Why You Need To Go: Very imaginative, very warm, and at the same time can be seen as a somewhat offbeat guide for adopters.
Title: "Children of Mars"
Director: Mennonite Meyers
Starring: John Cusack, Bobby Coleman, Amanda Peet
Released: 2007
Home Reader: How the Singer of Stone Garden
identified Mars Man
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does he speak Martian? Will you dance the Martian dance? Is he always wearing a heavy belt around his waist, because "Gravity is too weak, and Mars keeps pulling him back"?
Can he telekinetically control a home run or a traffic light change? Can you taste the color of M&M beans with your eyes closed?
Is he aloof, withdrawn, and hates the sun? Are you taciturn in front of people, but can communicate with the vacuum cleaner? Does he understand the universe and the difference between red dwarfs and red giants?
Does he have an old soul who knows all the feelings of earthlings, but never expresses them in himself?
Seven-year-old orphan Dennis fits every one of the above characteristics, so even the volunteers at the adoption center believe that only science fiction writer David is the best person to adopt him.
David lost his beloved wife two years ago and has yet to come out of the shadows, but his friend encouraged him to adopt the child because "you still have a lot of love in your heart waiting to be given".
I'm very curious about how these two men with sad pasts can get along.
And more importantly I wonder, is Dennis really a Martian child? Or was he so different simply because there was so much emotion, vulnerability, longing, and restlessness in his little body that it was impossible to unleash it without the use of the imagination?
There is no doubt that Dennis is a difficult child to get along with. He is not inferior if he is near, and resentment if he is far away. He lives in his own impeccable Martian logic all day long, making small mistakes that are despised by people on earth, such as stealing, and using the words of others to discourage David. , Dennis "is like a ticking time bomb, like buying a used car and not knowing when it will leak oil".
But be careful with your wording—a child isn't a used car, and adoption isn't shopping. Of course, we can generously return a faulty microwave oven without worrying that it will cry under the covers because of its damaged self-esteem, but when it comes to adopting a child, things are a thousand times more delicate.
At one point in the film, Dennis breaks the glass unintentionally and bursts into tears, thinking that David will just send him away.
David said, "I don't care about these things, they are just things, you can throw them and play with them if you want."
The next scene is two people smashing plates in the kitchen, the scene is wild, shocking, completely It is the urban youth version of Yong Qingwen's "tear the fan and make a daughter smile".
The artistic temperament of John Cusack makes the character of David real, strong and convincing. Every time I see him bending down his tall body and trying his best to keep his line of sight with Dennis, it really makes people feel moved.
What bothered me even more was the Martian dance that Dennis danced in the living room.
I saw him walking sideways, touching each other with his little fingers, bowing, spinning, and when he saw David, he beckoned him to join in. After the two danced in silence, Dennis smiled sweetly at David and said, "It's been a long chat. Happy" and left.
Oh, this kid does have a magical fascination.
Moreover, how he looks like a little creature that has wandered in the interstellar dust for a long time before coming to Earth: dazzling white skin, a tousled golden-brown curly hair, sunglasses, a gravity belt, and a camera anytime, anywhere. Everything that piqued his interest, quietly exuding the artist's distinctive demeanor, was a miniature version of Andy Warhol.
So, the theme of the movie is actually: Can you love someone "as they are"? Even if he insists he's a Martian doesn't affect your feelings for him?
Finally, I'm going to end this review with a large dialogue from the movie, because it's so well expressed that I can't selfishly enjoy it
alone--
At this very moment, you and I, composed of atoms, are sitting on this circular stone with magma at its core, bound by gravity to the surface, orbiting the sun at 6,700 miles per hour, and spinning away at 600,000 miles per hour. the Milky Way, and chasing its own trajectory through the universe at the speed of light. Does it sound odd that in the midst of all this crazy movement we are willing to give, and most of the time without expecting anything in return, knowing that we will have to face death someday? Isn't it incredible? Is this incredible enough? If that's the case, why are you still pretending you're from Mars?
2008-7-27
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