"Wandering Earth" is a milestone work in China's sci-fi community, and at the same time, the movie has laid a relatively high foundation for future sci-fi movies, filling the gap of domestic movies that do not have a representative work of sci-fi movies. I think this is the biggest change brought by "Wandering Earth".
"Wandering Earth" is not a groundbreaking work for domestic movies; before that, "Breaking Bad" and "Dr. Invisible" were all sci-fi productions. In addition to these more formal productions, there are also a lot of small-production online movies like some that bear the name of sci-fi, but are actually crude and bad productions. Wandering Earth" is not, the cast and crew members with realistic props and special effects to the people of China opened the door to a hard science fiction, at the same time, but also let the people of China to see the imagination and creativity of science fiction filmmakers. It turns out that our countrymen don't lack imagination, what they lack may be the power of action and staying power to turn their dreams into reality.
Obviously, "Wandering Earth" has achieved the minimum standard for a sci-fi movie to be truly sci-fi. It's not for nothing that some have called this the first year of sci-fi in Chinese cinema.
It's the fact that there was no official movie that could be called hard sci-fi before this that makes "Stray Earth" so special. The group of filmmakers who worked on "Wandering Earth" took huge risks on the one hand, and were under tremendous pressure on the other, to present this movie to the audience, with the aim of proving that the countrymen can make a good sci-fi movie, with the aim of proving that we, with the same roommates' imaginations, aren't the idiots of the sci-fi world.
Besides these, the greater significance of "Wandering Earth" lies in the endless impact of the follow-up created by the movie. One is that it gave the nation the courage to turn its imagination into reality. On the other hand, it was the filming and production process of the movie that created a group of science fiction movie talents. The thousands of filmmakers who participated in the production were the seeds of the science fiction movies hatched by this movie, and at the same time, it made it possible for future domestic movies to have the possibility of science fiction works that could be expected. After all, with so many people involved in this project, perhaps the next Wandering Earth will be born from the hands of these technicians. That's what's most precious.