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Disney's new film "Tomorrowland" is very positive, hiring two-time Oscar winner Brad Bird for Best Animated Feature Film The director also invited him and the two leading actors to come to China to build momentum, and big names such as George Clooney are also responsible for publicity. It's a pity that this movie may encounter both box office and critic embarrassment, because it is probably a movie that children can't understand and adults are not convinced.
The beginning of the film is a little rare. The protagonists Frank (Cloney) and Casey (Britt Robertson) show different "futures" in their eyes in several sets of camera cuts. Frank's perspective even has the "futures" that he sees now. ”—similar to the background videos of natural and man-made disaster news in the title of many apocalyptic sci-fi movies—and the difference between the “future” he saw as a child in 1964. This also implies that the real protagonist of the film is not a character, but the "future" itself, that is, how humans view the future.
For Disney, fun and conservative optimism is its tradition, but the mainstream commercial films are dystopian films represented by "Snowpiercer" and "The Hunger Games", and disaster films represented by "2012". Bloodthirsty entertainment films represented by zombie films, etc., even superheroes can't control themselves to become troublemakers... Disney suddenly waved the banner of anti-dystopia and anti-apocalyptic feelings, promoting "Change the world a little bit, the end will not come, everyone can be a hero". The villain played by Hugh Laurie published the nihilistic argument that human beings are greedy and inferior and keen on doomsday carnivals. It seems that the losers often persuade you and me to give up traditional values such as dreams, love, and personal struggle. The remarks have been upgraded to metaphysical drama lines. We saw him annihilated as part of a ritual to defeat pessimism.
The ceremony is also a tribute to Disney's "ancestor" Walter, whether it is his "Tomorrowland" park scene, or his "Tomorrow Society Experiment Prototype" (EPCOT) and relic mystery box "1952", all inspired the film , and the movie fulfills his fantasy a little bit. That's why "Tomorrowland," which surprised Casey so much, doesn't necessarily surprise viewers who've seen too many sci-fi movies—it's the future in the eyes of people in Walter's time. Science fiction has taken a retro route, and it has been retro to the future in the eyes of Nikola Tesla, Verne, Edison and others. The most exciting scene in this film is the steampunk old rocket, which stumbles up from the Eiffel Tower, the Tomorrowland passageway hidden by these great gods. In other words, whoever of them thinks about the future is brighter than our contemporary people...
We should watch "Tomorrowland" with the mentality of Disney fairy tales plus retro sci-fi plus drama. Those who fantasize about early death, the end of the world, and those who are "forever young and always full of tears", who is more severe than the other? I only know that children's comprehension cannot be underestimated. "Neon Genesis Evangelion" has forged a dark world view for too many children. Maybe we really need to get that badge that only dreamers who never give up can receive. A wheat field in a parallel space, a glimpse of heaven.
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