How to say, this movie review strong spoiler. And there is a lot of original party resentment, please eat it carefully.
I went back to make up the original book after watching the movie. The reason is very simple. I like the girl Alita so much. In a pile of steel in troubled times, a girl who is as beautiful and petite as an angel but has a very strong force. The biggest enemy is to find the true meaning of life. Just thinking about this kind of setting is exciting.
But the plot of the movie can only be said to be too simple. It's as simple as a dance scene-Alita's confusion and mood when she just woke up, the process of adapting to life in the Steel City, and the experience of gradually awakening to find herself, I can't say there is no, but it is too pale.
Not to mention other characters. Ide and Alita's emotions in the original work are both father and daughter love and a certain degree of ambiguousness (how to say, it's hard to say it's love, but it's a special bond), and now it's completely become a loving father, And this kind father was so disgusted with the motor ball at first (his own daughter was killed by the motor ball player), and then Alita wanted to participate in the game for Hugo, and he had no objection at all;
Yi De's wife, Qilian, was even more inexplicable. She appeared abruptly, and she didn't help the villain. unloaded into a pile of parts...
Of course, the most inexplicable is Hugo, just a middle-2 boy who somehow had to leave the Steel City for Salem. He is neither smart, sincere nor charming. Alita is really blind when he likes him. In the end, he managed to save his head, and he had to commit suicide.
A friend said it very well, Alita and Hugo are so good that neither of them can speak well.
If Zapan forced Alita to kill Hugo, Hugo explained: "Don't listen to him, that person killed him, frame the blame for me, that person's head was cut with a sharp knife, check it out. Just look at his knife."
I wonder if Alita can explain when she wants to persuade Hugo to come down: "Don't go up, there is a knife ring on it, and you keep pushing down. We couldn't pass the charge with all the equipment back then."
Did Hugo never die twice?
After reading the original, I realized the problem. The root of all problems is that Steel City is portrayed as an overly beautiful place.
The crowds are bustling, the supplies are full, and it is possible to hold a motor ball competition that is similar to the NASCAR Grand Prix. This city is too different from the original.
The Steel City in the original book can't be said to have no food, but it is by no means such a place to live and work in peace and contentment. Gruwenshka (called Markak in the original) is not a villain sheltered by "above", but a person who has always been at the top of the bounty list, but no one dares to stroke him, let him walk down the street and see whoever Wanted criminals who are caught eating brains (literally eating brains) when they are upset.
There is a page of the author's notes in the Q version in the insert of the comic, which is the most heart-wrenching thing - a person was just slightly injured, and he was immediately surrounded by a group of mechanics, and he was instantly chopped up without permission. He put the machine on his body and told him "Okay you owe us a lot of money now" and the unlucky guy had to go out and rob to pay the debt.
Pretty much the same place.
Therefore, Ide wanted to protect Alita's innocence. In the original book, he is also a guy who does a great job as a bounty hunter and enjoys the instant pleasure of killing. His cherishing and protection of Alita is particularly difficult;
Therefore, Hugo's desire to leave the Steel City has a more important meaning. In the movie, the little brother with a white face and a moist life pointed to the steel city with abundant supplies and said, "I will leave this garbage heap one day", which is not convincing at all. The motive for going to the sky is more reasonable - he had a curious eldest brother who built an illegal aircraft and wanted to go up, but died because of his sister-in-law's report. Yog has no family here, and he has nothing to protect and stick to, so he always wanted to go up there for his brother to see what it was like;
As for the countless "why don't you tell her you're innocent", it is also because of the softening of the movie's plot background that it is abrupt - in the original work, Yoger is not a good man and a woman, and they are not unloading ordinary equipment, but It is an artificial spine that is very rare and expensive in dungeons due to the difficulty of manufacturing. For most modified people, the loss of an artificial spine means that they have little possibility to afford a new spine, and often only usher in paralysis or even death. Even if there is no murder, this kind of behavior of Yog is enough to make him be rewarded to death.
In general, because the colors of Steel City are too bright and life is too comfortable, Alita's enemy had to become Nova in the "heaven", and even the whole of Salem. At the same time, Alita retained the part of the original work that had no ill will towards Salem, which further collapsed the plot.
For example, in the movie, Nova is obviously in a high position and has a lot of power, and the iron ball game is an event created by his hands. I want to know that even if there is a rule that "the champion of the iron ball game can go to Salem", this The rules are definitely not applicable to Alita herself: the reason why Nova did so many things, and indirectly killed Hugo, was to snatch the core of Alita. During the process of Alita being sent up, Aren't you worried about being slaughtered by Nova? To put it bluntly, the rules of the game are set by the opponent, and it is impossible to win the opponent in this kind of game.
And in the original, the most interesting thing is that Gary (aka Alita) doesn't really have an "enemy" - even though she has to fight real battles, to defeat Markak, defeat Zapan, etc. Wait, but these people are "hateful people must be pitiful", what she really needs to defeat is actually the deep reason behind these people.
But what is the underlying reason? Is it Salem? It doesn't seem to be, Salem is not trying to manipulate or abuse the Steel City, they just don't care. In the original book, the so-called good and evil are very vague - this is also the battle she really wants to fight, that is, to find out who she is and what her view of good and evil is. The so-called "breaking the thief in the mountains is easy, breaking the heart is difficult".
If you can't understand this, you probably can't understand why Gary later worked for Salem for a long time, and even fought to the death with "Electric" who rebelled against Salem and wanted to blast Salem down with cannons. And this kind of "Gary works for Salem" plot, I am afraid it will not appear in the sequel of the movie - the sequel to the movie, I am afraid it will continue to be a simple "rebel beautiful girl VS powerful evil system" binary. opposition.
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