Before the filming started, relevant reports had been saying: Spielberg is determined this time to produce a complete commercial film, and has set a military order that the box office revenue must reach several billion US dollars. Obviously, these reports underestimated the directors of "Schindler's List," "Minority Report," and "Artificial Intelligence." After "911", any disaster film cannot avoid the scars that tragedy left in American hearts, no matter how commercial it is, how it is irrelevant to terrorists, since Spielberg touched on this kind of subject matter. With his qualifications and abilities, he must reach a high level.
After watching "War of the World", I think this height is the height of human nature, rather than technical and emotional. Looking at this movie from a technical level, it is about the battle between aliens and earthlings; from an emotional level, the film portrays the love between father and son, father and daughter. But neither of these is the point. The movie seems to try to restore a scene (rather than a fantasy) that happened, and to reproduce the performance of the people in this scene (rather than fiction). In other words, if the alien attack is replaced by the "911" terrorist attack, and Tom is replaced by a survivor, he can better understand what Spielberg wants to do with "War of the World"-he wants Record, record fear: record how terror occurs, how it generates fear, and how fear makes people perform various behaviors.
Understand the director's purpose, certain complaints about "World War" seem meaningless. Many people say that this movie is not as enjoyable as "ID4 Interstellar Terminator". People are fighters and aircraft carriers, but it only has a few tanks and a group of helicopters blasting on the hillside a few times, and the shock is not enough. There are still many people who think that Brother Tom has not the slightest style of "High Aspirations" and "Professional Secret Service" in the movie, and he is not without even wretchedness. Of course, more people expressed disappointment at the end: how could it end abruptly like this? How can bacteria save the world instead of heroes? This ending made Spielberg make a perfunctory infamy in China. The problem is that if Spielberg does what these people expect, he will not be Spielberg, but Michael Bay or Bruckheimer.
A Tang’s civilian status is specially set, and his behavior in the movie can only be based on this status, so you can see an abandoned husband, a failed father, a lively citizen, and a smart one. Guy, an Ah Q, a fugitive who was frightened, a selfish murderer, and a slave who resisted. Very real. Only in such an ordinary person can fear be able to shed its cocoon and attach itself to the viewer. Once this role is set, "War of the World" can only give up the omnipotent narrative and stay loyal to the personal perspective. In the movie, Tom can only know what he has encountered, as for how Europe was destroyed, how the army and the aliens It is impossible for him to know whether people fight, whether the president is dead or fleeing, whether the Statue of Liberty has been blown up, and the movie cannot be shown. The most criticized ending problem is not a problem. First of all, it is because Wells’s original work is written in this way. It is inevitable for Chinese people to make a fuss if they don’t understand. Second, this is no longer the focus of the film. Besides, it is impossible for a mortal to Atang. For the first time, I knew why the alien was suddenly there. The turning point of the matter was very sudden for him. The reason can only be explained by Morgan Freeman's narration. Reasonable.
Anyway, "War of the World" is to let you see the fear, experience the fear, and go deep into the core of the fear. The line "Is it a terrorist attack?" vented its bottom line-4 years after the "911", it used fantasy memories to get close to the people who encountered that tragic moment, and based on the current people's global terror Fear of attack. In this sense, it is a true horror film. In fact, after watching the movie, with a little bit of imagination and thinking of myself as the hapless Brother Atang, I was already a bit creepy.
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