As the first work of the third phase of the Marvel parallel universe, I still have a little bit of expectations for "Doctor Strange". Is there something special about the magic theme? Can Cumford develop a personal acting style? However, Hollywood still uses its precise industrial control to make everything proceed according to the standard mode of popcorn: the opening dark world is about to move - cut to the gorgeous life of the protagonist's stinky fart - a small accident loses the protagonist's reputation and pride and self-esteem - Seek help from outside the civilized world - integrate into that world in the misfits - fight monsters and level up for that world.
I wonder if the United States has been the world hegemon for too long and has lost its imagination. They have been alone in their struggle for defeat, and can only monotonously imagine what else could be left outside the existing civilization? Not only Marvel, but most mainstream American hero stories follow such a story motif. This is actually very similar to the novels of the Ming and Qing Dynasties in China, such as "Journey to the West". The civil society has developed to a certain extent, and people are full of food all day long. Except for describing the secrets of private life, it is the dream of myth's childhood.
"Doctor Strange" also has simple philosophical thinking: nature is the master of everything, and everything you do should conform to nature, not change. Whether in the East or the West, after the birth of civilization, it is more about the transformation of nature. The Confucian philosophy of life is the gene of every social cell. But if life is like this, it would be too boring. Fortunately, I have Taoist thinking. I have a limit and know no limit. This is also the worldview that Mage Gu Yi wanted to reverse after Mr. Strange, a neuroscientist, a doctor of medicine and a double doctor of science, in the cutting-edge field of modern technology, lost his hands.
Just like Baoyu who experienced the illusory realm under Qin Keqing's guidance in "A Dream of Red Mansions", the bald-headed Master Gu Yi used his thoughts to let Strange go to the sky and tell him: The world is not your successful people. Do you think you can see the whole world from a high-rise building with a panoramic view of Manhattan? All you see is a peek inside the leopard.
Doctor Strange's English can't help but think of Kubrick's doctor strangelove. But the imitation of the excellent classics of the East and the West in commercial films is the same as the stalk in the film where the doctor is not a master (I am a doctor, not a mage; I am a doctor, not a master), but it is just used to stew this pot of impersonal comics. The seasoning of Weizhi Soup is nothing more.
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