Desperate Kubrick + Desperate Spielberg

Zackary 2022-03-17 09:01:02

I'm a huge Kubrick fan. Shamelessly to paraphrase Dickens: This is the best movie, this is the worst movie. Then I have to add narration comments even more shamelessly. This is the depth, understand? depth!

This is the unfinished work of the old man. It is said that the idea of ​​the script has been completed a long time ago, but the technical indicators of the year were not too strong and could not be adapted to the silver screen. In the end, it was completed by Spielberg, which was regarded as a sacrifice to the spirit of Lao Ku in the sky.

To say it, similar stories have been told long ago, nothing more than discussing the symbiosis and coexistence, dependence and repulsion of humans and machines. It's just that Kubrick's story is always icy cold, despairing to madness. I firmly believe that Lao Ku is a pure misogynist. In his hands, there has never been a perfect ending, and there has never been any tenderness. He just quietly amplified, amplified, and amplified the cruelty of this world and human nature.

But after all, this movie was completed by Spielberg, so it inevitably fell into Spielberg's warm cliché, especially the much-maligned ending, which is really too unlike the story of the old library.

One of my favorite scenes is when my mother drove the little robot to the junkyard and abandoned it. The high-tech car silently galloped on the smooth road, and the mottled tree shadows quickly slid past the shiny car body, and the perspective was slow. The swirl of the whole picture is cold, as if Spielberg is paying tribute to the old library.

Jude Law's conscientious performance in the film can be compared with Haley, who is like a play demon, and at most it is just a set prop that performs well. Haley, this little devil is too good, he was born for performance. It is no exaggeration to say that in my mind, he is even better than Xiulan Temple. At the end of the film's vulgar Hollywood-style warmth, Haley's performance is so immersive that I burst into tears.

This is a science fiction film, this is Kubrick's speculative essay on human beings who exists like a god, and then it is expressed in a hypocritical Spielberg style, but this hypocriticalness is still just right.

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Extended Reading
  • Jane 2021-10-20 19:02:29

    Every time I watch such a film, I feel even more desperate for mankind. Despicable, stupid, selfish, cowardly, cruel, it is the ugliest creature in the universe. Don't blame Salinger for saying: The more people I know, the more I like dogs.

  • Koby 2022-03-25 09:01:05

    For a person, I have searched for my own life; for a person, I have waited for two thousand years; I have used my life to find, and I have used my life to wait for two thousand years. In exchange, it is only an encounter, just a day of getting along. But, this The side is enough. Two thousand years are nothing, and a lifetime is nothing. As long as it is worth it, you will not regret your choices and efforts.

A.I. Artificial Intelligence quotes

  • [David talks to the lightly dazed Monica after her resurrection]

    Monica: I must be confused. What day is it?

    David: [David smiles] It is... today.

  • [David draws the bird from his first memory for Martin]

    Martin Swinton: That looks like a peacock. Can you say peacock?

    David: Peacock.

    Martin Swinton: Can you say 'Pee'?

    David: Pee.

    Martin Swinton: Now say that two times fast.