There is a sentence in the 54th chapter of Herman Melville's Moby Dick:
"There is no need to sail far away, the world is Lima."
I really like this sentence. When I saw the name of the spacecraft in the film "Lima", I couldn't help but feel aroused, and my whole body was shaken, and my mind could no longer jump from the novel "Moby Dick". open.
Roy, played by Pete, is like Ishmael's possession, becoming the only survivor in the boat. At the same time, his identity, or "psychological identity", also corresponds to the meaning of Ishmael's "forsaken" in the Bible.
The father played by Tommy Lee Jones is undoubtedly Captain Ahab who killed himself and almost all the crew (except Ishmael who survived as the storyteller) because of his paranoid desire for revenge.
And the ghostly white sperm whale named Moby Dick is the extraterrestrial intelligent life that the father has been looking for in the film.
Under such a corresponding relationship, the drama conflict that belongs to the film itself is that the abandoned son has been unable to accept his father's choice. He stubbornly wants his father to apologize to him, wants his father to wake up, and express love and regret for himself. Tears.
This almost created another Ahab, and this Ahab has repeated his father’s mistakes and killed his own crew. He has also been entangled in the chain of fate, and is about to be dragged into the ocean of death by "Moby Dick" (space )deep.
Then he realized that his father couldn't turn his head back as he wanted, and how similar he was to his father, why should he be so paranoid, and why should he be so selfish.
Isn't it good to live in the present, live on the shore?
Fate was still gentle with him, and it gave him a chance to decouple. He degenerated from Ahab to Ishmael, and surviving became the next theme. Escape from paranoid thoughts, return to favor, and live well.
After all, without aliens, humans still have each other.
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