The script of this movie is actually very rigorous, and there are many details that echo each other before and after. However, because many background content is passed by, it is easy to miss, which leads to a lack of understanding of the movie. In addition, some versions of Chinese subtitles are very difficult to understand. Fuck, so it is necessary to introduce the plot of the movie first, I will introduce it in the chronological order of the development of the event.
Time point 1: In 2053, the earth's population is close to collapse, and the battle for resources is imminent. At this time, the earth-like planet Tanis, which may be suitable for human habitation, was discovered, and the earth sent out unmanned probes for field exploration.
Time point 2: Around 2150, when the protagonist is about 7 years old, the signal sent by the unmanned detector is broadcast live worldwide. There are advanced creatures on the planet Tanis, suitable for human habitation. The live broadcast image impresses the protagonist and is full of fantasy.
Time point 3: In 2174, the protagonist was about 30 years old and boarded the Elysium spacecraft as a spacecraft technician. The spacecraft was loaded with 60,000 carefully selected humans and other earth creatures with high reproductive vitality and set off to emigrate to the planet Tanis. Since this flight will last for 123 years, most of the people on the spacecraft will enter the hibernation cabin, leaving only a group of technicians to drive the spacecraft. All technicians are divided into several groups, each with 3 people. According to the plan, after each group of technicians have operated the spacecraft for a period of time (ten years?), they will enter the hibernation chamber, and at the same time wake up and replace a group of technicians to operate.
Time point 4: In 21**, the earth launched an all-out war for resources. It may be due to the outbreak of an all-out nuclear war that the earth was finally completely destroyed. At this time, the technician on duty of the Elysium spacecraft was the group where the young Gallo was. Before the destruction of the earth, the Elysium was sent a final message, telling them that the people on the spacecraft were all the remaining humans. Hearing this news, the technicians on duty were at a loss. Faced with the three remaining living humans and 60,000 hibernating humans, Gallo had a complete mental breakdown. After killing the other 2 technicians, he began to play the role of God. He awakened some people at will, hunted them and let them hunt each other for fun, and even (possibly in hallucinations) ejected 5000 hibernation chambers into space at once. After more than ten years of playing like this, he finally felt bored, so he activated the random wake-up procedure, locked the driving cabin, and went to sleep in the hibernation cabin of a person named Payton. Many of the people who were awakened first were not killed, but hidden in the spacecraft, and eventually formed a small, closed human society.
Time point five: In 2297, the spacecraft flew to the planet Tanis as scheduled. Due to the unmanned pilot, the spacecraft fell to the bottom of the sea. And that small human society has multiplied for several generations. It may be due to the side effects of the biological reagents injected for hibernation. This particular human gradually mutates during the reproduction process. They become fairer, their eyes become larger, their skills are more agile, they become bloodthirsty, and their language ability deteriorates. They mainly prey on newly awakened humans, and of course, their own corpses will not be spared either. But in this process, there may always be a few people who survived the chase of mutants and passed down the truth.
Time point 6: About 3080, a black man was awakened. He heard legends about the history of the spacecraft from other survivors and carved them on the wall of the secret room where he lived. He has been hiding in the secret room, and may also be feeding on killing other humans.
Time point seven: 800 years after the spacecraft landed, and early in 3097, the first person to be awakened should be a certain busty girl and then a certain eastern peasant. They worked out their skills while avoiding mutants from hunting. Among them, the big girl is a member of the biological team, responsible for maintaining the continuation of the earth's biological species.
Time point eight: 3097, the present tense of the plot in the film, the last to be awakened is the protagonist Bower and "God" Gallo. Due to the amnesia and hallucination symptoms (ie Pandorum) when they were just awakened, Bower (hereinafter referred to as the protagonist) thought Gallo (hereinafter referred to as BOSS) is his boss Payton, and BOSS himself thinks so. Since the spacecraft’s energy is about to be exhausted, the protagonist is sent to find the driving cabin to restart the backup energy. The next process is almost the same as in the RPG game, that is, in the process of being chased by strangers, he joins the Eastern Peasant, the Big Girl and Black people, specifically, it is nothing more than not playing the plot that they don't know each other, so they won't be wordy. In the process, the protagonist learns what the boss is doing, and recalls that his boss Payton is actually not what BOSS looks like. So after restarting the energy successfully, the protagonist and the big girl came to the driving cabin to have a final duel with the BOSS. The protagonist who was stimulated by the BOSS and had hallucinations again shot the ship as a mutant, but it was this action that changed it. The battle situation-the rebounding debris shattered the glass in the cockpit, and sea water poured into the spacecraft. The protagonist and the busty girl ran into the hibernation cabin and started the ejection program. All the 1,213 people remaining in the spacecraft were ejected out of the sea. They assumed new hope for the continuation of mankind. This year was defined as the first year of Tanis.
Why is such a story a cult film? What interpretation can it do?
First of all, in the setting of the background, from the perspective of science fiction, the magnificent materials and courage of this movie far exceed those of ordinary science fiction works. General science fiction works are nothing more than discussing humans and robots, humans and extraterrestrial creatures, humans and the future, while the background of "Pandorum" is set as the complete destruction of the earth, human beings are about to become extinct, and human beings as a species, There are only 1,213 people in the hope of the continuation of its civilization. This setting is definitely pessimistic and cold enough. Although the final ending of the movie seems bright, in fact, all civilizations that mankind is proud of have been completely destroyed. These 1,213 people have to start from primitive society, not to mention the group hibernation hallucinations and inevitable symptoms they will face. Known alien creatures, can they successfully continue the "human" population? This topic needs to be explored in depth, and writing it down will be another human history.
Second, the ecology in the spacecraft is actually an analogy of the earth’s ecology, that is, in a closed space with limited resources, the final outcome of human free development is human cannibalism, and ultimately civilization is completely destroyed. In fact, it is treated as a mutant person for the sake of terror. The effect of and is not too shocking. In fact, I think it is logical to deal with human cannibalism directly. In a spacecraft, resources are extremely limited. In order to survive, either you die or I forget. The reason is that simple. The most ideal human society model for fighting for limited resources is the small African tribes. Some of the tribes are responsible for hunting and killing other tribe members, some are responsible for protecting their own tribe members, and the other are responsible for raising the next generation. It is cruel, but also very realistic. . The earth seems to be very large, and there are still many resources available, but if the population is allowed to grow indefinitely and resources are consumed arbitrarily, and finally break through the critical point of the balance between resource consumption and resource production, there is no doubt that it will enter the same ecology as the spacecraft. Although the "human cannibalism" stage may not necessarily be manifested in the form of real cannibalism, the war is actually even worse for resource wars than cannibalism. At least the eaten people enter the food chain, and their remaining energy is fully utilized. , And war is completely accelerating the consumption of resources-although there are 24 billion people on the earth in the film, they were all wiped out in just a few years of war, and the primitive human cannibalism on the spacecraft lasted for more than 800 years. . How to make the earth's ecology develop in a healthy way? Can the human species last forever? If human nature cannot be transformed, where is our way out? This topic can be discussed endlessly again. Family planning or flying out of the earth is a problem.
Third, on the human level, when you are the only one left in the world, there is no fetters, no laws, no sanctions, and no one to judge you, and you are faced with 60,000 people who know nothing about them in their sleep. You have the highest right of life and death, what do you think? what will you do? Will those suppressed nasty little thoughts deep in your heart be put into practice? Is human nature dominated by good or evil? Or, as shown in the film, evil comes from unlimited rights, while good comes from the reality that individuals have to compromise with each other in the face of survival pressure. This is another philosophical topic worth pondering. There have been too many controversies throughout the ages. The views of this film are different.
Fourth, with regard to the theory of evolution, Darwin put forward the theory of natural selection and survival of the fittest. However, some studies in recent years believe that organisms have the instinct to actively evolve according to the environment, and some experimental statistics prove that when the environment changes, the biological In the next generation, the possibility of adapting to environmental mutation is always higher than other mutation possibilities. Of course, this phenomenon has not yet been scientifically explained. After all, if this phenomenon is proved to be scientific and universal, it will undoubtedly cause huge shocks in human society. In the 800 years of the film, humans have undergone 40 generations of mutation and almost completely become another organism. Although the film mentions the infection of biological reagents, only the first generation of biological reagents have been injected. 40 generations of people reproduce naturally. Therefore, there are only two possibilities. One is that this mutation process has nothing to do with biological reagents, but the evolutionary performance of humans actively adapting to the environment; second, this mutation is caused by biological reagents, so this will lead to a very pessimistic outcome, that is, finally The offspring of 1213 people will be mutants, and humans will degenerate into animals in an all-round way. No matter which kind of interpretation, it is full of imagination. I personally prefer the former one, because at the end of the film, in the scene where a large number of mutants nest together in the engine compartment, there seem to be human figures at different stages of mutation.
The film wants to explore a lot of content, but the things that can be expressed are very limited, so many things need to be considered by the audience. This film is an excellent ultimate hard science fiction work. Because the depth and breadth of its content exceeds the general public's attention, "2012" has become a soft science fiction work in front of this film. The only regret is that the first-class story is accompanied by second-rate production, which is destined to be a niche movie. However, what can be fable is that after 10 or even 20 years, the status of this movie will get its due The status as a cult-level film, just like "The Thirteenth Floor" of that year.
Its potential to become a cult film also includes many hidden details. More articles can be unearthed behind every detail, which is popular among movie fans. For example, the name on the hibernation warehouse, the number 1213 itself, the number engraved on the arm, the painting on the wall of the black room, etc., all need to be discovered in one step.
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