The following content involves the leak of the plot story, which may affect the viewing] In 2033, on a hot day, a silver classic car is galloping on a desolate highway. The lady in red in the car is the famous actress Robin White, and she is on her way to Abraham City for the world-renowned futurology conference. Abraham is an animation zone isolated from the outside world. Entering this zone, everyone must take hallucinogens - which were still in the final testing stage at the time. At the convention, it will be unveiled (interestingly, it was developed by a film company). It was on this day, and at this moment, that the film "Futurology Conference" suddenly changed from a live-action film to an animated film. Director Ali Foreman's previous work, Bashir Waltz, is a bold and unique cartoon, which won many praises at the 2008 Cannes International Film Festival. At the end of the film, Ali Foreman also takes the audience from the processed animation back to the ugly reality. Moreover, in addition to the frenzy and killing, the entire movie is more often entangled by uncertain memories, and the dusty dreams make the host recognize himself as unclear. As a standard soft sci-fi movie, "Futurology Conference" also touches on memories and dreams. In the future, human beings will be able to enter the blissful world of daydreams by relying on hallucinogens and enjoy the omnipotent transformation and illusion. Even if they are in the real world, they are like gossamers, but in the extremely full and extremely gorgeous spiritual world, they go to heaven and earth and are omnipotent. Human beings no longer have wars and violence, no longer have the gap between the rich and the poor, and no longer have differences between beauty and ugliness, but human beings have also lost the meaning of existence. People are intoxicated and lost in the spiritual world, unwilling and unable to escape. However, before entering the future animation world, "Futurology Conference" turned out to be discussing the future of actors and movies. Robin Wright plays herself, who, after some thought, accepts a contract to have her image scanned and digitally stored. That meant the end of her personal career as an actor, and the immortality of her career as a digital actor. From "Avatar" to "Sacred Car Dealers" to "3×3D," many filmmakers have begun discussing the future of cinema. Even Nolan wrote an article in the Wall Street Journal discussing how the cinema of the future will attract audiences. He said: In the past, there has never been a system so willing to accept that its formal standards have been torn to shreds, and no standards means no rules. Whether photochemical or video-based, today's movies can provide an unparalleled audiovisual feast. In the world of animation in 2033, Robin Wright The live-action film played by Te is a slightly contradictory existence, and "she" is still playing an action-type film called "3R Men". When computer technology is not yet able to present a visual explosion of the future world, animation has become the best choice. A friend once said angrily that even though he studied for a doctorate in film history, he has always been less confident in evaluating animated films, because the critics have another set of evaluation methods and evaluation systems for cartoons. The fan base captured by ACG in Japan is actually quite different from movie fans. In the live-action part of Futurology Conference, we can evaluate the performance of the actors and discuss the handling of photography and lighting, but in the animation part, these methods do not work. To a certain extent, animation is related to art and painting. "Actors" are from human settings, and photography and lighting do not exist - because animation does not depend on these two, but more on the original sub-shot script. Therefore, the standard of animation is completely different from the standard of film. As the title says, the theme of "Futurology Conference" is about futurology, and the director expressed a pessimistic tone, omitting the irony of the original work. However, as the director opted for a live-action mesh with animation, their combined response created more problems than imagined. In the first half, motherhood and actor work alternate. In the second half, the fate of mankind took a sharp turn, and it ended in a mother-son relationship. It seems to have a similar problem with Aronofsky's "The Fountain of Preciousness": using too many words to tell an overly simple thing. It's not that the mother-son relationship is not good in this life, but it is a bit top-heavy to end a sci-fi film with such simple and simple human emotions - the final set of barriers is too easy. And as the audience can see, "Futurology Conference" is complicated in form and full of brain holes, and the film can be explored more thoroughly. However, just as Robin White accepted the fate of being scanned and sealed, as human beings, whether they agree or disagree with each other, they all accept the new order (the rebels who rushed into the Futurology Conference obviously failed), and finally, even A mother could not find her daughter either. Because in that eternal spiritual world, she can be anyone. At the beginning of the film, the director constantly emphasizes his son's deafness with the loss of voice, which has been paved from the very first scene. The son is entering the world outside normal people, like he is trying to explore something with a kite. "Futurology Conference" insists on the relationship between mother and son, not because human beings need to reproduce and nurture their offspring, but because human beings are living beings, not only between humans and themselves, between humans and nature and society, but also between humans and others. relation. just grab this Only with a symbolic mother-son relationship can you understand what human beings have lost in such a world of great harmony. When you can be anyone, you are no longer yourself. At this level, the human society controlled by hallucinogens is similar to the fact that actors are no longer actors, and movies are no longer movies. Because of this, Ali Foreman is so pessimistic about the future, and human beings are no longer human, and time is no longer time. 【Southern Capital Weekly】
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