Character background: Erwin Anciano, a young Filipino, from Manila (From Manila), studied for a Master of Business Administration Degrees at Ateneo Graduate School of Business (Studied Master of Business Administration Degrees at Ateneo Graduate School of Business), Currently living in Melbourne, Australia (Lives in Melbourne, Australia).
As an Asian youth, Anciano pays more attention to Chinese culture, so after the release of "The Wandering Earth" in Australia, he took the time to watch the film. When asked what he thought of the film, he said, "The biggest problem with the film is that it is almost meaningless." The following is a transcript of Anciano's conversation. The movie
was highly hyped in Australia, so I went to watch it. I want to see why it broke China's box office record, so this premise is very interesting. The concept of the
movie is that the sun will explode within a century or so. In order to avoid the coming destruction, countries unite and install a huge booster on one side of the earth to push it like a huge spaceship. Travel through space.
This is a very interesting idea that makes you wonder how the Chinese will make a movie around it. This is because, although the idea is novel, there are many logistical and physical issues that make it stupid. A good science fiction movie will adopt some weird science fiction concepts, create a world that makes it work, and then tell a story around it.
Part of the reason why I went to watch this movie was because I wanted to see how the Chinese turned it into an interesting and credible story.
However, the most unconvincing thing about this movie is that it starts with this narrative, but there is no explanation, even in the most superficial language to determine how these 10,000 huge earth engines were built and what provides energy. Meet the huge thrust required by these engines?
Is this a new type of plasma technology? How can the engine generate enough thrust to propel the entire mass of the earth without expelling the atmosphere into space? Astrophysicists have noticed that if you generate thrust like a rocket, you need to expel matter, such as air, from the earth. Otherwise, gravity will pull it all back, and Newtonian physics will cancel all the thrust. Travel in the way suggested by the movie for 2,500 years. Before the end of the journey, all the atmosphere on the earth will be expelled.
Then, this movie did not really address the consequences of forcibly separating the Earth from orbit. The most basic thing is that when the earth leaves the warmth of the sun, it becomes a frozen wasteland. In order to keep the earth in its orbit, there are also some stable gyroscopes that prevent the earth from rotating. But the theory behind it collapsed immediately, because it could not even explain how humans avoided all catastrophic inertial forces, which would destroy everything when they forcibly prevent the rotation of the earth. Fragile underground cities will be destroyed by the power released by this strategy.
was unable to sustain the entire population because of the built underground cities, and humans were forced to kill half of the population on the planet. In the underground cities we have seen, such a serious and catastrophic crime against humanity has no obvious impact. Everyone lives a happy life calmly, as if nothing happened. How can people be indifferent to this? Half of the people in the world are dying? Many abandoned people are their loved ones, such as the protagonist’s mother. If generations pass by and people forget the impact of this disaster, I can understand, but this is not the case here. An important part of
science fiction movies is to explain the influence of the fictional world on humans and mankind. But it is very lacking in this movie. It is the worst science fiction movie, because it is totally incredible. On the issue of climate change, we can’t even let people stand in the same boat, but somehow, people can unite, recognize that the sun will eventually destroy the earth in 100 years, and accept a plan that will change the earth forever and kill half of the world’s population.
In science fiction movies, building the world is very important, but the basic elements of any story are characters. Unfortunately, the characters in this movie are all a mess.
I don’t know if the subtitles lost something in the translation process, but the dialogue did not build up the feeling that these people are meaningful in their lives. I don't understand why everyone is complaining, moaning, crying, I don't think I understand how deep their emotions are. They just did a lot of things and I don't understand why they just run around, crying, groaning, and acting tough. Of course, I know that some people’s relatives are dead, so of course they will be sad and angry, but there are many places where people seem to be shouting without emotion. The characters of
are the most important things in the movie. If the characters are not credible, or they don’t work, it’s too boring. The biggest problem with
is that it is almost meaningless. The fact is that everything the characters in the movie did is useless, except for what the father did, sacrificing the hopes, dreams and future of mankind as a whole, and crashing the space station onto Jupiter. This is the only important thing. The initial conspiracy of the son to escape with his sister? unimportant. The main conspiracy to reignite the earth's engine to escape Jupiter's orbit? Failed. The whole idea of using the earth engine to blow up Jupiter? Useless practice. The important thing is that Dad knocked the space station onto Jupiter to cause the required combustion.
Overall, this movie made about 600 million US dollars in China alone, which left a deep impression on me, but I don’t think true science fiction movies are that good. People may compare this movie to a masterpiece. It has many themes and ideas, and even visual effects. From the emphasis on the family, to the grand plan to save the planet, to all the disasters in space.
is quite capable in film shooting and production, but the characters are not interesting at all, and are very easy to be forgotten, the plot structure and narrative quality are very chaotic, and the world architecture is also very lacking.
It has many problems. To be honest, I think this is just a huge wave of hype. It is worth seeing that China has made great achievements in producing large-budget science fiction films and has shown the world a decent but flawed story of humanity's struggle for survival.
