Jupiter Ascending: A Super Concept Science Fiction Movie

Lew 2022-03-22 09:01:31

Unwilling to be mediocre, the Wachowskis are always exploring a forward-thinking sci-fi movie genre. They want what others don't think about, do what others don't do, and use a maverick and incomprehensible style. concept, to create a concept movie that belongs to your own heart. It is this kind of concept of exploring unknown people, which is brought together in a complex science fantasy, and explains the unexplainable mysteries in the world through a kind of mathematical logic thinking. Created a fairy tale belonging to the new era, with a heart of adhering to the Renaissance, to lead the development of the sci-fi film industry, but this over conceptual film style is difficult for us to accept and understand, and things that are not understood and digested No matter how good it is, it will not be popular with people. The stubborn Wachowskis did not try to please the audience's taste, but let their films show the arrogance and disdain for the audience's taste. Indulging in self-conscious exploration without a direction to guide people's interest is also the reason why the content of the film seems too confusing and very banal. The movie has created a very luxurious and complex visual effect, and created a huge structural system with a very conceptual imagination. In a kind of almost crazy fantasy, the feelings released by the movie are to take all the things in the world. The things they considered went far beyond the boundaries of ordinary sci-fi movies, and completely abandoned the existing sci-fi style with subversive thinking. It has to be said that the movie is full of the ambitions of the Wachowskis. The upgrade of special effects has also been expanded to the maximum.

The story of the movie is not a perfect story, it is a Shakespeare-style classical literary story, which not only shows that the Wachowskis have a heart of advocating classical literature, but also contributes to the creation of a literary work full of classical poetry. I am obsessed, but looking at this movie, the content of the movie is similar in appearance to highlighting the temperament of classical literature, but the spirit is not the same. It just uses a shell and does not really create a content story that is full of interest. The movie is too biased The tall design is out of place for the mediocrity of the story itself. The classical love story that did not really figure out the heartbreak has become a niche like a small and fresh, so that its magnificent epic creation suddenly lost a lot of color. The design of the film that pays too much attention to special effects seems to want to cover up the weakness of the story. The lengthy rendering of special effects pushes the film to the edge of being empty and superficial. For the film, the special effect itself is just an accessory for rendering the content of the story. The connotation and nature have undergone earth-shaking changes, and this change is absolutely devastating. The Wachowskis themselves are definitely not ordinary filmmakers. They have a lot of experience in the arrangement of film stories. A strong spatial and mathematical logic thinking, and a conceptual fantasy is put into the content of the story, allowing us to enjoy the movie and feel the most cutting-edge trend of science fiction, as if standing on a big ship riding the wind and waves. On the boat, enjoy the most intense and wide-ranging spiritual vision at the forefront, which can often open up people's pioneering horizons and understanding. However, this movie returns to the ancient heroism, and with the old stalk of beauties loving heroes, it has achieved the most sci-fi and the most nostalgic contradictory combination. It has to be said that from this film, it can be seen that the Wachowskis fell into a ideological misunderstanding in their creation. The concepts they designed were matched with the content of the too old story, which showed that they could make their pioneering fantasy possible. The content that dominates the movie itself is a trend of the future, and this situation has appeared in the "Transformers" series of movies, and experiments have proved that this is a kind of failure.

The film mainly focuses on creating highly conceptual sci-fi content, without really considering the integration of the story content, and the continuous introduction of new visual effects scenes completely makes the film a dazzling kaleidoscope. As for the content of the story and the performances of the actors, it has been Started to become insignificant. As the hero and heroine in the movie, Mila Kunis has completely become a vase-like character, neither guiding the development of the story, nor providing a clue worth using for the movie, but constantly repeating as a reincarnated queen The identity of a doppelgänger is difficult from the beginning to the end. As the leading actor, Channing Tatum has completely fallen into an action performance department, constantly flying around and playing performances, and even the time for falling in love is saved. Not only does he have no acting skills, even he The image of the hero created is also a standard simple-minded and well-developed.

However, this is still a magical movie. The content it creates deconstructs another sci-fi interpretation that may exist in the cosmic environment, and the original sci-fi content still amazes us. During the entire movie process, The sci-fi pictures created by the film fully mobilized imagination and creativity, and created an alternative universe full of novelty with a bold conjecture and exaggerated design. The fast editing of the movie and the highly rendered pictures have a strong infectious impact on people's visual impact, and the choice of the protagonist to return to mediocrity in the end also reminds us of the truth of being a human being, and the ordinary life is the most worthwhile to have. Perhaps this also reflects the current state of mind of the Wachowskis. No matter how good or bad the works they create, they are still walking on a frontier road that no one else can pursue, and will not make any changes. , because this is their original life

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Jupiter Ascending quotes

  • [from trailer]

    Balem Abrasax: Bring her to me... *Now*!

  • Balem Abrasax: Slow.

    [play back of the scene in the operating room where Caine meets Jupiter slows as Balem moves around in it]

    Balem Abrasax: There... you... are...

    [he stoops down to look at Jupiter as she is floating in the operating room]

    Balem Abrasax: You know there are moments when I actually miss you. Because no one understands this universe like you did. No one understands me...

    [his voice breaks]

    Balem Abrasax: ...like you did.