Wen Linghu Boguang
2023 is coming to an end, and this is still an inventory draft. Domestic movies have exploded this year. If I were to choose a commercial blockbuster, it would undoubtedly be "The Wandering Earth 2". If I were asked to choose the best literary film this year, I would probably choose two. One is "Space Exploration Editorial", One is "The Mistake by the River".
Let’s write about "Space Exploration Editorial Department" today. The meaning of this movie is Director Guo’s sentence "What if this is true?"
Why do we like science fiction movies and never tire of them to enhance the sense of immersion and reality? , isn’t it the beauty of human curiosity and fantasy? Because what if all this is true? Human beings continue to explore the unknown, create and innovate, and dream and imagine, isn’t it just to know whether it is true?
The best domestic movie in 2023? I would choose this "magic movie"
Although this is a science fiction movie, I still want to explain it in a more realistic way. Old Tang's daughter committed suicide because of depression, and he couldn't accept this fact and became obsessed. , Sun Yitong's father died in a quarry accident, and he couldn't accept it. In the end, he took out a broken stone ball, which indirectly showed that he used electric welding to get the stone ball out.
This also explains why he is a glowing villain. He finally went to the quarry to settle his own knot. I personally thought Sun Yitong was dead at the end because the quarry was about to blow up the mountain, and Sun There was a loud explosion in the background while talking to Tang.
And Tang I thought it was a hallucination. He accidentally ate poisonous mushrooms, but it is unclear whether he died or not in the end. Watching the whole movie, it felt like "Life of Pi", where reality and fantasy are intertwined. , giving people unlimited reverie and a wonderful feeling.
The tragedy of Tang Zhijun's character is that he actually knew that his daughter was obsessed with exploring aliens and neglected him, which led to her depression and suicide. However, he was unwilling to admit this, so he put this idea in the infinite place, convinced that As long as we find the aliens, we can find the meaning of life and the reason why our daughter committed suicide.
He is the donkey with a carrot hanging on it that he saw in the mountains. After finally talking to Sun Yitong (I personally think it was himself), he calmly accepted the death of his daughter and embraced life again. The death of Lao Tang's daughter may be partly due to Lao Tang's neglect of her daughter, but "inherited" depression is the most essential reason.
In this state of Old Tang, there is a high probability that he is suffering from depression. Old Tang’s ex-wife may have had a mental breakdown. The husband she married put her hopes on aliens every day. She couldn’t bear the divorce and took her daughter away. As the child grew up, she discovered that even the child also suffered from depression. Old Tang may have lived a ridiculous life, but with curiosity and a yearning for aliens, he relied on these to fight against depression and struggle to survive.
He couldn't save his daughter. He worked hard to live. He couldn't understand his daughter and couldn't bring her back by himself. After his daughter's death, his obsession gained another layer. He always told Xiaoxiao that it was a good thing for young people to be curious, and he was probably also telling his daughter. If her daughter had been curious about the world instead of passively thinking that human life was meaningless, she might have survived, right?
In psychoanalysis, there are two manifestations of a person encountering a major trauma. One is "somatization", that is, he always feels uncomfortable somewhere, but no problem can be found after going to the hospital, and the other is "intellectualization" , trying to rationalize his experiences, such as believing in Buddhism, finding aliens, success studies, or any theory he believes in. The more he believes, the more he can resolve his anxiety. Both performances are to divert the subject's attention. Suppress the trauma into the subconscious. As for the truth, only the director knows
Best of the Year? Or not, but this movie is a poem about the end of the universe
The main line of this movie is that Tang Zhijun, a down-and-out science fiction magazine editor, is bent on searching for extraterrestrial civilization. As the plot progresses, under the cloak of absurd comedy story, Tang Zhijun's daughter gradually... came into my sight.She is a person outside the story, but always relevant to it.
Information about her daughter appears five times in the entire film. The first time information about her daughter appeared was when Qin Cairong told the cameraman that Tang Zhijun's daughter suffered from depression and committed suicide.
I forgot which clip it was in.
The third time information about her daughter appeared was when Tang Zhijun told Sun Yitong the text message his daughter sent him before her death: "What is the meaning of our human existence in the universe?" . This is the most important piece of information. If Tang Zhijun in the 1990s went to search for extraterrestrial civilizations because of the alien craze, then when the alien craze subsided, why did Tang Zhijun still pursue the search for extraterrestrial civilizations so persistently?
This is because Tang Zhijun believes that if aliens can come to the earth, it must mean that the aliens' technological level is higher than that of the earth, and it is possible to explain "What is the meaning of our human existence in the universe?"
"We What is the meaning of human existence in the universe?" His daughter's suicide left an unexplainable question that trapped him for half his life.
Movie After seeing this, one core seems to gradually become clear. The father-daughter relationship between Tang Zhijun and his daughter is, to put it simply, love. The theme of love is really eternal. The information about her daughter that appears later on
also seems to prove this.
The fourth time information about her daughter appeared, it was Tang Zhijun touching the wooden board with the number of meters engraved on it. The number of meters on it has long been blurred due to the passage of time, but the figures of one meter two and one meter three can still be roughly seen. This is Tang Zhijun In a scene after returning from the mountains, it is not explained whose mark of growth this is, but based on the context of the movie, we know that it was left by her daughter.
The fifth time information about her daughter appears is at the end of the movie. Tang Zhijun wrote a poem to his daughter. The movie ended before the poem was read out. The information given in this clip makes the emotional focus of the entire final chapter fall on the daughter. Whether it is the nephew's wedding or Tang Zhijun leaving the editorial office and returning to life, it all directs emotions to Tang Zhijun and his daughter.
The movie finally puts the emotional focus on the daughter, which does not create a great sense of separation from the movie itself. Tang Zhijun’s pursuit of extraterrestrial civilization originated from the suicide of his daughter on earth, just like in "Journey to the West", if Without Sun Wukong's confusion and thinking about life and death, there would be no efforts to become a disciple and seek immortality, and there would not be so many wonderful stories left behind.
science fiction film? Magic movie? It doesn't matter, this movie is also one of the best domestic movies.
Many people talk about hard science fiction. This movie is not science fiction. In fact, science fiction has never been divided into soft and hard. Science fiction novels are essentially literary works, not scientific papers... There are always some people who love to define hard science fiction to promote themselves. It is very fun. If you like hard stuff, why not read cutting-edge scientific treatises and read novels?
Moreover, there are Many people like to say "covered in the guise of science fiction" or something like that. What exactly do they think "science fantasy" is? I think it’s okay to classify soft and hard science fiction in terms of whether it emphasizes the logic and self-consistency of the setting, or whether it emphasizes narrative and characters. As a general description when recommending to people who don’t read science fiction, it’s okay to say that this is The classification of science fiction literature is nonsense.
If science fiction literature is adapted into animation or movies, because certain types and settings will cause the cost of adapting scenes to increase exponentially (especially movies), it can also be divided into the category of "heavy industry science fiction", but this industry refers to In reality, it is necessary to have relevant industrial chains and even industries to produce this kind of animation/movie, and it cannot be used to indicate whether the work is soft science fiction or hard science fiction.
This work reminds me of the anime "Denpa Girl and Young Man". At the end of the animation, when the celestial body really fell like the heroine's despised fantasy, all my imagination and radio waves came alive. Like the hero, I couldn't believe it at all, but it happened before my eyes and I was shocked. All the foreshadowing and foreshadowing before the animation came to light, youthful fantasies came true, and my sister’s radio waves also came true.Fear, stimulation, excitement, and wonderful radio waves suddenly hit the brain, just like the summer a young boy spent with his aunt and sister.
Promoting works according to what most audiences understand as "science fiction" will lead to some criticism. This is natural. But if we think that science fiction is simply about heading into the unknown or the universe, how big a scene and how " "Technology" things, it is inevitable that the genre of science fiction is understood a little bit.
People's hearts are also unknown, and the self is infinite. External exploration and internal excavation are dialectically unified. The meaning of this film is not obvious.
In addition, everything is It's not a lie. This is obviously an authentic science fiction work. Otherwise, Tarkovsky's "Stalker" and "Solaris" would have been kicked out of the ranks of science fiction.
The poetry of science fiction is wisdom The product of the combination of rationality and sensibility in life.
