——Ideological criticism of "Jurassic World 2"
"Jurassic World 2", a movie from the title to the trailer, no matter how you look at it, you only need to watch it with popcorn and an empty head. It really shocked me to the point where I didn't even want to use rigorous academic force. Who would have thought that as soon as a person sits in a movie theater, two hours of white-leftist ideology will roll out of the sky? The rich aren't halfway dead yet, and I firmly believe this is simply the best ideological critique of 2018 so far. Therefore, this article aims to carefully read the text of "Bai Zuo World 2" in my unreliable memory (I haven't read 1) to explain the world map in Bai Zuo's eyes.
First of all, the first problem the film faces is the design of the protagonist team. As an adventure film in another world, while following the foundation of the United States—strict individualism, mainstream commercial films will mostly The protagonist team is designed as a lone hero + n supporting characters who occasionally save the game but have no practical effect (and will die one by one). However, in recent years, as the great power of the United States has become an "unprecedentedly divided America", the white-left screenwriters who are tasked with "making America great again" are obviously more attentive and politically correct in the design of the protagonist team than before. Now - the four protagonists, male and female, take into account blacks and Asians, and everyone has full-time specialties. Although it is not absolutely necessary to lack one, the equality and cooperation have indeed been strengthened a lot. Compared with the previous time, everyone killed one person The configuration of fire extinguishing has been greatly improved.
However, if you look closely at the character design, the only person in the four-person group who has the force resistance value in the face of danger is our white man who is both on line and both civil and military; the white heroine is mainly responsible for the beauty and the existence of the incentive for the crisis (Hitchco Ke looked at it with a gratifying smile), and occasionally provided value support; while the black brother provided technical support, he turned into a funny role through the image of anti-black stereotypes; Asian girls quickly changed their direction and provided medical support, But most of the time it is still transparent. The task of leading the team was naturally due to the experience and force value, and finally fell to the white macho. Because of the love history with the male protagonist, the heroine can occasionally force a few words, and the other people basically have no right to speak in the team. This is most evident in the scene where the dinosaurs are released at the end. It is clear that the black brother is proficient in computer technology, and the Asian girls are well aware of the dangers of dinosaurs being released, but they are excluded from the whole decision-making process-this also reveals the inner wishes of the white left screenwriters, although you black Asians Sometimes it's quite smart, but it's enough to be responsible for technical support occasionally, and let us white people decide on important world affairs.
At the same time, the film's embrace of patriarchy also reaches an astonishing (disgusting) level. The screenwriter designed the role of a little white girl and arranged many guardian roles for her. The first one was her old, veteran capitalist grandfather. The film constantly suggested that the two were "closely related" through dialogues and photos. In fact, we can find from various details (never seen a mother's photo, strict schedule) that the little girl is completely under the control of her grandfather, and once the little girl violates such a patriarchal system, it will bring Devastating consequences - not only did he kill his grandfather, but he also got himself into huge trouble. Next is the battle between the lawyer and the housekeeper's guardian role. The housekeeper who is obviously closer to the Lockwood family, but because she has no financial resources, she can only beg in a low voice and beg for mercy before the patriarchy, but she is still treated with no mercy. He was dismissed out of hand, and very illogically, he never reappeared. Finally, once an evil father becomes a threat, the logic of the way to solve such problems under the patriarchy is also very simple and crude, that is, to put the girl back into the arms of a good and upright father - so, the little girl saw Among the heroines on several sides and the male protagonists who have only seen it on the video, they threw themselves into the arms of the male protagonist without hesitation.
In the same role as the father's daughter, there is also the little dinosaur Blu, who has attracted countless fans (even the dinosaurs!), but she is much more rebellious than the little girl. Relying on her own physical advantages, many times He ran out of his father Owen's control, but he would still run back to save his father at a critical moment. This touching plot full of gratitude and the rescue plot discussed in the previous paragraph seem to have made us forget. In fact, whether it is the birth of a daughter in the strict sense, or being involved in trouble, the real reason behind it is the hegemony of patriarchy . If not for her grandfather's insistence on cloning, the little girl would not face the huge impact of being a clone. If Owen hadn't gone to the island to trap Bru, Bru would not have been "kidnapped" into the human world. It seems that although patriarchy It was constantly giving two daughters new births, but never actually giving them the freedom to choose. But as long as bad fathers are replaced by good ones, patriarchy will not be blamed.
The villain design in the film actually reflects the social anxiety in Bai's left eye very clearly. Foucault once said, "It is the age of the myth that is important, not the age of the myth." We should think about the age of the film. For example, the biggest Boss, Mills, mentioned that his experience was "an ambitious and intelligent college student who rose from the bottom to the top." Although the overall value orientation is in line with the core values of the American Dream, his unscrupulous characteristics clearly surpassed that. The category that is acceptable to the white left of the middle class. There are also mercenaries who can only fight and kill and love to pull out dinosaur teeth. They are the representatives of typical American red necks (white Americans with no high education), and they can only die in the mouth of the tyrannical raptor in the end. Thinking of the anger accumulated in the United States because of the long-term taxation of the middle class to subsidize the poor, the sense of crisis that the middle class may become the bottom at any time, and the contradiction deepened by Trump being pushed into the presidency by the red neck, it is not difficult to see The middle-class white and left screenwriters are deeply malicious. At the same time, the screenwriter also designed the immoral paleontologist and the creator of the tyrannical raptor as Asian, and threw all technological anxiety to irresponsible private companies and Asian scientists, and successfully shed all responsibilities. It has cultivated the noble temperament of my middle-class Bai Zuozi and Qingfeng.
There are two small details at the auction that are also very noteworthy. When the tyrannical raptor appeared, it was originally displayed as a non-sale item, but after seeing its extraordinary war power, two audience members immediately expressed that they could not sit still. Now, I want to call for a strong buy. The identities of the two audience members are Chinese and Russian. The Russian also explained through his lines before entering the auction, "He is more interested in carnivorous dinosaurs." It can be seen that in Bai Zuo's eyes, my country and Russia are really determined to destroy his great American heart all day long, and find every opportunity to shoot! In the end, the tyrannical raptor was photographed by the Russians at a high price (I think you have not yet understood the purchasing power of the Chinese people), Mills, who was short-sighted, saw the money and said, "Anyway, the technology is in our hands, and we will be able to build a new one in a while. Dinosaurs are coming”, the Asian paleontologist angrily retorted, “They can too!” This can be regarded as a very fierce indictment against my country’s cottage factories in film history.
Finally, as a true leftist film, liberty, equality and democracy are of course essential ideas, and sublimated to the hearts of people through the cross-cutting of free dinosaurs and hearings. But the old-fashioned singing propaganda doesn't work anymore. In the last US election, we have fully seen the American people's secret distaste for the white-left thinking that sings praises every day. Therefore, this idea that is a bit too Madonna needs several layers of packaging to make the guests not disgusted to publicize it.
The first layer of packaging is the heroine's hesitation. As a typical White Zuo Virgin, the heroine who firmly believes that dinosaurs are equal to humans even hesitated! And gave up the option of releasing dinosaurs. Of course, this is not to say that the white Zuo screenwriter just compromised in front of the divided America, but put a low profile first to show that we are also working hard for the great America.
The second layer of packaging is more ingenious, that is, the identity of the little girl as a clone. When she presses the button to release the dinosaurs, the main contradiction of the film is suddenly raised to a higher level, and the contradiction between dinosaurs and humans is escalated. For artificial life vs natural life. When the species that compete with us are only dinosaurs, it is inevitable that most audiences will still choose humans, after all, it is in their own interests. But looking at the whole film, in order to make the choice more difficult, the screenwriter arranged all kinds of dinosaurs to be cute, and gave enough of the brachiosaurus tragedy scene on the pier. When the weight on the other side finally became the same appearance, emotion and intelligence as us Only when the two ends of the contradiction scale are finally balanced. The audience was entangled in the choice between the two ends of the scale, but they forgot the big fact that they were fooled by the white left-that is, the white left does nothing, dares to wave the banner of freedom and equality without any premise, and told us It is the fact that it is the will of nature.
In fact, the structural gaps in the film are also worthy of our attention, such as the absence of the government role in the whole incident (only a meeting was held at the beginning and the end), and the absence of a large part of American society but absent in the film Hispanic characters, or the lack of scenes of substantive mass disasters caused by dinosaurs, each gap is worth pondering. But because I want to sleep, I won't go into details...
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