"X-Men: The Last Stand": A Luxurious Visual Feast (Text: Vulcan)
I admit, I actually watched this movie three times. It's not that I don't want to write this movie, but I don't know how to start in many places. A luxurious visual feast. I admire the imagination of the comic author and the strength of the film production team, so that I have watched this film three times and still don't feel tired. This movie is the perfect combination of imagination and stunt. I remember that there were only a few types of mutants in the first X-Men, and by the time this movie came, there were all kinds of mutants. This is the credit of the original comics, and the transformation of those lines in the original comics into such a fine and beautiful picture that we see now, maybe only the Hollywood team can do it. The Wolverine in the first movie was just struggling to make some meager money in the ring, and the Wolverine who came to this one has grown into the backbone of the stuntman academy. The growth of the characters has continued from the first film to the present, which is undoubtedly the place where this series of films is better than other series of films. At least in the dilemma that the plot cannot be extended all the time, the growth of the characters is more important. After all, we may not be able to maintain that freshness and interest in a static character forever. Only change is the king of film survival. In this movie we saw enough to make us happy. Wolverine is growing up, Storm has become more calm and steady, the Phoenix who split out of Jane's spiritual consciousness has become the strongest fifth-level mutant, and Charles' death has made mutants and ordinary people seem stable. The relationship suddenly broke down. Adding the antidote extracted from the DNA of a child who could make mutants lose their abilities completely broke the relationship between mutants and ordinary people.
Mutants are not sick or poisoned, so they don't need an antidote; this is a humanitarian call and a basic respect for aliens or other species. Nature has created nature for a reason. The concern of mankind is that if one person can control everything around him and can lift an entire city into the sky, what human rights are for other people; even basic personal safety is not a concern . The battle over the stalemate between the two viewpoints is worth watching. The confrontation that began between the opposition brigade of mutants led by Magneto and the Justice Army of Wolverine Storm left the human armies armed with weapons made from the antidote that could turn mutants into ordinary people. In the middle of the cracks are helpless cannon fodder.
The source of the war between mutants and humans and within mutants is the development of antidote. What is the antidote? A father's simple and deep love for his son. Even if the son has wings like an angel, in the father's eyes, the son is an alien, sick or poisoned. The antidote was developed just to bring the son back into his own race. It is always just an outlier, such a living state is not pleasant. Like a little boy who chooses to inject the antidote, just so that he can hold hands with his boyfriend for a night walk, or hug. After all, as long as the abilities of the mutants that come into contact with him will be absorbed by him, especially those he loves, that is a very scary thing. It's love in this movie; it's very pure. From these two points, this film should be a commercial film that is not thorough enough. At least there is family and love, and it will not be completely blindly commercial.
Of course, the biggest attraction of this movie is the special effects of the movie. Lei Gong smashed through the wall bravely, Storm's soaring through the clouds, Wolverine's cracked skin shed and reborn, the cooperation between Fire and Magneto, and the ice-fire battle with Iceman... All the stunts are exquisite and gorgeous. Ubiquitous stunts are lavishly staged in the final showdown. Everything took off, beside the Phoenix girl. Human bodies, buildings, weapons, sea water... everything flew and shattered around me. This is one of the most beautiful stunts in the movie. And Wolverine approached slowly, enduring the pain, enduring the pain of an inch of skin, but the biggest pain was killing the woman he loved deeply with his own hands. This is a last resort choice, helpless and pathetic. Like a shape-shifting woman who was shot with an antidote to save Magneto and lost all her abilities, but was abandoned by Magneto, I saw her skin gradually slough into the skin tone of an ordinary person instead of wearing it like she used to. A blue, scaly-like liver also felt pathetic. This is a tragic commercial film.
The imagination and stunts of the original work are perfectly combined, and the last commercial blockbuster contributed by Hollywood this summer is already worth the ticket price. Let's put aside those unnecessary hopes and immerse ourselves in this luxurious visual feast together.
2006-09-17; Bingxu year Bingshen month Jiyou day. It was first published in the "Extraordinary Way" column of the A52 edition of "New Express" on September 19, 2006.
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