Alfonso Cuaron is one of the few film directors who has reached the top in both technical and ideological aspects. From his career, it is not difficult to see that the part of his development in Hollywood is on the technical side, with "Son of Man" Begins and ends with Gravity. Cuaron should not be optimistic about the acceptance of Hollywood movie audiences for the depth of thought in a film (which is of course wise), so he is committed to discovering top-level audio-visual language, using shocking and even avant-garde, experimental nature. The technical means are dedicated to the audience's ultimate viewing experience. As for the script, it is more like a vessel that carries these technical means, and it looks advanced. This film exemplifies this, an apocalyptic allegory full of sensory stimulation, with commercial icing wrapped in humanistic savory reveries, sweet and savory audiences alike. But the problem is that while we are amazed by Caron's gorgeous and stunning iconic long shot, on the other hand, we are deeply impressed by the deep-seated separation between classes, hatred and cannibalism in the human race that the film wants to express. Knowing the barriers to understanding, the two emotions of happiness and sadness are like water and fire against each other and cannot be compatible, so a strange movie-watching experience is achieved. The future of human beings is deeply worried. The two tastes are like the sweet and salty tastes in the mouth can't mix together, so they swallow them all together, let the stomach digest, and the brain can hardly produce any aftertaste.
Of course, this is a nit-picking evaluation. Of course, this is a wonderful movie. The male protagonist protects the pregnant black girl all the way, like Prometheus who steals fire, guarding the last fire for mankind, hoping to get on the A ship called "Tomorrow". When the entire human race fell into panic and despair because of the loss of fertility, violence and hatred became a breeding ground for conspiracy and evil. In the background of the precariousness and the collapse of the building, the male protagonist took over the task of his ex-wife and embarked on saving the "son of mankind" This is undoubtedly a road of self-redemption for human beings, and this is of course a road full of thorns. In the film, the male protagonist loses his shoes on the way to escape, and the camera shot to the male protagonist's bloody feet many times. There was only one pair of flip-flops at home, and he could only wear slippers and limped through gunfire, gunpowder, ruins and broken tiles, trekking, and then the Russians gave him a pair of shoes, which sheltered the male protagonist a lot. His troubled feet also supported him to stagger through the last part of the journey to escort the "Son of Man". In the first few shots of the male protagonist, the black girl, the mother and daughter, and the landlady Malika getting into the sewer, it is the survivors who hurriedly hide from the gunfire to strip off the shoes of the dead, and hang them around their necks like treasures. In this dark day, In the apocalyptic scene, shoes seem to be the most precious wealth of precarious people.
The industrial civilization of human beings started by putting on shoes, shoes are simply industrial civilization itself, primitive people also wear animal skins, but primitive people who wear shoes are no longer primitive people, we have learned to protect our feet. From that day on, we were freed from ignorance and barbarism. In the outer world, we built the city, a cement fortress, to isolate people from the herds of beasts; in the inner world, we built a paper house of civilization to isolate human and animal nature. But whenever a crisis comes, we will find that there is only a piece of paper between human nature and animal nature. If we pierce this piece of paper, we will become monsters with fierce hearts and fragile bodies, as if our tender feet have become accustomed to it. The protection of the shoes, if you have to walk barefoot in the reinforced concrete jungle, you will drag the bloody heels like the male protagonist Sean, and after all, you will not be able to wait for the ark called "tomorrow".
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