"When you stare at the abyss, the abyss is also staring at you"——This sentence that appeared in the title shows the different style of this movie. I started watching it at 2:00 p.m. until I finally finished it now, and I wrote a movie review as soon as I finished it. I will definitely write a movie review after the transformation like "for the audience standing in the guest seat". If it is too shocking, it can only be done by typing quickly. I must write something to vent this strong emotion. This movie review may be written incoherently. .
Because the film is too old and a little unpopular, I found many versions with out-of-sync subtitles and audio and video, and I wanted to abandon the film several times, but it was worth sticking to it to have an unparalleled viewing experience.
It can be said that it is a hard sci-fi film that can't be harder, the special effects in the water, the shooting technology, even if it is put into the present day, it can be said to be the industry leader. To be honest, I don’t really understand this kind of pure technology. I can only say that the special effects don’t look very fake. It’s not embarrassing at all. The long water dragon in the classic scene came to the submarine to simulate a human face. In the film Annihilation (2017), which I watched later, this scene appeared again, called projection or mapping, which must have borrowed and paid tribute to James Cameron. When the heroine told the crowd about the alien creatures she had seen, the boy who raised mice expressed disbelief and joked that UFOs can also be called: underwater flying objects, which is a joke and interpretation: UFOs are not necessarily flying in the sky . These are all conceptual science fictions, which can be called soft science fiction.
Some sci-fi films use realistic special effects and terrifying creatures to scare the audience away in about two hours. Abyss is not inferior in terms of technology, but also in soft power. The emotional bright line in the movie is the engineer heroine and the drilling rig foreman who have a relationship crisis because they are too busy with their careers; later they have to fight side by side to prove their hearts in front of each other and get back together. It sounds cliché, but The character design is reasonable and in line with the current values, haha may be just my three views. The male and female protagonists tracked the military submarine and found that there was water in the cabin. In the midst of the disaster, the female protagonist could remain sensible, and came up with a way to take the lesser of the two evils: when there is only one diving suit, the male protagonist is good at water. If the female protagonist can't swim, first let the male protagonist take him to the front of the water, and after he has passed out, he will go back to perform ECG resuscitation in a state of low body temperature -- not a medical student. I don't know if this method is not. 100% doable. It's just that the heroine's response to danger is great, her mind is clear, and she knows the reason for leaving Castle Peak without worrying about burning firewood. When the plan was actually implemented, she screamed in fear when the sea submerged her head. This detail, in my opinion, made the character plump all of a sudden. Calm and rational thinking is her side of a strong woman. The top disaster will definitely be afraid or even regret his decision, which echoes with the male protagonist's rhetoric and her reaction to seeing the male protagonist just starting to learn to breathe in water later. Furthermore, the prerequisite for this method to work is to unconditionally trust the other party to the point where she can hand over her own life to him. Doesn't this also show her love for the male protagonist? It conveys a lot more than the 5-minute affectionate look at each other or the multi-angle kiss scene.
There are also many people who say that the previous plot is too long, hehe, maybe I watched the abyss after watching Goldfinch, but I didn't feel it at all. As long as it is useful for the development of the story, it can be accepted no matter how long it is. The boy who raised the mouse has always believed in conspiracy theories, and it is true that he discovered the nuclear bomb of the military in the end. Because of the contradiction between the airborne military leaders and the foreman, the military leaders were overwhelmed and acted too aggressively, which pushed the film to a climax: missiles, interception and impact, the hero and heroine escaped, and Let's go to the disarming of the nuclear bomb and other stories later.
There are comments that the ending of the male protagonist is actually a hallucination caused by hypoxia. It is also better to see that those gorgeous scenes are actually hallucinations. The final destination is at the bottom of the sea. I also thought so when I watched the film. I didn't expect that there would be a chance to go ashore. Maybe the director wanted to use the film to satirize the situation. 1989 was when the MS Cold War was in full swing, and it was amazing that the film passed the review.
I am also thinking about why the movie is named Abyss: Is there any other connection besides the bottomless pit in the deep sea under the 30 minutes when the male protagonist disarmed the missile? Fear of the unknown? Exploring the edge of the world? Or as the title suggests, when you stare into the abyss, what do you see? The appearance is born from the heart, the heroine is kind, the alien creatures in her eyes are not hostile to humans, and she can even make faces in the face of strange water dragons, touch it without hesitation, and then put it in her mouth to taste. The military leaders felt that this was sent by the Soviets, so they were full of fear of alien creatures. This is a world where materialism and idealism coexist.
Ah ah ah, I almost forgot to harvest a nice song: Willin' by Linda Ronstadt
The nonsense is here for now, and if you have any thoughts on the second brush, you can add it later.
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