Four years ago, the birth of "The Wandering Earth" opened the "first year" of Chinese science fiction films, which represented the rise of Chinese science fiction films and planted a seed of imagination for us. Whether Yugong moves mountains or wanders in the universe, it makes me believe that Chinese-style science fiction can also bloom between the domes, so dazzling.
It is also more moved by the spirit of Guo Fan's team behind it to dare to be the first, precisely because it is unprecedented, so they only have one chance to knock on the door of science fiction with desperate courage, which also coincides with the spirit of the movie.
This precious thing like a diamond is called "hope", in those lost days, it was it that freed me from the sea of suffering, it made me choose to believe in hope, and then countless repaints, early morning cross-city to see the special edition, because it is no longer just a movie for me, specifically I can't tell or say, but the privilege of witnessing its growth is already a special meaning, I think I will always remember.
Four years of waiting, four years of expectation, "The Wandering Earth" has grown up again and launched a sequel. Now that the seed has taken root and germinated, we always expect this little bud to grow into a towering tree.
With the background of the doomsday escape, the film builds a magnificent and atmospheric world view for us, with a strong Chinese spiritual core, and shows the strength of industrial-grade hard science fiction through the presentation of a series of grand and realistic sci-fi elements, giving people a very impactful viewing experience.
Before entering the theater, I was worried that this time it was not 3D and it would affect the viewing effect. As a result, every detail on the big screen is easier to capture, and the CG special effects technology used makes the picture itself have a sci-fi flavor, especially the grand sense of space of the space picture, which makes tragedy come to life like an epic.
For "The Wandering Earth 2", Guo Fan's goal is to be "a little better than "The Wandering Earth 1", and it turns out that it exceeds expectations, and this "little broken ball" has really grown too much!
People are really vulnerable in the face of great disasters, and I have always been curious about how to portray the helplessness of all beings against death. There may be noisy destruction, some people cry out in pain, there is the lament of the collapse of buildings, there is the lament of chaotic order, but all this is mixed with "silence".
This "silence" is chilling silence when all beings are judged by fate. When the earth is blown out of the holes, when the Statue of Liberty collapses to the ground, these huge things set off the people who are as small as ants.
They pin their hopes on the shelter of the dungeon, gaze at the snowflakes with despair, and bury the pain with luck.
But in addition to vulnerability, people are also tenacious, and the more they face disasters, the more they can burst into the brilliance of humanity.
Returning to the femur that represents the production of human civilization, the broken femur is fatal, but the wound is healed by the care of companions, which is a miracle and symbolizes the birth of a great civilization, and this spirit of unity is the essence of human beings to this day.
This was true then, and human beings today will have the courage to make the same choice. Everything is caused by the helium flash of the sun, the moon strikes before, and Jupiter captures it later, although human beings are vulnerable in the face of great disasters, they challenge nature again and again with the courage of the gods.
What is courage, you ask me? It is the 223 astronauts who chose to die with the moon, Liu Peiqiang who chose to ignite himself and blow up Jupiter, and the thousands of human beings who want to keep their homes, and we choose to believe in hope, which is a kind of courage in itself.
This is a project that lasts for a hundred generations and will last 2,500 years, and it will require the efforts of countless people, because we hope and firmly believe that we can see the blue sky, flowers, hanging branches again.
From a sensual point of view, the "Wandering Earth Project" is the most romantic idea I think in the run.
Looking at the earth in the universe is just a small white dot, its demise is insignificant to the universe, but this white spot is the whole of human beings, it gave birth to human civilization, even if this mutilated body has long been overwhelmed.
But like a blood connection, there are too many inseparable emotions, and this feeling of home will prompt mankind to embark on a wandering voyage.
That picture is a shock that I can hardly express in words: in the vast universe, a planet carrying the fire of civilization is sitting on more than 10,000 planetary engines, blue flames dragging long tails, with fearlessness of the unknown, with unshakable faith, wandering alone...
This is the ultimate romance that I can't find any word to describe it, it is magnificent, lonely, tragic... It is a beauty that will always shock me.
Surprisingly, Little Broken Ball 2 also has a new concept as opposed to the "Wandering Earth Project": the Digital Life Project. This plan hides huge benefits and uncontrollability, digital immortality, immortality on the cloud, digital life can achieve immortality in the non-physiological sense, as long as death is declared physically, the eternity of autonomous consciousness can be achieved in the digital world.
In the real world, the study of this digital life technology also emerged as early as the 80s of the 20th century. Digital figures can also be seen everywhere in our lives at our fingertips, and even all our personal information can be represented by a string of numbers.
With the explosive development of information technology, digitalization seems to have formed a rolling wave.
The plan in the film should be the least costly solution calculated by MOSS.
It reminds me of a phrase I once heard: "The world is mathematical." "If the data is sufficient, the variable becomes quantitative, the unknown becomes known, and everything can be calculated.
Perhaps our trajectory has already been written by fate, and it has been predetermined from the end of every choice, which is indeed a little sad to think about. But at least our choice is real every time, and it always feels possible.
As Moss replied to the survival of humanity: "It depends on human choice." But surprisingly, there is an exception in the movie, and Tu Hengyu is that variable.
The world is a world of despair and hope, just as digital technology is a double-edged knife, with angels on one side and demons on the other.
Everything about the digital life program is still unknown, and there are huge risks lurking, such as the possibility that digital systems can become tools for some people or non-humans to manipulate consciousness. Even if it has the ability to promote, it is difficult to make everyone accept the existence of this form.
After all, this is not in line with our long-established human values, and even subverts human perceptions of the continuation of life, so it is legally banned.
But here I can also understand Tu Hengyu's selfish desire to continue Yaya's life, although this life may violate the laws of nature in a sense, but if I can let my deceased loved ones continue a complete life, even if it only exists in the digital world, I think I will do it like him.
This is human nature, whether it is selfishness or greed, as long as the object of this eternal existence is not myself but the loved ones, I will choose to accept it.
But if the continuation of digital civilization is achieved at the cost of the total extinction of mankind, I cannot accept it.
Is there no body or is it really "alive"? It is true that it is difficult to define what is really "death" and what is really "alive", and it is true that the digital life plan is the optimal solution derived by MOSS, but we still hope to guard the home where we live with a heart of awe, because we still want to see the blue sky, flowers, and branches again; Because there is no civilization without people, it is meaningless.
Finally, the Easter egg of the movie also reveals the contradiction between these two plans, it turns out that MOSS is the initiator of various crises: if the wandering earth represents the "wandering party", then it may be the "digital school".
Because human civilization that lives on in digital form is the calculated optimal solution, MOSS's reason chose to destroy humanity.
This content is also explosive, raising the vision to a high-latitude dialogue, laying too much foreshadowing for the third part, and many hidden doubts need to be deciphered.
For example, the previous warning of 2044 and the total number of nuclear weapons in the world issued it, MOSS or Tu Hengyu? Is the "our person" that Teacher Zhou refers to Tu Hengyu? Is it possible that MOSS's sense of autonomy blends with Yaya's humanity? Is a camera that is always "watching" or "observing" humans just moss?
Also, the perspective of moss is four-dimensional space, so does Tu Hengyu also exist in high-dimensional space? Does the countless Tu Hengyu in countless rooms also imply that Tu Hengyu may exist in the form of quantum superposition? In this way, it can also confirm that the warning was most likely sent by him to humans.
In short, there are countless possibilities for each questioned hypothesis, and each possibility makes people's scalps numb, making people look forward to the future development of the "Wandering Earth" series.
Do we want to live behind a cold screen and perpetuate our sense of autonomy, or do we hope that our living bodies will touch our homes covered with flowers?
The two plans have nothing to do with right or wrong, but I choose to wander with simple emotions.
I have no way of knowing where future history will lead the evolution of civilization, but after the vicissitudes of life, perhaps civilization will eventually disappear, just as the universe may collapse back to that singularity.
But the epic will eternally reverberate between the universes, the traces of existence will be engraved into immortality, and this courage and perseverance that belongs to mankind will always be engraved under the stars.
The universe itself is a tragic and splendid epic, it is silent, but you can hear its lamentation; It is dark, but the stars light a bonfire for it. And we may be the mysterious accident of the universe, and when we are fortunate enough to see the grandeur and romance of the universe, we will examine our own insignificance even more.
I can't help but think, people are _? (This is also derived from the title of the promotional song sung by Zhou Shen for "The Wandering Earth") Human beings, nobility is wrapped in selfishness, reason is cherished with heat, tenacity conceals vulnerability, courage still fights fear, small but pregnant with greatness, the long history derived from civilization has bred human indomitable bones, with a straight spine standing on the monument of life.
Please do not walk gently into that good night, we will rebuke and rebuke the passing of light! Even if our choice is destined to face the tyranny of fate and accept the impermanence of the world, we still choose to bring the flame of civilization to burst out in the vastness.
Because it is still that sentence, no one's civilization, meaningless! Hope is something as precious as diamonds in our time, so we always choose to believe in hope.
"I know it's forgotten,
The voyage of wandering is too long and too long,
But call me at that moment.
When the glow appears again in the east;
I know it's forgotten,
The time of departure is too far away, too far away,
But call me at that moment.
When man saw the blue sky again;
I know it's forgotten,
The past of the solar system is too long, too long,
But call me at that moment.
When the flowers hang on the branches again.
Ah, Earth, my wandering earth..."
——Liu Cixin, "The Wandering Earth"