Can't put down a short review

Leo 2022-04-21 09:01:04

Three and a half. 1. The eye-supporting paragraph pays tribute to "A Clockwork Orange". The first half of the plot settings have the shadow of "Blade Runner". 2. Some photography and action design have more ideas, such as Tom under the huge LCD screen, the brightness and proportion of the foreground and background are in huge contrast, and the feeling of the tiny human being suppressed by technology is conveyed well, the factory fights, and the machine is very large. Participated in the action design to a certain extent, there is a little shadow of "Modern Times", and the passage through the building was also borrowed by many later action films, but this passage should not be the first. Coupled with the cyberpunk style, the overall visual look and feel is still good. 3. Although the genre film framework of the suspense film is a bit incompatible with the sci-fi worldview of this film (the same problem as "Artificial Intelligence"), the completion of the script is still ok, the motivation of each character is relatively clear, the suspense The doubling is also more traceable. Some of the obvious loopholes are actually due to the lack of detail in the sci-fi worldview. For example, the specific prediction mechanism of the prophet, what is the relationship between robots such as spiders and prediction, Tom's authority, etc. 4. The themes are richer: the boundary between justice and freedom, choice and destiny, God trapped in a box by human beings.

5. The focal point of the apparent dispute is whether the prophet will make a mistake in prediction. But the core question is: even if the prophet is always right, should we just use it? The bird's-eye view of spiders searching the slums is almost a movie version of Foucault's "panoramic prison". If this is the price of accurately guaranteeing your safety, are you willing to pay it? You find this acceptable, and it will only get worse in the future. as in human history.

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  • Pre-Crime Public Service Announcer: Imagine, a world with out, murder. 6 years ago, the homicidal rates had reached epidemic proportions. It seemed that only a miracle could stop the blood shed, but instead of 1 miracle, we were given 3, the precognitives. Within 3 months of the precrime program, the homicidal rates in the District of Columbia had reduced 90 percent.

    Lamar Burgess: 6 Years in the precrime prgram, and there hasn't been a single murder.

    Pre-Crime Public Service Announcer: Now, the system can work for you.

    Attorney General Nash: We want to make sure that this great system is what will keep us safe will also keep us free.

    Pre-Crime Public Service Announcer: On April 24, vote yes on the national Precrime initiative.

  • Lamar Burgess: [as he is given a revolver] Revolvers, like this one, were given to the generals at the end of the civil war by their troops. The chambers were loaded with 5 gold plated bullets to symbolize the end of the destruction and death that set the country apart for 5 years. Now, with Precrime going national, I think we all can look towards a time where none of us will have to discharge another firearm ever again.

    [the people applaud him]

    Lamar Burgess: Oh, enjoy yourselves, enjoy yourselves. That's an order.