The surprise is that I didn't expect this film to take a dystopian path, otherwise I would have watched it without hesitation. Nicole plays Carol, a psychiatrist who helps patients relieve pain, depression and other emotions through medication. The divorced husband, Tucker, is a politician. He was accidentally infected by virus spores from outer space during a secret inspection of the exploded satellite debris and became an alien. It is said that it is a different kind, and there is no significant difference in thinking function from normal people. The difference is that after being infected by the virus, people lose their emotional shock, and only rational thinking is left: love, impulse, fear, and joy are completely completely After the separation, human beings split into two camps-rational people and emotional people, and the two sides fell into war.
As a psychologist, Carol had a debate about human nature with his boyfriend Ben (Daniel Craig) before the world fell into war. Carol once proudly believed that humans can be "evolved" and that humans can use drugs, psychotherapy, etc. Ways to control emotions and suppress primitive impulses, so as to realize a completely rational and harmonious society. But when this harmonious "perfect new world" arrived, Carol herself flinched. She couldn't give up the affection between mother and child, and she didn't want to choose to be assimilated by this "perfect world" without personal emotions. In this struggle, what is the true definition of "human", which one would you choose for permanent peace and war in a chaotic world, whether eternal "perfection" is true perfection, human rationality and sensibility, and basic human nature The relationship between... Such a fundamental philosophical issue is the core of most dystopian works, and it is revealed through the personal psychological journey of the psychologist Carol. It should be said that this is a very exciting one. Compared with the prototype of the movie, the 1956 movie "The Invasion of Body Snatchers", "Fatal Visit" adopted the original dystopian philosophy, but abandoned the background of the Cold War and Soviet invasion, and switched to modern The psychiatrist’s self-denial, supplemented by the mother-child relationship as a strong support for Carol’s psychological transformation, is a highly persuasive and wonderful story. Unfortunately, the screenwriter and director of the film made major mistakes in plot arrangements and details, resulting in The movie is in an embarrassing state of nowhere, and it is in a dilemma.
First of all, the film is positioned as a horror film, but the style of director Oliver Hirschbiegel is obviously inconsistent with that of Hollywood horror films. From the perspective of horror films, there are too many character psychological portrayals, and the visual effects and the rhythm of the plot change are not strong enough; and in the process of characterizing psychological characters, they did not adopt the slow psychological portrayal and the slow psychological portrayal of Japanese and Korean horror films. The combination of horror scenes is entirely the narrative technique of feature films, which leads to the confusion of film positioning.
Secondly, regardless of the positioning of the movie, the narrative focus of the story is mainly on the process of the transformation of the two worlds before and after the alien virus invasion. It took a lot of time to describe the details of the world turmoil, which can be compared with the psychologist Carol. In the performance of his inner struggle, there is a serious lack of pen and ink. I think the reason for this arrangement is probably to follow Hollywood's big scene routines, but the director seems to have forgotten one point. Hollywood big scene movies generally have to be combined with personal heroism and intense action scenes to attract the box office. The protagonist is the psychologist Carol. Although the actor Nicole Kidman has shown good acting skills, there are not many action scenes. Abandoning the psychological details of digging deep themes and pursuing grand visual scenes, for this movie, it is definitely going after the last.
To sum up, "Deadly Invasion" chose the theme of Indie film, but did not dig deep into the theme; it was positioned as a horror film, but it did not make a card according to the horror film, and did not have many visual horror elements; it adopted Hollywood. The investment and production methods of the company, but there is not enough fierce big scene to attract the box office. The final result was that the film happened to be stuck in the middle, the ideological connotation was not dug deep enough, the horror effect was not enough to be terrifying, the scene stunts were not enough to be "dazzling", neither side was too high, and the task was not completed.
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