Unsurprisingly, the audience's "old-fashioned" comments accounted for a large part.
The medium of film seems to have a higher dimension than the book - the picture and music push it forward, so people who are used to watching movies are carried, and they can find various complex senses of meaning when they lie down. But this kind of "lie down to win" may also make most people accustomed to the shallow thinking of the movie viewing process. If there is a movie, when you need a little bit of energy to read a book to watch the movie, you will be impatient. In fact, classics often become classics because they are close to the truth, have advanced meaning, and are not conventional, but they also tell secular stories.
So it's really not a big deal to judge a movie as "old-fashioned".
It is also possible that my mentality is no longer the same as before. I don’t need to be entertained and stimulated by watching movies, and I don’t need to seek novelty, so I will have a different perspective. I don't think the film "Gemini Man" is to strengthen the technology and weaken the plot. Instead, I think it's a movie that focuses on the future, rather than a sci-fi movie in the general sense.
The story of the film "Gemini Man" may be really ordinary, or it may not meet the expectations of "the mainstream audience who watch movies and love to write movie reviews" for storytelling, and I really don't remember the beginnings and endings of its plot, but I feel it. the meaning of this movie. And this kind of meaning is very useful because it can be inspired at every relevant moment in life. Ang Lee's concern for people is deeper.
Others said the film told a clichéd twist on family tales.
In fact, the film "Gemini Man" is more than about family. I think this film is about how to grow as an individual, how to be educated about love, how to heal psychological pain, how to become a person who is beneficial to society rather than a person who destroys it, especially when being Against the backdrop of a future that appears to be "no problem" under the threat of technology. It's just that Ang Lee is too much like a teacher, caring too much, caring too deeply, but he is not in the life of ordinary people, so it is difficult to be understood at once. But these issues that he cares about are indeed a small group of problems in the present and a large group of problems in the future, which are very painful points. This is actually a social issue - is there any way for us to make up for the bad things done by the double-edged sword of science and technology? Can humanistic care make up for it? How can the humanities make up for it? Just like the last line of the movie, the three protagonists argue about which major Will will major in in the future: computer, sociology, or engineering. Later, Will’s classmates and friends called him from afar, and he ran over and waved his hand. Goodbye, the argument is over. More important than what major was chosen, Will Jr. was part of a helpful, positive group.
Movies are a product of science and technology, and it is also the most important means of humanistic output. Ang Lee, as a film hall-level figure, is particularly good at paying attention to the growth of an individual's heart through the detailed description of family interactions. Isn't he supposed to make such a movie.
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