The meal ＂Safe Evacuation from the 21st Century＂ is really delicious!
Special feature of 1905 film network Have you ever seen a movie where you can get out of your body 20 years later just by sneezing?You saw your past self and saved your future self,The movie that saved the world by the way?Have you ever seen subtitles for cat calls,Did you meet a movie that failed to show halfway?Safe evacuation from the 21st centuryIs so abstract,Plus "psycho" and unconstrained style,Everyone who has seen it is crazy!
The comedy sci-fi movie "Safe Evacuation from the 21st Century" directed by Li Yang, starring,,, and, officially met with the audience on August 3rd, and gained a lot of praise!
Today’s Film Review invited Jin Yuxuan, a teacher from China Communication University, to talk with us about why the film Safe Evacuation from the 21st Century is so "crazy" and why it makes people "like it".
Youth and blood, but sad background
"Safe Evacuation from the 21st Century" abandons the setting that the brain is wide open, and its essence is still a youth film featuring three boys. These characters are also full of youthful atmosphere. They are always eighteen years old, no matter what their physical age, their spiritual and soul cores are eighteen.
In the movie, Wang Fried, whose head is only the size of a walnut, has an air of youth, and Wang Chengyong is extremely straight. Bubble inferiority complex and then he tries hard to be accepted by his friends; At the same time, Li Yang magnified his characteristics to infinity. From the perspective of plays, such characters are a little thin, but on the absurd and magical stage of Safe Evacuation from the 21st Century, they can play the greatest role. This youthful atmosphere is very passionate.
However, I have to say that in this passion, I saw a pessimism. This pessimism can come from a line in the film, "Our most common lie is to grow up", which is passionate but unpredictable for the future.
In the film, 38-year-old Wang Zha, Wang Chengyong and Paopao respectively represent three problems that Li Yang had in the past period. Wang Zha hated the future and was afraid of growing up. And Wang Chengyong is brave enough to fight anything; Bubble He didn’t have a correct understanding of himself, kept imitating others, but lost himself. Although these three people had different fates, at the end of the movie, they all went to the fate of tragic heroes.
Looking back on Li Yang’s works, in fact, it has always shown a special smell like Peter Pan — — Fear of growing up, including "Safe Evacuation from the 21st Century", is also very obvious, and they are afraid of what they will look like when they grow up, so the protagonists in the film want to solve the problem with their 18-year-old bodies, but it is actually the axial strength of these 18-year-old souls that saved their 38-year-old selves.
But was it really saved? The 18-year-old Wang Chengyong shouted "We don’t want to be bad in the future" outside the window with the girl he liked. Later, at the age of 38, the girl went to extinction, the boy became a bad guy, and the 18-year-old soul still wanted to change the fate of the 38-year-old, but the fate could not be changed, so they fell into an endless cycle, just like a Mobius ring. They kept trying to fight their fate between the ages of 18 and 38 and became.
The theme of "Safe Evacuation from the 21st Century" is actually very simple and clear, that is, Roman Roland’s famous saying: "There is only one kind of heroism in the world, that is, to love life after recognizing the truth of life.
Retro, nostalgic and trendy
In the work "Safe Evacuation from the 21st Century", Li Yang used a lot of nostalgic stalks and saw many elements that paid tribute to the 1980s and 1990s, which made the whole film full of retro texture.
For example, Red Alert 2, for example, the T-shirt worn by Wang Zha is printed with the lyrics of Nirvana, and even the house where Xiaoliang Wu lived in 2019 was the set of the 1994 sitcom I Love My Family, which restored many childhood memories after 1980s and 1990s.
In addition, the film as a whole also presents a sense of game, whether it is the key prop game card or the texture and appearance of everyone, it is particularly like a horizontal game in the 1990 s. You manipulate a character to keep going forward, like an endless road, but you have to keep defeating the enemies that will appear in front of you. Maybe you don’t know why you want to go or what your story is, but it’s right to go.
Surprisingly, however, "Safe Evacuation from the 21st Century" is very attractive to the post-00 audience. The group with the largest number of users who want to see this film is young people aged 20 to 24, accounting for 34.1%.
Some netizens commented that "after watching this, I felt that both the director and the audience ate the’ cyber fungus’". This metaphor is actually very appropriate. Director Li Yang threw a psychedelic thing directly on the big screen, and all kinds of realistic, animated, illusory and whimsical things were mixed together, and a straight punch came at you head-on. At 98 points of "madness",
"Safe Evacuation from the 21st Century" is another new direction that China filmmakers and China film industry have opened for themselves. There was no door in the world, but Li Yang knocked out a door for himself with a brick.
