5 selected articles after watching the science fiction movie "Interstellar Exploration"

The movie "Interstellar" also tells the story of a lonely scientist exploring aliens. Twenty years ago, a pair of exploration teams led by scientist Clyfford flew near Neptune, which was 3 billion kilometers away, and then lost news. Twenty years later, Clayford's son Roy embarked on a long interstellar journey to find the truth. The following is the review of "Interstellar Exploration" that I brought to you. I hope it can help you!

Review of "Interstellar Exploration" Part 1

< p> The time background of the movie "Interstellar Exploration" takes place in the future, where space exploration technology has developed bases on the moon and Mars. Roy, played by Brad Pitt, is a somewhat autistic astronaut. His father participated in the search for extraterrestrial life 20 years ago. The spacecraft sailed to Neptune, which is the furthest distance humans have ever reached. But unfortunately, the extraterrestrial life project lost contact many years ago and failed. Roy's father was hailed as a space pioneer hero, and it was precisely because of his father that Roy became an astronaut.

The story begins with the strange surge radiation emitted from space. Wherever the surge wave reaches, it will cause circuit damage and power outage. The harm is global. The location of the surge was found to be the location of Roy's father's spacecraft on Neptune. In order to find out the truth, Roy was sent on a secret mission, starting from the earth, to the moon launch base, and then to the Mars base to find a way to contact his father. .

In the process, Roy gradually discovered the truth behind his missing father. He decided to go to Pluto and find his father personally. After Roy tried to contact his father on Mars, he secretly learned that the official plan was to find his father's exact coordinates and then send a spacecraft carrying a nuclear bomb to blow up the target. Because the authorities had known for a long time that Roy's father had rebelled. In order to find extraterrestrial life, Roy's father did not hesitate to execute those colleagues who wanted to return to Earth. Then Roy's father cut off communications, and then surge radiation occurred.

So Roy broke through the obstacles and went to Neptune alone and found his father. It turns out that the surge radiation was just an accident when Roy's father was fighting with his colleagues. Roy's father had been trying to repair the surge radiation emitter, but to no avail. The reason why Roy's father cut off contact was that he had been planning to search for extraterrestrial life from beginning to end, but no extraterrestrial life was found at all. Roy's father could not face this reality and chose to keep looking until he found it, and he also I admit that I have never cared about and loved my family.

In the ending of "Interstellar Exploration", there is neither a critical moment of life and death for the protagonist, nor an epic-level cool action drama, but only the redemption of the relationship between father and son for many years, and the relief of the protagonist's heart.

This is also the reason why many people feel that "Interstellar" is "anticlimactic". After all, the construction of the story background in the early part of the film, as well as the foreshadowing and adventure of the plot, are more powerful than the ending, but the ending is the last. It fell into a small pattern.

The ending really surprised me. What impressed me deeply was that at the end of the film, Roy understood that the reason why his father abandoned the family was that he was too obsessed with his space career and too obsessed with finding alien life. Finally, Roy said to his father, "You would rather look for new and unfamiliar things than care about the people you love around you." This sentence is the theme of the film.

If "Ad Astra" operates in a commercial film mode in the first half, then the second half has a strong authorial expression style. The second half of the film has many thought-provoking monologues and dialogues, as well as the universe The ethereal is intertwined with the fragments of the protagonist's memory.

This is a work that allows people to explore their own hearts. We follow the protagonist. The further away from the earth, the more we can explore the spiritual abyss of people’s emptiness. However, exploration may not necessarily lead to the answer. Staring at If the universe is too deep for too long, will people lose the truth of exploration?

The protagonist wants to be the person his father wants to be throughout his life, but is his father, who is almost absent from the protagonist’s life, the ideal beacon in his son’s mind?

Although this film is set in the infinite sky of the universe, it explores the fear caused by the lack of family and love companionship, just like the silent universe including tiny humans, silent and powerful.

Are humans really the only intelligent creatures in the universe? Is it unfortunate or fortunate? Is family companionship really an important puzzle piece for a complete life? Is it an external cause or a main cause? None of these "Interstellar Explorations" gave real answers, but just like the universe, there was no response for the time being. This may be what fascinates me about the film.

"Ad Astra" review part 2

I was pleasantly surprised! I didn’t expect it to be a hard science fiction film! It suits my taste very well! When I first watched the Venice Film Festival, I thought it was hypnotic. movie, but I don’t know if it’s because I drank too much coffee or I just felt energetic watching the movie at night, and I watched it with gusto! The pace of the movie is actually not slow, and the length has elements of surprise and horror. It’s just because it’s in space, and part of the plot is very quiet, and Bra It's understandable that some of the audience fell asleep due to De Pitt's soft-spoken narration. LOL

I have always liked science fiction movies, but those that are full of novelty and imagination must be my favorite.

The film did not disappoint in terms of creativity. It is quite interesting to see the moon and Mars in the future after they have been conquered and transformed by the people on earth. And what’s great is that it doesn’t make future sci-fi scenes look too fancy or exaggerated. Instead, it appears quite low-key and unexpected. In the film, many things that the characters have become accustomed to are actually witnessed for the first time in our eyes. For example, when the male protagonist came to the moon, we thought it would be a desolate place. Unexpectedly, the transportation station on the moon was just like an ordinary train station on the earth, with people coming and going. The coefficient was normal, but there was DHL! I wondered about sending things from the earth to the moon. How much does it cost. The blue planet at the end of the film is also quite beautiful and fascinating.

This film does not actually feel like a space movie, but more like a science fiction film like "Blade Runner". Following an action of the protagonist, it introduces everyone to a future world. Many scenes in the film are full of mystery, always making people feel that something extraordinary is about to happen. There were a few times when this was true, and there were a few times when hope was dashed, but overall, the film held my curiosity and attention from the very beginning, and was suspenseful.

In terms of entertainment, it is definitely not as good as "Gravity" or "The Martian", but in terms of imagination, it is far stronger than these two movies. Because both of them are disaster films based on reality, while this film is a science fiction film based on the future. I don't think this movie has Olympic potential, but it's definitely an eye-opening endeavor. Brad Pitt doesn't have many opportunities to show off his acting skills. Most of the time he has a poster face, but his looks are enough to attract you to follow him.

Summary: Whether it’s Brad Pitt’s face or the various strange things happening in space in the film, they are all attractive. But don’t watch it when you are very tired or sleepy, otherwise you will find Brad Pitt’s voice very hypnotic.

A reminder, the first ten minutes are visually stunning and should not be missed.

"Interstellar Exploration" review review Part 3

Let me briefly talk about the review review Yeah, it's very depressing and heavy. Every shot in the film reminds people of gravity, but it's too far off. Although the protagonist's loneliness in outer space is very real and scary, it also makes people dizzy. Go to sleep.

Pitt is still so mature and charming, but unfortunately there are not many highlights in this performance, especially for such a one-man show. The other supporting roles are made to have no effect. In terms of the ending, I personally think it is very bad. The first half There are some climaxes, but the rest is simply disappointing.

The worst thing about the whole film is the lines. It is nearly two hours long. At the end, not a single line is impressive, and even the important message is not presented at all. The director just plays with the lens design and Some thought was put into the tone of the film, but the story still seems to be unsatisfactory.

This film cannot be regarded as a popcorn movie. If you watch it as a disaster movie, you will probably be disappointed.

"Ad Astra" Review Part 4

"Ad Astra" is undoubtedly the most blockbuster science fiction blockbuster this year, and it is also the science fiction work that I have been looking forward to for a long time.

Before talking about "Ad Astra", I want to let everyone know that "Ad Astra" was also shortlisted for this year's 76th Venice Film Festival.

The fact that the film was shortlisted for the main competition of the old-school European film festival full of literary and artistic atmosphere shows that "Ad Astra" will not become a popcorn movie that meets the needs of all audiences like mainstream science fiction action movies. There may even be some stream of consciousness, which is the so-called literary style.

"Ad Astra" is a space opera type movie.

Let me explain the concept of "space opera" here. "Space opera" is a science fiction genre invented in the 1940s. It refers to the fact that in the vast and complicated universe, the story does not need to be too strict with physical common sense. , taking legendary adventure as its main purpose and inspiring the audience.

"2001: A Space Odyssey" is the most representative work of space opera. In addition, "Blade Runner", "Prometheus", etc. all fall within the framework of space opera.

So many people are pondering the unscientific design logic in "Interstellar Exploration" and studying what they ate during such a long time in space. There is no need to take these seriously, because "Interstellar Exploration" is not hard science fiction.

Compared with mainstream action science fiction blockbusters, "Ad Astra" spends more time on the study of the protagonist's spiritual world, thereby weakening the power of the dramatic conflict of the plot itself.

Because of this, there are two polarities in film reviews. Let’s put it this way, if you go to see “Gravity”, “The Martian” and “Interstellar” with the same feeling. "Ad Astra", the movie will probably disappoint you 80% of the time, especially the second half.

But if you look at this work from the perspective of character research and dialogue thinking, you may be able to find many interesting reflections in the film.

Overall, I like this movie, even if it does have some unavoidable doubts.

Review of "Ad Astra" Part 5

This is the best movie-watching experience I have had in theaters in 2019. The film is outstanding in terms of photography, color, music, and performance. It shocked me. After enjoying the audio-visual experience, I fell into deep contemplation and sorted out my thoughts with my friends.

Nihilism and Existentialism

Human beings, to the extreme of human industrial development - spacecraft, and even the entire human civilization, placed among the stars and in the universe, are incomparable of insignificance. The entire human civilization may be a meaningless existence. I think this is the philosophy of nihilism that the film wants to express, so there are many scenes of shimmering spaceships and tiny astronauts in the vast galaxy. The protagonist's father strives for a lifelong pursuit, even at the expense of killing people, but in the end it is nothing. From another perspective, after accepting nihilism, existential philosophy believes that pursuing the meaning of existence is meaning in itself. So after the son in the film witnessed his father choosing to wander and die, he asked himself, what am I doing, and then worked hard to return to the earth, choosing to footnote his existence with love. Maybe packaging the answer to the meaning of existence into "love" is a little thin for me, but I really can't find a more acceptable answer. And I still feel that nothingness is eternal and existence is just a compromised acceptance. Of course, the film only gives a philosophical discussion and does not give an accurate answer.

Father and son, God and believers

In the relationship between father and son in a patriarchal society, the shadow of power is always indispensable. A heroic father has become his son's eternal shadow. Whether it is from the perspective of the son's devotion to work and abandoning his wife in order to achieve something in life, or from the perspective of the plot that the son must find his father no matter what, the father has become the goal that the son has been pursuing. As the father's great image was deconstructed and collapsed bit by bit, the son's emotions gradually changed from completely inhuman and calm to emotional and more humane. In this way, the image of the father becomes a shadow that oppresses the son's true self. Only when this shadow is broken is the son truly free. From another perspective, the identity of the creator, or the dominance of power between God and his followers, also exists. If the created person wants to achieve complete self-liberation, he must get rid of the oppression from the creator. This is inevitably reminiscent of the patricide plot in ancient Greek dramas. In the dialogue between father and son when they meet in the film, the father looks down from a high point, and the son looks up from a low place. (The father's beard is inevitably reminiscent of religion). This angle is like a believer praying to God. . And when the father said "I don't love you at all", the son chose to step forward and look at his father's level. This arrangement seems to deconstruct God's love for his followers (father to son) into power. Only when the oppression of power wrapped in love is released can there be true freedom and self.

Three colors, white, red and blue

The three most important colors in the history of human art, white, red and blue, appear in scenes of the moon, Mars and Neptune respectively. These three planets outline the trajectory of human exploration of the universe. And these three colors are exactly the three colors of the French flag, symbolizing freedom, equality and fraternity. Perhaps it is a tribute to the French trilogy "Blue", "White" and "Red", or perhaps it is just a simple outline. It brings out the color of civilization. No matter what, the shock that its visual experience brings to me on the IMAX screen is hard to surpass. The last time I had such a feeling was "Blade Runner 2049". In addition, there are many endless tunnels in the film, which are like hints at the origin and end of life. You don’t know how you came to this world, and you don’t know where you are going; astronauts hanging on ropes are hanging in the starry sky, like The baby, connected to the universe through the umbilical cord, implies the youth and naivety of human civilization.

I have always been opposed to over-interpretation of the film, but I hope to summarize and record my thoughts through this film review. All in all, I think this is an underrated movie and time will tell.

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