2008-10-15 11:42:00 Review 8.0 released by Wd__
The themes of the two films are similar, but the way they are told is very different.
Missing people tell the story of saving the world's children. More emotionally. Attacking the shell is to redistribute groups of children through the network, surveillance system, memory transformation system, etc. in the context of modern science fiction. The emotional component is not as strong as the former, but it is possible to think about this social problem at the level of social structure, and it will give people a stronger shock after deep thinking.
The missing person is a choice between a family of a single parent drug-addicted mother and a family of abducted children by a retired police officer, and the shell is a choice between a child abusive family and the child re-education system. The protagonists of the two films chose the former by coincidence. A large part of the reason for the choice is that doing so is in line with the laws at the time. The law should represent the thoughts of most people at that time, and people's thoughts will change with the changes of the times, so the law is also constantly changing. What is legal now may become illegal in the future, so what's the point of sticking to the law too much?
Aside from the either-or choices offered by the film, is there a better solution to the problem of abused children or children from troubled families? I think it is quite difficult, if not impossible, to solve the problem without abandoning the social structure of the family. The term family has taken on too many responsibilities and rights, and should gradually disappear with the development of society.
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