Blomkamp’s ninth district has given too many surprises, but unfortunately all of the sci-fi and humanities that make people want to go are all used up at once, leaving behind this lifeless "Blessed Space."
Good movies have different standards, but at least they all need a roughly clear world and system to tell stories in a roughly complete system. A single theme will not change with the system. This is especially true for science fiction movies.
Which one is more important, humanity or mechanicalness?
When technology can replace all human labor and artificial intelligence has completely driven others, what is the value of human existence?
For so many years, science fiction movies have been changing the soup without changing the medicine. All the classic sci-fi movies that we love and hear are trying to tell us the same truth. No matter how advanced technology is and how complete artificial intelligence is, the subject of this world is still human. Human love, human compassion, and human irrationality are beautiful things in a highly rational society.
Countless directors have tried to interpret this theme with one case after another. They are happy to implement the depth of humanism and make the audience moved by it.
Anyway, this is the art of film. Although the theme is the same, the stories and means of expressing the theme and the film language to show the theme are very different, and the charm of film art lies in this.
When I
return to the movie "Elysium", it is still a reinterpretation of the same theme, but it is hard to say that it is successful. I express it for the sake of expression, and I am afraid of absurdity and go to normal narration. In the end, this movie featuring Judy Foster and Mark Damon became an unpleasant and profound movie fast food.
The story is actually hysterical and simple. The poor person chose the latter between personal ideals and promises:
Xiao Ma has a hair-boy, and the two of them have a good relationship. When the two children have no guesses, Xiao Ma’s biggest ideal is to go to one called bliss. The world's space station.
Helplessly, Xiao Ma didn't learn well since he was a child, and became addicted to stealing cars. He also spent four years in jail.
An accident caused Xiao Ma to die, so Xiao Ma wanted to go to Elysium for medical treatment. Before he was about to die, he met his hair again.
Elysium is set like this in the movie: This is a highly technological space with sufficiently advanced technology, and robots become a safe backer. They protect the safety of this space and serve the citizens of this area.
Brother Xiao Ma found the boss of the underworld. He was jailed for him. The boss of the underworld should make Xiao Ma a powerful weapon and ask him to kidnap an entrepreneur with the Elysium restart program and get the Elysium. Restart procedure.
There is an old Zhu in Elysium. She and the entrepreneur wanted to launch a coup. The little Ma, who was transformed by the entrepreneur, got the restart procedure of Elysium (which can help launch a coup). The earth's men grabbed Brother Ma.
At this time, the plot began to take a turn. Xiao Ma flees in various ways, and finds his own fat boy. He also finds that his fat boy actually has a dying child who also needs to go to Paradise for treatment. Then the movie was arranged well, and the three of them were kidnapped to Paradise.
On the other hand, Lao Zhu was killed by her assassin. Xiao Ma defeated the assassin and restarted the Paradise at the expense of his life, so that the daughter of Fa Xiao was out of danger.
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science fiction movies, generally divided into two categories, hard science fiction refers to the inference of a system world based on strict scientific theorems; soft science fiction refers to scientific theorems ambiguous, but generally set an effect, in such a scientific effect to discuss human nature Variety.
Elysium seems to want to take the path of soft science fiction, but does not forget the reality that it is a hard science fiction queue with high technological content.
First of all, he does not have the absolute humanity analysis of soft science fiction: the first half is absolutely opposed to the relationship between robots and humans, and later this opposition is downplayed, and the controllable code becomes a restrictive factor that can affect the robot's behavior. Whether the robots of Elysium are opposed to people, there is no definite answer in this movie. This is a catastrophic consequence for a science fiction movie.
Secondly, many details of this film have not been displayed correctly. A highly technologically advanced society, if it is built on a mechanical basis, there will be no system loopholes. In a truly highly technological society, the real problem lies in irreversible fundamental flaws. The flaws and loopholes are completely different concepts. In a "Elysium", there is an institutionalized problem, and the fuse of the final problem is actually still there. Individuals who desire power. So the fuse of many problems in this "Elysium" is actually the conflict between people with different desires.
Once again, the pursuit of fairness runs through the whole, but there is no place to stay. In the "Elysium" movie, some people can go to the satellite station, while some people can only stay on the earth. Those who stay on the earth try their best to get close to the space station. The ultimate heroic salvation of the movie is actually just for some people on earth to come. The space station enjoys high-tech benefits. What is the problem that enables the rich to go to the space station? What is the cause of the apparent inequality? There is no reason to explain the background in the film. It seems that being rich is inherently problematic.
Finally, for the return of human nature from the beginning to the end, Xiao Ma and Fa Xiao’s feelings, from the beginning montage to the last memories, were not clearly explained. Feelings without a foothold, friendship? love? It's so messy, it's really hard not to think that this is Diosi's spare tire attribute. A person who is afraid of death finds his own value before death, but the "humanism" in exchange for this kind of death is completely unable to support the dehumanization of science fiction.
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twisted melons of the top three are not sweet, and the fantasy of strong science is too hanging. There has never been a perfect science fiction movie that will abandon "human subjectivity" to construct a science fiction world. "Elysium" is constantly approaching the theme of "humanism", but this is after all a twisted melon and a science fiction.
There is no sci-fi focused logic: the return from machines to humans; people without sci-fi have their roots, no helplessness and entanglement, and no heart-piercing ethical discussions.
The "Elysium of the Four Nothings" has become such a product, and I am embarrassed to score 3 stars.
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