A love is between Vicus and his wife. The film uses many shots to illustrate the deep affection between the two of them: the husband's heartfelt praise to his wife, the wife's careful collection of the handmade gifts her husband gave her, the wife's concern for her husband after the husband was infected, the husband's feelings for him when he was captured. Missing his wife, direct conversation between them, etc. He was a prudent and diligent civil servant, and he was promoted through the promotion of his husband. For prawns, his original attitude was "polite contempt", his way of doing things was relatively mild, and "a smile is always cheaper than a bullet" under the Ministry of Education. This gentleness comes from both his natural goodness and his cowardice. He always avoids conflicts, and his attitude towards contradictions is that "big things are reduced to small things, and small things are reduced to small things". He escaped the human scalpel only out of his survival instinct. Red Shrimp proposed that if he got the fluid back, he would be cured, which he also thought was a fantasy. It was not until after the phone call with his wife that the hope of returning to the old happiness with his wife ignited his courage. It was because the idea of reuniting with his wife was too strong, so when he learned that the red shrimp had to fly back to the home planet with fluid energy and then return to heal him, it would take at least three years, he was furious. Heart attack knocked the red shrimp to the ground.
A love is between Red Shrimp and his children. Not long after the film started, in the face of human search, Red Shrimp told Yellow Shrimp to hide things, and he had to go back to Little Shrimp. After Red Shrimp entered the MNU laboratory, he stood in front of the corpse of the same kind, shocked and stiff, and the bullets around him were also suddenly unaware. It wasn't until Vikus loudly reminded him to think about his children that he regained his sanity. When Red Shrimp was seriously injured by MNU soldiers, Vikus said that he wanted to cover him back to the sub-ship, he slumped that he was too injured to support that far, Vikus said, "I want to take you back to your child beside." He suddenly raised his head and ran. The belief in protecting the shrimp and bringing the shrimp back to their hometown made Red Shrimp still struggling to support it even after being hit hard both physically and mentally.
But these two loves alone are not enough to "save" the prawns and Vikus.
If care and love only occurs between "similars", this kind of "love" is selfish and will inevitably lead to the destruction of other species - this phenomenon has become commonplace on earth, and human beings for their own territory and financial interests, leading to the extinction and endangerment of a large number of species. And within the human race, large and small interest groups have also been drawn, and there are constant disputes and conflicts with each other. Many "loves" are in the name of dignified and noble names (such as family, nation, country), and they have risen to become a kind of "ism", but they have brought bloody killings.
When Vikus took refuge in the Red Shrimp's house, he still thought of himself as a human being, and resented the behavior of the Shrimp who thought he was one of his kind. When he accidentally gains the manipulative abilities of a robot, his first concern is whether he can escape. But when Red Shrimp's life was on the line, his inner goodness was stimulated to the greatest extent - when he fully realized the selfishness and cruelty of human beings, he decided to use his only ability to help these "abnormalities" The first time he fought alongside the Red Shrimp was to get the fluid that could heal him, and the second time he fought alongside the Red Shrimp, he put his life and death aside so that the Red Shrimp and the Shrimp could return to their hometown.
Red Shrimp finally successfully started the spaceship to leave. He received the desperate help of Vicus because of the rich "humanity" he showed in Vicus; Vicus "betrayed" all human beings, and also alienated into a giant Shrimp, but his inner humanity has not changed, like a rose, even if it is made of metal, it is a rose.
This is the director's satire on the arrogance and selfishness of human beings, and it is also a call for equality and fraternity in the world.
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