Since I learned about this movie last year, I have been looking forward to it. I had this feeling before when I was looking forward to Avatar and Prometheus. Avatar and Prometheus are without exception because of Cameron and Scott, the film is more of a plot.
With great anticipation, when I saw the opening of the movie, I was so excited that I almost burst into tears. At the end of the movie, many friends felt that it was very boring. It was simply Ultraman and the little monster fighting each other. Indeed, this movie ended up being made into a popcorn movie, which did make me a little disappointed. But overall, I'm still very satisfied. The whole movie brings people into the situation very well, and it captures all the scenes that I have dreamed of since I was a child. For many years, I have been looking forward to such a movie. Fearless warriors operate huge mechas to fight on behalf of human beings, to achieve things beyond human beings, and to help human beings realize their dreams. It's like some people love gold and silver jewelry, some people love car watches, old boys dream of MJ's stage, and others like science fiction, reverie, and longing for steel mechas. Later, I gradually found out that there are so many people who think like me, and some people have also realized this dream on the screen. Really lucky for three lives, how can you not be overwhelmed with emotion?
As a digression, I can first distinguish my own mechas, and briefly explain, they should roughly be included in these four categories:
humans are overpowered, machines have no autonomous consciousness, and this category can best highlight the role of humans, and machines are controlled by humans. The tools (remote control in "Iron Fist", forklift in "Avatar", wearable in "Iron Man", "Power Armor", neural connection in "Pacific Rim")
are half-human and half-machine, with Transformed by humans, it can be divided into full replacement and partial replacement (such as "Robocop", "Galactic Railway 999", "The Last Weapon")
Autonomously active, thinking robots, these robots have begun to have human-like abilities, and it is difficult to distinguish them at first. The impact on humans can be simply divided into whether they can abide by the three laws of robots ("AI" and "Blade Runner" in robots Begin to seek ego, robots control humans in "The Matrix", "Astro Boy", "Ghost in the Shell", "Old Man Z")
aliens, robot types (Cybertrons in "Transformers" , "Old Man") I can finally see the kind of movies
I was looking forward to, so I said just now that I was deeply moved after watching the title of the movie. Judging from the previous plot, the overall level of the film is very high, and it has the humanistic thinking of ordinary science fiction films: because of sudden disasters, it has brought a very serious impact on the earth society: changes in the powers and responsibilities of the government (the unified establishment of the Pan Pacific Organization) ), changes in decision-making before and after politicians (military resistance in the early stage, unified manufacturing of mecha in the later stage, and then abandoning the mecha to build the Great Wall), changes in the people (from panic in the early stage, to seeking stability in the later stage, and conflict with the government in the later stage), ideological and cultural Changes (fear of monsters, to eating monsters, monster worship, mech worship).
But as the movie progresses, I want to say that the director's follow-up digging is getting weaker and weaker, especially the complete lack of changes in human internal thinking: they were devastated at the beginning, and finally turned around at the back, cheering before the victory , but then what? The movie only shows that, for example, Hannibal uses monsters to make money, and there is a religion of monster punishment, but this is far from enough. Faced with the construction of the Great Wall of the Coast, how many people agree and how many people oppose it, and why they agree and why they oppose it is not specified (this is mentioned in the film on the difference between the rich and the poor). In the face of the construction of the Great Wall, will there be monopoly companies taking the opportunity to make a fortune, just like the household registration system of the Celestial Dynasty, which requires the people to emigrate to the inland? In the sky and big screen advertisements, there should be advertisements about going to the Great Wall everywhere, and black intermediaries should emerge as the times require. What about those who can't go inland, are they waiting to die on the coast, or do they hate others? Will he turn to betray his compatriots and take refuge in aliens? The change in their thinking is actually very interesting to consider carefully. In addition, people's feelings for mechas are not very comprehensive, and they only talk about before the worship of humans, but such a powerful weapon, will it also make people feel panic? Once controlled by bad guys, will it become a hidden danger to one's own safety? At the same time, will someone try to use the mecha to trample on their own and implement a dictatorship? Will someone go to the Myth Mecha and see this as another miracle like the monster? How has politics been manipulated during this period? Is each country working together on the surface, and will they step on each other secretly? Why can such a robot be created, but no giant guns appear. After the destruction of the earth, has mankind considered a space program?
If the film can focus on the above points and add more conflicts and interpretations between people, it will be more fascinating and thought-provoking. Of course, there are also serious aesthetic preferences in these aspects. From a pessimistic perspective, the results of any in-depth look may not be so positive. The tone of such a movie is too heavy, and investors will not allow it to affect the box office.
From the beginning, the film is full of surprising possibilities, but it is clear that the director reduced it to only a few fights in the end.
When it comes to fighting, my pessimism is all over again. Imagine that such a movie could have added more martial arts plots. Unlike Transformers, the robots here are not intelligent, and the people who operate the cold mecha are warm-blooded humans, and their spiritual things should be the focus of this film. Just like a knight in the world with a sword, the weapon is only the shape, and the master who wins the trick is the meaning. Among all the martial arts plots, the most embarrassing one is the lonely hero and the struggle against fate: Lian Po is old enough to eat, and he dies before he is successful. everything". Going back to this movie, the warlords with "Dangerous Vagabond" are gone, "Vladivostok" and "Coyote Tango" have long since become a mess of scrap iron, full of loneliness and forgotten Ruins in the shape of a mountain. Only the "Dangerous Wanderer" defeated the enemy with his remaining strength, and finally dragged his broken body to the shore in the dusk.
The important role of the general in the movie is actually very pessimistic. From beginning to end, he suffered repeated setbacks, but he never gave up the past to take the initiative to shoulder the mission of mankind, and fought for it to the death! He was a former hero, his military career was sidelined, his hometown was invaded by the enemy, he was old and terminally ill, at the same time he was a loving father, a strict boss, so many overlapping identities, in itself Let this character have a lot of tragic color. Such a character has flesh and blood, which is impressive, so why can't the protagonist be him? Of course, if this main line continues, the movie will inevitably become more and more desperate, so in the end, he can only sacrifice him to add a dazzling ring to the real d protagonist. However, in the end, the image of the general was sublimated: in the bottom of the sea, the three characters, the iron man, the father, and the savior, were all concentrated, which perfectly enriched the weak plot of the movie.
It is worth mentioning that in the film, the impact of human industry on the environment is also mentioned slightly, because the environment we destroy is more suitable for aliens to live in, so they will not hesitate to occupy it together. It's a little far-fetched and ironic, but at least the film can actively discuss the impact of modern industry on the earth, and can actively discuss things other than human beings. Of course, it only ends abruptly at the beginning. If you can follow the tone, at least the depth of the movie can be dug up. Steel, ruins; monsters, mechas, and the black and bright steel in the dusk are the totems of human industrial civilization. The film should try to explore the dependence and reflection of human beings on industry: steel, as a representative of industry, began to introduce Human life improved, then industrial development caused the earth to pollute, then caused alien colonization, and finally defeated the colonists through steel. . . But it shouldn't be a simple end here, but also need to reflect on the previous and adjust the follow-up development, otherwise this kind of plot may continue.
If this goes further, the movie shouldn't be like in Tom's sci-fi movies, with beautiful streamlined space planes, clean and simple buildings and decorations, holograms of cabins and control interiors, and bright and dazzling instruments. It feels very high tech. On the contrary, the more rough and cluttered the better, the hatches are iron gates with heavy rust bars, and the rooms are closed iron boxes. The future here is no different from the present and the past, and the world is still full of filth and dilapidation. The main scene of this movie is set in the future Hong Kong, which is very appropriate. The streets were dimly lit, crowded, smoky, squalid, and covered in graffiti in English, Chinese and Japanese. The shadow of the blockbuster in front of the camera shrouded the streets, many abandoned high-rise buildings stood up, and some people used the skeletons of monsters to build hotels to attract business. The toiled workers, for the meager wages, climbed the steel elevated, and even exchanged their lives for life. But after these iron walls were easily destroyed by monsters, those workers who put all their efforts into building the Great Wall couldn't help but sigh: what are we doing this for? This situation, does it feel very similar, the Qin Dynasty in China appeared a thousand years ago, and it also appeared in the attacking giants, which represents the servility of human beings to satisfy the status quo. Of course, the result of passive resistance is the same, it is almost useless in the face of barbaric invasion. In front of the giant monsters, we see the dense black human beings that are suspected to be ants. At this time, the stationary mecha can be called a real "human". They exist to prove the only remaining dignity of human beings.
In short, such a film is worthy of his box office and ratings. Just a little bit, and it can become an irreplaceable classic. . .
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