To sum up one sentence: It stems from the extremely narrow world view of the screenwriter, who simply wants to make a pirate movie, not an epic.
A long time ago, I saw the clip and introduction of this movie on a video website. At that time, I thought that this setting is so awesome, and it would be a masterpiece if you shoot it casually. I watched the whole movie today, and I was a little disappointed. Let me write two sentences of my own thoughts.
The beginning is very good. The male protagonist is a loner. He struggles to survive alone at sea with his own abilities and excellent equipment. He encounters a sea wolf and another bad lone walker one after another. After getting rid of them, he enters a floating sea. of small tribes, began to barter. Soil is actually the most precious item, fresh water is almost a currency unit, foreign men will be borrowed, the male protagonist is an evolved race, and the girl may have a map to the mainland. These settings are very, very good! But unfortunately, the idea of this film is almost over. The following plot is to fight against pirates. The various scenes are quite exciting, and then they go to sea. The feelings between the male protagonist, the female protagonist and the child change. After that, the child is kidnapped by the pirates. , and finally a group of them discovered the lost land. These plots can not be said to be not exciting, but they are too cliché.
The settings in the film that I think are problematic or imperfect are:
1. They have no way to obtain stable fresh water! This is unforgivable! The film doesn't explain why it doesn't rain in this world, but there is surface runoff on land.
2. The female protagonist can't get food at sea. Although the male protagonist caught a big fish, this is not a stable way to get food;
3. Where did the clothes and textiles they wear come from? How did they get the steel products they used? There does not seem to be such a trading venue in the film. Abandoned aircraft carriers do seem to have a bit of industrial manufacturing capability, but they seem to just be blind.
4. The male protagonist can read, how the inheritance of knowledge in this world is carried out, but I don't see it. After all, paper is an extremely scarce commodity. In such a world, it is not necessary to learn to read words.
According to my idea, the outline of this future water world can be like this: the male protagonist belongs to a tribe of evolutionary people, and they have their own gathering places; if there is a pirate tribe, just follow the photos in the photo; The kind of small sea castle where it is located; the medium-sized castle with a large population, there are small-scale farms here, which are basically agricultural civilizations; there are large castles on the sea, there are primary industrial civilizations; finally, there are large cities on the sea, here there are Relatively perfect industrial capacity, there is a certain level of informatization. The entire maritime world is an alliance.
Speaking of land, the future water world will have only a few lands. They are occupied by a small number of powerful people from the original world. They have the knowledge and facilities inherited from the original world, and their area and population are far less than the sea alliance. Together, they formed a land alliance.
The plot is as follows: The land alliance uses its own technology and survival advantages to exploit and enslave the people of the sea alliance for a long time. The sea alliance needs to use a large amount of marine resources to exchange a small amount of necessities with them, such as minerals. Due to the small population of the land alliance, in order to ensure the quality of reproduction, it even needs to regularly sacrifice virgins and girls (must be very small babies, because no memory will be formed). If things go on like this, the sea alliance can no longer endure the exploitation and oppression of the land alliance, coupled with the desire for land brought by long-term sea drifting, they quietly unite, and a final battle between the two alliances broke out!
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