Before the domestic fire of "The Devil Boy of Nezha", there was also a "Devil Boy" quietly released in the American film market. Unlike Nezha's fantasy animation movies, "The Devil Boy" is a typical thriller genre.
"Magic Boy" is produced by Sony, with a budget of only 6 million US dollars, and the budget is very tight. However, good steel is used on the blade. "Magic Boy" spends all the limited funds on the special effects that the B-level film should have: the bloody shots in the film are very sufficient. , Can make the audience feel painful. If the light picture is a cool word, then a look at "Magic Boy" is definitely satisfying.
The movie watching process is fairly smooth, and there are two questions about the initial plot:
Question 1: If Superman had been blackened since childhood, what would the world be like?
When I was young, I watched the movie "Superman", and I would be passionate and excited by this messenger of justice flying around in the sky. Every time he saves a person or holds a heavy object, he will become the focus of the crowd and the media. , This is the person I wished to be when I was young.
But as I got older, I suddenly realized a problem: Superman comes from outer space, he is not a human being.
This is an extremely scary fact. Although it comes from the setting of comics-Superman grew up in an ordinary rural family and has humanity and human emotions in the general sense. However, looking at history and even now, human beings are very There are still prejudices in race and skin color, not to mention a superhuman from an alien.
The film is built on this brain hole.
Hawking repeatedly warned scientists from various countries not to try to find and contact aliens because of the unknown and uncertainty, which may cause disasters. But the Blairs in the film, because they had no children for a long time, adopted a baby picked up from the forest and came from a spaceship, and named him Brandon Blair.
They did not have any doubts or hesitations, and did not talk about the probability that other life forms in the universe were similar to humans, but any normal person would instinctively shrink back when facing a spacecraft, but the Blairs took care of raising the baby and giving him home. warmth.
While growing up, Brandon gradually discovered that he was different from ordinary people: his intelligence and physical strength were far superior to ordinary humans, and he could even fly at super high speeds, shoot lasers from his eyes, and influence electromagnetic waves, just like a juvenile Superman.
Although the classic line of "the greater the ability, the greater the responsibility" in the Spider-Man movie resounds throughout the world, when a twelve-year-old really has such a powerful superpower, the only thing he can do is destroy: throw Fly a lawn mower, smash a female classmate’s finger, or kill a chicken on the farm and unplan it.
All this, even if Brandon's mother had doubts, she chose to ignore it.
So the plot starts from here, stepping into the extremely bloody and brutal side: Brandon puts on a red cloak, complies with the evil will, kills the humans who are blocking him, and embarks on a road of villains.
Question 2: If the Blairs are guided correctly, will Brandon go black?
The 12-year-old boy is just at the age of youth and ignorance, and his physiology and psychology are undergoing rapid changes.
Many moviegoers learn from this film as a negative example of education: If Brandon can be guided correctly, his father is not so simple and rude, and his mother is not so indulgent, Brandon should still have a great chance to be a good person.
But this is just a fantasy.
"Bees are pollinators, and wasps are predators. Wasps are more aggressive and dangerous. A species called brooding parasites. They lose the ability to make nests, so they use brute force to allow other wasp species to raise their larvae. , Let them feed the larvae with beetle larvae and maggots."
This is a conversation that is easily overlooked at the beginning of the film, and this conversation actually alludes to Brandon's identity as a parasite.
Human beings are relative to Brandon, just like bees are relative to wasps. One is a social group with a clear division of labor and structure, and the other is a group of aggressive predators, so when Brandon grows up and has independence When he was conscious, the spacecraft in the basement started on its own and gave Brandon the instruction to "take down this world".
So even if Superman's parents came to guide the education, it was of no avail.
In the second half of the film, viewers who like the simple and rude blood sprinkling of B-level films should not miss it:
Shocked from the restaurant,
To the road killer,
Then go to the jungle to hunt down, and the slaughter gradually escalates: the glass is inserted into the eye, the steering wheel knocks off the chin, and the laser heads directly.
The direction of the plot also began to become creepy: because you never know what a child's inner thoughts are-how to kill you.
With the help of Blair’s dream, the film shows the cruelty of this alien child on the screen in a Kubrick-style abstract expression: the child is wrapped in blood-red cloth, but the crying half-length is not heard, and the wife’s weird smile. Against the backdrop of the spaceship lights in the depths of the forest, it looks eerie and terrifying, and the scarlet blood oozing out of the red cloth symbolizes the imminent destiny of mankind-destruction.
But the biggest surprise of the movie is the end credits: it turns out that there is not only one person like Brandon, "a half-man and half-fish monster", "a witch with a rope", and two unknown monsters...
Therefore, this may be an organized invasion of the earth by the alien world.
Of course, this is not the first time creators have dabbled in anti-hero subjects. Nowadays, in the process of Marvel (Avengers) and DC (Justice League) in building their own movie universe, superheroes can be said to be flooded. Because of the unified operation of industrialization, the justice, sunshine, and humor of superheroes make the cinema time full of laughter and laughter, combined with special effects and a tense plot, and ultimately the villain succumbed to the ending under absolute justice and became a clichéd story. Therefore, "Black Robe Pickets" is expected to catch fire this year.
Before this, the creators have completely dabbled in the themes of anti-heroes in the comic world: the Marvel Zombie series and DC's crime syndicate.
In "Spider-Man: Far From Home", the zombie Iron Man has already had a glimpse; and in "Batman v Superman", the darkened Superman has also revealed its ugly appearance. The crime syndicate comes from the parallel universe "Earth 3", which is equivalent to the Justice League of the main world, but the character is opposite to the Justice League. They are Speedmaster (corresponding to Superman), Night Owl (corresponding to Batman), Super Queen (corresponding to Wonder Woman), Johnny Quick (corresponding to Flash), Divine Power Ring (corresponding to Green Lantern), Seamaster (corresponding to Aquaman) Wait.
In fact, if there are superhuman beings, there is no need to blacken them. As far as human values are concerned, superhuman beings cannot perceive them at all. Just like ants and bees, as social organisms that also have a complete organizational structure, they are in the eyes of humans. , There is only a simple distinction between beneficial and harmful: use it if it is beneficial, and eliminate it if it is harmful.
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