Predator City is a sci-fi action film produced by Universal Pictures in the United States. The film was directed by Christian Revos and co-starred Robert Thean and Hela Silma.
The film is delicate and shocking, with steampunk elements. The 3D modeled metal industrial city and aerial haven visuals are magnificent and imposing. The giant traction city serves as a tough curtain, and the flying machine is a combination of feathers and air wings, dotted in the wasteland world, light and ethereal. As an American blockbuster, the clever combination of "soft" and "hard" is only one of the highlights, as well as hardcore science fiction such as cold weapons, artificial black holes and doomsday weapons, so that the audience can fully enjoy a visual feast.
The film takes place after the destruction of human civilization by nuclear war, when human society evolves into a new way of survival - pulling cities. Industrial cities are constantly moving, savagely traversing the earth like devouring beasts. Large cities used land as hunting grounds, using chains and guns to capture smaller cities for supplies. The tractionists violently undermine the peaceful lives of the settlers and carry out strict arrest and suppression measures against the anti-tractionists. The contradiction between settlers and tractionists continues to intensify under this strong pressure.
The film begins with a long-range view in golden tones, allowing the viewer to feel the vastness and cold silence of a wasteland. Then there is a close-up of the heroine Heist Shaw's desperate run, and the giant city of London breaks out with an incomparably powerful momentum. Hester Shaw is constantly moving and running, hiding in the crowds of a mining town, and together with the inhabitants of this small city, he is captured by the giant city of London. She is physically strong and tries her best to assassinate her enemy Valentine in the street, but is stopped by the male protagonist Tom. After learning about Hester's family feud and Valentine's apparently benevolent ambitions, Tom and Hester join forces to confront the anti-human "energy plan." Valentine intends to climb to the pinnacle of power, and will not hesitate to step on the blood of tens of millions of people to win his honor. First of all, he plundered Europe, and he also wanted to ignore the previous failure lessons, in an attempt to break through the protective wall of the "mountain country" in the East and dominate the world. What follows is the process of long struggle and victory, which is very enjoyable.
The character of the film is more typical. This is easy for the viewer to understand, but it is also relatively monotonous.
Valentine is an ambitionist, Hester is a tenacious and kind avenger, and Tom is a young man who loves his homeland. Character shaping tends to be flattened, facial, and somewhat single. What is more special is that the Asian face Anna Fang appears in the film is not an insignificant small supporting role and background board, but appears as an important role in the process of victory, and her "superwoman" performance and brave spirit are portrayed in a strong way. The author believes that the image of the zombie father in the film is better shaped, while the male protagonist is somewhat thin. Zombies here are the product of factors such as the human brain being emptied, nerves turned into lines, and infused with evil violence.
The zombies in the film still have a trace of human kindness, saving Hester's face from being cut in the mud, looking for spooky bones and dolls for Hester as toys. Even after Hester leaves in rage and searching, wanting to make her pay with his life, he still loves her in his own way. A series of memory shots before the zombie's death is the tear-jerking point in the film, and the warm picture playback of Hesse's childhood is reminiscent of the ending scene of the Korean movie "Busan Trip", with just the right background music, and the feelings are real.
The film is quite meaningful and worth remembering. London's capture of Bavaria, its coal resources and salt, its brutality and the small city's desperate escape, only to be captured are lamentable by the absolute power of the capture. The resources obtained from Bavaria are only enough for "London" to supply for a week, and it is conceivable that its energy maintenance is at the expense of many small cities, and the law of "the weak and the strong" is vividly portrayed. They talk about the small city with a dismissive tone, but they don't want to let it go and live peacefully with it. Londoners shout and cheer loudly when they hunt small cities, which seems to be passionate and bloody, but it is actually another manifestation of zero degree indifference.
Dragging the city to their own powerful point of view as spectators without mercy, Hester gives Tom what little bread he has in the extreme hardship of drinking machine rust water and being hunted down. The contrast between the two is really regrettable. The girl has a deep scar on her face, a determined look in her eyes, and a unique sense of stubborn beauty. Heist and Tom are in danger several times, hunted down by the savage predators of the South, rescued by the owner of the underground "Gossip", and then sold as goods, hunted down by zombies, constantly escaping from danger and encountering uncertain factors that reflect the complexity of human nature and fate. However, from beginning to end, the protagonist upholds the courage of "my life is up to me", which lays the foundation for the final victory. Class divisions are evident in the film: the citizens of the first floor of London have privileges, while the rest of the citizens have to face the bad traffic situation step by step. People also have different attitudes towards people of different ranks, like a "real society".
The ending tells us that improper ways of obtaining power and ever-expanding ambitions will eventually regurgitate themselves, and only justice is eternal. Built-in values are positive and thought-provoking. Human beings who have firm feet on solid land have more ways to reduce crises in the face of lack of resources, and they should cherish peaceful life. Even if we have enough power and lethal nuclear weapons with continuous development of science and technology, we must not be manipulated by ambition and irrationality to cause disasters for all mankind.
Overall, the film's special effects were nominated for the Oscar for Best Visual Effects, and they were realistic and delicate. The picture has a grand epic sense, and the urban scene design is very exquisite. Some plots are a bit cheesy, but they are reasonable, and some of the push points are not new. The rhythm of the film is just right, the non-stop play scene gives people a certain sense of excitement, the moving city setting is very emotional, and it is a qualified hardcore science fiction film. If you can read the various metaphors such as the expansion of London and the class differentiation, you will find that the film is not completely detached from reality in terms of unreal construction. Although it is still the inevitable end of personal heroism, the setting of saving the world and the protagonist's victory without saying much, as a relaxing film during the holidays, holding popcorn and friends in the cinema to watch "Predator City" is still a good choice.
Death is also fearless, as long as the spirit is free.
As an audience, we have to be picky, to compare, to criticize, but also to be tolerant and affirmative. I've seen more than one person say that of the several emotional lines portrayed in this movie, the most touching is the story of Shaw and Shrek, who is the person who loves Shaw the most in the whole movie.
Just to talk about my thoughts on a few points that are more deeply felt, many people think that the movies that are bad movies actually have elaborate details design, "Predatory City" is indeed not brilliant, but it is worth watching without prejudice.
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