Yesterday, when I watched Mr. Philip Dick's "Let me flow, my tears", there was a description of a personal flying vehicle that made my imagination run wild for a while, but the end of this imagination somehow fell into "Elysium". "In the Bugatti Veyron, I thought about revisiting it with a different mind. After reading it again, combined with the fact that Lenovo Blomkamp said that it can only attract investment from the film side by selling small visual concept films, I can't help but be more deeply worried.
As Blomkamp's first real personal feature film, "District 9" was really worthy of the praise and expectations at the time. The natural low-fi aesthetics combined with the Kafka-style classical Western philosophical humanistic thinking makes people unforgettable, and it makes people hope that the original text sci-fi feature film will finally have a mantle (although I have no system before I say no. Too high, independent sci-fi has always been humbled after the giant production of the big product factory), but when I watched "The Ninth District", I felt that I no longer had to give my head and eyes to the Marvel Spring Festival Gala. How exciting. ! However, the rise of the work seems to be the pinnacle of his career at present, what a filthy driver and sister stream! The two later feature films can be described as disintegrating, and the few short films that sold jokes and material properties made them feel that this is a sad craftsman who has degenerated from a director to a visual effects supervisor.
In conclusion, I personally think that "Elysium" is the masterpiece that best shows that the director's ability is degraded by the Hollywood production line, and the original sci-fi feature film is in decline. There is also the fact that Hollywood pays too much attention to the laying of routines and abandons the most important demands of "engineering thinking" and "counterpoint thinking" in science fiction texts.
There are countless failures in the sci-fi details of the whole film. I personally give a typical example: when I learned that the smuggling spacecraft with the earth was approaching the space station that I don’t know if it was a tribute to "2001: A Space Odyssey", in order to introduce a space station as soon as possible in the play. "Black Hand Agent": The main villain Kruger (in fact, Sharto Copley is still a very hard-working actor with considerable potential to be tapped), this character line actually arranged for a person to carry a rocket booster on earth Missile to shoot the bridge section of the space shuttle.
It is true that we understand that the space utopia depicted in the story may not want to be stained with any blood, but such a huge Stanford Circular space station does not set up any active and reasonable response to the problem of refugee smuggling, which is so clearly portrayed. , If something goes wrong, you will use the "screenwriter's remote control" to make the villain come on stage and make such a scene. There is no visual surprise in this passage, nor is there any worthy handling of context bridging. Blomkamp completely deviates from what he was about to embark on, and could have a profound science fiction quality, but downgraded the details of his works to a situation that is inferior to his own newcomers.
Looking at contemporary Hollywood, directors who focus on the sub-field of science fiction are still working hard. As a science fiction fan, I really do not want to exclude Blomkamp from the list. After the declining Wachowskis, everyone should not hope that there are only authoritative mature traditionalists like J.J. and Cameron on the screen. Only Blomkamp is a new star who should be able to synthesize humanistic thinking, integrate realistic criticism, and add his own unique aesthetic style. "Super Chappie" completely follows the trend of artificial intelligence. Blomkamp has a long way to go. I hope he can still have the capital of a few trial and error.
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