I came for a sci-fi genre film, but I ended up getting a romance film that exceeded my expectations

Keanu 2022-03-17 09:01:04

Can't meet that person, miss that person, can't be with that person, it turns out that God is at fault. No matter how big or how many people there are in the city, even if you take the same bus at the same time every day for several years, you just can't meet each other. Compared with the free will that the movie wants to discuss, this kind of pain of missing out with people who should be with them every day really hits my heart. Only after listening to Eason Chan's "House of Flying Daggers" can you understand this destined sense of helplessness: "Why do I patrol back and forth, but I still rub shoulders with you, still in my own universe, and missed the spring". I thought it was a cliché against the established fate, but it turned out to be a love movie. As a leftover girl, I was really defeated by such a setting.
This movie is adapted from a short sci-fi story by Philip Dick. Sorry, I only found out after watching the movie, so I immediately went through the collection of novels I just bought a while ago, and sure enough it was there. Philip Dick is a very popular sci-fi writer in Hollywood. In addition to "Minority Report" by Stephen Si and "Cracks of Memory" by John Woo, there are also "Total Recall" which has been put on the screen twice and "Silver", the god-level sci-fi movie. Wing Runner, all the best recommendations in science fiction movies. The evaluation of this film is quite polar, I think it is good or bad, it depends on how you look at it.
Yes, it's kind of anticlimactic as a sci-fi movie. The beautiful and awesome setting at the beginning turned out to be "love moves the sky" at the end, and it is no wonder that science fiction fans patted the table to protest. But if you take it as a romance, it's much more exciting than Qiong Yao's drama. Although there are several styles reminiscent of the Bourne series, Duomeng's infatuation energy is really charming, and the interpretation of giving up his future in order to be with the heroine is like a willful and innocent child. This is also the first time that I have felt a spark between Duomeng and the heroine, and it is also with Emily Blunt, who has become a spokesperson for a female man this year. Before I saw it, I couldn't imagine the bloated Agent Bonn and the all-metal X-ray standing together, but this pair really had a chemical reaction. How many couples are there in the Hollywood movies of this year that really make people feel like they are in love? Because I just finished watching "Time Planning Bureau" (also produced in 2011, but the two really don't matter, the translation name of the idiot), it seems that the true feelings of cuteness and female man are even more precious. .
Of course, another surprise in the movie is the supporting cast. Doug of "House of Cards" is still acting as a politician's deputy this time. As for the American team's good friend Falcon, he once again played the role of the protagonist's loyal friend, and the role was quite heavy. But in just three years, the status of these two actors has changed. Although I don't know how it will develop in the future, I sincerely hope that more people will smile when they see this movie in the future.
I came for a sci-fi type film, but I ended up with a romance film that exceeded my expectations. So in the final analysis, can the things in the movie resonate with the audience? If there is more than one plot or setting or moment that hits the audience's dead end, then the movie isn't too bad after all.

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  • Harry Mitchell: [talks to David] You're going to look for her, aren't you? You won't find her. They'll make sure of it. Even if they weren't trying to stop you, there are nine million people in this city. You'll never find her. Forget about her. Move on with your life.

  • David Norris: What ever happened to Free Will?

    Thompson: We actually tried Free Will before. After taking you from hunting and gathering to the height of the Roman Empire we stepped back to see how you'd do on your own. You gave us the Dark Ages for five centuries... until finally we decided we should come back in. The Chairman thought maybe we just needed to do a better job of teaching you how to ride a bike before taking the training wheels off again. So we gave you the Renaissance, the Enlightenment, the Scientific Revolution. For six hundred years we taught you to control your impulses with reason, then in 1910 we stepped back. Within fifty years, you'd brought us World War I, the Depression, Fascism, the Holocaust and capped it off by bringing the entire planet to the brink of destruction in the Cuban Missile Crisis. At that point a decision was taken to step back in again before you did something that even we couldn't fix. You don't have free will, David. You have the appearance of free will.