There was also the scene of the ferryboat afterwards. It seemed to be safe, but suddenly there was silence. A group of alien machinery was pressed out on the hills in the distance, and the sense of fear at that time almost reached a boiling point. This is still the experience of the protagonists, a typical first-person perspective.
And when the characters in the play are bystanders watching the alien machinery killing humans, a sense of powerlessness that "we will end like that" is well transmitted from the picture to the side. Especially seeing the scene where the army, which is the last guarantee of the people's life and safety, is defeated like a flood. At this time, both the characters in the play and the self sitting in front of the screen are already on the verge of despair and just want to survive.
So there was the next scene of human beings being fratricidal, and in despair, the father had nothing to do with it in order to save his daughter and himself. And in the end, when the image of the Scarlet Planet appeared, I was completely in a desperate mood in front of the screen.
It can be said that Spielberg has a perfect grasp of the atmosphere of the whole film. From the beginning, Tom was indifferent, to the panic when he rushed on the road, to the calmness and courage when he seized the car on the rainy night, and finally to The total despair in Scarlet Planet conveyed the terrifying atmosphere of alien invasion to the audience every minute and every second.
This is the only reason I like this film. When it comes to the shortcomings of this film, I personally think there are three aspects. First, Tom's acting skills. I have to say that until I was chased by alien robots, I thought that he played well, especially when he returned home in disgrace with an expression of incompetence at a loss. This just brings out the image of an incompetent car enthusiast who is as afraid of thunder as his daughter, and who is not as good to his son as his car. But when the family started to run away, Brother Atang became a good father as if he had changed his character. Not only did he want to send his daughter and son back to their mother's house, but he was also very brave enough to save a friend. Faced with thugs, he was not afraid of danger, not at all like the man before. The ending part is even more exaggerated. Not only did Brother Atang kill a robot by himself, he also bravely pointed at the robot that was afraid of death before. Although this kind of excessively rapid character change serves the great paternal love that the work wants to highlight, the rapid speed and inexplicable change may make Tom completely confused, so he doesn’t know how to act well. This role. The story of the same process of fatherly love changing people, the father in 2012, is much better.
The second aspect is the little girl's yelling, well, I'm tired of listening to it from start to finish. I want the robot to catch it for the plot service, so I don't have to listen to it again.
The third aspect is the nonsensical nature of the whole story, although it is an old SF work that has been changed since more than 100 years ago, and the work itself had various contradictions and shortcomings. However, when adapting, it should not be so hasty. A group of aliens who have been monitoring the earth for tens of thousands, or even millions of years, don’t have any biological knowledge? We have all been quarantined for A stream and Sars. The aliens are too eager to eat the people on the earth, and even the cooking time is saved. It's hard to imagine a race that has developed a technology that can create a shield against any attack, and there are no two biological laboratories.
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