Before going to see "Passengers", I heard about the bad reviews given by foreign film critics, but because I heard about the idea of this movie very early, this kind of extreme environment setting and the test of the characters is really Science fiction films are a good entry point, which not only balances the viewing obstacles caused by too many scientific elements to the general public, but also uses the imaginative background of sci-fi works to create some situational settings that can generate strong dramatic tension and thinking. So even if the film is released abroad and suffers bad reviews, I am still very curious about the effect of the film.
Before saying everything, I always feel that I have something to say about movie watching. If you just want to buy a ticket to vomit and vent the pressure of daily life, please ignore this passage of mine. But if you want to watch a story and experience the film as best as possible, please choose your viewing partner carefully, preferably alone. Watching movies with friends or girlfriends, unless you are all fans and understand the importance of being immersed in the story, it is easy to turn a movie into a Tucao convention. There is no movie without any loopholes, and when faced with the same situation, everyone's reaction and corresponding logic are completely different. The choice of characters in the film is not necessarily a choice you will make, and you are not in his situation. Sometimes you simply cannot imagine that situation. So in this case, you should relax and let your train of thought follow the film to feel the feeling. This is very important for most non-comedy movies, if you don't want to ruin the experience of watching movies. Of course, it is understandable to spend money for fun and make complaints while watching movies. It is also another way of watching movies.
Going back to this movie, I think the first two scenes of the movie, which is two-thirds of the movie, can be regarded as excellent works until the heroine knows the truth and collapses.
The hero woke up early for an accidental reason, and then lived a life like the rest of his life on a desert island. I think this paragraph can actually be extended appropriately, and the rhythm of editing and shots can be slowed down to better highlight the loneliness of a person on this lone boat, especially in the background of magnificent space. It is estimated to be The dream of many science fiction writers. The choice made by the male protagonist is actually very human. It is very normal to find a life-saving straw and a reason to live when he is about to persist. As for complaining about "the ugly person is never awakened", and complaining about "why it is her". I just want to say that the dramatic love performance is like this. I met her by chance and fell in love with her. Just like every one of us, some saw her walking by in the workplace, and some saw her profile face on the bus. Each person's emotional experience is completely different, and there is no reason to be tempted, just like. The most important thing is the process of emotional development. The emotional development of the two in this film is very natural, and there is no sense of jumping in the emotional scenes of the heroes and heroines of many major films before. The two understand each other about the past, then talk about the present, and then talk about their dreams, and then they are moved by some of the other's behaviors and thoughts, step by step. The reason why this film is described as a romance is that it is a high-cost science fiction film. It is not easy to describe the emotional development of the two in a relatively complete and rich level.
After a long period of suffering, the male protagonist finally got his brain hot and decided to wake up the female protagonist. It is this behavior that caused the male protagonist to be criticized as a "scumbag" by the feminist, and the film was criticized as "the three views are not right." Is it really so? Excessive "feminism" can be said to have become another stubborn disease in the Western world, just like the extra points and preferential treatment of ethnic minorities in this dynasty and the "black equal rights" in the West. It was originally a positive force to fight for equal rights for minorities and disadvantaged groups, but gradually, this kind of "political correctness" and "moral high ground" has caused a lot of excessive "right protection" instead. Is the action of the hero in this film really "straight male cancer"? When you are alone for a year, and you may be alone for a lifetime, as a social animal, on the verge of collapse, will it really not behave like a male protagonist? Our audience didn't realize what it meant to be alone for more than a year, and didn't even imagine the psychological state of the characters after enduring so long of loneliness. From this point of view, the male dominant nerve in this film is already very steel (of course, the bartender is also a huge credit). Even if the male lead is replaced by a woman, a similar choice is bound to be made. Because whether a man or a woman is a human being, they are all affected by common human weakness and needs. On the verge of collapse of the male protagonist, he just needs to wake up a partner of the opposite sex, which is part of human nature. And the most commendable thing is that the film still has a detailed description and performance of the entanglement, guilt and regret before and after the hero awakens the heroine, so that the emotional line of the entire character is continuous, and the motivation and reaction are completely smooth. And natural. This is also where this movie is higher than many big science fiction movies on the emotional line.
I have also said before that the second act of the film also has a convincing description of the warming of the two people's feelings. So the two people's sex, and the sex in various public places, do not have the forceful feeling of many blockbusters. Although I feel that the fit and spark between the two actors Xingjue and the cousin is not very strong, but it still expresses the love between the hero and the heroine very well. Then, after the fact that the male protagonist awakened the female protagonist was exposed, the big cousin Hua Cai performed. Really a genius-like actor. He had accepted the fact that his life was ruined, and then spent the rest of his life with the person he loved, only to find out that his tragedy was caused by the person he loved the most, and then he had to work together. Live to death. The imagination of this situation then made a very contagious response. The big cousin is totally worthy of the 30 million salary. After the heroine knows the truth, a series of scenes are mixed with all kinds of strong and complicated emotions of the heroine. This really requires talented actors and sober screenwriters to be able to do it.
Reasonable and empathetic, empathetic.
"Passengers" until here is a masterpiece, a masterpiece of feelings drifting lonely in space, and by the way, there has always been suspense in the audience's appetite, which is what awakens the hero, and what exactly is the third act to solve crisis. In fact, the heroine talked about her desire to be the first person to return to the colony in 250 years and how much money the company made from the colonial plan. I started conspiracy theoretic conjectures, and even hoped that the film would hang us more than one. After a small appetite, there can be a more shocking answer. After all, the discussion about the human nature of the male protagonist's choice, the rich despair and brokenness of the female protagonist, made me have higher expectations for the screenwriter. But obviously, the third act collapsed.
To be honest, from my perspective as someone who also wrote the script, this third act is really difficult to write. Because as a film, the direction of the story must be a climax step by step. For the script of a large-scale sci-fi movie, the third act must also solve a major crisis. But the first two scenes of the film actually left a big problem. It tells a relatively small emotional or human story under a large science fiction framework. The first two scenes focus on feelings and Human choice, speculative game these levels of things. If the film is a literary and artistic film, it will be easier to deal with, leaving a meaningful tail, or an open ending. The difficulty is that the film is positioned as a commercial production, it must have a big scene climax to complete the commercial narrative. A good movie, its climax, and the resolution of its third act must be organically unified with the main story. This climax cannot be purely special effects and actions. It must also promote the completion of the emotional line. From the perspective of this film, this is the big scene to complete the recombination of the two after the emotional split. Judging from the current setting of the film, it can only be said that this task was forcibly completed, forcibly the Hollywood cliché.
First of all, for the suspense that hangs most of the film: why the hero woke up by himself. The explanation of this matter is too arbitrary, especially when the whole article emphasizes that the dormant warehouse is unlikely to fail, but the board of the dormant warehouse is actually burned (of course it is also an external cause). Then the most important cause of the crisis was that a meteorite somehow missed the protective shield, passed through countless metal walls, and unbiasedly hit the computer host. This is still under the circumstance that the whole article emphasizes that our spacecraft will not have problems and how strong the protective shield is. This kind of one-in-a-million coincidence setting is the same as the "sweet soldier from heaven" in the play. It is not impossible, but it greatly reduces the charm of your play. In fact, this kind of coincidence setting is not unusable, it actually has a destined sense of fate, and it can also generate dramatic tension. However, because the film did not have any questions about fate or destiny before, the setting of this film will make the mystery of suspense very powerless without any preparation. Then the subsequent repairs and self-sacrifice of the male protagonist are the feeling of forced orgasm, which results in the audience not having the pleasure of revealing the mystery, nor did they feel that this action scene has a real and substantial impact on the relationship between the male and female protagonists. , Which ultimately leads the audience to feel that the film solves nothing and expresses nothing. In this way, it is understandable that bad reviews are caused. It is not the appearance of being complained, but the inner dissatisfaction that the audience did not realize.
When the hostess said that she wanted to be the first person to travel to and from the colony in 250 years, and how much money the company made. In fact, I have been thinking that the ultimate destination of this spacecraft is not the colony planet, but a star. Deep-space travel is full of dangers. A small problem, such as the meteorite rain encountered at the beginning of this film, will make it impossible to enter the orbit of the destination planet after 120 years, and drift into deep space forever. Therefore, as a kind of fail-safe guarantee, or a humanitarian method, the computer automatically corrects the course to a star and wakes up a passenger at the same time, and then sends a distress message to the earth as the male protagonist did. Then the company on earth will lead the shipwrecked pot to the male protagonist. Because as a business, the company has earned all the money that the company should make, it doesn't matter whether these people's dreams (including those who go to other colonies) have hundreds of years to verify and maneuver. So at this time, the hero and heroine on the spacecraft are facing a dilemma caused by human nature, so what they have to solve is to correct the orbit. At this time, it may be necessary to wake up more people (the crew members who are awakened will never be able to Live to see the new world), or even sacrifice part of the cabin of the hull. There will be difficult choices and games of human nature. In this process, the heroine is actually following the desperate heart of the hero at the time, so as to understand human nature, make difficult choices and games, and resolve the hatred of the hero. In this way, the climax of the final third act can closely follow the difficult choices and human flaws emphasized in the first two acts, and of course it also demonstrates love and hope.
The above is purely self-divergent and chaotic, read and pass.
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