From top to bottom, science fiction films, which are known for their gorgeous special effects and exaggerated actions, have brought demonization to the extreme. Down to the touching emotional film with pure love.
Movies have gone from silent to sound, from black and white to color, from relying on acting to prop up half the sky to now inverting, cutting out, and editing into "masterpieces". Technology is advancing rapidly, and content and expressiveness are shrinking under the suppression of technology.
However, the "Space Traveler" to be told today is a film that is "so simple and unpretentious, so different from the coquettish bastards outside".
The most convincing thing is that, as a science fiction film, it greatly dilutes the shortcomings of other movies of the same genre that overemphasize special effects while ignoring the plot.
Even in terms of the fullness of the characterization and the depth of the plot, it is more real and moving than many emotional films with a true love card.
 The plot setting of the film is not new. During the 120-year journey from Earth to Space Colony Homestead 2, the actor James accidentally woke up from frozen sleep early. Realizing that he might have to spend 89 years alone on this giant ship, Jim tried to fall asleep again and call for help from the crew on the ship, but they all ended in failure. James, who was on the verge of collapse, reluctantly awakened a female passenger, Aurora, and the two had a spark of love during their relationship.
But the problems they face are far more difficult than pure love, such as how the male protagonist should pay for his selfishness, such as how to save themselves who have been threatened by the failure of the spacecraft, including their traveling companions, and the voyage itself.
Except for the male and female protagonists, only one crew member, Gus, who woke up in the second half of the film, and Arthur, the robot bartender on the spacecraft, are the only four actors who worked together to complete the film, which is in sharp contrast with the blockbuster star-studded.
Prior to "Space Traveler", the 2009 film "Moon" was a masterpiece that completed the complete narrative of a science fiction film with very few cast members. There was only one main character in the film, but it won the 2009 Edinburgh Film Festival Jury Award and 63rd. The British Academy of Film and Television Arts Awards "Outstanding British debut" title. In the sci-fi movies where the same protagonist achieves his dream of saving the world by conquering space, he is indeed ingenious.
"Space Traveler" is first of all an emotional movie, it talks about human greed. The actor is not a hero, even selfish.
After he woke up because of a sleep compartment malfunction, he was afraid of loneliness and forcibly woke up the sleeping heroine to spend the rest of his life with him.
If it hadn't been for the bartender Arthur to tell Aurora, she might have been kept in the dark for the rest of her life.
In the long 89 years, since it has been impossible to return to the sleeping cabin to continue sleeping, this behavior is not as simple as waking up a person, but is equivalent to chronic poisoning.
This is also the place where "Space Traveler" has been criticized the most. The "freshness" (praise rate) of the film on the American film review website "Rotten Tomatoes" is only 30%. The results on the website) are also not optimistic. The professional score is only 39 points. Four of the 13 professional film critics gave negative reviews, 7 were moderately reviewed, and only 2 were positive.
However, I personally feel that this character setting is very real, especially after seeing a lot of good people get rewards, and bad people will eventually succumb to the traditional plot, I even think that the world is not only black and white, but also introduction. In the gray area between the two.
For example, a well-known good old man may have cheated on exams and stolen bad practices; a murderer referred to by a thousand men may only cause a catastrophe when a bullet went wrong. All of this can happen.
Jim gave his life out of the cabin to suppress the fire after the spacecraft’s fire exhaust system malfunctioned. At this time, he did not put the heroine in danger; when he discovered the only medical cabin in the entire spacecraft that could allow people to sleep again, he had no choice. Strive for a way to survive but let Aurora sleep in.
"Because I like you, I selfishly want you to accompany me, because I love you, so if there is only one chance of survival, I am willing to give it to you" This is what Jim said to Aurora.
Therefore, Jim is a person in a gray area of personality. Compared with the traditional black and white good or bad people, Jim is more convincing in the torture of human nature.
Every frame of the film is about deceit and sincerity, self-interest and sacrifice, original sin and redemption. In addition to the artistic beauty and dazzling special effects of general blockbusters, it also explores the nature of human nature and philosophically thinks deeply.
Secondly, the film jumped out of the simple setting of astronauts exploring space, and pioneered the unique concept of universal science fiction. Compared with the occupation and conquering of space exploration in the early days of mankind, peaceful symbiosis is a higher philosophy of the universe and life.
The heroes and heroines can obviously choose to take turns waking up in the only sleeping pod, but they don’t want to linger for a glimpse of the colonized planet, but choose to use their own strength to transform this dying spacecraft and wake up after 88 years. Of people see a whole new world.
 Jim, a frustrated mechanic; Aurora, a successful journalist and writer, why did they choose to abandon everything and come to another colonial planet? Because they are all alone. Even if you gain prestige, status, and honor on the new planet, you can't compare with having a lover with a heart.
Putting yourself in and thinking about the hesitation and helplessness faced by the vast universe, we really can't make assertions about human nature. The human nature and love described in the movie are the two most beautiful and evil things in the world, and no one can truly control them.
At the same time, the film also conveys another concept: understanding the pain of people who have hurt oneself is one of the expensive treasures of human nature. Therefore, the completion of self-salvation and the understanding of the suffering of others are the reasons why Aurora finally risked his death to return Jim from space and resurrect him. The spiritual core of love and forgiveness should be the main theme of this movie.
The director has always emphasized in the film, "We can't just think about the future and forget how to live the life in front of us and how to cherish what we have around us." In a limited life, please let forgiveness and kindness take up more. Rather than live forever in loneliness, it is better to learn to enjoy warmth briefly.
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