The type badge, the animation has been lit, the science fiction in the gray is still 7, and it is ready to go to science fiction. Looking at the comments of my friends, Gattaca is my favorite theme. Just watch it first. This feeling of picking a movie reminds me of the DVD era, when I held a stack of newly bought (pirated) movies in my hand and didn't know which one to watch, so I put my hand behind my back and randomly selected one.
(Written since August, dragged to the present, the science fiction badge has been finished long ago)
space age
Not to mention the plot, it is not complicated, it seems that the director and screenwriter do not particularly care about the authenticity of the plot. Looking at the whole film, I feel that the style of the film is very attractive to me, a kind of expressionist style. Make a kind of overhead, first set the time to the past, and then imagine the future in that past retro future effect, the first space age, in 1969, the United States landed on the moon, rockets and space were the most cutting-edge technologies in that era. Tide, every little boy dreams of going to space. The good-looking green Riviera in which the protagonist was conceived was a 1971 model, and the time was right. And then mixed with genetic engineering that belongs to the 21st century, which is very interesting. The blood samples of the sellers in the hands of the gene brokers, whose faces are particularly pale, are contained in the glass pointed bottom sample bottles of the chemical age. , is a modern plastic bag, fun mix. The tone of the movie is dim from beginning to end, a deliberate old-fashioned taste, but the poster has an icy technological blue tone with a genetic spiral, probably to look like a normal sci-fi.
dystopia
After the protagonist enters Gattaca, the dystopian feel of the film becomes clear. The façade of the building is straight and rigid, not too high, but it covers a large area, with opaque materials, narrow windows, and a heavily guarded prison. In the scene where the male and female protagonists were talking outdoors, the scene was very far-reaching, the large buildings overwhelmed the small figures and the elongated shadows of loneliness. Using this picture to express technological indifference immediately had the sci-fi flavor of the 1960s and 1970s, a very Straightforward characters are small visual representations. (Thinking about it now, in addition to the texture of the building, what embodies this sense of the times should also include only one building standing in the open space, which is a very secret base. If it is a skyscraper, it will become cyberpunk again. .) The stainless steel rotating ball lights in the building, the arc-shaped workstations, in the straight lines of the building, remind that this is a place with a sense of technology. The workstations are neatly arrayed, and each table is placed with a unified cosmic desktop computer. As a result, a layer of institutional repression was added to the coldness of technology. The foreman's expression was naturally human, the elites in Gattaca were dressed in a cold, dark and stereotypical Soviet style, and every beautiful human being was basically a machine.
It seems to say that the film has a little Brave New World element, about individuals escaping from the rules. In the past and part of the present, because children, including teenagers, or individual old and young people "have not yet been formed" and "potential has not yet been realized", their future is still possible, while most adults have won and lost in rounds of competitions. It is basically fixed, and its position in the world is also fixed. Therefore, middle-aged people start a new life, or elderly people are unwilling to die with some kind of regret, or they fight to the death with a group of old friends, all of which are accidental phenomena and can be made into movies.
Today's adults are helpless and hopeless in the face of a foregone conclusion, and the life in Gattaca, who was classified as ABC by genetic analysis at birth, is even more hopeless. Fortunately, most of the "second-class products" will not have a strong desire to fight, nor the ability to fight, which saves a lot of pain.
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What is the protagonist, of course, the most bitter and dramatic contradiction. Probably a flawed work of art. His story is not "a waste achieves success" but "a person who has the ability to break through the obstacles brought by the flaw and exert his own ability". It's like the chef in "Food Story" who said, "Everyone can be a gourmet. It doesn't mean that anyone can make delicious food, but the gourmet can come from anywhere." Knowing if you slipped your hands when you adjusted the parameters, or if you were just watching a show, and created some human works that gave you singing voice but not beauty, and talent that made you an idiot, and who wanted to be a pilot turned out to be colorblind. But be sure to set the love value to the highest level! It depends on whether you squeeze yourself to death before the mission is completed, or whether you finally get lucky and get the biggest reward. But it is basically impossible for people with this kind of setting to admit defeat and live a good life, and the love written into their genes is not allowed to do so!
The relationship between the characters is very simple. There are three main groups:
The protagonist and his younger brother Vincent & Anton
The protagonist and lover Vincent &Irene
Protagonist and Exchanger Vincent & Jerome
The three groups of relationships are handled concisely and clearly. I like this way very much. The screenwriter uses their relationships to tell us what kind of person the protagonist is, and to explore what kind of life is more worthwhile and meaningful. Probably I am naturally attracted to this theme. I don't like "a series of fast-moving events", so I am not interested in horror, suspense, and reasoning. After I have grown into a foregone conclusion, I am interested in love. I don't really believe in saving the world. My interest in human beings seems to be only personal choice and the realization of self-worth. I am more concerned about "who is he who does this." That is, "it is not through clever strategies and skills that something is achieved, but what kind of experience and conflict have become this person."
The character with the most obvious and direct conflict with the protagonist in the film should be the younger brother. After all, "others" come from "the genes of other people's parents", and they are better than themselves because others have good parents and seem to have little to do with themselves. And his brothers and sisters are superior to him, which brings a kind of lifelong bondage, constantly reminded, extremely unwilling pain, and, obviously the same pair of parents, why is he better than me? In the era when everyone's genes are all based on lottery, a word of bad luck can also be used as a desperate confession. In the film, it became the fault of the parents because of "love". The protagonist's mother in the film is more accepting of God's arrangement, while the father is very concerned about the child's future achievements. Because of the flaw, he can't even give the son the name "Anton", and was temporarily called "Anton". The protagonist of "Vincent" becomes an abandoned person. But the interesting thing is that my father was not made to be particularly crazy. When listening to the doctor introducing the fertilized egg genetic screening program, he said "don't make it too perfect", the doctor said "don't worry, it won't be too perfect, he is just one of your genes The most perfect combination ever."
The visual contest between the protagonist and his younger brother is swimming. The rule is to swim from the shore to the middle of the sea. Whoever turns around and swims back first loses. In the countless competitions in his youth, Vincent was the one who lost. When Vincent finally won once, as the winner of this long game, his relationship with his family of origin came to an end.
Next up was Jeremy, a former swimmer who couldn't walk due to a car accident with his legs injured. As soon as he appeared, he showed his superiority and pride. He said to the protagonist, why do you think you can be me? Just relying on your natural broken genes, you know, even with such a good configuration, I only got a silver medal, this is me!
Jeremy is always unhappy, and he sold his identity in order to use the income to maintain his original life. When he first appeared on the field, he was very unconcerned about this "job" and produced a pile of urine samples that exceeded the alcohol limit. His appearance is really tasteful. There is nothing big to do in a wheelchair, but his face is full of arrogance, doubts, and unwillingness. He pretends to be strong and pitiful. Vincent gained some recognition after his callus lengthening surgery (should it be this kind of surgery?), but by the time the film nears the end, when he pretends to be a sick Vincent at home, he is already full of affection for the protagonist . I especially liked his series of actions after sitting in the chair, stuffing his tie into his trousers and wiping the dust off his shoes, both for glory and for the mission. After the mission to help Vincent into space was completed, he chose this life. There are many comments that he is in love with Vincent, but I don't think so. His performance and the letters he left showed his own world-weariness. In my opinion, many people who specialize in surgery are a machine with clear functions. Jeremy was probably set up as a swimming competition machine early on. To make a swimming competition machine, the ultimate goal is to win the gold medal, and he will lose forever. With this possibility, it became a scrapped and broken machine. He doesn't seem to have any family or friends, no joy (except blowing gloves for balloons), and one can even guess that he doesn't get any joy from swimming itself, as long as he wins. Vincent made him feel a kind of pure heart, the power of love that he knew he couldn't do, and that he would never have, and even Vincent, who finally borrowed his name, seemed to finally realize something for him. Dream, so he decided to "leave this world he doesn't like and travel." Why do you think he is not gay? It felt like he enjoyed mouth-to-mouth kisses with Irene, and later said to Vincent "She looks like she likes us both."
The last is the lover. What is love? We think that loving someone with money power is snobbish, and loving someone is superficial, so what about "loving the unique person himself"? It's just picking genes, the potential ability to gain money power Appearances that can get a jump are also included. Of course what is most often praised is the mutual understanding and tolerance between two imperfect individuals, but perhaps simply because similarity means easier understanding of each other's behavior patterns, less disagreement and further casualties in disputes, and tolerance is equivalent to In an equivalent exchange, it is not easy for both parties to abandon the other party or sell it second-hand because they feel that they have lost their money. Alas, I'm really unhappy after typing this sentence. Adults' spring dreams are often still juvenile love, ignorant and fearless, and when I wake up, I know that I don't think about it. It's never possible. The people who know the goods have unknowingly marked the correct price for the world. Stealing mother's diamond ring just to exchange for a novel candy is called happiness.
Speaking of which, Vincent's appearance in adulthood also looks very good. Irene feels that she has a common pursuit with him, but she is not worthy of him. After knowing that the male protagonist is not a genetically optimized person, she gains an advantage, and the male protagonist was originally born. Disadvantage, I won't mind after hearing about Erin's deduction. So, their love is very cute and comprehensive, life, spirit, and sex never fall, but, So what...
Murder is a great clue, creating tension and testing the characters. The seemingly obscure doctor adds the last wonderful thing, - every kind and hard-working underdog wants a fair chance to identify with a civilian hero.
I was so excited when I first read it, but I lost my enthusiasm as I wrote it, and I forgot the plot.
forced summary
Well...everyone's ingenuity can be fully utilized and society can be full of hope and creativity to win space(…). The bad thing about totalitarianism is that in order to safeguard the vested interests of small groups, it brutally deprives others of the right to compete. Ordinary people will have their omissions, and they should never replace God (the laws of nature, human rights, the social laws of freedom, democracy, and the rule of law) to judge and nurture human beings. Losing genetic diversity, humans may also be wiped out by a pathogen like the Big Mike banana. And my goal has always been to silently make a wild banana with big seeds, thin flesh, bitter and unpalatable in the deep tropical forest, and secretly pass on wild genes.
"Keep it, maybe it will be useful later."
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