Judging from the plot of launching into space on a rocket and then traversing, it is still very similar to "Interstellar"; while the two schools of good and evil robots ("virtual emulators") from the future ("Tomorrow") fight each other, it is "The End The classic setting in "The Man"; as for a certain building as a city landmark is actually a space launch device, it makes us naturally think of "Men in Black".
However, the most intuitive analogy comes from a 5-episode mini-series "She Comes from the Future" filmed in the former Soviet Union in 1985. This drama tells the story of a little boy who accidentally came to the future world through a portal and met a girl in the future world. , And then work with this girl to protect the mind-reading machine and fight against cosmic pirates—the narrative clue of George Clooney, the male protagonist in "Tomorrowland", is almost the same as "She Comes from the Future". The freckled future girl and the future scenes with a strong "retro" meaning in the picture are very similar (of course, the visual effects in "Tomorrowland" are much better).
George Clooney bluntly told reporters when propagating "Tomorrowland": "Our generation, when we were young, felt that the earth would be destroyed by nuclear war, but this is not the case." The whole film is precisely the spirit of high-spirited optimism about the future-the development of technology is an excellent footnote to this spirit of optimism in the film. Therefore, "Tomorrow's World", which holds the banner of utopia, is named in the plot. Dao’s counter-examination of "Brave New World", "Fahrenheit 451" and "1984" are the representative dystopian science fiction novels; In the main setting of "World", it is also used in the opposite direction.
Of course, "Tomorrow" did not blindly lay out a better future, but used flashbacks and "countdown timers" to create basic theatrical contradictions-the "end of the world" brought about by nuclear war is still the most terrible The consequences became the protagonist’s motivation for salvation. With the help of Lori, Uncle Clooney, who had been to the utopian "beautiful new world", fought bloody battles, and finally eliminated the evil bureaucrats in the future world, thus returning our world. Wonderful development "on the right track".
If you make a sequel to "Tomorrow's World", it is almost the "Noon World" written by the Strugatsky brothers. The communist-style vision of the future written by the former Soviet Union science fiction writers is in line with the "American Emperor" Disney. Tomorrowland’s paradoxical similarities work at the same time-thinking of the mirror image in "She Comes from the Future", it makes people sigh: The Soviet Union and the United States have fought for half a century, allowing the world to live tremblingly on the brink of nuclear war. The future they promised to their children is almost exactly the same!
The New York World Expo in 1964 became the starting point for the narrative in "Tomorrowland". It was the era of turbulent new technological revolution after World War II (represented by aerospace technology). This World Expo also directly inspired the construction of Disneyland. In the opening of the movie, it is natural and logical-Disney is of course a business, but it must be admitted that Walt Disney’s own optimistic spirit is also immersed in Disney’s corporate culture and has given Disney this "cultural industry" strong Charisma of personality.
The "Girls of the Future" in the 1964 New York World Expo led the protagonist to a future full of variables. Those utopian beautiful scenes are facing a powerful threat that turns into bubbles every moment-this is almost a direct psychological reflection of the Cold War. Re-examining that era from an American perspective, Clooney’s words are literally: The new technological revolution seems to indicate that the "American Dream" is within reach. The development of aerospace technology makes human beings no longer just "look up at the stars", this is The era of a "dreamer" is an era in which science and technology initiates a bright future; but at the same time, this is another era of the cold war. The other side of the development of aerospace technology is the intensification of the space race and the technological advancement. There is also a huge nuclear arsenal that threatens the survival of all mankind at all times, so that under the shadow of the Cold War, people often forget that the future can actually become very beautiful.
Fortunately, the Cold War is over. The Americans are clearly the victors of this "war without gunpowder." Although environmental degradation and terrorism are still harassing the good lives of the victors, they have undoubtedly been relieved. Victors, they can already compose a victor’s future declaration in the soil of consumerism calmly, retelling their nightmare into a popcorn movie, and tell their children in a childish tone: The future can become very beautiful, and the future really becomes very beautiful.
When the end of the Cold War was using "human utopia"-style social ideals to instill in the whole society, human beings became less and less confident in the future utopia; when the unrealistic utopian ideals were abandoned, people found utopia-style The future is desirable and possible; and the "struggle goals" of these two opponents who fight to the death and death are exactly the same, which makes people sigh even more.
Could it be that humans are hostile to each other just because they need to be hostile to each other?
(Published in "The Beijing News" May 29, 2015)
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