The castrated version of 66min I watched on the movie channel may have some bloody scenes deleted, but the overall plot does not seem to be too bad.
Three things that impress me:
1. You developed a time machine because of Emma's death. No matter how much time machine travels, Emma cannot continue to live.
This sentence seems to be discussing cause and effect, and after listening to it, it still makes sense.
2. You cannot deny the results of 800,000 years of biological evolution.
I support this view. Organisms have also paid a lot for evolution. So I can't understand the protagonist's use of 20th century ethics to criticize the class antagonism 800,000 years later. The protagonist's feat of blowing up the underground with a time machine actually denies 800,000 years of evolution, returning the evolutionary results accumulated by species over the years to the era of primitive man. The protagonist's overflowing sympathy actually contributes to evolutionary regression. The class antagonism of the future will naturally have the future people to break and overthrow. The future people have been immersed in their society for a long time, and it is easier to come up with solutions that are in line with their social conditions.
Again, overthrowing a class is not someone who destroys other classes. Isn't it cruel or tyrannical for the protagonist to destroy people of other classes by himself?
3. "That's just a machine."
The first time the protagonist speaks to Emma, the context is about his lover rather than his own curiosity and work. The second time it appears in the words to Mara, the context is that the time machine has lost its meaning when it was created, and has become a tool for the protagonist to rescue Mara and her people.
Modified review:
Read the introduction of the book on Baidu Encyclopedia. The emotional line in the movie is really cumbersome. It is also quite unreasonable for a time machine created in the 20th century to blow up the underground 800,000 years later. It seems that it is not only the protagonist who denies the results of 800,000 years of biological evolution, but also the screenwriter.
When I first read it, I thought it was a story similar to "The Butterfly Effect" that cannot change history. Looking at the back, I found a world view like "Qing Yu Nian". In general, there are still some surprises, but in fact, it is a continuation of the original book, and the film adaptation is still not enough.
Support multiple remakes!
The last sentence, stand in 2022 and complain about the fantasy of the 2002 movie. Moon colonization is not possible by 2030. Only the Chinese space station will be in space in 2022. In 2030, it is impossible to achieve a library management office that can easily request all information, and various countries are actively building walls to maintain their own data sovereignty. It is impossible to achieve genetic recombination in 2030, because I think the ethics and morality in 2030 should still not allow human genetic recombination.
I support the idea of remaking this book once every 50 years in other film critics. People in each period have different fantasies about the future. It will be interesting to wait a little longer to put together.
After more than 20 days of decadence, I finally started to read a little bit of books and movies. This sentence praises my courage.
Attached one: (Actually, this movie is one of the most popular reviews, but the account has been cancelled and I can't see it anymore.)
2022.02.08 update
Occasionally saw my post-reading in another book. Found a saying that applies here as well. "Arriving at a nuclear weapon is like discovering the reset button. Then wait for a certain lunatic to leave behind the painful and long development of the entire civilization and press the reset button." The protagonist of this movie is the lunatic.
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