It's fitting to name the spacecraft on a mission to save humanity. As a sci-fi movie, "The Cataclysm of the Sun" has already met my expectations for doomsday sci-fi movies to the greatest extent. Generally speaking, sci-fi movies are either blindly pursuing special effects and flashy, or the pictures are mediocre. Although they have a hard core, they disappoint the audience who are rushing to the senses.
To me, this is a rare sci-fi movie that has both an intellectual core and an epic picture.
Doomsday sci-fi movies and novels have been plentiful, and human beings will never tire of thinking about how they will be destroyed before the world is destroyed. I have no doubts about this in the slightest. It is a pity that too many apocalyptic stories have been reduced to the bloody stories of lone heroes who take advantage of the fact that the world is about to be destroyed. How is this possible, to write such a story, just because the end of the day is too far away from the comfort zone, so it is beautiful to watch the disaster happen. Everyone loves to watch meteor showers, do you want to go get a meteor shower?
The one that shocked me the most was Da Liu's "The Wandering Earth". The background is also the dying of the sun, and the unyielding human beings fight bravely. Da Liu directly asked human beings to install a few engines on the earth to drive the earth away; and the spaceship like moths rushing towards the fire in "Sun Cataclysm" has to wear a huge parasol to avoid the fire, which is too much. too small. Compared with the sun, the earth is but an invisible pebble, and Icarus is not even the dust of dust.
It is this dust that wants to use the nuclear explosion to reignite the dying stars, and fly closer to the sun with wax wings. Destruction is doomed. In the film, the captain Jintian and the psychiatrist Searle have a strange obsession with sunlight. At the beginning of the film, the layout of the cabin for observing the sun is like a Japanese-style room for enjoying a tea ceremony. In front of the screen, I seem to have also received a roast.
This obsession may not be without reason. The earth has entered eternal winter, and such light may never have appeared in their generation. And human beings, knowing that the sun will bake the wax on their wings, still face the sun without hesitation, like a moth flying towards a fire.
One of the details in the film, the golden armor-like spacesuit helmet has Chinese characters printed on it, "The date of manufacture of the helmet shell assembly is 20/03/83", and there is also "ICARUS plan to fly to the sun",
which can be regarded as an indirect indication that China is in the process of self-help at the end of the world. Just like in "2012", in a world that is about to be destroyed, China is still the world's factory overflowing with cheap labor. Then I don't know which millennium 83 on this metal nameplate refers to, maybe it really is 2083 not far away.
Imagine an alternative ending, where the journey is smooth, the nuclear bombs are placed smoothly, the sun is reignited, and the hero triumphs. Of course, this is just wishful thinking, and the ending of all dead seems to be more realistic. The crew of No. 1 set themselves on fire collectively. Captain Pinbacker turned into a zombie (I don't know what the director thought...- -), because he was too close to the sun, he realized his insignificance like an ant, so he lost his mind and finally bowed before God.
Some people say that the introduction of the concept of religion is a failure, but I think it is justified. A character in another sci-fi movie "Red Planet" said, "When science can't give you the answer, religion can." The God in the mad captain's mouth is not necessarily the God of Christianity, that's what he created to not completely collapse phantom. Or the sun itself.
The nuclear bomb fell into the sea of fire, and the picture of Capa being engulfed by the flames was too magnificent. It's just like Misha who rushed into the sun with the "Wannian Fengxue" in "Full Band Blocking Interference". The light within his reach will reach the cold Earth in eight minutes.
In the final shot, the snow-covered sea next to the Sydney Opera House, the sky is low and hazy, and Capa's sister reviews the message he sent back to Earth. And the opening lines of the ending song:
Along the avenue of hope
The footsteps falter, the fingers grope
and the days, stretch out, beneath the sun
No one's born, and no one dies, no one laughs, so no one cries
and we wait to see just what we will become
with a touch of relief The vocals really match the atmosphere and ending of the movie. No matter how small, moths also fly into the fire. Even if you die in the light, it is better than waiting for the end to come. Humble before the mighty power of the universe, but do not give up the right to fight.
The problem with the film is the huge sense of incongruity caused by the unprofessional AI of this super-intelligent spacecraft and the crew. The question of whether to go to reconcile with ICARUS No. 1 can't be thought of until now, is there no record before departure? There is also the question of the feasibility of nuclear bombing stars. The psychiatrist who was accompanying the ship was the one who first raised it. Only the physicist Capa knows how to operate this kind of object that gathers the power of the world. This is too unsafe. , the most annoying thing is that the so-called "complex operation" looks like a bomb defusing, and it seems that no professional knowledge is used; there is also the steering error made by Trey, which can be warned in advance anyway with the intelligence of AI. Then there's the section where Capa, Harvey, and Mace go from No. 1 to No. 2. I don't think low temperature should be their biggest concern. What about air pressure, dear, you can stay safe in space with a few layers of heat shielding film. stay that long?
ps: The film also touches on the issue of "human nature" and "morality" changing in space when someone needs to make a sacrifice because of insufficient oxygen. I'm glad that the director didn't follow the moral code of the earth, unlike the Asan scientist in "2012" that I wanted to kick to death, the astronauts made the right and cold-blooded choice. It's a pity that the stick cut his wrist. The director didn't want to discuss this outside the theme, so this is a compromise. In "Death Immortal", a famous line from the Space Force: "Thank you, Joyner". The Tri-Party will understand.
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