Mars Rescue Movie Review #1: How to Rescue a Comical Polytechnic Man by Luc
In ? Rescued? N times, Matt? Damon wouldn't mind being rescued again. This time it's a little further away than Normandy and a little closer than the Frozen Planet, just 56 million kilometers away on Mars. Of course, the only one who can really save Damon is himself.
For this ? simple plot? s "Rescue from Mars," Ridley? Scott went out of his way to delay the years-in-the-making Alien: Covenant and Blade Runner 2, a new movie that feels more like a ? vignette? From the visual style of the entire film, "Mars Rescue" does not have Scott's previous works of strange and strange shape, gloomy scenes, even the magnificent Martian landscape is not too much spectacle-style rendering, the director avoided the ? The director avoids fantasy. The director avoids the fantasy component, but still retains the? The director avoids the fantasy element, but still retains the sci-fi appeal. The director avoids the fantastical elements, but still retains the appeal of science fiction, which seeks to find a solution in the knowable science and technology, and feasible logic. Fantasy? The shaking is all in the engineer's hands. The engineers are the ones who are shaking their heads. You know, the movie that started a generation of space thrillers. space thriller? Scott, the man who started a generation of space thrillers, is the last thing on his mind. The most important thing is that Scott has the ability to create a new generation of space thrillers. s brain, when Alien Boy? The scene of the Alien Boy breaking out of his chest became the favorite of countless people. The scene of Alien Boy breaking out of his chest has become a nightmare in space for countless people. Space nightmare?
And this time, more than three decades later, Scott has circled back, and "Rescue from Mars" is completely devoid of? fear of the unknown universe? , the astronauts just plant vegetables, drive a car, listen to music, and don't have to worry at all about what's going to suddenly leap out of the darkness; everything seems to be a known, tightly projected presentation. Many times, the calmness of the movie even makes you forget for a moment that you are on the dangerous surface of Mars, with a plainclothes ? botanist? Mark, still in a greenhouse somewhere on Earth, raising seeds, fertilizing, and waiting to dig up a potato at harvest time. There are only a few designs in the movie that make fans react? It's still Scott's work: astronauts exiting the capsule in the middle of a reaching storm and performing emergency surgery on themselves. A similar scene and shot, last seen precisely in Prometheus, is more than Numi? Rapace faced the alien pursuit and broken tires, this time Matt Damon encountered nothing more than a gust of wind. Damon's encounter with a broken communication antenna blown off by a gust of wind downplays the urgency of the situation (but of course, life and death are just a matter of moments away). Thrilling? but not? Thrilling? Scott never lacked imagination, but in order to preserve the original? hard sci-fi?
It's a lot more than Andy Weir's original first-person account. Weir's original first-person perspective, the movie reduces the dreary self-reading, lowering the dangerous padding of surface survival and technical operations, while also enriching the group show at NASA headquarters. After all, at over two hours long, not every viewer is going to be as enamored of technical details and scientific principles as a science nerd, and the jokes become the spice that keeps the pace in check (and actually signed up for a Golden Globe in the ? Musical Comedy category? award). Of the three strands of Mars Rescue, the most lively and raucous is the debate within NASA, where technological supremacy is weighed against bureaucracy, and, as in other Hollywood genres, it's up to some genius's pat on the head to solve the puzzle in the end. The unity and righteousness of the Hermes still moves forward in meeting the problem-> solving the problem-> the next problem, and Jessica? Chastain's character becomes more and more distinct in the second half, and she finally dons a spacesuit after Time Travel, a predilection for tough women that is inherited from Sigourney? Weaver's ? Alien Age? Only Matt? Damon's performance is self-contained, lonely, but not closed off; he is sometimes Tom from The Remains of the Daylight? Hanks, chattering self-deprecating self-amusement; sometimes like the little robot in "WALL-E", listening to old songs, solarization; more often he is still "Moon" in Sam? Rockwell, counting the days waiting for Earth's instructions. As in many classic hard science fiction works, technology is the main driving force behind the plot development of Mars Rescue, the novel? The first man to die on Mars? s pessimism is hidden in the movie, flickering in Mark ? What Watney's eyes are inspired to tap into the potential of science. Even when the habitation module explodes, there is no discouragement, the characteristic activism of engineers extends hope, and one man brings up the enthusiasm of the whole planet.
Unlucky Damon in the "time travel" is a supporting role, so he hung; lucky him in the "Mars Rescue" is the protagonist, cheerful and teasing love, simply the perfect science and technology man. The entire human race, from top to bottom, spared no expense in terms of NASA's huge resources, China's space strategy, and even the lives of other astronauts to save him. It's less about humanitarian and internationalist greatness than it is about the playwright's belief that ? Science will win? and a leveling of traditional beliefs (the cross). As Mark's self-talk? I must use science to solve these problems? , it points to the creator's belief in the power of science to solve these problems. s geeky spirit of discovery. s geeky spirit. Hard Science Fiction s unique optimism that infects everyone. Botanists with systematic scientific literacy can grow potatoes in the red soil of Mars, build their own chemical instruments to make water, use their own manure to make fertilizer, and achieve communication with the outside world and self-help under the conditions of the poorest equipment and resources. This wilderness survival skills great success, more or less let the liberal arts students envy (of course, preferably lifelong can not use). Although the process is thrilling, but scientists and engineers always have a kind of resourcefulness and self-confidence throughout the body, this optimism, originated more than a hundred years ago Verne, from the "20,000 Leagues Under the Sea" of the Nautilus, to the "Mars Rescue" of the Hermes, the endless, more than the exploration.
In recent years, the popular science fiction films, "Mars Rescue" and "Gravity" of the most hard, the plot is also the most simple and straightforward, after all, the real scientific research is mostly so, the test of patience of repetitive labor, and fewer turns of the drama. The movie's space mission has been written in the NASA program book, the level of technology in the present, Hollywood even twice to China also piggyback, to prove to the global audience of technology and environmental feasibility. From the box office, no villain, no conspiracy, not even a love story hard science fiction film, in the end, how much of a market nowadays, "The Martian" and "The Center of the Earth" word of mouth is expressive. The sci-fi movie of the ? The future? The closer it is, and the more technologically realistic it is, the more it conforms to reality,? The closer the future is, the more realistic the technology is, and the more fantastical the movie is. The less of a fantasy component, the more textured the movie will be. Harder. The more the technology level is in line with reality, the less the fantasy component, the harder the texture will be. Exploring black holes and space-time dimensions of "Time Travel" is softer than "Rescue from Mars", which is still in the solar system; and in the present day when mankind has yet to set foot on Mars, "Rescue from Mars" is not as hard as "Gravity", which has already been skillful in spacewalking. If we follow this example, I am afraid that the hardest to be based on real history of the "Apollo 13", but this can not be considered? But this is no longer a sci-fi movie. It can only be called a science fiction movie. It can only be called a science biography movie. It can only be called a science biography movie. As they say, all fantasies are based on reality, and as long as the human mindset remains unchanged, there will still be sunny, optimistic men of science and technology on the screen, quietly doing experiments for the future of mankind, flying spaceships, and planting potatoes.
Martian Rescue Movie Review 2: Lonely Planet by bimonthlykunpeng
On the barren planet where no grass grows, the abandoned man survives alone on a desert-like land. There is no atmospheric composition suitable for human survival, no water resources needed for carbon-based organisms to exist, and no edible flora or fauna of any kind. There is nothing here except the drastic day-night temperature difference, Earth-like gravity, and monotonous mud-colored craters.
The communication facilities that could provide him with contact functions have long since been fragmented by the violent sandstorms, and some of them have even entered his body. All he has is a habitation module with a month's worth of energy reserves, a portion of food that won't last him even a year, and oxygen, water, and power generation systems that could collapse at any time.
And the next ship that will reach Mars is not likely to come until at least four years from now.
In that case, the human being could also break down at any time, just like that fragile habitation module, which could fall apart at any time on Mars in the middle of nowhere.
Only, he chose to stick it out.
It was either die or try.
Try to solve the problems in front of you one by one, try to do one by one the behaviors that may kill you in advance but may also save you.
The phrase ? I choose to die? to spout all sorts of things, but at such a critical moment, choosing to die is nothing more than a sign of avoidance and cowardice. If you're going to die, then at least die standing up, not on your knees waiting for death to come, not sitting around with your limbs spread out and tears streaming down your face.
On a lonely planet, this lonely man is not alone. But the reason why people across the globe gaze at his every move and pay attention to his every breath is because he crawls out of the abyss of despair and creates hope with everything in his hands.
He dragged his injured body back to the capsule with tenacity, he used medical artifacts to heal his near-fatal injuries, he used solar panels to charge the habitation module, he used his own feces and Martian muck to grow potatoes, he used a recorder to leave behind each and every moment of his bitter smile, he used the excess of all kinds of gases to create a water resource, he used his overweening guts to drive the car and dig out radioactive isotopes to provide more
He used different ideas to find the Pathfinder, which was scrapped in 1997, to reconnect with the Earth, and he communicated with Houston in hexadecimal, which is enough to express information through a still camera.
He's a man of great knowledge and inner strength, but he's also an emotional, flesh-and-blood human being.
The frustration of learning he was abandoned, the quirky selfies in front of the camera, the disco playing in the habitation module, the foul language uttered to NASA under the global broadcast, the pain after the habitation module exploded and all the potato seedlings died, the writing as he left the Mars surface rover ? Please treat this rover well? s note, the tears he shed as the lifter was about to take off, all of these are his flesh and blood, all of these are his emotions.
He could be called the Robinson of the space age. While Robinson at least had Friday to communicate with, all Matt Damon could rely on was his own powerful heart.
After watching Alfonso's Gravity in 2013, I was struck by the fact that the exploration of the cosmos is just like the great geography of the 1500s. Astronauts are like the sailors at the time of the Great Geographic Discovery, sailors who could have been anyone before they became sailors but were just one kind of person after they boarded the ship? A death that is just out of reach for ordinary people is just a family affair for those on a ship that has sailed a long way? For them, they are called not so much adventurers as wanderers, facing crises that they don't know when they will come. That's why on the Hermes they cared so much about their teammates abandoned on Mars, about their loved ones on Earth, that they went back to Mars to rescue their teammates even if it took hundreds of days longer than the expected mission, even if there was almost no prior planning, even if they risked a great deal.
No one wants to wander alone.
Such a lonely planet, whether it's Earth or Mars, is connected at this moment and will never be alone again.
When the first potato planted on Mars finally sprouted, he held the leaf with his fingertips and whispered: hello!
When sitting on a stone chair in the morning light of the Earth, he similarly held the leaf with his fingertips and said: hello!
The journey of the space voyage has just begun. Humans were beginning to reach Mars, and both Earth and Mars, too, were no longer lonely planets.
And the lonely man, too, has returned to the warm embrace of the Earth.
Perhaps in this lifetime, he will never leave Earth again.
But more astronauts, with their limited lives, will continue to explore the infinite universe.
The planet will no longer be alone, because, our journey is still a sea of stars!
Mars Rescue Movie Review 3: Tech Geeks Save the World
As a person who can't write code, and can't pass the toilet, I've always thought of myself as a half-cripple in the 21st century. As soon as I met the tech geeks who are good at all 18 martial arts, I was envious. So when I saw "Mars Rescue" in the hero's ability to survive in all kinds of only unknown part. If I were to change my mind, I would probably choose to die when I see a big iron hook on my stomach.
Of course, the biggest attraction of tech geeks is their disregard for authority. They are people who truly live in their own world. We ordinary people live in the world with too much anxiety, we have to support our wives and children, we have to buy a car and a house, we may be fired for calling our boss by the wrong name.
When we encountered a bad marriage, derailed romance, or over 35 can not find an object, seven aunts and eight aunts take turns to criticize, we are caught in the trivial struggle of human relations. At this time, technology geek Steve Jobs chose to go on a pilgrimage to India, drunk on computer dreams.
When we were arguing about whether to pass gay marriage, when we were discussing how hard it is to get a son out of a cold family, and how the second generation of the rich and the second generation of the government dominates the world, countless techno-geek scientists were already thinking about the day when the earth would always be drained, and started to study the possibility of survival in outer space.
So when we ordinary people hear that someone has been left alone on Mars, we think, "Oh my god! That person must have just died! And it's not like the death of an astronaut is a simple death, he touches NASA, he touches the United States, and he even touches the world. We're sure to see a flood of media headlines with the news that a U.S. astronaut has died on Mars. So we first have to appease the media, appease the upper echelons, appease the public; so of course we have to bury him in style. So that we don't lose face as a great nation. Yes, the face of a great nation is more important than life.
Who among us could not have predicted the ending given by the tech geek master? He survived, healthy. Took care of his own wounds and grew his own potatoes on Mars. The only problem that bothers him is only the bad music that his former leader left behind on Mars.
See here I can not help but sigh of admiration, like my kind of people can only read literature, history and philosophy, in Beijing, downstairs, there is a convenience store, every day life is too peaceful and yet still have to make some of their own sadness and sadness to. People are on Mars! They are dying and still laugh every day, just complaining about the disco hard to hear.
When he heard that NASA, for the sake of national justice, did not notify the other teammates of the news that he had survived, all the leaders of NASA, the staff have a heart, pinched the sweat, for fear that he would make some sentimental reaction. Yet he just punched the wall and angrily typed a few letters beginning with F. It went out in a live communication for the whole world.
Everyone froze at first, and immediately laughed and breathed a sigh of relief. Technical geeks are always good at fooling around, as long as there is still a mouth to feed, he will not mess around. Unlike liberal arts students who are so difficult to manage, not moving to be free and want rights. The technical geeks are not weak, he is his own piece of heaven and earth, he is sketching his Martian home, which cares about what equality and freedom.
He's not going to blame his teammates, because it takes a lot of effort to hate. He didn't have the leisure. Technical geeks like to call each other good friends, not to say how close, they are still very independent of each other, will not ask each other to borrow money, will not live and die for each other; they are usually such a relationship: you can be big and naked relative to it does not matter; play table games together to play games to get to the second half of the night to pillow each other's body to sleep in a ball; and even together to share the resources of the woolen movie, the collective viewing after the collective masturbation, more than the girls. The girl is more refreshing. The important thing is not trouble.
The most important thing is not to worry about the trouble.
The most troublesome is the people; technical geeks and girls dating, send each other to the home downstairs, the girl said, you walk so long tired; in fact, the heart is looking forward to him to say, then I can go up to drink? In ancient China, the technical geeks may represent a famous scholar, similar to the Seven Sages of the Bamboo Grove, who only cared about alchemy and drinking all day long, and took five stone powder. Even if the emperor gave him the job of prime minister, he still dared to step on the imperial decree under his feet.
The black astronomer lying in the cups and plates in the mess, in fact, is a childish technological geeks, focusing on the formula, regardless of the outside world, the wind and clouds, the sky turned upside down, the director of NASA are worried about the sky, astronomical technology geeks do not know his boss's name. However, the time to produce results as usual. He moved his pen and came up with a key program for Mars rescue.
In front of the vastness of the universe, the "maritime law" developed by mankind also seems to be worthless. Who would have thought that the object of rescue that is being watched by the whole world would become an illegal space pirate? This is more like a kind of control of the universe of technology geeks on the humanities world banter. Archimedes? Give me a lever, I can pry the earth? s grandiose statement than any? "I can leverage the earth. red tape is more stirring.
So, the movie never portrays ethics, love, friendship and affection are all skimpy. Even the hero trapped on Mars for so long, mom and dad have never appeared. Because once involved in the family, technical geeks are not so lovely, perhaps the direction of the movie becomes "Star Trek", the father in order to see his daughter insisted on living on Mars; husband in order to kiss his wife insisted on living on Mars. So "Star Trek" so spectacular special effects in the end is just a pot of chicken soup. However, "Mars Rescue" is a real Mars rescue. There's no melodrama, no deaths, no climax. It's like the same old expression on a techno-geek's face. What we remember most is the main character's constant chattering to the camera. Even the final zipping through the spacesuit and flying around in space is more humor than thrill.
Watching this movie was like having a computer crash, taking it to a tech geek to fix it, and having the other person say a bunch of things in computer jargon about why it crashed, and then go off on a tangent about how to fix it. I tried to understand, but I was confused, but I was sure he could fix it, and in the end, he did. All I could do was say, "Okay, whatever you say. I couldn't handle the movie, but I appreciated the geekiness of it.
Human beings need technological geeks, as a great man once said. Science and technology are the first productive forces. This is true. Because only science can save us from those gray fluffy career economy. Let us feel that the world is still alive. We still have hope, we still have the whole universe.
The above article is reprinted from Douban.