To be honest, et is one of the few movies that makes me want to cry a little bit. Someone laughed. It is indeed the case. Braveheart is what I read with a peaceful heart, but I was not moved; even the Shawshank Redemption, which was firmly in the top 1 in my mind, reached a level that once made me think it was not. Excited but excited, it didn't make me teary-eyed either. et, there is no inspirational element, but it makes me have a pure heart, the childlike innocence that once divided the good and the bad into black and white.
There's another movie that's enough to make me cry. Perhaps not many people have heard of the black hole frequency in the science fiction film, which is called frequency in English. The plot is probably due to the effect of the Northern Lights that caused the same radio in different eras to contact, and the father in the 1970s and the son in the current era are at opposite ends. Through this radio, the son prevented his father's catastrophe and finally changed history and reunited father and son. When the protagonist hears the man on the other end of the radio calling his family chief, that nickname is what his father, a firefighter, used to call him. Then the protagonist realizes that on the other side is his father, who is now dead. Then the protagonist was in tears and choked up when he spoke, and I was also in tears.
What moved me the most seemed to be some commonplace meals and human feelings: separation of friends, death of relatives, reunion after a long absence, and people who die but never come back to life. That's it.
Said far, back to irongiant. The story takes place in Maine, USA in 1957 during the Cold War. The iron giant who fell on the earth and lost his memory was discovered by Hogarth, a child who likes sci-fi. After trying to communicate with this huge steel robot, hogarth established a friendship with him and discovered that this huge metal monster actually has feelings, thoughts, and is very simple. Government Commissioner Mansley discovered the Iron Giant and tracked and spied on the children, while alarming before Congress and the military that the Iron Giant was a secret weapon of an enemy nation. Worrying rumors are growing, the situation is very dangerous, and Rockwell is panicking. The iron giant also exposed serious danger. Although he would not take the initiative to hurt people, he would recognize the attack behavior and automatically carry out a very destructive counterattack, and even almost killed Hogarth by mistake. Finally, under Mansley's provocation, the army was dispatched, provoking the iron giant's self-defense counterattack. Mansley sets off the nuclear bomb regardless of the lives of the town's residents. In order to save the town, the iron giant finally chose to divert the nuclear bomb and sacrifice himself. There will always be times when you can actually find your friend, even if sometimes it's just metal.
In addition, the depiction of the special period in the film, although exaggerated, faithfully reflects the reality. From the Soviet satellite image at the beginning, to the front page of the newspaper, to the educational film about dodging missiles in the school, and the portrayal of the right-wing government personnel Mansley and the living conditions of the town residents also highlighted the obvious characteristics of the times. This is the time when even moths can be regarded as enemy spies, and octopuses can be regarded as Martian creatures.
In this era, old sci-fi is booming like never before, as reflected in the references to Superman and atomo comics, clips from sci-fi movies, and all kinds of suspicions of unidentified objects among the townspeople. It is not difficult to find that the image setting of the iron giant also completely follows the robot image of the old sci-fi in the middle and late last century, which reminds me of the tin astronauts and robot toys in the moon landing era. And now the imagination continues to develop with technology, whether it is Terminator or Star Wars (except for Veda's retro button-covered shape), or the robot ns5 in the middle of i,robot It is difficult to see the similarities with the old sci-fi era. Today, when plastic toys are popular, we see more machine toys with more unique shapes.
According to online information, Warner Bros. did not like the film, but chose to show it in small theaters, and did little to promote it. As a result, this failed self-assessment led to criticism from many viewers of the company's promotional strategy. In the history of American animation, there has never been a movie so criticized because of poor publicity rather than gaudy glamour...and in many review articles, the film is listed as one of the highest rated Warner Bros. animations.
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