"Lost War": Xiaosan destroys the Garden of Eden

Giles 2022-04-20 09:01:10

Adam and Eve had a good life in the Garden of Eden, but they were lured by snakes to eat fruit that they shouldn't eat, and they fell into the world and had to endure the pain of the world; Jack and Victoria, a fairy couple, after the interstellar war. Lonely on duty on the barren earth, the long and boring task will soon come to an end, at this time, a woman named Julia breaks into Harper's life from a dream, and the world of the two is in ashes...

From the perspective of narrative structure, " The story of the Garden of Eden in the Bible is similar to that of "Abandoned War": as long as Adam and Eve obey God's instructions, they can live a long, worry-free and long life. Unfortunately, a snake aroused their curiosity and violated the law, and God was angry. , the Garden of Eden is gone forever; the "apocalyptic" earth where Jack and Victoria live does not have the beautiful scenery of heaven, but there are only two of them on the huge earth, carrying out some daily tasks of maintaining energy equipment and fighting alien harassers. Just, when the time is up, the two will return to the "Titan" base in outer space, happy for thousands of years, and the commander in the base is like the "God" in the world of "Lost War" (of course she is Female, in terms of Godhead, God should transcend gender), she always gives orders to Jack and Victoria through video transmission, as long as the order of this "God" is carried out well, Jack and Victoria's life is like a garden of Eden Cozy - so much so that the two often wrote the words "another day in heaven" to motivate themselves, and daily tasks were common to both of them, and staying for one more day was nothing more than "another day in heaven", once the task time At that point, you can go straight to that "Titan" paradise.

The snake is like an ugly little three. After seducing Adam and Eve to eat the "fruit of good and evil", the two see the "truth" they couldn't see before, and then they are banished forever; The snake in "Jack's wife, she was like a real "little three" at first, and inserted into the relationship between Jack and Victoria, "restarting" the memory in Jack's mind, making him see the The veiled truth makes the whole story a subversive turn. The snake in the "Bible" is synonymous with evil, the "snake" in "Lost at War" is the spokesperson for true love, and the false "Titan God" is the devil who oversteps the authority of "God" - the evil alien camouflage. It is a pity that "Lost War" does not provide too many new ideas, clones, false memories, and being manipulated by external forces to engage in some kind of repetitive work. The core concept of "Lost War" is the same as that of the small cost four years ago. The movie "Moon" is exactly the same. Of course, "Moon" is only an accusation of greedy commercial companies. The narrative pattern of "Lost War" is even larger, creating a background in which the earthlings and aliens are fighting, and the villains are also from commercial companies. When it falls to the aliens, the "alien" invaders that Jack has been fighting against are the unyielding guerrillas on Earth (though the guerrillas only speak English and don't seem to have non-American members).

The core is the content of the awakening and resistance of clones. If you study it carefully, "Lost War" and "The Matrix" are also similar in music. The protagonists originally lived in a false world of consciousness. After waking up, they discovered the ugly truth of the world. Then began a slaughter expedition - the film's audio-visual feast will focus on these plots. "Lost War" is thus presented as two distinct paragraphs: the first half of the protagonist's slightly boring "Eden" life, and the second half of the protagonist's Jedi counterattack after learning the truth. Although there are alien settings, they have never shown their real bodies, more like an abstract evil representation, and most of the plot is also supported by Tom Cruise alone, and some places are inevitably dull.

The Garden of Eden is always destroyed (or debunked) by the sudden appearance of the "Little Three", and without Julia, Jack and Victoria would have been on duty in the Garden of Eden 9 to 5, listen to Phil Collins "Another Day in Heaven," which was fun until he died, and then was cloned again.

A life without passion is no different from a clunky clone, and sometimes, the timely appearance of "Little Three" is not entirely a bad thing.


(Published in "Shandong Radio and Television News", Issue 21, 2013)

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  • Jack Harper: Buck up, Bob. Don't go all shaky on me.

  • Julia: How long have I been out there?

    Jack Harper: At least sixty years.