Chaos Walk presents the charm of science fiction! Text/Wang Min

Chaos Walk presents the charm of science fiction! Text/Wang Min

About author:Wang Min, director of the China Film Critics Society, film critic columnist of some newspapers and new media in China, reporter of Xiamen Radio and Television Group, member of Xiamen Filmmakers Association, member of Xiamen Film and Television Script Society.

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The youth science fiction blockbuster "Chaos Walk" produced by Lionsgate Pictures in the United States and the Nebula Award for "Annihilation", which won the "Oscar of the fantasy novel industry", are similar. The charm of the film lies in the novelty - the human consciousness forms a sound flow! In addition to the commendable sense of science fiction, there is also a sense of horror and suspense, and the thriller elements about the alien Spike people make the audience's heart beat faster and nervous. But the film also has some flaws, various elements are chaotic into a pot of porridge, it seems to have everything but nothing is filmed well.

Synopsis

The film tells the story of toddler, the male protagonist Todd, and the heroine Viola, who travels from other planets to explore the habitable planet, both of whom are descendants of Earthlings, who team up to solve the mystery and eventually prevent the mayor from launching a military strike against the male protagonist Todd.

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"Chaos Walking" is based on the best-selling teen science fiction novels of the same name by well-known author Patrick Nice, which has won many prestigious awards such as the Carnegie Prize for Literature. Similarly, Lionsgate has a wealth of production experience with such adaptations, and its "Hunger Games" trilogy has become a box office harvester around the world. Add to that the cast of Hollywood sci-fi blockbuster stars: "Spider-Man" Dutch brother (Tom Hollander became famous for playing Spider-Man in "Spider-Man: Homecoming" and "Spider-Man 2: The Hero Expedition"), "Star Wars Girl" Daisy Ridley (Daisy Ridley became famous for playing Rey in Star Wars: The Force Awakens), and "Uncle" Max Mickelson (Max Mickelson was famous for Hannibal in Hannibal) lead actors are perfect. In particular, the Dutch brother showed his figure in the film, shoulders, latissimus dorsal muscles, and chest muscles were fully exposed, which made the fans of "Spider-Man" full of eyes, a collection of stars, thrilling earthlings migration alien journey, can be described as immersive.

The audiovisual impact of "Chaos Walking" comes from the most exciting part of the adapted science fiction novel, and the audience can also produce a sense of horror and suspense in addition to the sense of science fiction. Compared with the original novel that was already famous, the charm of the film lies in the novelty - the human consciousness forms a sound flow! When the Earth was no longer suitable for survival, humans began to migrate to outer space. On a habitable planet, there is a virus, and when infected, the male group will show a sound stream known to the people around it, but the female group will not be affected. From time to time, the frequency screen in the movie is like a bullet screen, jumping out of the thoughts of each protagonist, and reverberating in the way of sound flow, like purple and other color flowing shapes floating in the air.

Ordinary science fiction novels often depict fantasy of the future world, but the movies "Chaos Walk" and "Annihilation" do the opposite, hiding the fantasy in a similar place to the real world on Earth, depicting an alien virus falling to a certain place, mutating there, and the male group is genetically altered by secret forces. "Annihilation" female biologist Lena entered the area in search of her husband who disappeared in this area, and found that the mutation expanded from a small area to a larger area, and more and more horror elements made the audience's heart beat faster and nervous. And "Chaos Walking" is even more amazing, and the realistic scenes and atmosphere renderings in the film like the American West have greatly enhanced the charm of the film. The female groups in the 2 settlements in the film suffer very different fates: in the area where Todd (played by "Spider-Man" Dutch brother), the female group is considered to be the carrier of the virus, and is eventually slaughtered by the male group, and Todd's mother is also stabbed to death by the mayor of the town, and its main theme is the injustice of fate. In another area, the women's group is in charge, and the mayor is a black woman who lives in harmony with the male group and keeps the home in order. For these alien immigrants, there is no choice to be infected with the virus, but the choice is to accept the fate and continue to live, or to recite the words "I am fangyuan, fangyuan is me" like the male group in the film, pouring anger on others and killing countless innocent women. Different ideas have created different endings, and seem to allude to the situation in some places.

The movie "Chaos Walking" does shoot a big world view like "Annihilation", thinking deeply about the deep brain holes, involving physics, mathematics, biology, philosophy and other professional knowledge. But "Walking Chaos" still has some flaws: First, the film sets up the alien Spike people, but the Spike people only play a role to hide their eyes and ears, and are said by the mayor to be the chief fuehrer who killed Todd's mother and other female groups. Second, "Walking Chaos" sets up a male-female contradiction, but in the end it is not properly resolved, and the second generation of new immigrants arrives at this habitable planet at the end of the film, which also occurs as a problem. A small town in another area solved this problem, and the black woman became the mayor of the town, and it was not said how to resolve the mutation. Third, there is a logical flaw in the end of the film. The heroine Viola ("Star Wars Girl" Daisy Ridley) sends a distress signal like a clan, and the mothership does not verify the situation of the habitable planet, and it directly descends, which is a bit unreasonable. The tribesmen of the mothership can choose to refuse to get infected with the virus, continue to drift interstellar, or start a new life without fear of the virus. Fourth, the film elements are a mess of porridge - science fiction, love, youth, gunfights, magic, everything is available, but nothing is filmed well. The love line was not filmed, the magic chaos was not filmed, the sci-fi wasteland punk was not filmed, the earthlings vs. the alien natives or the inter-tribal wars were not filmed, and all the elements were mixed together to become four different works. The film is like a combination of "Three-Body Problem" and "Attack on Titan", but it is not so enjoyable to watch. (Film critics are original, without the author's permission, privately use the article for commercial purposes, once found out all legal consequences at their own risk.) ）