Before the arrival of "Alien: Covenant" in May 2017 and "Blade Runner 2" in October, we ushered in a new sci-fi film "Alien Awakening" with many casts.
Ambitious original space stories are now in addition to the restart of the classic series, script stories like "Gravity" or "Interstellar" are directly rare. On the one hand, it is difficult to prepare and write in the early stage. On the basis of science, the structure has A story with deep meaning. Second, the production cost is high, and the film needs casts to support it. Last year's "Space Traveler" was an example. Even with the blessing of "Big Cousin" Jennifer Lawrence and "Star-Lord" Chris Pratt, the film still can't save the second half of the story from the unfinished ending of a romantic film, as well as the overhead deep sleep technology and artificial intelligence The system is still somewhat alienating, making the film's sense of realism continue to decrease. The only thing that provokes deep thought is the behavior and motivation of the male protagonist. If it were you, in the same situation, would you also wake up the person you like? Back to the new film "Awakening of Aliens", the film was directed by Swedish director: Daniel Espinosa, and the story was written by the two screenwriters of last year's hit Marvel movie "Deadpool". Although it is also [Space Station, Human and Unknown Lifeform]. But what is discussed here is more about the encounter between human beings and unknown life, and the following series of "races" about survival.
Using the real environment to create a terrifying atmosphere The arrangement of the film's plot effectively avoids those illusory future technologies, but, like "Gravity", reproduces the working environment of the space station and the real working state of the astronauts. In the subsequent development and climax of the story, we will see that the helplessness and resourcefulness of astronauts in times of crisis all come from their own psychological qualities, scientific knowledge and existing space equipment.
There are no scary monsters fighting the extraterrestrial life of the past, always designed to be black, sticky, tentacled or bloody monsters. All in all, it was extremely uncomfortable to watch. After that, after several silly white and sweet protagonists made consecutive mistakes, the film went all the way to the plot routine of beating monsters or being eaten by monsters. This time, "Awakening of Aliens" attempts to cut into the exploration of extraterrestrial life from a more practical perspective. It truly shows the process of extraterrestrial biological scientists studying specimens on the space station. The laboratory equipment and fabrication process are highly restored, allowing us to "witness" the moment when extraterrestrial life is "awakened" up close.
Exploring the Attitude of Meeting Unknown Life The director mentioned that in the film, he wanted to show the process of people facing the unknown, from joy to fear. After we learn the evidence that there was water on Mars, maybe one day, we will really find a biological cell, which happens to be a pluripotent living cell that can grow into a living cell under the environmental stimulation given by humans complete body.
In the film, the captain of the Russian cosmonaut, excited speculation outside the laboratory, said that this cell may be a muscle cell, a brain cell, and so on. But in the end, scientists did not expect that it happened to be an individual similar to animal stem cells, which could grow and evolve into a living body through mitosis. Plants on earth can be cultured and replicated through any cell to achieve the purpose of cloning. Animal cells, on the other hand, are quite different. Only egg cells are totipotent. That is, unless you get a human egg cell and culture it. Otherwise, if you take cells from any other part of our body, you will not be able to clone a human being. In the "Alien" series, the final alien is to evolve into a higher-level individual through mating with humans. In "Awakening of Aliens", extraterrestrial life is still in the survival stage, and has not yet entered the next stage, the reproduction stage. Many organisms can reproduce asexually and quickly replicate themselves in different environments. Sexual reproduction can also be selected to evolve into higher-level individuals when conditions permit. This key point may appear in "Alien Awakening 2". In "Awakening of Aliens", extraterrestrial biologists explained that this life should have existed on Mars for many, many years, and humans happened to find it in the sampling of Mars. And after experiments, it was learned that it relies on oxygen to survive, which led to its dormancy on Mars and its upcoming "competition" with humans.
The members of the space station described in the film are actors selected strictly based on the composition of the astronauts of the real space station, including Russia, Japan, the United Kingdom and the United States, as well as doctors and scientists from different countries. Their attitude towards unknown life is exciting, but also rigorous. In the online dialogue in Times Square, the children asked: "Will you bring [alien] back to Earth?" The astronaut replied: "No. Yes, we will study them safely in space." The simplicity of the film's story lies in the absence of any artificial dramatic conflict, such as the conspiracy behind private sponsor bosses, the military's conspiracy to research new weapons, or the secrecy and competition between nations. The film assumes only one conflict, a "race" between humans and unknown life forms.
The Instinct of Survival and Selfish Responsibility The alien creature in the film is a transparent body, full of innocence at first, after the violent behavior appears, people are not afraid of his appearance, but its unknown properties, human beings do not know how In order to destroy it, in the end can not even get rid of it. So, what we start to fear is the risk of human extinction. How to prevent this unknown life form from invading the earth has become the only goal of the surviving astronauts.
The film also spent a lot of effort in portraying the character of each astronaut. The astronaut, played by Jake Gyllenhaal, prefers to live in space. And the astronaut played by Hiroyuki Sanada, his wife just gave birth to a daughter, the astronaut played by Ryan Reynolds has been shouting about his dog, and the astronaut played by Rebecca Ferguson is even more concerned about himself Father, I miss you so much. Among them, the key extraterrestrial biologist: played by black actor Ariane Buckley, the film constantly shows his paralyzed lower limbs, and his discovery of extraterrestrial life as the first person, from excitement to injury, to disappointment and relief process.
Life is all about survival, and there is not much good or evil or right or wrong in it. And through the female astronaut played by Rebecca Ferguson, the film speaks out about the unknown life she feels, full of malice and hatred. It can be regarded as labeling this extraterrestrial life as a villain who stands on the opposite side of mankind. This makes the final reversal of the film even more evil and despairing. Maybe reality often does not have a perfect ending. Next time when we really face an unknown life form, what attitude should we use to treat it? And, how much will you sacrifice and give for the survival of mankind? Victory is not necessarily just, and survivors are not necessarily good. When faced with issues such as "survival", Homo sapiens have never been soft-hearted towards their peers. Sometimes the focus of science fiction stories is to put forward a pre-hypothesis, which triggers us to think about more possibilities.
Related Reference Encyclopedia: In the film, it also shows us how alien lifeforms move and walk in the space station under the weak photosensitive vision. Even the microbiology postdoctoral fellow said that the film is relatively true in terms of hardware equipment and biological theory. The following are some superficial biological knowledge involved: 1. Plant cell totipotency: [Baidu Encyclopedia] It means that each cell of a plant contains all the genetic information of the species, so that it has the genetic ability to develop into a complete plant. Under the right conditions, any cell can develop into a new individual. Totipotency of plant cells is the theoretical basis of plant tissue culture. Why are plant cells totipotent? We know that all cells of a plant are produced from fertilized eggs through mitosis. The fertilized egg is a specific cell that has all the genetic information unique to the plant. Therefore, each individual cell in the plant also has the exact same DNA sequence and the same cytoplasmic environment as the fertilized egg. When these cells are in plants, they only exhibit certain shapes and local functions due to the constraints of their organs and tissue environment. However, their genetic potential has not been lost, and all genetic information is still kept in the DNA sequence. Once it is freed from the shackles of the original organs and tissues, it becomes a free state. Under the induction of certain nutritional conditions and plant hormones, the cells' Omnipotence can be shown. So just like a fertilized egg, a single cell forms a callus and then becomes an embryoid body, which then grows into a complete plant. Therefore, the success of in vitro culture is firstly due to the totipotency of plant cells. 2. Stem cells are cells of origin: [Baidu Encyclopedia] Stem cells are cells with proliferation and differentiation potential, self-renewing and self-renewing ability, and can produce highly differentiated functional cells. In short, it is a kind of primitive undifferentiated cells with multi-directional differentiation potential and self-replication ability, and is the original cell that forms various tissues and organs of mammals. Whether stem cells are self-replicating or differentiated functional cells is mainly determined by the state of the cells themselves and microenvironmental factors. Including various cyclins (Cyclin) and cyclin-dependent kinases (Cyclin-Dependent Kinase) that regulate the cell cycle, gene transcription factors, and cytoplasmic factors that affect asymmetric cell division. Microenvironmental factors, including the interaction of stem cells with surrounding cells, stem cells with the extracellular matrix, and stem cells with various soluble factors. There are two types of stem cells in the human body, one is fully functional stem cells (totipotent stem cells), such as egg cells, can directly clone the human body; the other is pluripotent stem cells, such as bone marrow cells, which can directly replicate various organs and repair tissues. 3. The benefits of sexual reproduction: Although this aspect has not been covered in "Alien Awakening", the pioneering design and plot arrangement of the early "Alien" have become the key to the story. Reference [Heisenberg, "Why We Give Up Eternal Life"] http://weibo.com/ttarticle/p/show?id=2309404032815590172551 For asexual organisms, once a harmful mutation occurs in a gene, the harmful mutation will be copied intact, unless it occurs once Super lucky reversion mutation (very low probability), otherwise this harmful mutation will be entangled in the gene like a ghost, and it will not be able to get rid of it. Sexual reproduction is not simply copying the genes of the parent, but the exchange and fusion of different genes, which allows beneficial mutations and those genes that are not disturbed by harmful mutations to be rapidly enriched together, which is more efficient than asexual reproduction. Where did it go. Sex can also use the same logic to enrich harmful mutations, and then hand over the individuals carrying harmful mutations to the environment for destruction, so as to purify genes. Although sex can only inherit half of the genes of the parents, the fitness of the children is more than doubled. For life, "sex" can be said to be a sure-fire business. There are some examples in more articles, creatures that can reproduce both asexually and sexually, which are very magical and interesting, and interested friends can study them slowly. March 30, 2017 Toronto Little Xuan Er ————————————
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