The biggest feeling of "The Martian" is stunned. It was like trying hard to prepare for a battle with a hundred warriors, but only one person came, and he was still ill, and ended this supposedly thrilling battle crookedly, and ended it in a boring and perfunctory manner.
The Mars in the movie doesn't look like Mars at all, and as a viewer, I'm not at all worried about whether Mark Watney (Matt Damon) will be able to return to Earth - has he ever left Earth? Mars is not represented by wearing a space suit, Mars is not represented by a few spaceships + spaceships, or Mars is not represented by the temperature being so low that all the potatoes are frozen in an instant. Where is the real feeling of Mars? Or where is the "sense of Mars" in my heart? In addition to the exploration of the universe, what is the story that "The Martian" wants to tell? What was the reason for this novel being adapted into a movie?
If it is not the space version, the film background is not set on Mars, it is true, desert rescue, deep sea rescue, any kind of crisis that is unmanned and life-threatening. Robinson rafting can be done, so can juvenile pi. Looking at the whole film, I was surprised to find that this is a film that has no sense of crisis from beginning to end. But "The Martian" is obviously not a story without a sense of crisis: in a crisis of life, you will lose your life in minutes, you will die on Mars, and you may die when you return to Earth; the crisis of trust is ruthlessly abandoned by human companions ( The protagonist can fully understand it); the crisis of time and loneliness, more than 500 solar days, nearly two years alone. But these three crises were quietly resolved, Mark put on a space suit, and the constantly changing solar day numbers in the subtitles, and the human companions have no suspense again.
People on Mars are not in a hurry to go home, and people on Earth are not in a hurry to rescue them. American optimism peaked in The Martian, to an unimaginable level.
Leaving aside the rigor at the scientific level (if you don't understand, you can't talk nonsense, it seems to be praised), Mark Watney's character setting has a flaw: there is no character arc, in short, there is no change. From going to Mars, being thrown on Mars, reclaiming new land on Mars, and returning to Earth, from the beginning to the end, he was optimistic and brave like a Martian. Compared with him, the juvenile pi or something is simply weak.
Like "Pi's Fantasy Drifting", "Robinson Crusoe", "Mutiny Blood" and even "Interstellar", with the power of oneself (or a small group) and boundless space and time In the story of confrontation, the best and most difficult to deal with is how the struggle between man and nothingness is embodied. Matt Damon's acting skills are not convincing or second, the plot has a problem with the character settings.
Mark woke up and found that he was injured, went back to the rest station to treat the wound, began to calculate and plan the food reserve, planted potatoes, was found alive by the earthlings, got in touch, failed to plant potatoes, and continued to think of ways to prepare to return to the earth in advance, Going to Earth, becoming a heroic legend, all in one go, all the setbacks encountered, the discouragement, disappointment, doubt and even despair that should have arisen, there is no trace of stagnation, and after a short sadness, I immediately rise up and start over, and the Martians automatically turn on. Disaster insensitivity, smoothly return to Earth.
I like the picture in the article. Through this static picture, I can see that a person is alone in the face of unknown time and space, producing layers of thoughts and unknown psychology. Whether it is possible to go home safely is an accident rather than a necessity. In the face of this accident, it is more moving to be willing to try to make some attempts.
Matt Damon spent more than two hours in the desert. Who should look at this kind of model American idealistic hero who is super determined in his mind and who is sure to conquer the sky.
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