Dark and Sad, But Not Desperate

Trycia 2021-10-13 13:05:30

The continuous and powerful cry of the baby made people forget the artillery fire, blood, and the falling corpses around them. Looking over, there is even a slight smile of innocence.

At such a moment, the dying world took a hard breath and was reborn.

In a world where there is no future to expect, people's madness and collapse are the most normal Performance. So Theo, who was full of Fxxk and looked indifferent, walked through the streets where bullets were flying, but he looked different. He was indifferently watching the news of the accidental death of the youngest offspring of mankind in the morning, worrying about being bombarded by the shells. With buzzing ears, I would not have expected that soon afterwards, I will be among the slippers and fighting to protect the world’s last hope in the rain of bullets. Although at that moment he is still full of fxxk.

Theo’s ex-wife Julian joined because of the loss of his beloved son Dylan. She became an anti-government organization and became a leader. She simply died on the way to escort this hope. Although she and Julian still maintain a tacit understanding of table tennis, this fact cannot make Theo compare with holding a blood-stained hand and watching in vain Julian dies quickly and is more useful. In

2027, this not-so-distant world is like the tone of the film, forever gloomy and depressed, full of numb despair.

Xanadu is Jasper's secret residence. A messy white-haired Jasper is lying. Beautiful music, planted flowers and plants in the room, caring and caring for the vegetative wife, trapped in the sofa with Theo, smoking, playing English, clumsy jokes. A chic and peaceful reclusive life. Jasper protects Theo and that hope A few bullets in his body died in pain. Before he died, he was still doing that disgusting middle finger trick to the muzzle.

Some people died along the way, innocent, boring, helpless, all died. Theo arched his back , With her head down and slippers, guarding Kee. Kee, a stubborn black girl, is destined to be the key to saving this dying world. She is wrapped in a smoky-gray robe, just because of the bulge of her abdomen, she looks like a Virgin.

The Romanian-speaking woman, with a dog in her arms, knocked out the bad guy Syd, she babbled, babbled, provided a refuge, a broken mattress. So the hope of mankind was born. Kee finally decided to call for it. When the name Dylan.

Kee made this decision, she was sitting in the grey and misty waters. In the small boat, she held the hope of the whole world, staring at Theo, who had died with his head tilted on the opposite side, and the lighthouse not far away flashed one after another. The flash followed the rhythm of the water waves.

Then the boat came. The boat was called Tomorrow.


OK, I basically just retelled the plot of the movie incoherently. Such a magnificent story with infinite meaning makes it difficult to comment anyway Say it all. The world of doomsday, the collective collapse of mankind, the loss of hope, life and death, disasters and wars, lies and ugliness. Then hope is reborn, small and tenacious, so mankind closes its crazy mouth, the world Rebirth.

Most of the sci-fi works have not escaped the tone of compassion. And this story is only compassionate, and the calm and indifferent perspective is like Theo who went to buy coffee that morning. People gathered in front of the screen to be the youngest Diago in the world Passing away and shocked and weeping, Theo just walked through the crowd and walked to the counter without looking back and said: Here is a cup of coffee.

Complete madness, or complete indifference. Two results of loss of hope. The film has no reflection, no warning, It’s just that Leng Ran made a hypothesis. Under this assumption,

Leng Ran tells a science fiction story like a bible. Alfonso Cuarón is the darkest of all the directors I have seen his work. He will put it in the movie. Into a ray of sunshine, a ray of color, a little smile, a little hope. However, the whole movie will still be as heavy and depressing as a block of lead. But, hey, everybody reads Bible, so you can't miss it, or ignore it.

This The story is dark and sad, but not desperate.

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Children of Men quotes

  • [last lines]

    Kee: Theo, the boat. The boat! It's OK. We are safe now. We're safe.

  • Theodore Faron: She's pregnant!

    Luke: Yeah, it's a miracle, innit?