Appreciation of "Super Chapai"
"Super Chappie" is a work by director Neil Blomkamp, a film about an artificial intelligence robot with independent thinking. This film shows some of the director's thinking about human society and camera style as always. It is a well-received science fiction masterpiece. This article mainly starts from the three aspects of story script, video display and core theme, and makes a more comprehensive appreciation of the film.
story script
The script of "Super Chappie" did not follow the rules of classic Hollywood plays, but adopted a simpler "fairy tale" way of telling the story. The development of the story is straightforward, through various coincidences and conflicts. Connected, it's more like a novel about Chappie's growth as a "human." The protagonist Chappie did not go through the three-part transformation of Hollywood's "heroic" style, but grew up and learned in the dual environment of civilized order and savage gangsters, and finally became a kind child with a serious ruffian. In addition, the design of Chappie's lines in the film is also more distinctive. Some of the vulgar words in the mouths of those gangsters are a little childish when they are spoken by Chappie, because Chappie only imitated such a tone and tone. He used words, but his actions were the opposite of these lines, even when he went to rob money and smash cars, because from his point of view, it was a just act and would not hurt anyone, This can be reflected from the incompatibility of various words and behaviors when he taught Uncle Wolf, and the section where he severely injured Uncle Wolf but did not kill him.
The various experiences of Chappie in this film and the narrative method of the film may seem unreasonable to some viewers, but if you look at the story from the perspective of a child, it will be much smoother, because the protagonist Chappie himself is set up as a kid. However, there are indeed some imperfect explanations in the film, such as why Uncle Wolf hates artificial intelligence.
Image display
The style of this film shows a strong documentary style from the beginning, introducing the history of the film's story in the form of news, and using this image to enhance the audience's recognition of the "authenticity" of the film from a psychological level. This method is reflected in "The Ninth District". The difference is that "The Ninth District" is a lens image that has always been this style throughout. After the beginning, the main text is narrated in a way that is closer to the shooting style of commercial films, which more reflects the excitement of the lens. In addition, the film also used some visual details to shape the characters, such as changing Chappie's orange ears when he first appeared on the scene, so that it stands out in the same robot and enhances the audience. Attention to Chappie; again like in the den of thieves where Chappie was officially born, all kinds of decorations and graffiti make it less like a gang gathering place, but more like a secret base for middle-2 boys, which also weakens the audience. For the psychological exclusion of the three gang members; another example is the female gang member who is Chappie’s mother, who loves pink very much, her gun is pink, and the woolen pajamas are pink, which Chappie regards as the toy of her “mother” The girl doll is also wearing a pink fleece, so in the end when Chappie made a new body for his mother, he also sprayed pink on the body, even without the human-like face, the audience can pass the color to identify the characters. Finally, the mirror language system of the film is the classic Hollywood mirror language system. It is centered on the narrative and pursues seamless editing and visual immersion. It seems that there is not much language innovation. Thinking of the resources used in this film, it may also be for the box office. Think about it.
image theme
Because this film is not written in accordance with the rules of classic Hollywood plays, the extraction of themes is still relatively diverse. Moreover, most of Chappie, the protagonist of the film, is in a passive state, always affected by the environment and others, and only makes a real independent choice at the end of the film, which also makes it difficult to find the theme of the film. Some remarks believe that the film ultimately reflects human's dependence on technology and the diverse values of treating the world, such as the anthropocentric Uncle Wolf, Chappie "Dad" who views human society from the viewpoint of the jungle, Chappie who values the spiritual world. "Mom" etc. Others believe that the film reflects the relationship between people and other living species, and the impact of technology on human society, including promoting progress and creating problems. There are good reasons for these arguments, but the author thinks that the author seems to be discussing something else in this film, and he should be discussing "life", or "what is a person". In the film, Chappie is in It takes about 25 minutes to be officially born, and here he appears in the form of a "newborn". It doesn't have its own way of thinking, but it will have the stress response that normal life has, and then Chappie will start. In contact with the environment, he began to grow into a "person" little by little, although he was educated in two completely different directions. However, this is also in line with the characteristics of human beings. Human thinking is not one-sided. Humans will have many different ideas, which may be far from human moral standards. Humans will always weigh different ideas, and finally integrate all , moving in one direction. That's exactly what happened to Chappie, who received the education Dean gave him as an acceptable child with good living conditions, and he was constantly being educated by gang members on the fringes of society, and finally when he could. When confronted with two different values and considering different actions and outcomes and making choices - going against Dean's teachings to engage in robberies in order to get a new body - he begins to become a "social man", that is, into The third stage of Lacan's "mirror theory", with true self-awareness (everyone's teaching before it is like an initial order of Chappie, a patriarchal intervention, Chappie just obeys, including not Robbery, murder, etc. are also abiding by the agreed order of "can't commit a crime", and here Chappie can resist his initial order according to his own needs, he can think independently and can use "rules" by himself - money can buy new body - to meet her own needs - to live - and to break the previously agreed "can't sin" command). And from here on, Chappie has entered the stage of independent thinking. , for example, the part of his research on how to derive his own thinking reflects his independent planning and creativity, and finally achieved sublimation when he fought Uncle Wolf and rescued Dean. At this point, a "person" has been born at the level of thinking, and then the director added this thinking to the next level, that is, whether a thing with human thinking is a person, and a non-living object with a human or other life response is a life. . However, the director should have given the answer here, from two humans to two robots resurrected, the director has expressed his point of view.
In short, the film tells a fairy tale with a novel structure and a combination of documentary and formal images. The director shows us the growth process of human beings as "social human beings" through the growth of an artificial intelligence, and finally through the resurrection of human beings through the mechanical body, he points out that human beings are not only because of human bodies, but also because of human beings. Consciousness, thought, mind, heart.
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