I was born for some reason

On Halloween night, I went to the cinema alone and watched two Ender's Game. I don't know if it was influenced by the plot of the original novel, but I always feel that the scenes presented in the movie are somewhat different from the scenes I imagined. The competitive process of the game is not so exciting and exciting; I also feel that the fire of conflict between the young students is not burning enough; and the isolated Ender does not seem to be portrayed fully enough; the most important thing is that the movie did not show it well, The twists and turns of the plot in the novel. At least in this regard, Ender's Game director Gavin Hood is less skilled than Captain Phillips director Paul Greengrass. The latter renders a story with a very simple plot so that people can't bear to leave it for half a minute.

After watching the first scene, I took some time, closed my eyes, carefully recalled the scenes in the movie, and felt that it was necessary to watch it again. I want to put aside the gorgeous special effects of the picture and focus on the portrayal of the characters and the changes in the plot. Perhaps it also comes from the unwillingness in the bottom of my heart, the two science fiction novels "Ender's Game" and the sequel "The Advocate for the Dead" that left a deep impression on me ten years ago. That's all.

Orson Scott Card has won the highest awards in the world science fiction literature for two consecutive years, the Hugo Award and the Nebula Award for these two science fiction novels. Perhaps this is a factor that will attract the Ender series of novels at the beginning, and perhaps this is also a lot of people will pay attention to it. One of the reasons for this movie. But I care more about Ender's attitude towards enemies and alien races, and the core proposition of the entire Ender series of novels, the communication and understanding of intelligent creature races in the universe.

From the communication and understanding between each of us to the conflicts and competition between different countries where we live, the more we expand our thinking, the more we will feel that everything we care about is so insignificant. Looking up at the starry sky, the cognitive differences between other intelligent creature races and humans that exist hundreds of millions of light-years away may directly lead to the extinction of a planet or even a race. Of course, in history, human beings living on earth have also made such great achievements.

Whenever human society is in a catastrophe and a great change, there will always be heroes who emerge as the times require. In addition to the saying "The times make heroes", there are also more disgusting ones like "The long river of history is rolling, and the wheel of fate keeps turning". In short, Ender is to communicate with alien intelligent creatures , born from the noble mission of saving mankind and other intelligent alien races. Thinking of this, I can't help but want to ask, the protagonists all have reasons for becoming the protagonists, and the supporting roles will always have the opportunity to be Luye, but most of the vast beings are probably just playing tricks and playing soy sauce. Besides themselves, who else? They will also care about their appearance and disappearance, or the traces of their own existence that they have never cared about.
I don't know which character I am, but I always feel like I was born for some special reason. When I was a child, I always liked to look up at the starry sky, the distant sky full of stars, and at the same time, I also recognized my insignificance. Of course, even if you want to see it now, you may have to go to the zoo to easily see enough orangutans.


After watching Ender's Game, I saw the poster of The Hunger Games: Catching Fire. I can't help but think that appreciating this kind of movie based on the original novel often makes people feel a contradictory state of mind. Not only longing for the movie to realize the unrestrained fantasy of my reading books, but also afraid that after watching the movie, I wasted my poor fantasy space. Maybe looking forward to a director who can break this shackles and have a win-win situation?




In the past six months or so, many of the films that have been released have pictures of looking at the earth in space. Like After Earth, Oblivion, Man of Steel, Gravity, Ender's Game. Although the earth's environment has been continuously destroyed by us bad tenants, in a space without boundaries and no longer divided into upper, lower, left and right, she is still so beautiful that people can't help but hold their breath. Attention, focus. (This is one of the reasons why I like Gravity)


Maybe there will be a sequel to this Ender's Game, and maybe the director may continue to delve into the theme of the original novel, but this movie is not the Ender's Game I want, and it is far less touching my heart than the original novel. However, even if I have been disappointed, I have to continue to work hard. Now it seems that I want to see the movie that my favorite Asimov's "Base" series of sci-fi masterpieces will be made into. At that time, maybe I will Sleepless all night.


Everyone has a Hamlet in their hearts, but I have the whole universe in my heart.

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