Unlike the previous "Battle of Los Angeles" that also had the theme of aliens, in "Super Battleship", it is almost impossible to see the indiscriminate killing of innocent people by aliens on Earth. The so-called attack on Hong Kong at the beginning of the film is actually just the accidental injury caused by the "traffic accident" caused by the alien spacecraft hitting the earth's satellite when it landed on the earth, not the active attack of the aliens.
What we can often see in this film is that while the aliens maintain absolute military superiority, it seems unreasonable to maintain restraint, never take the initiative to attack the earthlings, and even when forced to fight back in self-defense The earthlings are let go again and again, without harming the old, the young, the sick, the disabled and the innocent, and even as long as the earthlings do not take the initiative to attack, they will not fight back.
Judging from these performances and deeds, this is obviously a group of peace-loving and gentlemen-like aliens who came here to establish contact with the people of the earth! ! However, this has been mistaken by many earthling movie fans who are used to bullying the small and the strong by bullying the weak (such as the United States against North Korea, the United States against Vietnam, the United States against the Yugoslavia, the United States against Iraq, etc.) that the aliens are brain-deadly delayed. The fighters really took the kindness of the aliens as the liver and lungs of donkeys.
The peace-loving aliens adhere to the principle of not committing crimes, and not using force first. When they came to Earth, the communication ship crashed accidentally, so they wanted to use the phone of the earth to report to my mother that they were safe, and I was going to ask my hometown to send another language. The translation machine will come over, and then have a peaceful exchange with the earthlings! !
As a result, when confronted with the US navy and Japanese entourages who were fighting with Cold War mentality, they were treated as aggressors and started to fight regardless of indiscriminateness. The aliens want to wait for the translation machine to come, and the misunderstandings can be eliminated, so they always exercise restraint to overcome grievances with virtue, resulting in passiveness everywhere and heavy losses. In the end, the gangsters in the United States and Japan who were stalked and beaten by the stubborn methods were killed! And a century event that was very likely to establish contact with alien civilization creatures and create a new era of earth civilization was so confused by the stunned youth of the United States and Japan! ! What a pity! ! The most shameless thing is that the United States and Japan also put gold on their own faces, and euphemistically said that they saved the earth! What a shame for the aliens!
So, from this point of view, the plot of this movie is very smooth and easy to understand. It can be said that "Super Battleship" is just because it is dressed in a gorgeous coat of alien sci-fi special effects, which makes people feel very commercial and brainless. In fact, if it is changed to the theme of Earthlings, it will be a very serious film that explores cultural conflicts. and a drama that reflects on human nature. It could even be made into another "Tower of Babel".
The plot can be like this:
In order to attract investment, a remote village sends a message to invite people to come to the village as a guest. A literate and educated youth group accidentally received a message, believing that the other party was a kind of well-intentioned person.
In order to inspect the backward areas and carry out poverty alleviation work, the educated youth sent a delegation to drive there.
As a result, when they arrived at the place to park, the tour guide of the delegation accidentally had a car accident, knocking the fence of a certain household in the village crooked, and the tour guide himself hung up. Before the people from the inspection team could apologize, the village chief, who was a gangster in the village, took it for granted that these people were here to pick things up and to snatch his territory. So, he brought his own thugs with sticks and fought with the delegation. Although the delegation had advanced machine guns in their hands, because they were here for poverty alleviation work, not for fights, and because there was a misunderstanding, the people in the delegation just parried and fought back when they were desperate.
Because the local dialect was difficult to understand due to the accent, the delegation could not communicate with the other party, so I wanted to use the phone from the villagers to call my hometown and ask to send a tour guide who knew the local dialect. As a result, the village chief believed that the members of the inspection team were going to move troops, and they were even more desperate to beat the members of the inspection team. Because the members of the delegation repeatedly forbearance and retreat, in the end they were accidentally killed by the other party, and the poverty alleviation materials were also burned together. Then the village head took the hooligans in the village and held a party on the corpses of the expedition members to celebrate the defeat of the "invaders"...
In addition to expressing the conflicts caused by cultural conflicts, the screenwriter of "Super Battleship" estimated that there were political demands. inside. On the surface, this film seems to be promoting the spirit of the United States and showing the mighty strength of the United States. In fact, after watching it, you can find out that the screenwriter is actually exposing and insinuating the serious imperialist hegemonic thinking that countries such as the United States and Japan have always been self-righteous and self-respecting. model.
There is a scene in the film where a sentence is posted on the battleship console: "We can attack anyone except God"! ! The seriousness of the US imperialist power consciousness is evident! ! What is repeatedly shown in the film is that, without any contact, investigation and research, the Americans used their past despicable behaviors as a reference, and thought that aliens must come to Earth and Columbus discovered America with the heart of a villain. Like the New World, it will definitely be colonized, so it will be attacked as an aggressor, which shows that it has no concept of cosmic peace and fraternity.
If a powerful country with such a rogue hegemonic ideology is on the earth, the earth will be a dangerous place for aliens. Therefore, if the gap between the ideological realms is too large, it is better for high-level creatures to have less contact with low-level barbaric creatures! ! It's easy to be beaten to death! !
The earth is very dangerous, please stay away from civilized aliens! !
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