Although it is said that science fiction describes the future, we all acquiesce in our hearts that a good science fiction movie mostly describes a bad future.
Interstellar is describing a bad future: the end of the world.
It's not the doomsday when a comet hits the earth, but a doomsday in which human civilization slowly declines, science disappears, technology regresses, and rural America is desolate, including the desolation of human hearts - to be honest, Nolan is in The first ten minutes described the end of the earth, but it looked more like the end of the American Empire. Only Americans who grew up in greenhouses are afraid of these, okay? The people of North Korea must have laughed when they saw someone starving, and the people of the Imperial Capital must have laughed when they saw the sandstorm. What the hell is the end of the day?
Although it is not mentioned, it is estimated that the Internet has disappeared in the movie, which is a good thing, otherwise there will be a group of cents roaring on Twitter every day: If you think the earth is not good, get out! It is estimated that NASA turned underground because of this.
Indeed, in the face of the extinction of crops with fusarium wilt, the running parties of NASA are not patriotic at all (ball), and they have come up with a way to waste huge amounts of money on space immigration. Can moving to another planet deal with blight? Since the plants in a Rama-style space station are in full swing at the end of the film, why not consider the greenhouse technology of Chinese farmers? If it doesn't work, can't it be possible to deal with a sandstorm with a limited number of odd and even numbers?
From this, on the one hand, I saw the real weakening of American technical strength, and on the other hand, I also understood why China cannot produce science fiction films: because the Chinese government is too powerful and efficient, it cannot be weak enough to be out of control. level.
Let's talk about the United States. In the first half of the movie, Nolan stepped on the spot very accurately. Before 25 minutes, he didn't waste any time. The daily life of the protagonist Cooper gradually revealed, whether it was his life or his death. His wife, or his emotional sustenance (although he is a farmer, he often fiddles with and modifies various machines, imagining that "technology" can save something), there are obviously some shortcomings.
Notice the drone that popped up, Cooper said of the drone: "It flew to 8,000 feet, and the sun probably burned its brain..." This sentence can't help but make people feel Think of Icarus, who flew too close to the sun and was burned to death in Greek mythology, and "it has to adapt, just like us." This sentence is actually a very important sentence in the play. Of course, second-year Hollywood likes to talk the opposite. Former NASA astronaut and now farmer Cooper has not adapted to life on the ground. He still wants to fly, and human beings cannot adapt to this miserable life and must seek a new path.
All in all, in the thirtieth minute, the climax of the first act came, Cooper heard the call of the adventure journey, and appeared in front of NASA as a god-chosen astronaut. Afterwards, the quarrel between him and his daughter, I really like this scene, very classic quarrel, this is the last chance for the protagonist to hesitate, Cooper finally chooses to leave, this is due to his deep-seated urge to believe that science can save mankind , he is actually unable to adapt to life on the ground.
Cooper embarks on the journey, and the countdown begins. Everything that needs to be explained has been explained, and every step is on the beat of the drum. The protagonist breaks with his past life and steps proudly into a new world that cannot be turned back.
When the space station began to rotate, Hans Jimo's music played, sitting in the theater, from the picture, you could see that Nolan had a religious feeling for science fiction, the kind of dream that should be adhered to by all human beings, out of the earth Cradle, the dream of exploring the unknown universe quietly unfolds at this moment. But shouldn't that have happened in the 1960s and 1970s, in the golden age of cosmic exploration? I really didn't expect that in the 21st century, they are still spending huge sums of money to incite people's enthusiasm for space exploration. After all, what does this kind of spaceship have to do with the people? I always feel that if you shoot a little more on the local gold version of the iPhone 6, you can achieve the same effect, and that represents the direction of future technology.
It was later discovered that this was just the beginning of Nolan’s sci-fi heart, and the dazzling space wonders followed one after another. Earth, Saturn’s rings, wormholes, and Gargantua, we all know that black holes fall into even light. I can't escape, but I have to be so beautiful. The more beautiful things are, the more terrifying they are. Maybe the film is suggesting something to us. Immigrating abroad looks so beautiful, but it is actually very scary. Moreover, it can also be seen from the film that the scientific quality of American astronauts is generally very low, and along the way, load experts have to give him the theory of popularizing wormholes and black holes. Therefore, foreign education must be very bad.
The first planet was made of soy sauce, allowing the protagonist to experience the power of a thousand years in the world for the first time. Except for the big tide, there are few bright spots. What is more dissatisfying is that such a huge tide should be calculated and detected in space, so why waste energy exploring. What I don't understand is a place, where are the old black people waiting for them to come back these 23 years? Isn't it in the orbit of the planet? If in planetary orbit, his time should be in sync with Cooper's. If it is not in the orbit of the planet, but revolves around the black hole, it is too risky. What if the mother ship is revolving to the other side of the black hole when the prowler comes back, and secondly, there is no need for the mother ship to maintain a normal time state alone. In short, the first planet has finished soy sauce and an astronaut has also finished soy sauce. Now there are two planets left, one with Brand's lover and the other with authoritative scientist Mann, but there is not enough fuel, so we can only go to One. Brand chooses his lover, Cooper chooses Mann. There is a dispute within the team, and the most important theme of the film emerges here: whether rational thinking can decide the direction of choice when faced with the big question of life and death for the entire human race. Excuse me, will Liu Cixin scoff at this question? But again, we found that American scientific literacy has declined significantly, and the female scientist Brand believes that sometimes the intuition of love is more important. This passage is an important passage that sparked the inner growth of the protagonist Cooper, but it is not yet ready. In short, the stakes have been raised, and the astronauts have chosen to enter Mann's planet.
I have to say, from here on out, the rhythm of the film is chaotic. Chaotic rhythm and slow rhythm are not the same concept. The rhythm of the movie has actually become faster here. Fighting and killing, setting fire in the wind, explosion and murder, it is quite lively. Mann becomes the only villain in the film, although Mann appears, Let us know what kind of person the best astronaut and the most outstanding scientist can mutate into without the guidance of the scientific outlook on development, but what is the point of showing such disunity? I can't help but think what would have happened if the astronaut team led by Yang Liwei or Liu Yang was sent out to find a habitable planet. I have full trust in the Chinese astronauts, but this is another reason why China can't make science fiction movies.
Mann kind of corresponds to Cooper's other inner self. He lost his principles and gave up the future of mankind in order to return home. Although he didn't explain why he wanted to go home, was he just afraid of death? Then he wouldn't tell Cooper that he saw his family's face for a long time before he died, so obviously he wanted to go back for his family, and the motive was the same as Cooper's. Cooper's battle with him on the icefield is also a battle with his own little beast.
In this scene, Nolan wants to express a lot of things, and he wants to solve a lot of logical cause and effect. Plan A failed, Old Brand deceived everyone, and Murphy thought that his father deceived himself, and the father-daughter affection was compromised. The most serious damage, Cooper's phantom that science can save the world fell apart, and the destruction of the spaceship also made Cooper, who wanted to go home, no way to go back. But so many logical relationships and emotions are fragmented by the fast-paced plots. There is a cross-cut here, but the effect is rather weird. The conflict between Murphy and his brother, and the conflict between Cooper and Mann, seems to lack the corresponding relationship, and the consequences are not equal. I always felt that the quarrel between Murphy and her brother should have made her resolve to set fire to the house (instead of burning corn), which corresponds to Cooper's determination to sacrifice himself in the black hole and send Brand to the lover's planet. If you burn down your home, you will really cut off the only link with your father, and your father will really die in a black hole, which is exactly what it is.
I don't like this scene of Mann. Although Matt Damon plays the villain, his obesity is really surprising. For the audience, it completely achieves the purpose of negative energy shock, but in the grand theme of human survival and death, and In front of all kinds of space wonders, it seems insignificant, not on the same level at all, it is not as good as "Gravity", where the environment is the only enemy, but the atmosphere is clean. Cooper's success in the high-speed rotation is whether to take care of technical details or return to emotional clues.
The astronaut Mann trained by the American Empire not only has bad morals, but also has bad business skills, and he broke the spacecraft. So in the end, Cooper sacrificed himself was the only choice, and even surrender was impossible. The characters do not need to struggle, so is very lazy. And when the character's intrinsic motivation disappears, so does the tension.
Moreover, when Cooper fell into the black hole, it was almost a moment of nothing, but at this time it was very far from Murphy turning his back on him, and emotionally, this was not the best time.
To sum up, I think the handling of the second act is problematic. But this problem is not as big as the third act.
When you get to a black hole, there is nothing imaginative, because after that you can start talking nonsense. In fact, including wormholes, and what the five-dimensional space is like, no one knows, and it can be made into anything. There is an old saying that it is easy to paint a ghost and it is difficult to paint a dog, which is almost the meaning. The pictures of the wonders of the universe presented in the movie basically did not jump out of the descriptions that were already in the book.
Cooper travels through a black hole, falls into a five-dimensional cube, and begins to change history. In this five-dimensional cube, Cooper has completed his final growth. He no longer believes in science, and believes that love can travel through time and space and connect himself and his daughter, so in the end Brand is right. Love and intuition are more reliable than scientific calculations. . It's almost like Nolan chose the worst way to change the ending, which is a mechanical seance.
Although Cooper refused to admit that THEY was Chinese (in the original script, he was Chinese), but under the guidance of the main idea, he believed that there was no savior, no immortal emperor, no Chinese People's Volunteers, and they were us, although various explanations were made. Foreshadowing, although Brand's words about love in the previous paragraph are used as a foreshadowing, but the ever-changing, can not change the fact that a fairy fell from the sky and saved everything.
Although it can be said that this is a film that pays tribute to 2001: A Space Odyssey, the Black Cube in Space Odyssey expresses another theme from beginning to end, pure, unknowable, and god-like. It can represent God, time, Eternity, wisdom, and even just the motives of human desire to evolve. And Nolan's vision and ambition in this film are far smaller than Kubrick's. Cooper is still a hero who saved the earth. The hero must conform to the routine, and must complete the task of saving himself and the earth independently, but Cooper is not, so let's not talk about him.
Let's go back to the theme of the whole film. It is such a movie with black hole god Kip Thorne as a scientific consultant, known as hard science fiction, but got an incredible answer: love is a power beyond the laws of physics. I wipe, who can bear it or not, obviously only the truth of the universe and the eight honors and eight shames can travel through time and space, okay?
All in all, Nolan's biggest rewrite is to give up the stricter logical relationship between "them" and the wormhole created by the original script written by his brother, and focus on the shaping of Cooper's father-daughter relationship, just like the movie said. Yes, if you want to get it, you have to give up part of it. Between this film and the original script, who more reflects the direction of advanced culture, I am afraid it will become a matter worthy of debate.
Cooper finally came home, according to everyone's arrangement, he should become a farmer again, although that home and farm were reproduced in a Rama space station. (The so-called Rama is an empty cylinder that produces a gravitational effect by rotating itself. In fact, about the various wonderful physical rules on Rama, it is actually enough to make a movie. For details, please read Clark's "With Rama" The end of the match is still corresponding to the sentence when the drone appeared. Cooper doesn't like to adapt to life. This lawless person stole a spaceship to find Brand.
As mentioned earlier, although Nolan was secretive and made various modifications, we still found many problems in the American scientific and aerospace circles from the film. Is this a confession of an American filmmaker? We are more mature than them, not only in terms of science, but also in politics, which is why we don't make science fiction films.
In contrast to the original script of the film, the lament for the irresistible decline of American civilization and the admiration for the thriving high-tech civilization of my kingdom are more straightforward. Only China without science fiction can save the world. I think this is the final theme presentation.
Moreover, although Nolan has received countless box office and praise with the help of this film, he must be depressed and sad in his heart. They may have realized that not only in future technology, they will lose to China , Even culturally, China, which has a literary forum, will produce works that are more advanced than them sooner or later.
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