flowers that grow in despair

Miles 2022-03-22 09:01:40

There are many movies that describe doomsday feelings, but what strikes me is this <9>,

although the plot and themes of the film are outdated in the eyes of most people, it is nothing more than a human abuse of technology and destruction by technology, and finally left behind The story of a group of dwarf robot martyrs as human widows to open up and search for the last human civilization and fight against evil war robots. The clichéd save the planet motif, but it gave me a tremor that I've never had in a movie of this type.

The background of the story is the ruins of cities that have perished human civilization, dirty streets, broken corners, human skeletons left in old-fashioned cars on the streets, yellow sky and black soil, such scenes remind me of WALL-E, It was in the last days of doomsday that no human being was carrying a sense of mission, but a small and not very outstanding robot. And human beings have all retreated into the background and become the initiators of this sense of mission, just like the captain on the starship in WALL-E and the mad scientist who created the terrifying war machine in <9>. It has

to be said that , throughout the whole film is a kind of gloomy despair and depression. From the emotions of the little robot, you can always feel the fear of the end and death. But other than that, the director gave One of the other keynotes is warmth. The friendship and mutual assistance, unity and pity between the 9 robots seem to be the last humanity and hope in such a world that is hidden from the sun. Tim Burton's films always use this For the tone of style, from Edward Scissorhands to Todd the barber, things like warmth are hidden and penetrated into the weird cruelty, so there are adult fairy tales like this.

Come to think of it, the same doomsday feeling, even in movies like "I Am Legend" or "War of the Worlds", I never felt such despair permeating from the movie. This may be related to the way of expression. After all, "9" is an animated film, and the colors of the scenes can be exaggerated and virtualized, but I think such despair is the inevitable arrangement of the director. Without despair, there is no story, and without despair, there is no story. There is no flower of hope.

Interestingly, when I saw that the last 5 robots returned to the West and sprinkled the rain of civilization, there were 4 robots who were left behind to carry on the inheritance of civilization. In this combination, one man, one woman, and two children happened to be one civilization. starting point.

When everything is lost and everything returns to zero, the most original side of a person will be revealed.

It's like when a person's food and clothing have become his most extravagant needs, desire will become pure.

We may not have hope at that time, but if there is, it must be the most beautiful hope I have ever had.

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  • 1: I know enough to leave their ancient evils to molder. Look what they've left us with. Leave it be, I say! But YOU! Always asking questions. So many pointless questions. Probing. PUSHING. Like 2! He always had to know too much!

    9: I was right; you DID send him out to die!

    1: He was old! He was WEAK!

  • 1: When we awoke in this world, it was chaos. Man and machine attacked each other with fire and metal. I lead us here to sanctuary and here we waited for the war to end. Slowly, the world became silent. The only thing that remains now is The Beast. So we stay hidden, and we wait for it too, to sleep.

    9: But where did it come from? Why is it hunting us?

    1: Questions like that are pointless. We need to protect ourselves; keep ourselves out of danger.