Faint Hope-Thoughts on "The Glimmer City"

Carson 2022-01-03 08:01:30

The faint hope-the afterthought of "Twilight City" Judging

from the future of mankind developed by the film works of the past two years, it seems that we have no pride at all. In fact, starting from "The Matrix", the future of mankind on the screen The survival situation has already worries us off the screen. Artificial intelligence machines have turned humans into "batteries" that supply energy, allowing every human being connected to the "mother body" to live and die in a dream. This kind of "future utopia" pedigree has begun to flourish in film and television works. It is ironic that no matter from which angle the future of mankind is drawn, the future of mankind is gloomy. Take the movie I have seen for example: "doomsday" (Biochemical Weapons seized most of the world’s territory and population, and survivors had to hide behind a high wall and die), "The Day the Earth Stood Still" (recently reproduced, the destruction of the Earth’s ecological resources by humans even annoyed the aliens. The “great flood” of the future will end the human lineage), “The Chronicles of Babylon” (the conspiracy of cloning technology and the era of blood drinking), “Blind Flu” (the blinding flu hits the world, everyone, except the blind, has become blind, only The remaining one still miraculously retains eyesight)...In short, in any case, humans seem to be doomed to escape. Even if there are no natural disasters, humans must dig their own graves. This has been reached by Hollywood filmmakers. Just like the "Twilight City" I just finished watching, it is also a "future utopia" movie.
The story background provided by the movie is still the future. The director did not repeat the same mistakes as similar movies. The work has a unique way of omitting those fantasies and wordy. At the beginning of the movie, a group of scientists like a group of people put a piece of paper and a key card and a look after the robbery 200 years later. The expectations of the post-rebirth human beings were locked in a password box and handed over to the first mayor of the "Glimmer City". At the same time, humans entered the "Glimmer City" underground and began a long dark life. .
It seems that from the director’s point of view, there is no need to spend a lot of time on "why should we enter the underground". The audience already has a lot of reference works to use their imagination; on the other hand, maybe the film and the audience have reached a consensus, that is, no matter what What we do, mankind will come to this point in the future, maybe it will be worse!
The timer of the password box has counted down from 200 years, and it was rolled in the palms of men and women until it fell from one of the hands, and then it was placed in an inconspicuous corner. No one cares about the password box, but the timer is still faithful. Count down until the day when it returned to zero, the box opened quietly.
At this time, the "Twilight City" ushered in the big day of "distribution day". Although this humanistic city that relies on giant "generators" to maintain operation, the recent frequent power failures seem to indicate something, but the story is The heroes and heroines are still looking forward to the arrival of the "distribution day". At the "distribution day" ceremony, these young people of different ages will join the ranks of maintaining the "light city" as adults.
The protagonist is a typical enthusiastic young man, hoping to join the "generator" working group. He has a premonition of the ominous power outage and is determined to find the disease in the city; the heroine is an orphan, lives with his grandmother and younger sister, and his parents stayed there. The answering tape of her phone became her only memory. Although the two came home on the "Assignment Day", they switched jobs. The young man became a "pipe worker" (Super Mario?), and the young woman became the coveted "messenger" to deliver messages to people.
The anxiety and doubts of "Twilight City" not only come from the longer and longer power outages. The young men found a secret room in the dilapidated pipes that were unable to return to the sky; the young women found the password box in their own storage room. And began to restore pieces of paper that were broken like a puzzle. While the citizens were preparing for the grand festival with a religious sentiment towards the "city builders", some people tried to leave the "Glimmer City", but after all they could not escape to heaven and become the mayor's prisoner.
The young men and women inadvertently discovered that the mayor was looking for a way out for the days after the "generator" stopped. The secret room between the pipes was the mayor's last garden of Eden. The young women are preparing to expose the mayor. Of course, this kind of effort is tantamount to trying to find the skin of a tiger. Through the darkness and chaos, the young women grabbed the mayor’s key card and escaped. The young men also discovered that his inventor’s father was exactly One of the people who worked with the parents of the young woman to dig a tunnel to escape from the "Lillie Light City", and the parents of the young woman died in the tunnel excavation project.
The “Glimmer City” began to search for young men and women, and the two escaped through the invention of the inventor’s father. The two took the young girl’s little sister and stumbled toward the light according to the broken instructions in the password box. Finally, they left “Shimmer”. "City", after 200 years of bidding farewell to the sunshine, mankind finally ushered in a new life at a clear dawn.
The general idea of ​​the movie is like this (I'm not very good at storytelling), but there are a few things that are worth thinking about. For example, it seems that the "Twilight City" does not see school classes, most people are not literate, and the work is almost a master. Word of mouth with apprentices. The only printed materials are the books of the young man's home and the wanted order for him. It seems that the scientists who left the password box in those days had expected that humans had already spoken words, so the instructions in the password box were also simple and clear, with pictures and texts; at the exit of the "Twilight City", a large number of icons combined with a small amount of text were used to provide visitors. guide. However, fortunately, the "Glimmer City" has not yet degenerated into a knotted record. Although people are not literate, they are not illiterate. This remaining knowledge also provides the necessary conditions for the final departure.
In addition, it is the negative role in this kind of "future utopia" movie, which is the mayor in "Twilight City". As you can imagine, most of these roles are the same, polite and full of rhetoric. Naturally, the mayor of "Glimmer City" did not disappoint me either. He was finally swallowed by the "alien" in the secret room.
Also, Sur, the old plumber, who seemed to be confused, stepped forward at a critical moment and removed obstacles to leaving the "Glimmer City" institutions, and finally allowed young men and women to sail down the lone boat for an expedition.
After watching the movie, I wondered what on earth saved the fate of mankind, the box that carried the secret 200 years ago? Or young men and women? If the box is never discovered by anyone, will human beings die silently in the dark? I have also seen that, like the parents of inventors and young women, there are many people who have not appeared on the scene and have no names. Are they determined to open up the connection between the "Twilight City" and the outside world without knowing the existence of the box? The efforts of these people may be the driving force that truly supports human beings to return to the ground and bathe in the sun. Just like the mayor in the movie, we see the innate greed and selfishness in human nature, but the perseverance and struggle of those ordinary people, those who want to keep the bright side of human nature (the inventor's father, Sur, Hanafang) Aunt), isn't it uplifting the human spirit to prove oneself to life?
At the end of the film, young men and women overlook the "Lillie Light City" from the ground and cast a stone with a message on it. In the vast darkness, the bean-like lights of the "Lillie Light City" are precisely the light that humans have taken care of for 200 years. fire. I am a mortal who doesn’t know where the destiny of mankind will go, whether it will be as dim as in the movie, but, like the name of the movie, hope is as weak and faint as a glimmer. Hold it tight, protect it, and don’t let hope. Extinguished in our hands, this may be something that humans should and must do.


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Extended Reading
  • Davonte 2022-04-23 07:02:58

    The rock could've ended up on a roof. Or kicked into a gutter. But fate ran another course.

  • Garrett 2022-04-23 07:02:58

    It's more like a sci-fi fairy tale. There are no bad villains, so there is no conflict. At first, it had a bit of classical sci-fi meaning, and then it became less and less interesting~~

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    Loris Harrow: The Builders abandoned us.

    Doon Harrow: No, they didn't. They didn't, Dad. I have proof.

    Loris Harrow: Show me.