When I had nothing to do, I watched the movie "Back to Mars" alone. In fact, I didn't report too much hope, and it was completely for the male protagonist's face (hehe). When I saw half of it, I felt that this film was completely more than this point; when I saw the ending, I felt that it was indeed the case, but it was a pity.
The first layer of the theme of the entire film is actually very obvious - root search. It's not dissimilar to the Indian film "The Lion" earlier this year, only this journey to its roots is more remote and difficult. Gardner spent 7 months traveling tens of millions of kilometers across the vast universe to return to Earth, risking his life to walk in unfamiliar places just to meet his father. It's majestic enough for a teenager. However, in fact, behind the search for roots, a deeper theme emerges in Gardner—that is, the survival dilemma of "abnormal people". Socially, Gardner is a hidden second-generation Martian settler. To save the company's image, Gardner's birth and existence were not made public. Raised on Mars but descended from humans, creating ambiguity in cultural identity. Raised by scientists, he has a high degree of understanding of human civilization, but he cannot understand the way people on earth communicate. Physically have a complete body, but cannot adapt to the environment of the earth. "I want to come to the earth so much, but the earth refuses to leave me" - the absence of the double matrix makes Gardner extremely painful. Being locked up on Mars for 16 years, coming to Earth and still being quarantined, escape is the only way. The beginning of the journey is always full of novelties and adventures. Gardner is curious about every person on earth, and almost everyone asks: "What do you like most about the earth?" When asked rhetorically, Gardner's answer was: "So far, I met you." He is so pure and sincere that he will not hide the slightest emotion in his heart. So on the freeway with Tulsa, he stared at her for four hours and said, "You're really beautiful." "Before this, my world was a blank, I never saw water, I never saw fire, I never felt the breeze, but none of it compares to how you made me feel I'm afraid of myself and don't know how to be human Just like you made me human." When Gardner said this to Tulsa, he did get some kind of new life. It's just that good things don't last long, and he is still on the verge of life and death. In fact, what the film wants to talk about is not just the plight of "immigrants", but the common plight of all "different people". It's just that the film magnifies this difference and sets it between the stars. Just like the original title of the film "The Space Between Us", this distance is immeasurable, but I want to cross it wholeheartedly. In fact, on Earth, even if it is only a few hundred meters, it is entirely possible that there are two very different worlds. Like the commercial center of Kowloon, Hong Kong and the poor town, separated by a line, two pieces of sky. Each of us, separated from the environment in which we grew up, has the potential to become an alien that is out of tune with the world around us. At this time, how to deal with the relationship between the self and the outside world, and how to recognize and locate the self becomes complicated. In the end, it is still the philosophical question of "who am I". Gardner and Tulsa crossed several continents in the United States in a stolen car, and finally came to the seaside house in their mother's photo. When he was about to recognize his relatives, he found out that the man was his uncle, not his father. Desperate, Gardner went out to sea in an attempt to end his life. In fact, if the film ends here, or gives us a life-and-death ending, then Gardner's image has the color of a tragic hero. The meaning of search lies not in its object or purpose, but in the self-recognition and realization in the journey of search. But at this time, the plot suddenly became very bloody - Gardner's biological father was actually Nathaniel, the planner who sent his mother to Mars! ! You said that you kept your child in custody for 16 years, and you won’t let them come back; even if you finally come back, you still have to circle it, even if you don’t tell him the truth... I really don’t know how to complain, I feel that it’s all the old man’s self-inflicted pain, He almost destroyed his own son. I can understand the reason for the 5.8 points. Now that this is the case, there is nothing to say about the ending - the usual American commercial film is happy. Gardner was sent back to Mars, Dad followed, and finally trained his girlfriend as an astronaut. It's really rotten. However, you can think carefully about that question: "What do you like most about the earth?" Well, of course, my favorite is you! >ㅂ<
Knowing: Liang Tingting
Public account: Dog Town by the Sea (personal, original)
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