This film tells the story of the road trip of the MITCHELL family being broken by a sudden intelligent robot rebellion. The entire film uses a flashback narrative structure. From the beginning of the story, we saw that the MACHINES family was caught in a predicament of being chased by intelligent robots. Such a beginning is very effective for the audience. First of all, the emergence of intelligent robots tells us that this is a story about science fiction, and it quickly caught the attention of the audience who love science fiction movies. Then the burst action scene at the beginning also captured our emotions and curiosity, and wanted to know what happened before. This is a feature of flashbacks, which at the beginning turn people’s curiosity about the event into motivation to watch the movie. (This part usually comes from the mid point of the script. If it is a 90-minute script, it is usually about 45 pages of the script, which is the ALL-LOST stage of the character in the story. For example, this part of PARASIT is a family in the Part home The scene of celebration.) In the end, a very substituting voice-over (although old-fashioned, but still effective. Effectively establish the protagonist’s virtual narrative perspective. Voice-over, not narration, voice-over and narration are different in the construction of the story.) People's cute shapes are also more effective to make the audience have empathy for several characters without too much foreshadowing. The several narrative techniques that came up are a bit like Lu Zhishen's three-axes, and they are also the usual techniques of Hollywood. Even the most efficient cavemen will be attracted to watch them. The theme of the film is still family ethics, but it puts on the coat of science fiction, and at the same time inserts realistic thinking (smart devices are a disaster or an opportunity for the current family ecological environment), and exaggerated through science fiction techniques.
ps, I accidentally found the commentary on this video on Douyin. Its opening angle is very interesting. It starts from "What if there is no wifi in the world?". It sets up a question and uses it as a point of curiosity to stimulate the desire for exploration of those of us.
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