There is another type of work, but it is about the future itself, or where the real world is really going. The Son of Man is such a work. The seemingly impossible existence of human infertility is just his sci-fi shell. Under this shell, the future of 2027 is not far away. Live shooting in London, Alonsoca Long’s broad ambitions, he constructed this subject on an evil metaphor for the real world-human beings as a group have never been unified, internal divisions, discrimination and power struggles are the essential forces that perish mankind Rather than something external. In this film, we often see that the expression of desire and the construction of power are more important demands than the salvation of all mankind itself.
Specifically, at the beginning of the film, the background was explained with an explosion accident, and the focus of the film was told to the viewer. It can be said that the beginning of the journey back home through owen cleverly explained the scene of the whole world and London. Conflict and confrontation have spread all over the world. Although this is caused by the loss of fertility, the director did not focus on the causal relationship between the immigration problem and it, but only a correlation. So, the loss of childbearing is at most only the fuse of this evil reality. Immigration represents political and economic class conflicts, religious and ethnic conflicts, and it is these that constitute the main tension of the film's plot. The struggle for black pregnant women is here a signifier, pointing to the struggle for power between different groups. The director's emphasis on conflict is particularly prominent in the climax of the film, which is the part that is talked about by many fans: owen they hold their children downstairs, everyone stops fighting as if they see Allah, but don’t Forgetting that this apocalyptic scene did not change the conflict itself, a rocket quickly broke the silence, and people did not hesitate to throw themselves into the fight again. The baby who symbolized human salvation looked like this in an irrational war. pale and weak. The fierce firefight made the tear-jerking scene seem unusually funny, just like a director’s spoof (to be honest, I saw the tears of excitement that filled my eyes, and then I felt like I was shaved, Gao is so fucking high)
if Just stop here, I think it is a great underestimation of this movie. Through in-depth text analysis, we can also see the deep framework in the director's thought-a stubborn elitist perspective. In the film, the director puts the government and the marginalized immigrant groups under a critical narrative, and uses the heroic narrative of the protagonist of the film to show the spirit of self-sacrifice, caring about the overall destiny of mankind, rational... such concepts .
Specifically, for the government, the official advertisement repeatedly broadcast on TV at the beginning of the film said that the world has fallen into chaos. Only the United Kingdom is as usual, while the actual streets of London have been seen by owen who had just escaped from an explosion. The sharp contrast between the writers creates a strong irony effect. In the secret residence of a friend of Owen, an understatement was given to the photo on the table and a newspaper, revealing the friend’s wife’s identity as a reporter and the background of being disabled by the government. The practice of the "fascist pig" as a soldier also represents a profit-only mentality. Moreover, the various actions of the British government have been narrated by the Fish Party in various ways, such as the atrocities against immigrants, terrorist suppression, false propaganda, and bewitching the people. Later, when he entered the refugee camp, he simply replaced it with a direct description of the military's behavior. It can be said that the government of the sons of mankind is almost a devil's existence from the director, completely racist and inhumane to confuse and persecute the people.
On the other hand, although the last pregnant woman of mankind is designed as a black immigrant woman, although the protagonist has received a lot of help from kind immigrants, the director expresses a complicated attitude towards this group. The deliberate leader of the Fish Party was designed to be a black male. They designed to kill the owen wife and defraud the pregnant woman Ken’s trust. They used it as a tool to try to gain power, instead of what the Fish Party claimed to be for the benefit of immigrants. The degree is even greater than that of the government. This arrangement not only reminds me of an old Chinese saying: Poor people must be hateful. From the film’s positioning of the xxx image, the director’s disgusting attitude towards this marginal group can be read, but the helplessness of the leader of the Fish Party in the final shootout seems to tell us that these people also have no choice but to face life or death. . This kind of treatment seems to be inconsistent and reasonable, or the director lacks consideration. Moreover, Owen got help from marginalized gypsies during his escape, and the director's attitude here is a bit abrupt and vague. It is worth mentioning that Chinese also appeared in the final fierce battle, and the performance of self-protection like a rat is obviously with the director's stereotypes.
The contrast between "good guys" and "bad guys" in this film is very sharp, let's see what good people are like. The protagonist is a tall, handsome white male owen and a beautiful white wife. He has a high degree of education. He participated in anti-government organizations in his early years and is committed to building a more ideal society. He has a strong spirit of self-sacrifice and both hang up in the film. The white nurse who believed in a certain religion had been protecting the pregnant woman Ken, but was dragged off the car by the government forces and hung up. The uncontested white Jasper couple, the media workers were persecuted by the government in the early years of anti-war war, and were eventually shot and killed by the Fish Party. Good people are basically sacrificed, and there is no complaint, for the only human child. In the end, the director’s framework finally came to light: In his opinion, it is always a small group of white elites who can save and change the world. They are rational, have a spirit of self-sacrifice, consider the destiny of all mankind, are not selfish or extreme, and are very The important point is that the social non-marginal groups have a fixed social status, will not have their own identity crisis, and have no worries about food and clothing, so their behavior is not for their own benefit. Such an elitist perspective is the most overlooked core of the film!
In short, the profound intervention in reality is the biggest highlight of the film Son of Man. The use of many long shots and the scheduling of large scenes also reflect the artistic value of the film. However, the dual ambitions of commercial films and art films also brought conflicts to the son of humanity, making him a little bit too high, losing the possibility of becoming a classic, but the 7.9 rating is still quite worthwhile. The Son of Man brought us a unique charm in the movie world in 2006. It also opened a skylight for returning to the classic and heavy sci-fi themes that have been flooded with magic and disaster in recent years.
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