Regarding the scientific theory and narrative structure of interstellar travel, there are already many excellent analysis articles on the Internet, so I will not repeat them. Let me talk about the space spirit that I am more interested in.
People live in the moment and value their immediate interests, but the hustle and bustle and comfort of reality are too easy for people to focus on the ground for a lifetime, forgetting the existence of poetry and distant places. Born in distress and dying in peace, for our species, in addition to cultivating the land under our feet, there should also be a group of people who can see the farther and farther future with deep eyes, and see the land under our feet. Barren, seeing the endless starry sky above our heads.
Although human beings' exploration of the starry sky has experienced many setbacks in history, it can be said that they have not stopped working hard. Most theories of starry sky exploration still have a high cognitive threshold for ordinary people, and the various works of art have a high cognitive threshold. Existence, mildly and harmlessly lowers the threshold of this kind of cognition, popularizing a lot of simple scientific knowledge, the existence of these works, in addition to satisfying people's desire for knowledge, in my opinion, the most important point is the occasional reminder as We, who exist as individuals, should open our minds, examine our existence from a deeper perspective, and look down on our planet and our species from the eternal tranquil deep space.
The existence of sci-fi works has opened the door to people's imagination of the starry sky. Because it is backed by science and faces the future, it should be given a more advanced and grander sense of mission. It exists as an outpost of the footsteps of the population, and the best sci-fi works , entertainment should only exist as a means of raising its arms and shouting, its ultimate mission is to wake up, reflect, inspire, praise fearlessness and enterprising.
Science fiction works are closely related to the vision of the times. In the era of the industrial revolution, the right to interpret truth was gradually taken back from the gods and returned to the hands of the common people, and the population gradually regained its self-confidence. Erna's self-confidence, positivity and optimism, full of upward spiritual outlook, and in the post-industrial era, the negative role of science in the infighting of the population itself has also been magnified in science fiction works, and there are more works at this time. Introspection and doubt, from the two world wars to the Cold War, the spirit of sci-fi works has changed with the times, and there have also been doubts about technology itself, nostalgia for earth-basedism, and the heroic self-confidence in the space spirit has gradually increased. Caution and suspicion.
Doubts about technology itself and human nature itself are often tied together. In addition to reflection on science, people's cognition of themselves is also a bit more negative. In "Interstellar", explorer Matt Damon's comments Loss is one category, and so is the backlash of robots against humans (such as HAL in "2001"). The backlash of technology and the loss of humanity have often appeared in sci-fi works over the past few decades, which are essentially the ultimate sci-fi The vigilance and reflection of the mission is a kind of useful thinking, but it is easy to show a negative attitude if it is too publicized. Unfortunately, under the stereotyped routine of commercial films, the indiscriminate addition of humanity and technology have already Let this thoughtless reflection seem cheap.
Curious curiosity can be transformed into an incentive to explore. It is not uncommon for space exploration and alien life to encounter encounters in sci-fi films. This kind of contact can be good or bad, and it is mostly for the curiosity of stunned people, creating a sense of mystery. It inspires human exploration, and the difference in specific images is probably related to the times. The aliens and strange shapes produced in the shadow of the Cold War are terrifying, while the aliens after the disintegration of the Soviet Union are mostly friendly. The victory is the main one, but at present, it seems that this type of film can survive independently without the coat of space exploration, and it is easy to confuse it with ordinary monster movies.
Another type of works has a strong orientation: Earth-basedism. This spirit mainly promotes the sacrifice of space exploration, the darkness of deep space, and the nostalgia for the mother earth. The 2013 "Gravity" is space in the author's eyes. A representative of defeatism and earth-independentism, this kind of sci-fi work itself praises exploration, but there is a certain cognitive bias in the way of expression, which is easy to give people a negative illusion. Friends who have read "The Three-Body Problem" should all know Thomas Vader. He has a clear position in space, and puts the survival and continuation of the population above everything else, just like the iron-blooded prime minister in the colonial era. On the contrary, many good people who sway from side to side and have no standpoint seem too many to be useless. Abandoning the so-called bad deeds of Wade in fighting for living space by all means, the author highly recognizes his tough and outgoing space spirit of "moving forward and moving forward", yearning for enterprising, Fearlessness and sacrifice, so I scoff at the space defeatism and earth-independentism shown in science fiction films. If even the imagination cannot escape the gravity of the parent star, let alone real space exploration. Under the two-line narrative of "Interstellar Crossing", it essentially praises the love of father and daughter, but it does not hinder the praise of the fearless space spirit. After that, the paragraph that fell into the fifth dimension, although the closure was completed, left me with unspeakable regrets.
In "Interstellar", in addition to the spirit of space exploration, the actor's original motivation is to protect his family from extinction. In the movie, it is expressed as a promise between father and daughter, in the name of love. Therefore, the male protagonist has the heart of returning to "home" from the very beginning, and still has a shadow of earth-independentism. Of course, in the movie, Nolan puts humanity and sacrifice on a high level through powerful incitement. The altar was kidnapped to such a high place, and the audience who was the infected object would be in a difficult position.
In essence, Nolan is still familiar with the emotional core of Hollywood. The emotional core in "Interstellar" is always based on the relationship between father and daughter. Just like a kite, no matter how far it flies, there is still a concern to go back; The emotional core is the husband's love for his deceased wife, so no matter how many layers of dreams, the husband will eventually return to the original point; the emotional core of the "Batman" series is Wayne's nostalgia for the city of Gotham, no matter how difficult it is , will also protect Gotham. The maintenance of this kind of emotion, which is reflected in "Interstellar", is probably an emotional variant of Earth's localism. I don't deny that in "Interstellar", the emotional core of father and daughter set the incitement to the movie. Power and appeal, this makes the film more universal and more moving, for the film, this may not be better, but from my point of view, this is also a rope tied to Nolan's body, like a kite , gave him enough range to stretch his hands and feet, but prevented him from flying to a deeper and boundless space.
In the space spirit I advocate, this kind of concern has a fairy tale-like poetry, but in the face of the deep space, it is a meaningless tenderness.
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