Avatar, which is popular all over the world, is one of the most prominent examples. Of course, the film "Avatar" was made to make people's blood boil, but I felt quite unhappy from the bottom of my heart when I watched it, because I really can't deal with hundreds or even thousands of human soldiers (think about it). How many people can fit in a flying spaceship no smaller than an aircraft carrier) The applause of all the annihilation calmly applauded. As a human hero, if viewed from the perspective of the blue-skinned man, he is the savior of the world, but from the perspective of human beings, he is tantamount to being a traitor to humanity.
Similarly, the orangutan family who are imprisoned in a cage and are bullied by humans at any time and may even lose their lives in human experiments at any time should indeed receive sympathy, but this kind of sympathy is only a kind of charity. Sometimes this feeling can be called sympathy, and when the situation is reversed, I am afraid that it should be fear and hostility. Why do you say that? A group of orangutans who only have basic feelings (such as protecting their cubs) passively and helplessly accept the experiments imposed on them by humans (of course the value of such experiments is extremely important for humans), and they silently record what humans anger and hatred. However, they did not oppose the IQ and condition of human beings, but when our gorilla protagonist appeared (especially after the IQ of the gorillas who were locked together with some kind of gas was greatly improved), the situation was completely different. . They have human IQ (the most obvious manifestation is the ability to language), can unlock, learn and use almost all advanced technologies used by humans (not to mention IQ-boosted gorillas, even circus gorillas can learn to drive ), they have superhuman conditions that humans do not have: they can go to the sky and go to the ground, and the giant trees can climb up like walking on the ground; and they are infinitely powerful (at least compared to humans). The most important thing is that in addition to the leading protagonist, other orangutans have a deep hatred for humans (the protagonist orangutan has repeatedly prevented other orangutans from killing humans as evidenced, but imagine if the status of the protagonist orangutan is filled with other What about the hated orangutan? After all, after inhaling that kind of gas, all the orangutans almost ran to the same level. leadership, then a total revenge against humanity under the leadership of some hated surrogate is more than just imagination.
In other words, the orangutan who had inhaled that gas had turned into a hairy "Hulk" who was wiser and more powerful than humans, and hated humans. Until then, we might still feel sympathy for them in the cage, but when they escape, kill the guards (that boy who was quite two hundred and fifty, although the director tried to make his death his own stupidity, but believe so If the smart orangutan protagonist didn't know the principle of water conducting electricity, he wouldn't use water to "borrow a knife to kill"), when he wantonly destroys the city and flattens dozens of police cars easily The Islamic thugs who bombed are not inferior (think about the United States, although there are many robberies, but that robbery can kill dozens of guards with live ammunition at one time, which can destroy dozens of police cars? These underestimated orangutans are probably "super thugs").
Therefore, the people in the Li Zicheng uprising army are pitiful, but after they took Beijing, they wantonly burned, killed, looted, harmed the people, and executed court officials arbitrarily. Their hatred of the old dynasty made them kill innocent people, causing harm to the world, and therefore to the world. The plan, whether it is a loyal minister of the Ming Dynasty or a Manchu official and soldier, must be eliminated and then quickly. Li Zicheng is still at least as strong as the average person, with the same IQ as the average person, even if he is cruel, he still has a three-pointed nature. So what about those gorillas who can pull mountains and outsmart people? They don't just hate the little young administrators who keep them from living in peace, it's not just the dozens of police cars on the bridge to prevent them from crossing the river and the helicopters that shoot at them, they hate - humans, hate It is the modern society of humans that caused their tragic encounters. With their intelligence, if they are not eliminated in time, let them recuperate in the mountains, or let them steal some gas canisters to enhance the wisdom of their kind, then it will be as short as a few months, or as long as a few years later, when this person still treats them After the repressive orangutan protagonist leaves the dominant position (primitive orangutans compete for mates and territories by their strength, so leaders change very frequently), an ambitious leader (they already have human Wisdom) raised his arms, ignited the fire of vengeance, and a future in which human blood flowed into rivers is absolutely predictable. Then the pityed angel with the broken arm will become a murderous demon with blood on his hands (before 1933, who would have thought that a poor old soldier would become the big demon Hitler who slaughtered 6 million Jews?) Good and evil are easily interchangeable.
Before such a group is worthy of sympathy, and even has a strong sense of revenge for their tragic encounter, we need to know that their opposite is us humans (not just the black-hearted black man who experimented with orangutans and finally fell from the plane). Bosses, as almost all companies do), their "rise" will not change the reality that humanity continues to sacrifice "lower life" to its own interests. This is not the imaginary planet Pandora, nor is it an explorer who may or may not land. You blue-skinned people hate human beings. They are stronger than us humans. The big deal is that we leave Pandora. Anyway, there are thousands of similar planets in the universe (in the plot setting of Avatar, humans can already log in to any planet that they want to log in), do not log in Pandora also has many planets to log in. However, this is our planet, the earth, and there can only be one king here. Humans have no reason to evade like in "Avatar". If the orangutans are allowed to rise, human beings will follow the old path of dinosaurs. In a word, if the Planet of the Apes rises, it will represent the decline of mankind.
Therefore, "Rise of the Planet of the Apes" feels to me as a challenge to human authority (humans have dispatched almost all the tools at their disposal except for the army, but they are almost vulnerable in front of no more than a few dozen "super apes"). They are hidden in the mountains next to densely populated and defenseless metropolises. The Taliban have been hidden deep in the mountains and rarely come out to cause trouble. Why do Americans still insist on being relentless and have to be wiped out for peace of mind? Simply because they are terrible hidden dangers. Although they seem very peaceful now, but after all, they have weapons that can kill people, and they can pick up weapons at any time and return to the battlefield. The consequences will be unimaginable at that time (this is the same as the previous emperor must punish the nine clans). The reason is the same, on the one hand it is to deter, on the other hand, it is to eradicate hidden dangers. Just look at the orphans of the Zhao family, and they have not been copied cleanly, leaving one Zhao Sheng, and the result is that the Zhao family makes a comeback) Which of these orangutans is not a human being "Cruel" victims? (Even the gorilla protagonist was born in a human "concentration camp") Who doesn't harbor a deep hatred for humans? Coupled with an IQ that surpasses that of humans, and has strength that almost surpasses that of the regular army, is it more terrifying and dangerous than the Taliban far away in the desert and far away from the city?
For the above reasons, I really don't know how to be emotionally invested in a film like this. A kind and kind-hearted person who has cultivated an alien leader who devoured mankind. This reminds me of Ran Min, the most important and greatest Han leader in the time of the Five Hus and Sixteen Kingdoms (he established a state, Ran Wei, which existed for three years, and anyone who has read history a little should know). He is a Han Chinese, but his parents died when he was a child. He was adopted by Shi Hu, the leader of the Jie tribe at that time, and grew up surrounded by Hu people. (At that time, the Han people were oppressed and even massacred by the Hu people, and their lives were extremely miserable.) When Ran Min became an adult, he immediately raised his arms and led the army to overthrow the rule of his adoptive father, Shi Hu, and issued the most famous genocide order in history (compared to Hitler's Holocaust Order is more than a thousand years earlier) "Kill Hu Order". The meaning is simply to kill all the Hu people you see. Because of the beards of the Hu people, some Han people with long beards were also killed by mistake, killing hundreds of thousands of Hu people in a few years. The Hu people were almost wiped out in the north due to this battle, and later, because of Ran Min's killing, the Hu people flourished again. From the perspective of the Han people, Ran Min is certainly a hero who liberated the Han nationality, but from the perspective of the Hu people, isn't Ran Min a "Han" who was raised by the Hu people and finally turned back on him? This makes our psychology very contradictory. On the one hand, we rejoice at the appearance of the ape heroes who are oppressed by human beings; on the other hand, we suddenly find that the so-called "enemy" faced by the revolution in the film is you, it is me, It's us. How do you make us celebrate our own failures?
Therefore, if an ape is an obedient ape that stays in a cage, then the protagonist is a hero we can admire; if an ape becomes an ape that can roam the streets and crush police cars like bedbugs, then the protagonist should be hostile culprit. Because all things are inherently unequal, and living things always speak from the perspective of their own species.
Last but not least, the character descriptions in the film are quite thin. The adoptive father of the orangutan is just a good father who loves apes like his sons, and the only thing he has or can say is infinite love. It's a pity that this film does not focus on "love" (for example, in Forrest Gump's True Story, Forrest Gump's mother appears in very limited parts, but the deep mother-son relationship is very touching), so in a hero On the road of resistance and struggle, the importance of father-son love is greatly reduced. The protagonist's loving father, who suffers from Alzheimer's, has very little time to wake up because he has antibody resistance to "smart medicine". Although there are many related plots, it only plays the role of continuing the story. The beautiful wife, the neighbor pilot whose finger was bitten off (actually a guest star of Dr. Joy in the TV series "Stargate"), the poisoned orangutan breeder, and the heartless young man who was finally electrocuted, etc. , all belong to the soy sauce bottle, which can be skipped. Except for the vivid description of the character and temperament of the hero orangutan (the actor staring at the idiot in the cage when he was young reminds me of Gou Jian), the others are relatively pale and unable to evoke emotional resonance in people's hearts. If the best part is selected, our protagonist has just entered the shelter and was bullied by other orangutans to resist and win the approval of all the orangutans to enlighten the ignorant souls of the orangutans like a prophet (actually take the kind of smart gas to make them smart) until the final leadership of the enlightened "comrades" rising from the dawn, the whole process of running towards freedom is very full, if not as "those who prevent their freedom and persecute their bodies and souls" If so, I would definitely praise this story, but unfortunately, no ruler would praise the peasant uprising that tried to overthrow his own dynasty (the emperor of Han would praise Liu Bang's peasant uprising, but he would not praise the Yellow Turban uprising) .
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