The Wandering Earth's special effects don't lose half of Hollywood's, but there is a China story full of human feelings; There is the shadow of individual heroism, but there is the connotation of collective spirit; It inherits the sci-fi spirit of Arthur Clark and contains the essence of Mr. Liu's thought. From the perspective of special effects, this science fiction film is an indispensable foundation. The Wandering Earth is by no means a patchwork of 50 cents special effects, but a visual feast no less than any Hollywood sci-fi blockbuster.
I watched the frozen Oriental Pearl like The Day After Tomorrow, the space station crisis like Gravity, the Great Red Spot of Jupiter in A Space Odyssey 20 12, and the spectacular planetary engine like the ark base in 20 12. I wouldn't believe I was watching a China movie if it wasn't for the Mandarin conversation of "meat and ears". From this point of view, The Wandering Earth is already an excellent science fiction film.
In fact, I think apart from special effects, it is a display of the cultural thickness of China. In other words, this is a story that only China can shoot. I always think that the history of each country determines what kind of science fiction movies they can make. For example, the developed science and technology industry in the United States is a nation that dares to explore and expand in history. This environment has given them a very suitable soil for science fiction movies, and also spawned countless classic movies, such as Star Trek and Interstellar. Japan can shoot such works as EVA because they experienced the defeat of World War II and felt the end-time more truly, and all the people are soldiers, so only they can shoot the end-time feelings so accurately and delicately.
Wandering Earth has a complete China core. In addition to the obvious Spring Festival and going home, the film shows that although a country is divided, mountains and rivers last forever, homes are destroyed, but hope still exists, the fire is preserved to continue civilization, the contradiction of a small number of people is sacrificed, and the ego and the ego are sacrificed to protect the big army. We are all familiar with these elements subconsciously. Because they can all appear in our history, especially in modern history and corresponding places in War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression. The display of this film element really lets you know that this is a China science fiction film.
It's also very touching to see a picture of many people standing in the same place for a long time after the movie in Zhihu. I remember trying to hold back my tears when I was watching a movie today, and finally I couldn't help but burst into tears. I cried, because I was moved by the outstanding performance of the wandering earth, and also because of the grievances experienced by China science fiction and China science fiction movies over the years. Facing the same topic of human thinking about disaster crisis for thousands of years, China people have a great right to speak and imagination. In the era of science fiction movies that rely on multi-sensory stimulation, China people's unique great warmth is nowhere to be displayed, and others are allowed to play the image of China in a critical way. At that time, we could only watch American blockbusters to satisfy our own audio-visual and imagination. Today, we can finally see sci-fi movies that are completely in line with world-class science fiction and truly match China's hard power.
We all warmly praised Zhang's "Moonlit Night on a Spring River", which "covers the whole Tang Dynasty with a solitary chapter", not to say that there was no Tang poetry before Zhang, but that Tang poetry had a soul from Zhang's poems. Similarly, when we warmly praise The Wandering Earth as "the first sci-fi movie in China" and call 20 19 the real "first year of China sci-fi movies", it is not that The Wandering Earth is incomparable with China sci-fi movies represented by The Wandering Earth. I just call The Wandering Earth the pioneering work of science fiction movies. It is with the pioneer of this sci-fi film that perhaps more filmmakers can bring us more good works. I will keep hope.