Predatory City is a science fiction action film produced by Universal Pictures. Directed by Christian Rivers, the film starring Robert Sheehan and Hela Thelma is currently in theaters. The picture of the film is delicate and shocking, and it is mainly composed of steampunk elements. The 3D modeled metal industrial cities and sky havens are visually stunning and majestic. The giant traction city is used as a tough curtain, and the aircraft is a combination of feathers and air wings, dotted in the wasteland world, light and elegant. As an American blockbuster, the ingenious combination of "soft" and "hard" is just one of the highlights. There are also hard-core sci-fi such as the Cold Weapons Grand View, artificial black holes and doomsday weapons, which make the audience fully enjoy a visual feast. The film takes place after the nuclear war destroyed human civilization. At this time, human society has evolved a new way of survival - pulling the city. The industrial cities are constantly moving, savagely roaming the land like devouring giants. Large cities use the land as hunting grounds, capturing smaller cities for supplies with chains and guns. Tractionists use violence to destroy the peaceful lives of settlers, and conduct strict arrest and ban measures against anti-tractionists. The conflict between settlers and tractionists has intensified under this pressure. The film begins with a golden-yellow vista, making viewers feel the vastness and loneliness of a wasteland. Then there is the close-up of the heroine Hester Shaw's desperate run, and the giant city London bursts out with an incomparably powerful momentum. Hester Shaw kept jumping and running, hiding in the crowd of a small mining town, and was captured by the giant city of London along with the residents of the small city. She was agile and tried her best to assassinate her enemy Valentine on the street, but was stopped by the male protagonist Tom. After learning about Hester's family feud and Valentine's greedy ambitions under the surface of righteousness, Tom and Hester join forces to fight the anti-human "Energy Project." Valentine wanted to climb to the pinnacle of power, at the expense of thousands of people's blood, to win his own honor. First of all, they plundered Europe, but they also wanted to ignore the lessons of previous failures, trying to break through the protective wall of the eastern "mountain country" and dominate the world. Next is the process of long-term struggle and victory, which are interlocking and very enjoyable.
The characters in the film are more typical. This makes it easier for the viewer to understand, but it also seems relatively monotonous. Valentine is a careerist, Hester is a tenacious, kind-hearted avenger, and Tom is a young man from the bottom who loves his homeland. Characters tend to be flat, facial, and somewhat single. What is more special is that the Asian face Anna Fang in the film is not an insignificant minor supporting role or a background board, but appears as an important role in the victory process, and has made a strong contribution to her "Supergirl"-style performance and brave spirit. portray. The author thinks that the image of the zombie foster father in the film is well shaped, while the shaping of the male protagonist is a little weak. The zombies here are the product of factors such as the human brain being emptied, the nerves being turned into wires, and being infused with evil violence. The zombies in the film have a trace of kindness, rescued Hester with a cut face in the mud, looking for spooky bones and dolls as toys for Hester. Even after Hester left and searched furiously and wanted to make her pay with his life, he always loved her in his own way. A series of reminiscence shots before the death of the zombies are the tear-jerkers in the film. The warm picture playback of Hester's childhood is reminiscent of the ending scene of the Korean movie "Train to Busan". With just the right background music, the emotion is real. .
The film is profound and worth remembering. London captured Bavaria, seized its coal mine resources and salt, and destroyed the antiquities with brutality and the small city tried to escape, but the absolute strength of the captured is amazing. The resources obtained from Bavaria are only enough to supply "London" for a week. It is conceivable that at the expense of how many small cities are sacrificed for its energy maintenance, the law of "the jungle of the weak" is vividly portrayed. When they mentioned the small city, they were full of disdain, but they never thought of letting it go and coexisting peacefully with it. London citizens shouted and cheered while hunting small cities, which seemed to be passionate and bloody, but in fact it was another manifestation of zero degree of indifference. They have no pity as spectators in their own powerful perspective, while Hester is drinking the rusty water of the machine and being hunted and killed to give Tom the only bread in the extreme hardship. Comparing the two is really depressing. The girl has deep scars on her face, her eyes are firm, and she has a unique sense of stubborn beauty. Hester and Tom were in distress several times, were hunted down by savage predators from the South, were rescued by the owner of the underground "rumour", were sold as cargo, were hunted by zombies, and the constant escape and re-encounter reflected The complexity of human nature and the uncertainty of destiny. But from the beginning to the end, the protagonist upholds the courage to fight "my life is in my hands", laying the foundation for the final victory. The division of classes is everywhere in the film: the citizens of the first floor of London have various privileges, while the rest of the citizens have to deal with the poor traffic situation step by step. People also have different attitudes towards people of different levels, just like a "real society". The ending tells us that improper ways of acquiring power and expanding ambitions will eventually devour themselves, and only justice is eternal. The built-in values are positive and thought provoking. Humans with their feet on solid ground have more ways to reduce crises when faced with lack of resources, and they should cherish peaceful life more. Even with the continuous development of technology, we have enough power and huge nuclear weapons of lethality, but we cannot be manipulated by ambition and irrationality, causing the disaster of all mankind.
Overall, the film's special effects were nominated for an Oscar nomination for best visual effects, and they are realistic and detailed. The picture has a grand and epic sense, and the urban scene design is very delicate. Some of the plots are a little cliché, but they are reasonable, and some of the driving points are new. The rhythm of the film is just right, the uninterrupted fighting scenes give people a certain sense of excitement, and the city setting that can be moved is very impressive. It is a qualified hardcore sci-fi film. If you can understand the various metaphors such as London's expansion and class differentiation, you will find that the film's illusory construction is not completely divorced from reality. Although it is still the inevitable outcome of personal heroism, the setting of saving the world, and the victory of the protagonist that needs no words, but as a relaxing film during the holiday, holding popcorn and friends in the cinema to watch a comprehensive film such as "Predator City" A film that stimulates fighting, aggressive aggression, warm humanity, and saving human beings is still a good choice.
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