Stayed up until 2 in the middle of the night and ended up watching this...

Darren 2022-03-25 09:01:10

Let's talk about the actors first. The heroine is Chloe Moretz, who I like, the Hit Girl in "Kick-a-Bian". Spiritual beauty.
Later, I read the news on the Internet that this girl is in love with Beckham's eldest son, Brooklyn, and the two of them are really handsome when they skateboard together.
So at the beginning of the film, Chloe Moretz came out, I was overjoyed, and adjusted the posture of lying down and watching.

In the first few minutes, the film entered very smoothly, the routine of the doomsday scene: an empty supermarket, a dusty-looking heroine carrying a gun, collecting the few remaining survival materials.
When the girl was nervous, she shot and killed the stranger who asked for help. I was a little surprised when I saw that there was a routine here.

But the movie's highlights end there. In the next 2 hours, all the slops came surging.

1. The female protagonist's inexplicable emotional line.
The film seems to want to set a four-corner relationship.
The protagonist Cassie liked his high school classmate Ben at first, and Ben should also have a polite goodwill towards Cassie at this time.
After the doomsday catastrophe, the heroine was rescued by Evan, a handsome alien with a strange power, and the two had a feeling of sharing weal and woe.
After Ben entered the army, he met Ringer, a very skilled panda-eyed girl. The two went from adversary to fighting side by side. From the look of Ringer looking at Ben in the last scene, I guess she should like Ben a little bit.
But at this time, Ben liked Cassie again, and took the initiative to say that he knew that Cassie's name came from a constellation. Obviously, he had thought about this girl in his heart.

This scene also expresses the triangular relationship quite clearly.

The relationship between the four people is not chaotic, and I can accept it as a modern audience.
But, you have to give me a reason to like it.

At the beginning of the film, I learned from my best friend Liz that Cassie likes Ben. As soon as the male protagonist came out with this slightly weak image, I was disappointed. The film routine at this time should not give me a stunning and handsome image.
From the back scenes, Ben, who joined the army, should also be the male lead, at least he has to have muscles.
Director, if you are looking for an actor to match Chloe Moretz's appearance, you can refer to her four brothers and her rumored boyfriend Brooklyn.

Cassie likes Ben, it's fine for no reason, a high school student, who hasn't gotten a head start yet.

The strangest thing is that this period of handsome alien hunk Evan and Cassie have developed into a relationship.
Evan fell in love with Cassie because when he planned to snipe her, Cassie smiled relaxedly at the owl on the tree, which made him feel the lost humanity.
The control power of alien genes is also very weak, and it will be broken by a beautiful smile.
But later, when Evan confessed to Cassie, he recalled that on the bridge, he also pointed a gun at Cassie at first, which was obviously going to snipe her again.
Is it because Evan looked at her thigh three times after saving Cassie and fell in love with her.

And Cassie likes Evan, which is even more strange. The first time I saw a macho chopping wood, this is a picture that often appears in American movies to show masculinity, and the heroine pursed her lips. The second time was when the two spent the night in the forest. In the morning, the female lead woke up to find the male lead. When she saw the beautiful scenery of the male lead bathing in the river, Cassie smiled wickedly.
That night, Cassie took the initiative to have sex with Evan.
I let myself understand that Cassie is still a high school girl, because it's understandable for a little muscle to like another boy.

But this is a movie, shouldn't you give me a better reason, director?

In this film, what I can understand the most is that the panda-eyed girl Ringer likes Ben, because the other actors who appear together are so cruel that they are all from the group.

In fact, the alien slugger Evan is quite interesting. The actor's masculine image, extraordinary skills, meticulous care for the heroine, and
finally a confession from the sky and an active kiss are also very tempting.
It makes up a little for the girl's heart that I was hurt by this film.

2. The alien who has not seen the body from beginning to end.
In this film, the director only showed me a green image of a perspective alien parasite. As a result, I have been very puzzled when I watched it, how these alien bugs operate that grand alien spacecraft.
When Cassie sneaked into the military base and strangled the female military doctor, I originally thought that the body of the female military doctor would change after her death, and the alien body appeared for the first time.
As a result, the film did not play cards according to the routine. Female medics die when they die.
From the beginning to the end of the film, there is no alien body.
If it wasn't that the spaceship ran out of money, the director would definitely want to hold back a big move to whet the audience's appetite and reveal the image of aliens in the next movie.
But, this one has already disgusted me, and I am still chasing the next one, am I stupid.

In addition, there are 2 slots about aliens.
When the officer announced in the camp conference hall that the aliens had been parasitized in the human body and needed to be screened, the large camp manager quietly raised his gun, indicating that he was a parasitized human. He rushed to the door and clashed with military personnel, causing a riot that ended in the killing of everyone.
I really can't figure it out, the officer himself is an alien, why would he kill the same kind? Quietly find the same kind, and then kill all the survivors together.
Another slot is about Evan's supernatural powers. Evan killing other similar species is as easy as cutting vegetables and melons. They are also aliens. Why are their abilities so different? Is it because Evan is a born alien and the others are parasitic?
Director, please give me an explanation.
Don't make it out in the next movie. Evan is an alien prince, so he is very talented.

3. The male protagonist Ben is inexplicably reused.
When I saw the part of the female medic chatting with Ben, I thought it was because Ben's family died in a disaster caused by aliens, and the female medic wanted to take advantage of Ben's inner hatred.
But then the female medic said the same thing to Cassie, showing that Ben wasn't special in this regard.
I always thought evilly in my mind that the female military doctor was attracted to the little fresh meat Ben, because the image of the female military doctor is too similar... (a few words are omitted later), wearing a military uniform looks like one specially bought for performances.
In the training episodes that followed, Ben didn't show his brilliance, but inexplicably became the captain and was valued by the male officers.

The fierce ruthlessness of the panda-eyed girl Ringer was captured.

4. The ending has no beginning and no end.
At the end of the film, Evan, an alien slugger, came to rescue the heroine Cassie, which is understandable. But as soon as they came up, the military base exploded everywhere, and the alien army was ready to evacuate without finding out. Evan appeared at a critical moment and made a deep confession. He also expressed the profound theme of "who I am is not based on my background but my choice", which pointed out and sublimated the idea of ​​the film. Without a trace, the military base even exploded. Director, are you tired of filming and want to go home and sleep? The rhythm is too fast, can you be more serious with me?
Do you think I'm blind? So where did the powerful bomb come from? What about the final battle? Anyway, you let Evan and the appearance officer fellow see the fellow with tears in their eyes.
Can the audience be perfunctory by letting the ground crack in the later stage?
After Cassie rescued her younger brother, she left in the car with no nostalgia on her face, and happily ate dinner with everyone in the sunset. Hope and mission for mankind rose up in her heart...

By the way, I didn't figure out what it was in the end. Who is the male lead?
This movie really made me stunned!

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The 5th Wave quotes

  • [last lines]

    Cassie Sullivan: [narrating] The Others see our hope as a weakness; as a delusion. But they're wrong. It's our hope that lets us survive. That lets us bend, but remain unbroken. It's our hope that will let us win one day. It's our hope that makes us human.

  • Sam SullivanCassie Sullivan: [singing in union as Sam drifts off to sleep] Bones, sinking like stones, all that we fought for. Homes, places we've grown, all of us are done for. We live in a beautiful world, Yeah we do, yeah we do. We live in a beautiful world.