I do not want the formula
Hollywood disaster film is a formula. The earth is facing a strong crisis. The protagonist is usually a male hero (mostly fathers), and there are always problems with family relationships: children are at odds (often there are child stars), divorce, and finally experience life and death situations, mutual understanding, this is vulgar Warmthism; coupled with the Great Americanism that everyone is already familiar with-they defeated the world's most powerful country in just a few days! Why can the Japanese knock down mechanical monsters but we Americans can't? ; Coupled with the super special effects only available in Hollywood: superb audio visual enjoyment, the earth hero stands on the devastated land, and new life is born again.
The important thing is, what does the formula tell us? Human narcissism. In the eyes of the director, the earth is always the target of aggression. Others who always exist outside the earth hope to seize the very beautiful earth in our eyes. The hysterical psychology of being victimized is actually two sides of narcissism-will you compete for rubbish and dregs? "Strong Battle World" is also in this psychology, the final victory of mankind, the results of the brave battle, and the perfect ending of this narcissistic drama.
There are always surprises
, however, Steven Spielberg under a formula such business to sell large piece of Zhi Zhou, individual scene is quite strong. Not to mention the shadow of Jurassic Park in the basement, and the end hastily. For example, in the scene of a car competition, human nature is vividly expressed. The selfishness and fear of death in human nature at the critical moment of life and death, and wisdom as a calculation, are manifested one by one. Although this segment is not new, it still looks alarming. At the end of the movie, the robot imprisoned humans with a "chicken cage"-like object. During a certain period of time, it will suck up a person and suck his blood to use it as fuel for aliens. Humans suddenly become chickens in the market, which echoes the so-called "coexistence with all things" in the ending reasoning sound. In this scene, apart from preaching, I vaguely see the director's irony to humans, and this irony is always useless.
On the whole, the high-tech mechanical killing weapons of aliens in the early stage of "Strong Battle World" are thrilling and powerful, such as the death of death. However, the content of the story is so thin that the ending is disappointing. The film tension can only be maintained with special effects and big scenes in the middle and later, which is not a good film style. As for the actor, Tang Guluth plays the role of a worker, which is anti-heroic. He fears death, fears, escapes, and moves murderously. He only protects his children, but he is more pleased and closer to human nature. The child star always steals the spotlight in disaster movies, but this girl is a little mature and lacks the fairy tale innocence that could be useful in disaster movies.
Something
the United States in recent years, disaster movie formula does not take off, but before there is
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