The Man Reborn: The Sea of Tranquility After the Blood

Hermann 2022-08-03 19:16:49

"The Man Reborn" puts on the coat of a sci-fi film and packs a combination of blood and violence like a B-grade film. As a fan of sci-fi films, after suffering nearly 90 minutes of plasma rendering, I have the opportunity to ponder the real sci-fi at the end of the film. This feeling is like long-term constipation, which is finally relieved. The process is painful and the results are satisfying.

The world of "The Man Reborn" is a highly developed future world, but after being devastated by war, people's hearts have also been severely distorted. At the same time, to prolong life, people replace necrotic human organs with artificial organs. The disparity between the rich and the poor is serious, and many people can only borrow money to buy machine wonders like today's house slaves to prolong their lives. The high interest makes many people unable to repay their loans. Companies that produce machine organs employ recyclers to recycle machine wonders. To put it bluntly, they are to cut open the abdomen and take out the organs, and the consequence is the direct death of the organ user. As a recycler, Jude Law had doubts about himself, then a family crisis, an accident, and finally the opposite of the company. The development of the plot is logical. Perhaps such a setting is too cliché. The director is very bold and direct when dealing with action scenes. The scene of the recovery operator operating is like that of a surgeon operating, and the camera is not shy. I can't see the hail of bullets. It's completely cruel and ruthless in the age of cold weapons. In the scene where Jude Law finally hits Huanglong and hits the company's fans, the male protagonist needs to face dozens of highly skilled organ recovery workers. Short knives, long knives, tooth saws, and hammers focus on the neck, head, and heart. Coupled with the fact that the battle scenes are arranged in narrow corridors, this is the favorite scene of the filmmakers shooting the action scenes of one versus ten: the sense of depth is strong, and the telephoto lens can create strong distance compression. The violent action scenes simply grabbed the limelight of the movie theme, so the appearance of the final ultimate artifact M5 neural network (there was a foreshadowing before, but it was not very obvious) made people feel abrupt, with traces of collage elements.

Commercial movies are often caught in the routine of anticlimactic, and "The Man Reborn" is on the contrary. After receiving a lot of indiscriminate bombardment of red blood plasma, the audience found that the second half was just the scene in the mind of the actor after being taken over by the machine, and was naturally deeply surprised. The ending of "A Man Reborn" was unexpected and expected. It denies the "authenticity" of the second half of the film's plot while giving Jude Law's hero a whole new real world. The story structure is similar to Nicolas Cage's "Foreseeing the Future." The first half is real, and the second half is the chain of tragedies that Cage saw in his dreams until the nuclear bomb exploded. The dream of "Foreseeing the Future" is the end of the cup. Once it jumps back to reality, the original tragedy is immediately diluted. The dream of "Reborn Man" is a happy ending. When the dream is revealed, we only feel endless sadness. Human beings live in their imagination, and the machine neural network replaces the original sensory spectacle. This is the eve of the birth of the mother Matrix. The Matrix Prequel.


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Repo Men quotes

  • Remy: I guarantee, you'll run out of Repo Men before I run out of ways of killing them.

  • [first lines]

    Remy: I remember reading about a scientist. He had a thing for cats and boxes. What he'd do is take a cat and lock it in a box. And then, just to make things interesting, he'd also put this machine in there that released poison gas. Now, the scientist didn't actually know when the machine would release the poison and when it wouldn't. The only way he could tell for sure was to look inside the box. Here's the science bit. Until he opened it up, he figured the cat had to be alive and dead. See, if either one was possible, then both had to be possible, too. Ever since I read about that cat, I can't get the story out of my head. Don't get me wrong, I don't give a fuck about the plight of small, furry animals. I just don't understand. How can anything be alive and dead at the same time?