Many short comments have launched various verbal criticisms of the male protagonist's actions. In fact, the film itself does not give any positive explanations. Although this film is dressed in a layer of love in space, it actually has a deep tragic core-human blind confidence in technology, super companies' oppression of the people at the bottom, and human suffering in extreme environments.
The points that have been complained most now are not completely unprepared. They can explain the protagonist’s behavior in a few details, and the overall structure is self-contained. The behavior and motives of the protagonist and heroine can also be traced.
1. Can human beings behave in violation of social morality in extreme environments?
At the beginning of the film, a considerable amount of space is used to show how a super-high-tech self-driving super-large spacecraft navigates the universe. Due to accidental injuries while crossing the stone formations, the spacecraft began to experience various malfunctions. These increasingly frequent mechanical malfunctions are interspersed in the first half of the movie. The protagonist's awakening is one of the faults. Unfortunately, once the passengers are awakened, they cannot go to sleep again, because in the film, through the mouth of various AIs, it is mentioned more than once annoyingly: "The sleeping compartment cannot fail."
It is this extreme self-confidence in technology that causes the male protagonist to be forced into a foreseeable extreme-loneliness and death. According to the American psychologist Maslow’s hierarchy of needs theory, human beings have social, respected, and self-fulfilling needs in addition to food, clothing and safety. Difficult, what will the hero do next? Are you going to die in the ordeal, or do you want to fight?
I have imagined that a person travels to a completely unrelated new world for some reason and cannot return. Is it necessary for this person to remain loyal to his spouse in the old world and adhere to the previous values and ethics?
There is a similar discussion in the real world: the survivors who were left in the sea in a shipwreck, due to the needs of survival, draw lots to choose who is killed as food for other people. Cannibalism is certainly a crime within the scope of general social ethics. However, in extreme cases, it is possible for the remaining people to survive. Is it necessary to choose to cannibalize or be eaten?
The point of the question is not the answer, but the value discussion.
Based on the narrative just now, returning to this film, I think the male protagonist has made the only choice that can continue his life, and thus avoided the large-scale group annihilation that was originally destined to occur, and also suffered the consequences for his own actions.
It is not appropriate to use the analogy of "trafficking women" in the short commentary-the real women abductors are not in an environment separated from normal human society. Perhaps they are in a difficult situation, but it is not that they cannot try to change their living conditions through hard work. Kidnapping and imprisonment are naked crimes.
2. The rationality of this space love.
The first question the heroine asks when interviewing the male protagonist is: Why did you choose to leave the earth?
I think the most curious questions of the questioner are often the most relevant to his own experience. From the details of the film, it can be seen that the career development of the heroine is acceptable. The office is located in a high-rise office building with a prosperous view of New York. According to her own words, she has been deeply influenced by her father who won the Pulitzer Prize and is eager to pass the extraordinary Experience writes more valuable articles, but the actor points out that when her work is completed, those readers she wants to dedicate do not exist, which makes the heroine feel lost. Let's make a detail: when the heroine was tearing down the video sent by her friends, her best friend's sentence: "I hope you can find the right person" made her extremely disappointed.
Maybe it is my feeling alone: the
heroine chose to leave her relatives and friends and stay away from the earth, and there are some reasons for emotional frustration.
The heroine’s anger is of course because the actor ruined her life, to be precise, ruined her "planned life", and the deep reason for this anger is that she was ashamed that she once really enjoyed being with a man The feelings between the protagonists-after all, he is a loyal reader and romantic lover. He admires her and cares for her. He is indeed the kind of man the heroine needs.
From the point of view of a nihilist like me, if this spacecraft is a luxurious prison, then the human world is not a vast circular prison. You have to abide by the social norms and moral codes that most people agree with. Throughout his life, he has been playing a survival game, and how many men in this world use diamond-encrusted ring shackles to lock women in their marriages. Not everyone will use parts to build an Empire State Building for you.
The heroine is always strong and retains her own choice, always expressing her true feelings unpretentiously: when she is angry, of course, she can yell at the hero and look at her forever, and she can also fight when she needs him. Do everything possible to save him, choose to give up dormancy and stay together for life.
3. The paradise of the universe.
It has been inferred that the heroine’s boarding may be due to the emotional experience of the protagonist, but the hero is simpler-Homeland II plan to obtain more cheap labor, use discounts on ferry tickets and brainwashing of corporate culture, and flicker the hero. Filled with chicken blood, I am willing to let go of the past and go to the new star. (The protagonist’s simple and straightforward personality is shown on the side.) Those
who board the spaceship, in essence, actively choose to let themselves disappear from the existing social and interpersonal relationships. This disappearance is almost death for relatives and friends on earth. There is no difference, this is the point that makes me breathe the most in this film.
Compared with the life of the Unknowable Homeland II in the future, the hero and heroine gave up dormancy and spent their lives in the two-person world in a spaceship comparable to a luxury hotel, and built her own Taoyuan. The heroine finally completed a unique work in the universe. , This seems to be the kind of self-realization they initially pursued.
The saddest character in the film is the deckworker played by Lawrence Fishburne. The company's arrogance and negligence led to his death.
The big cousin's performance is full of details, whether acting coquettishly or spoiledly is quite convincing, and the fit and line-shaped body is really beautiful and delicious. Xingjue is also quite in line with the image of the machinist and tough guy who does bad things in the film.
Although it is obvious that the plot still has a lot to dig deeper, Hollywood still uses their pen and ink in the love scenes and cosmic adventures that they are really good at. The goddess falling in love with me may be sneered, but YY settings such as the protagonist Kai Wushuang or the overbearing president falling in love with me are also everywhere. Love movies and science fiction movies are essentially a kind of bragging art, since this Two times are combined into one, and I just eat this bite setting.
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