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Since the 1970s and 1980s, the American science fiction film industry has developed rapidly, one of which is about time travel. Such stories often use time machines, or go to the future, or go back to the past, and use various timelines. A series of adventure stories based on the "crisis" caused by the causal relationship, and the "Back to the Future" series can be said to be the originator of this type of film (the first of the series was released in 1985), and its director is Robert Zemeckis, the director of "Forrest Gump".
The film mainly tells a series of adventure stories that occur when high school students Martin and Dr. Brown take a time machine to travel in time. The initial time is set in 1985. "Back to the Future" is a typical Hollywood work. It is full of love, adventure, drama and other elements under the shell of science fiction. Especially the third film is set in the "Old West" era, which is mixed with Western films. (especially a tribute to Eastwood's "Red Dead"), and this kind of film is often popular with audiences, especially its time travel elements are novel and full of many innovative settings, so this series is one It was sought after and became a classic in film history. In 2018, Spielberg's "Ready Player One" featured a tribute to the "Back to the Future" series.
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The time machine invented by Dr. Brown in the film, a sports car that can travel to a set point in time as long as it reaches a speed of 88 miles per hour, and everything in the film revolves around this point. When the protagonist Martin travels to the past or the future, he cannot change the past or the future, otherwise the timeline will be disrupted, which will cause quite serious disasters. Because of this, after Dr. Brown and Martin went through a series of "tinkering" with the timeline, Dr. Brown asked Martin to destroy the time machine, because it would bring many problems and troubles (though Dr. Brown later built an even fancier flying train).
Since the publication of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, various works of science fiction have emerged, and the human imagination has continued to expand, from Verne's undersea adventure to later cloning, space travel, which once people thought Unrealizable technologies are becoming reality step by step, but time travel is still just an illusion. The reason is that under the scientific principles known to mankind, time travel is impossible or extremely difficult. Not to mention that Einstein also proposed a series of paradoxes about time in the theory of relativity. For thousands of years, human beings have been expanding their territory in space, but in the realm of time, they are unable to do anything and can only walk in the present. It is the mysterious characteristic of time that makes people always have the desire to conquer it but fear its unknowability and fear it.
Since human beings cannot make breakthroughs in time travel in a short period of time, the subject of time travel has made a lot of difference in science fiction movies, and it can bring us a greater imagination than other themes. At the same time, its function of linking the present, history and future can cover almost all themes in expression. This is reflected in the "Back to the Future" series. It is linked to four different time periods of the Old West, and depicts the style picture scroll of American society at different historical stages.
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The "Back to the Future" series focuses on growth and reconciliation. The protagonist Martin is a high school student who grew up in a white American family. His father is obedient, his mother is conservative and fat, and his older brothers and sisters are not promising. There are conflicts between Martin and his family. By traveling back to the time of his parents, Martin successfully helped his father build courage, defeat the "bad guys", and win his mother's love. When Martin returned to reality, he found that his father had become a successful career, his mother was enlightened and enthusiastic, and his brothers and sisters also belonged to him. In the follow-up story, Martin achieves harmony in the family by changing the history and the future, eliminating the negative factors in the family and completing the reconciliation with his parents. The other is about Martin's growth. At the beginning, Martin was easily irritated, and he was not allowed to say that he was a waste. He was particularly impulsive. The message of the film is that this impulsiveness will eventually affect him. Martin's future made him do nothing, and after a series of adventures, with the guidance of Dr. Brown and the help of his girlfriend, Martin gradually improved his character flaws. Under the external force, self-redemption is achieved, and this also seems to tell the audience that about history, future factors will affect us, but self-improvement is the most important.
Perhaps for a long time, time travel will still be a science fantasy, but it does not affect our expectations of him. Time is so complicated that we cannot fully understand it, but the charm of science is to reveal its The essence behind it is that science fiction movies allow us to achieve a leap of thought in an era of technological closure. For us at present, history cannot be changed, and the future is unpredictable. In reality, Martin cannot go back to the past to change his parents. Only now can we grasp it. After a journey through time, I hope Ends with a Whitman poem: "The great plays are still going on, and you can contribute a poem."
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