There is such a dialogue in the book, which happened after Ender knew the truth of the final battle, the general idea is as follows:
Graf: "Yes, we deceived you, this is the whole The key to the plan. We must have a commander who sympathizes with the Zerg, who can think like the Zerg, who can understand and anticipate its actions. And it must be passionate, in order to convince the crowd and combine with his subordinates into a perfect machine, but with This kind of compassionate person can't be the killer we want, won't win at all costs. If you know the truth, you can't succeed. And if you know the truth and are willing to act, you can't fight The Zerg know so well."
Maze Leihan: "It has to be done by a child, your reaction is fast, and we are too careful. Every honest person who knows the dangers of war can't devote himself to that kind of battle. , but you don't know, you're young, smart, and reckless to win the game. That's what you were born for."
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This dialogue is the author's take on the story The most powerful complement to rationality. In this war between two completely different creatures, the most efficient and rational solution is not necessarily the most reasonable. Ender is in a very special position. It is not just that Ender is a tactical superhuman, or even surpasses human intelligence to become a savior, as simply shown in the movie. It would be impossible to say that Ender was tactically superior to the entire human force. His speciality was that he was a child and could be deceived. He could still be manipulated as an adult tool. The answers of the two adults above are very clear. Ender is only regarded as a tool. There is a sentence in Liu Cixin's "Supporting Human Beings", who is aimed at, has nothing to do with guns. No matter how good a gun is, it is passive. It is the person who shoots the gun who judges when and how it works. All aspects of Ender's qualities are the result of being carefully designed and guided by more intelligent adults, and he exists only as a good gun. The two adults also admitted this to Ender without hesitation.
After Ender's tactical ability has been cultivated to the level of adult standards, due to the various characteristics he has as a child, as mentioned in the dialogue, in this way, a linear programming, he is the only optimal choice in this alien war , adults with more purely tactical abilities are irreplaceable. Of course books can simplify the battle process, movies can't. In any case, this explanation is not just self-justifying in terms of plot direction, but also a grim summary of all of Ender's previous life. The drama of the story deepens.
[2. Ender's self-blame and final choice]
Similar to "Dark Forest", in this universe, the root cause of this interstellar genocide war is also because of the huge difference in the biological basis of the two sides. Zerg is an intelligent life with bee colony thinking. Zerg soldiers (similar to soldier ants) have no independent consciousness. They are essentially just a property, an extension of the limbs and senses of the queen. Therefore, it is difficult for the Zerg to understand that each member of the human race is an independent and irreplaceable life. They destroy a human ship without knowing that they are killing thousands of separate consciousnesses. So expecting them to understand human nature is almost impossible. For Ender, the disaster of mankind is not only the result of the sins of the Zerg, but the result of the inability of the two sides to understand each other and to think from the other's standpoint. For the human decision-making level, it is precisely because the Zerg has difficulty understanding human nature and even more difficult to accept human morality. Therefore, killing them completely is the most responsible choice for the future of mankind. This is a competition for survival, and any life in the universe has the right, and the winner is not a sinner. Both concepts are understandable, and the reader's thinking space has also increased by a dimension, and it is no longer a simple dichotomy of good and evil on a single line. The author hopes to give this story a bright ending. His setting leaves a ray of possibility for reconciliation. At least the communication between the two parties can be achieved, although the huge gap must be broken. At the end of the book, in that Zerg carefully recreated game scene. Ender got the Zerg's will to forgive and reconcile from the last Zerg Queen. Ender is eager to make up for the fact that he killed the other civilization, but he also understands that if the queen is resurrected now, its thousands of descendants will still be a nightmare for mankind, "If I wake you up, we will have to kill again. for you". Ender had only one choice, take the cocoon and exile himself. Traverse long stretches of time and space at close to the speed of light until a suitable time and place for the race to regenerate, during which Ender will carry the tale of the zerg among men, "Maybe they'll forgive you, like You forgive me as well." For thousands of years, he became the voice of the dead, that's for later.
This is not elaborated on in the movie, although it is mentioned. It made Ender's choice seem very abrupt and emotional. Author Card believes that literary works have great educational significance, giving people the power to do good. The story of humans and Zerg in the book may be understood as an extreme metaphor for human society itself. It is in extreme conditions that precious things are magnified and brought to the fore.
[3. About the game (only personal understanding)]
This book was written in the 1980s, so many things today are still a kind of forward-looking at that time. The essence of technology is a way for people to achieve a certain purpose more efficiently, which inevitably leads to us being able to change very important things in an increasingly simple way. The Internet allows people to permanently leave their casual words with a few keystrokes. Tens of thousands of people do this at the same time, and the resulting public opinion is enough to control the fate of one person or even a large group of people. People watch other people's affairs with an entertaining attitude, and they can participate in it with a few keystrokes. You see, sometimes we destroy a person, as simple as a game. The American drone, which never exited in the news of manslaughter civilians, is completely indistinguishable from the game in operation. The operator looked at the red and blue dots on the screen, clicked the handle, the red dots disappeared, and the mission was over. The operator can't feel the roar of the missile piercing the air, the violent flash of the explosion, or the blood rain that tears the human body. Everything is as simple and clear as a game. The same is true for Ender's final battle, which can be completely controlled by children like a game. It simply makes people delusional about the nature of the event, and can't even leave the opportunity for aftertaste, and there are many plots such as Peter and Valentine's participation in politics that express the same meaning. Interesting technological foresight is one of the reasons why this book has made a name for itself in science fiction history.
Therefore, this film lacks the ambition that the director should have. The director just restored the scenes in the book, which of course is enough to win the respect of sci-fi fans. But it's totally understandable that the public thinks it's like a children's movie, after all, this story would obviously become quite childish and far-fetched if it only had a superficial plot. Words and images are completely different forms of expression, so adaptation is sometimes more like translation. The principle of translation is to be honest and sincere. In film adaptation, the importance of these three should be in ascending order. The most important thing for movies is to retain The connotation, temperament and feelings of the book, the movie can completely recreate the different plots from the book to achieve the same emotional experience. Of course, it's hard, and only a handful of titles like The Lord of the Rings have succeeded. Although this adaptation is not completely ideal, at least the characters and scenes are very delicately restored, and it is also a great complement to the text. The sincerity of the main creator is worthy of recognition. There is a lot of content in this book, and there must be many other books. The highlights are not reflected in the movie. Hope to throw a brick and attract jade.
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