1 As a new type of film, space movies have been published frequently in recent years. Popular blockbusters include "Interstellar", "The Martian", "Gravity", earlier "Moon", and "Alien" combined with biochemical horror. "Star Awakening", "Space Traveler" in the love category, and even the "Raging Behemoth" will show the horror of being attacked by biochemical monsters in an airtight space capsule. Human audiences are no longer unfamiliar with space, and humans imagine the Milky Way.
However, as a type of film, the space setting is sometimes more like a background that makes the story look cool, rather than tightly integrated into the story. "The Martian" is like a space version of "Robinson Crusoe", and the core of "Gravity" is still how to survive in an isolated and isolated environment. Space presents a dilemma, but not the only factor that causes it, so the meaning of this galactic ordeal is diminished. "Interstellar" is a relatively more space-based film. It is more like a complete genre film, in which father and daughter family affection is embellished. This leads to two viewing questions for space movies: first, are the impetus, contradictions and characters' emotions triggered by the space background? Second, is this trigger not replaceable by other contexts, but unique to the space theme.
2 I almost missed "Interstellar Exploration" because of the same title. Flying again and again can be tiring. But this time, I was immersed in it, and I was touched by the flow of water. In middle-aged Brad Pitt, the blond handsome man's high spirits have diminished, and his temperament has become calm. The whole movie also uses a lot of inner monologues, close-ups of expressions, and a lot of still shots to create the inner emotional path of the characters. His performances are delicate, often silent and overflowing with emotion. This quiet, thin, deep and slow narrative style, placed in a dark blue space background, coupled with a deep soundtrack, may be a boring experience for some people.
This is indeed not a traditional blockbuster, but it is rare to tell a "story of people in space" completely, and the shaping of characters is based on the background. The son embarked on a long journey and set off to find his lost father. It is not a new motif, but because of the vastness of space, an irreplaceable sense of time and space is created. Father disappeared into the depths of the galaxy, looking for the future for mankind, like an arrow that never stops, after shooting into the universe, mankind will never know its end. Father has gone as far as human beings can reach.
3 The female scientist on Mars said to the male protagonist, "I have only been to Earth once. When I was very young, in my memory, it was beautiful there." She was born and raised on Mars. There is an unspeakable sadness here, which makes the hero's lonely journey even more absurd. Can she be called a Martian? She can't, but she can't identify herself as an earthly person. The orange-red scorched earth on Mars and the false electronic images in the meditation room are her home. The earth is a strange and distant cue ball. She hovered here, unable to return to her home planet or go deeper into the galaxy, like a cosmic orphan. Could this be the future of humanity? When human beings expand infinitely into the universe, is there still a homeland waiting?
4 Through the turn of the Earth-Moon-Mars-Neptune journey, time and space are stretched, and the scene is more and more vast and silent. A man floats in a galaxy without his own kind, up and down, left and right, the universe is boundless. With his proud calmness, the emotional forbidden zone also looms through meditative retrospectives. The untouchable emotions of his life were started by the person who disappeared, so he had to find his father no matter what. Not just to complete the quest, to find the truth, but for a touch.
Finally, in his father's spaceship, he looked up at his lifelong search and shed tears. That was the highlight of Brad Pitt's acting career. The charming and handsome that belonged to his youth seemed to have faded. Growing old together, his face was calm, there were no unnecessary fluctuations, only tears flowed down slowly. This passage is said to be an accident. Because there is no gravity in space, tears will not flow, and this should have been dealt with. It was the director who saw Pitt's performance and thought it was too touching, so he insisted on keeping this part. It was really touching. Forget the boundless universe, as if watching a documentary on family search, and the long search finally has an answer full of regrets.
The journey is complete when he says "Father, I still love you". Love, like a beam of radio waves, must be received by someone after it is sent out in the universe, and only after it has been received can it complete itself. I love you, and I know you know, and I know you know what I know, and this moment is the real presence of God. And do you love me, God never asks.
He loaded this radio wave with his physical body, flew over billions of kilometers, reached the limit of human beings, and finally got that "know".
5 The story focuses on the core of family ethics drama, but it is inseparable from the setting of space. The son inherits his father's will to become an astronaut, which is "positive"; he can't forget his love like his father, and still tries to return to the orbit of love, which is "anti". The wrestling between pros and cons is completed by one task. Starting from the earth, human motivation is limited after all, trying to go to the farthest father is doomed to never return. On the way to Neptune, there is no one in the Milky Way, and the more you go, the more empty it becomes, which constitutes an irreplaceable background for lonely meditation. In this way, the story, background and genre finally come together.
6 What I am most dissatisfied with in the whole movie is the two gorillas, why do they exist.
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