Part of the reason for the expectation of "Super Power Chapai" is the setting of Uncle Wolf + Robot, which ignited me The passion when I watched "Iron Armored Steel Fist", although when the film was over, I found that the two were irrelevant; and the other part was purely because of this director, the South African-born director Neil Blomkamp, who did not Wrong, he is the "anarchist" we are talking about today.
Because of his talent, he was favored by Peter Jackson, and he participated in the production of the movie version of "Halo" that gamers know; and is well known to mainland audiences, we have to start from the fall of 2013. That year, a movie called "Elysium" was released. I originally went because of Matt Damon and science fiction. After the movie was released, I found that the director and screenwriter of this movie had some problems with the world view.
In the future world in the movie, the earth is no longer suitable for survival, and some people are transferred to the "Elysium" established in the earth's orbit to live, while most people are left on the earth to die. All people rely on the chip in their body to differentiate their grades, and people in Elysium can be treated with medical conditions of immortality. In the end, the people on the earth rushed into the "Elysium" and turned the "Elysium" into a place indistinguishable from the earth.
Not to mention, such a future regime and social hierarchy is difficult to achieve step by step. As far as the final result is concerned, the director obviously puts his position in the perspective of the low-level people on the earth, and regards the final breaking of polarization as a victory of justice, without considering the collapse of the social system and human beings. Final complete destruction. At that time, my first impression was that this guy must be a Wang Erxiao who grew up in a slum and has deep class hatred.
After that, I decided to look at his most famous example of low-cost exchange for high box office, the sensational "The Ninth District", but after reading it, I found that this story that happened in his hometown of South Africa is almost the same as "Elysium". "has the same values.
The poor dwarf aliens "prawns" who accidentally broke down on the earth became refugees on earth, and the earth people isolated them into the "ninth district" and discriminated against them. The "demolition team leader" carried out the relocation work for the aliens on behalf of the earth, but was accidentally injected into the body by their body fluids, and finally changed from the "demolition team leader" to the "Nail Household" who was also driven out by the same kind of earth. After learning of their pain Then began to rebel against humans.
This time, the director put himself in the low-level alien perspective, and tried to make him feel the pain of the "poor people" in the process of change by simulating the "demolition team captain", so as to relieve his hatred , which is tantamount to the same purpose as the bottom people resisting power politics.
If he abstracts his works so far, it can be seen that he deeply sympathizes with the bottom of the society and worries about its suffering; however, in his writings, the way people at the bottom of society change their fate is simple and simple, and that is to take Use the weapons in your hands to overthrow the regime. I suddenly felt that this state was extremely familiar. Isn't this the "limitation of the peasant class" that we learned in our high school history?
Therefore, although "District 9" and "Elysium" have constructed completely different villains and mechanical worlds, in fact, the essence is the struggle between classes and the breaking of the social system. "Anarchy" is that they will eventually get together the result of.
As an "anarchist" who can run rampant in Hollywood, Neil's stubbornness can sometimes have miraculous effects, that is, he has anti-hero thinking that is completely different from traditional American heroism directors. "Super Chappie" is example.
This time, he pushed the inequality between classes to the issue of philosophy of science, that is, the gap between the two "classes" of "artificial intelligence" and "human thinking".
In his hometown of South Africa again, the scientist who created the robot police finally broke through the problem of "artificial intelligence", programmed the "thinking" function of the human brain, and applied it to the scrapped robot "Chappie". , while "Chappie" helped his "father" and "mother" to successfully transfer their will to the machine after the struggle of "at the beginning of the machine, nature is good or evil" and got "eternal life". What is not offensive about the values of this film is that "artificial intelligence" and "human thinking" are not a competition between two classes, and they have nothing to do with historical concepts and real politics. It can even be said that it is just a borderline issue of pseudoscience. On the contrary, his "anarchism" gave this seemingly impossible world an ending that broke through the values like "The Cabin in the Woods". This kind of value completely different from traditional Hollywood heroism has brought many people. Surprise and admiration.
Although, I can't judge whether Neil's next film will still make me criticize, but, at least this time, on the stage of "Super Chappie", the anarchist has created a plot miracle.
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