Many people have had such fantasies in their childhood, until... they were told that the stars are actually far away from us... until... they were told that they couldn't be astronauts if they were short-sighted... until... they were told that those with bad grades could not be astronauts. I went to flight school...until... I finally graduated from college, got a job and was scolded by my boss. When I came back in the middle of the night, I suddenly thought of my childhood fantasies, and I felt a little ashamed: How could I be so naive back then?
At this time, we usually have two choices. One is to choose to believe that reality is so cruel, accept it, and then obey him until we believe that we are willing to choose this way. Or choose to keep the dream, do the math, solve one problem, then move on to the next, and when enough problems are solved, we can get close to the dream.
The average person will accept the former, and NASA, and its space-based American Dream, will tell you that the latter is the right thing to do.
The film "The Martian", on the surface, is a rescue story of life and death choices, but in fact it is an ideal pursuit story of accepting reality or solving problems.
On the lens of the film, the biggest feature is that it gives people a feeling of objective narrative as a whole, and with the style of hard science fiction, it looks real everywhere. In addition, the details of the props and CG are handled very well, and it is basically difficult to find loopholes. The film can even be viewed as a popular film about aerospace knowledge.
The script, among the three conflict levels, specifically focuses on the first level of the protagonist's inner conflict, and the third level between the character and the environment. The second dimension of human conflict is almost completely abandoned. There are two reasons for this: First, because of the capacity of the film, because the story takes place in Mars and space, there is a lot of additional knowledge to understand. Adding in the conflict of characters, the script capacity is not enough, and it is more difficult for the audience to understand. The other is because the film has a certain comedy style, and the depth of the characters will weaken the comedy, so this is the treatment. But——even so, without this second level, although the rhythm is also very tight, but...the story is a little less full, maybe it will be better handled by Nolan?
After a little comment, I have to return to the theme in the end. Does this film make people understand that dreaming is to stick to this simple? So why make a Mars story? Instead of filming it like "Happiness Knocks on the Door"?
Obviously not so simple. On the surface, this seems to be a cross-border cooperation between NASA and Hollywood. Since sending people to Mars is a huge investment, the risk is extremely high. Taxpayers’ money is limited, so how can lawmakers put their money on Mars exploration instead of saving poor children, reducing taxes to revitalize the economy, saving AIDS patients—and so on where money is also very expensive? ?
Well, the film chose to impress people with feelings, which is the moving spirit of spaceflight.
As Matt said at the end of the credits:
Yes, it will die, of course. This is space, he will not follow you, sometimes, the house will leak and it will rain overnight, you will say: This is it, I am finished like this. That's when you either take it or go to work, and that's it.
Although there are often failures, many failures, and the risk of death at any time, they still continue to work and continue to explore the unknown areas of mankind. Yeah, isn't that what NASA does?
Think about your childhood dream, the dream that human beings have had since looking up at the stars thousands of years ago?
Have you also chosen to believe in the American dream of this astronaut? Facing a group of down-to-earth dreamers like NASA?
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