Who is spying on us?

Kiley 2022-03-18 08:01:01

Film and television works with Spielberg's name always attract special attention. Needless to say, that "Band of Brothers" has become a classic in the war genre, and is also familiar to a wide range of audiences in China. However, filmed in 2002, Steven Spielberg Presents Taken, also produced by Spielberg, is not well known to many domestic audiences, although the genre is Spielberg more Familiar alien stories.
"UFO Invasion" has ten episodes in total. Each episode is about 90 minutes long. Each episode has one director, and ten directors are used in total. This kind of shooting can be described as extravagant, but the quality of the episodes shot according to the film standard is fully guaranteed . Although Spielberg is only a producer, I think he also has an influence on the style of the film, so this series has both a suspenseful story and a lack of thinking. The story spans 50 years and covers three generations of three families. The Roswell incident, which has been controversial to this day, is the origin of the story. The three families can be summed up as a family of alien descendants who were hijacked by aliens. The family, the family that tracks aliens, the three families have exchanges and grudges with each other, and this kind of story spans several generations, plus aliens, government hegemony, political conspiracy, belief crisis and other comprehensive applications of common American genres All make the film attractive. Despite the combination of many factors that can build momentum, the film is not an exciting fast-paced TV series like "24 Hours" or "Prison Break". On the contrary, the pace of the first few episodes is very slow, and more It shows people's hearts and emotions, and shows the warmth of the family. Even if a tense episode suddenly occurs, the crisis will be quickly resolved, which may make many audiences who are pursuing the rhythm of the plot lose interest. But if you are patient enough, this kind of rhythm makes the play look interesting, especially the film pays great attention to details, and the characteristics of various eras in the 50 years are reflected in the film.
From the birth of Ellie, the fourth-generation little girl of the alien descendant family, the rhythm of the film has accelerated, and the truth has gradually emerged. It turns out that human beings have always been the observation objects of aliens. Like us, they will be full of problems, they will also seek knowledge, and in order to seek knowledge, they will also do things that hurt others, such as hijacking humans in the film. Ironically, however, we cannot condemn the actions of evil alien creatures, which is exactly what human beings do, as the three generations of the alien-tracking family exemplified in their quest for the so-called truth. Unscrupulous hijacking of others, and the family has also been caught in the resulting tragedy, ambition is the genetic factor of this family, and this also led to their family's misfortune. The fate of the three generations of the hijacked family was full of twists and turns. They were hijacked by aliens and at the same time by the same kind. No matter where they looked, they were just research objects. It is also unknown whether they can escape the fate of the chess pieces at the cost of their lives and their families. In the end, the descendants of the three families meet on the farm in Texas. They once again witnessed the arrival of aliens. The end of the film is very much like "Encounter of the Third Kind". A group of people who have been kidnapped gathered on the farm in Texas, just like In "Encounter of the Third Kind", for those who are desperate to make contact with aliens, Ellie, like a reincarnated Jesus, preaches the gospel to those who have been kidnapped but are regarded as lunatic by their peers, so that they have The possibility of a normal life, but in order to avoid harming others, let himself be picked up by aliens, or "robbed", and at that moment, the most powerful army on earth can only watch all this.
After the "War of the Worlds" was staged, many people expressed their deep disappointment. They could not bear the aliens in the film being so mediocre, and in the end, human beings escaped because of bacteria and people sighed, "lucky". And I think this is exactly what the original authors Wells and Spielberg wanted to show, and what this "UFO Invasion" wants to show. Human beings are "lucky" existences again and again. There are many planets in the universe, and human beings are lucky. Birth, "lucky" escaped many disasters (maybe most of them happen without our awareness), when we humans hurt each other, there are actually higher creatures spying on us. "Hijacking", a violent act of forcibly intervening in the lives of others, can be regarded as a symbolic act in this film. When human beings forcibly intervene in the lives of others, their own territory is repeatedly "lost". As if it had become a laboratory, arrogant humans were randomly sampled and studied by aliens like guinea pigs. The fate of the three families in the film is due to a "lucky" and "accidental" event. Although there are not many aliens in the film, we can find that their behavior is very similar to human beings. The final appearance of the alien who left behind the descendants that caused all this is similar to the conscience discovery of a scientist in a sin study conducted by a certain human government. In "UFO Invasion", the aliens are not overly mystified and demonized, but they are anthropomorphized, so that they are like humans, so that what humans do to hurt each other, they also do to humans, irony Means very effective.
The whole movie has a traversing story, but each episode still has its own characteristics. For me, the most impressive episode is the fourth episode. The two twins who were also born from human and alien interaction became the people around them. The demon in the eyes, and a member of the second generation of the tracking alien family was burned to death in the process of helping them, and his brother watched coldly by the side, which made the story smeared with a strong tragic color. The twins are the debts left in the mutual "research" between the earth and the aliens, but in the eyes of those in charge of both sides, this may just be a necessary "cost". The most noteworthy later part of the film is of course Dakota Fanning, who plays Elle. She acts as a narrator throughout the series until she appears later in the film and becomes the central figure in the tracking of humans and aliens. Cute appearance, mature words and deeds are very flattering, undoubtedly a promising child star.
At the end of the film, Ellie's mother finds Ellie leaving a hint of her return, and with hope, she smiles, and Spielberg is tender, even in this "XF Invasion" and another film " In "Artificial Intelligence", he couldn't bear to be so firm when he made some pessimistic predictions about the future of mankind, so there is hope that this lovely girl will return. After all, hope is always where people smile.

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  • Vilma 2022-03-19 09:01:11

    A 10-episode sci-fi TV series supervised and directed by Spielberg, about the grievances and grievances between three families and four generations due to aliens coming to Earth, so-so~~

  • Lila 2022-03-19 09:01:11

    Very good mini-series, little Fanning is too cute. The entanglement of 4 generations is complete but slightly procrastinated. So give 4.5 stars

Taken quotes

  • Dr. Chet Wakeman: [to Allie Keys] Little girl, I love the way your mind works.

  • Allison Clarke: Even when we know we'll never find the answers, we have to keep on asking questions.