At the beginning of the film, there is such an American media person Novak, who seems to be the successor of the famous contemporary Republican conservative political commentator Bill O'Reilly 20 years later, and even the name of the program has only changed to a synonym. (Bill's show is called O Reilly Factor, and the show here is called Novak Element.)
Continuing to talk about the movie, the movie puts forward a relatively conservative political stance at the beginning, supporting the United States to set up machine weapons abroad to maintain world "peace", and we pass A front-line report saw the terrified eyes of those innocent people, and also saw a giant machine "peacekeeper" blasting the suicide bomber and his poor little son with a knife into the west. However, the media person praised all that these great machines have brought, and hoped that there will be some robot police to protect the homeland security, but the bill of an ultra-conservative senator has sentenced this dream to death. At the same time, Omnicorp is a company that produces machine weapons. Of course, they want to expand their market profits, but robots without emotions are a threat to the public, which is why the bill has the support of most politicians, so let robots have emotions. It's the company's money. And Murphy, the policeman who was seriously injured in front of his own family, became a victim of only temporary value to the big conglomerate who fell into the eyes of money.
Compared with the old version of "Robocop", this opening can be described as very large. The boss's purpose is also so complicated, to deceive the government and deceive the people, as long as he is still omnipotent (unlimited power, all-powerful), everything is worth it. The old version started very simply, Detroit wanted to build a new city, and the police department wanted to defend it with their company's products. First of all, Detroit, which is under bankruptcy protection, has no money to build a city. In addition, the director also wants to deceive and flatter the current affairs like "House of Cards", so that the film is full of satirical drama characteristics. When we look further down, we will find that the old version only has simple and crude fighting, while the new version fully explores the chaos of the dark society of human nature.
For such a superhero movie, for the public, the biggest gimmick itself is to let us see how this great hero swept away thousands of troops. But the director spends most of his time showing us how this hero fights hard, because in the process, we see his humanity being wiped out bit by bit by science, and the reason is also from Yu is a big capitalist whose humanity has been wiped out by money. But man is the measure of all things, and machines cannot manipulate the existence of human nature. The final focus of this film is to show the strength of human nature. When Murphy's emotions are controlled by the power of machines, his suppressed emotions slowly recover. In the end, it is still human nature that triumphs over machine nature. Compared with some righteous heroes who can only beat their enemies with fists, such a humanistic hero image has been shaped very successfully.
However, what is worrying is that Murphy digs deeper and deeper, and has completely become the executor of the "four winds" movement in the United States. He started the anti-corruption campaign within the Detroit Police Department, and found a few who had harmed him. The director's sarcastic spearheads attacked at multiple points, all of which turned these things into small embellishments, but did not go deep. As the main creative team, the director is Brazilian, and the starring is Swedish. Such a multinational force came directly to the United States to satirize the United States, and there is always a sense of gangsterism. Of course I'm not a researcher of American politics, and I can't judge much on this. But the Brazilians did take so little of the heroism of the leaders of the Latin American national liberation movement to blame the United States. NSA wiretapping, FDA drug bans, Colorado marijuana, if this series goes on, these will definitely contain tricky events that are completely covered. However, to let Samuel L. Jackson talk nonsense on stage, I don't think it is necessary at all. Moreover, the Brazilian director went to the United States to film and made the Americans shout "America is the greatest". There is always a Chinese who goes to South Korea to be an idol and says "South Korea is my motherland".
To talk about whether this movie is the main theme, we must first confirm what is the main theme movie!
Baidu Encyclopedia defines the main theme movie as a major theme movie of revolutionary history that can fully reflect the mainstream ideology and a movie with a realistic theme that is close to the life of ordinary audiences, promotes mainstream values, and eulogizes human life. And often the mainstream ideology is the ideology of the ruling class, so my thinking is that the United States, a country with multiple political parties and diverse ideas, can hardly have a main theme, but to say that patriotism can be regarded as the mainstream ideology of a country, it can be Some patriotic movies are counted as theme movies, so I think such a film that expresses patriotism directly can be a theme movie. But there are many kinds of patriotism. Heroes like Robocop, who are the heroes of crime in today's American society, are of course patriotic, but when it comes to crime, it must involve corruption and profit motives, so this film has been criticizing !
When it comes to whether there will be a sequel after this movie, this movie has a lot of irony and little action. Most of the audience can't chew the hard stuff, and it may even offend some of the power. In the end, the box office is not high and the reputation is average. I think Sony MGM may also give up the idea of making a sequel at this time. But this hard sci-fi work is still a good movie, giving a very comprehensive look at what's right and wrong in America, while at the same time telling us that our human nature is so strong and doesn't hold back. Finally, I would like to warn all viewers who haven't seen it, if you want to see more details, please don't choose the stupid 3D version.
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