I just finished watching "Alita", and what I felt the most was the collective unconsciousness of Americans reflected in this film.
At the beginning of the film, two worlds are created, Steel City and Sky City, which are very similar to the lower and upper layers of the United States.
From the outside, steel city buildings are dilapidated, crime is rampant, people wear ordinary clothes, low-end transportation, amateur sports are similar to joint basketball (corresponding to the following ball game is the NBA), working as workers, representing the lifestyle of the lower class. People in Sky City ride luxury cars, live in luxury houses, dress gorgeously, run monopoly industries, and act like a high-class person.
Judging from the relationship between the two cities, Steel City is responsible for delivering goods to Sky City, and Sky City residents seem to enjoy these goods for free (remembering junior high school politics?). The most important thing is that people from Steel City can never go to Sky City, and the two are completely separated. The centurion is very much like a real American policeman. He shoots and greets him without listening to the corrections. With the addition of other puppets sent by Sky City, he realizes the specific control of the upper layer over the lower layer as a violent organ. The champion of the ball game can go to Sky City, and a very small number of sports stars can be among the elite. As for "I can see everything", eh. . .
For people living in the United States, this class structure and reality have been engraved in their minds unconsciously after a long life, so when they see this, they should feel more intimate. When I watched this film, I felt a bit like a brainwashing film at first. For example, the male protagonist's lifelong dream was to go to Sky City, and he died on the way to pursue his dream. Another female doctor, who also dreamed of heaven, can only be used as an upper-class research in the end. The organs used were sent up, including the bounty hunters in the middle who could beat their own people very well. Facing the puppets in Sky City, they dared not say anything. It seemed that they were telling the people at the lower levels that you should not try to climb up. What to do, just be honest. But at the end, it doesn't feel like this, mainly because of Alita, she represents a spirit of resistance, a courage not to succumb to the upper class, but this may be in response to the subconsciousness of the savior. .
There is a scene where Alita makes a scene at the bounty hunter tavern. At first, I felt that the purpose of her visit was a little unclear. If someone wants to kill you, why would you find a bunch of people you don’t know to help you? There must be no one to help you. what. Thinking about it now, what she actually did was, in order to resist the situation mentioned above, she shouted loudly to everyone: Who dares!
In the end, the love scenes in the film feel really ordinary and have no resonance at all. . . For example, when Alita gave her heart, she felt that their relationship had not yet reached this point. .
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