After a long time, Let's get back to the movie. Sci-fi movies like Total Recall are not my thing. But the future world pattern set at the beginning of the film shocked me. N years later, due to biochemical disasters, there are only two lands left in the world, one is the United Kingdom (UFB) centered in London, and the other is the Colony in Australia. The Commonwealth is the center of the world, basically the high-end management class of human beings; the colonies are the low-end links that provide labor and resources. The transportation between the two places is realized by a shuttle vehicle (Fall) that passes through the core of the earth, which takes 17 minutes. Haha, what a great metaphor.
As soon as Colin Farrell came out, I felt like he was in the right place for this drama. Combined with the Belfast buddies mentioned at the beginning, and the fact that there are always Sean Connery in the United Kingdom called "British people", they are actually cool people who are in the vanguard of independence in Scotland. Capturing the essence of colonial resistance to invasion and power. The fighters against the Commonwealth are defined in the film as, they are resistance, not terrorists (they are resistance forces, not terrorists). Well, things have changed here, and here the film asks the big questions of the world right now. Following this logic, the Irish Republican Army, the ETA in the Basque Country, and even the Taliban in Afghanistan, which have been splitting and engaging in violence, are either resistance forces or terrorists. The film thus has a relatively grand and controversial discussion.
The world of the Commonwealth in the film is sunny, technological, and tidy. The inhabitants are mainly white people, naked and beautiful, except for the ambitious villain, which is full of positive energy. On the contrary, the colonial world is dark, wretched, and dirty. The inhabitants are mainly Asian, Latino and Slavic. The worst thing is that even the young lady is a biochemical variant with three waves (brother, I was young when I saw this scene). retched). What I'm struggling with is that Sunshine Paradise (the Commonwealth) wants to demolish and liberate the hell on earth (colonies) in the name of expanding living space, but the colonies have no way to resist, and finally they are punished by the white brothers who were probationed after they were born in the British Commonwealth. Riel rescued. This fucking is back to the main theme of "Lawrence of Arabia"! ?
It is said that director Wiseman is good at making gothic blockbusters. After watching this film, it is not absurd. In the film, the colonial scene design is breathtaking, and praises its cascading streets and the flowing water and people in the blurred light and shadow. The vulgar neon, the Chinese signboards full of pits and valleys, the damp streets of the late century of Kowloon City, the small bridges and boats that are based on Bangkok or Lu Town at first glance, chaos and vitality! It is estimated that director Wiseman watched Hong Kong films and traveled to Asia.
Friends who have immigrated abroad have concluded that foreign countries are so fucking beautiful and boring, but China is really dirty, messy and comfortable!
Xiongtai, which one do you choose?
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