I admit that I gave this a high score, no way, I like this story too much.)
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