Interpretations

[E/N: I have been busy with my work and am not able to spend time editing the translation. So, I started using Google Translate and Grammarly on top to fix the errors.]

After achieving a reversal in decline in the second week, The Three-Body Problem 2 still maintained zero decline in the third week. 

It can be said that this movie has been in such a state for the past three weeks, stunning all audiences and the media. What is even more remarkable is that it is not known how long this state will last.

It seems that this movie is destined to become the box office champion this year, and the movie itself is bound to become a new classic of science fiction movies.

Fans of science fiction movies are always the most enthusiastic group of people. With their existence, this movie will naturally have a massive source of income. At the same time, such fans often mean that the movie will have a large fan base, and these fanatical fans will also add great influence to the movie.

In fact, not long after the movie ended, many science fiction fans had organized themselves and were discussing whether the theory in this movie was correct or not.

After all, in the movie, launching the Earth's position into the universe can be said to have become the biggest tragedy. NASA has already sent messages into the universe. Some scientists have been opposing this approach. For example, Hawking is a well-known figure who opposes this approach.

And now, the story told in this movie is a story about doing this and causing dire consequences, which naturally caused a lot of repercussions.

Many movie fans have concluded that, in reality, this dark forest theory is also tenable - some people even loudly shouted at this time that NASA is a loser.

However, such discussions are only for those who really know the inside story. That's another story.

After all, everyone knows that although this movie is based on cutting-edge science, it is not real science after all. Just like there is no Force in the universe, the dark forest theory is impossible to establish in reality.

There is no way for people to say such words to movie fans. Fanatic movie fans are very irrational. The original female movie fans could demonstrate against Tom Cruise taking on the villain role, which shows how fanatical they are. There is nothing anyone can do about them.

More than ever, avid fans are discussing how realistic the science fiction in the movie is. At this time, more media are paying attention to the connotation of the movie.

After all, this movie's box office looks set to set a record; then, in addition to the box office, can this movie withstand the test in other aspects?

And these days, the media has a lot to say about this movie.

"A work that deeply explores human nature."

"What is more shocking than the droplet is the way humans kill each other when facing crises."

"It is better to call it a disaster film than a science fiction film."

"It's better to say it's a political film than a disaster film."

Before the film was released, people commented that it was not very promising. After all, the movie involves a cosmic war and the arrival of aliens. When it comes to humanity's future ideas, once these things come out, they often no longer have any logic at all. 

A movie has a high box office and can attract audiences, which often means the media does not praise it, but people like to see such scenes too much.

However, unexpectedly, the media's evaluation of this movie was very high.

For science fiction films, the media's evaluation has always been low. This is because science fiction often means that the story is nonsense and often means that many things in the story cannot be justified. 

In a movie story, if there are things that cannot be explained, it will naturally be unsatisfactory. No matter how beautiful the story is, if the logic is messy, the story will be a failure.

However, although some stories are disguised as science fiction, the essence of the stories cannot be said to be particularly bizarre. Instead, the focus is on how to respond to human beings, so the evaluations they receive are naturally different.

For example, Levi's "Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind" was such a movie a few years ago. Although this movie is claimed to be a science fiction film, and the memory erasure in it is something that is immediately obvious as science fiction and impossible to come true, after the film was released, it has never been regarded as a science fiction film.

That is a love movie, a very delicate movie that describes the love between two people. Calling it a science fiction film is unacceptable to both science fiction and movie fans. It's just a flashback to a story, so it's covered in a science fiction veneer. Such a movie cannot be said to be science fiction.

For science fiction fans, they do not approve of such movies. But for movie fans, in their opinion, such movies are better than those pure space war movies. 

Movies are not just about fantasy. In addition to grand and spectacular scenes, a movie should also consider how to combine them with the nuanced emotions of human beings.

Although The Three-Body Problem is said to be a science fiction film, and it does have extremely advanced technological content that ordinary films cannot catch up with, it can even be said to be a true fantasy work based on cutting-edge science. However, the main line of the entire story is about human nature.

Because of this, many people believe that this is a movie that studies what humans will do in a crisis one day.

In fact, except for some movie fans who are extremely passionate about science fiction, most people still don't care much about the science fiction part of the movie. 

After all, there is not much description of the cosmic war in the entire movie, and even the Trisolarans, one of the two combatants, did not appear until the end. 

The only war scenes are simple and crude scenes of the droplets destroying human warships. Although these scenes look very effective, everyone knows that they are definitely not the point - they are just to exaggerate an atmosphere of destruction. 

In fact, In the final analysis, the difference between whether it is an alien warship or an earth disaster is not that big.

The focus of the movie is more about human internal strife. Human reaction in the face of crisis is the most important thing in the movie.

It is precisely because of this that the film received unanimous praise from the media. In fact, from some words, it can already be seen that the media has praised this movie. At the end of the first part, the aliens play an extremely important role in the movie, but until the end, their appearance is not revealed. 

Many media believed that Levi was deliberately not showing them in order to make money. The aliens showed up, but by the end of the second part, the aliens didn't show up at all; they had already made the media full of praise.

An alien without a real face, called the Lord by the Earth's Trisolaran organization, uses a water droplet, especially the droplet called the 'Mother's Tears' by the Earthlings, to destroy all the battleships on the Earth directly. In this way, aliens and many media believe that this is an allusion to the Doomsday Judgment and a description of God.

In the movie, the aliens' identity is like God, influencing the people on Earth. They are aloof and do not know their true appearance, but they have the ability to destroy the Earth. In fact, such aliens are no longer enemies but disasters synonymous with. In this regard, the media has made a lot of interpretations, so some people will say that this is a disaster film, not a science fiction film.

The focus of disaster movies is naturally different from science fiction because disaster movies often reflect people's reactions to disasters. Sometimes, even if there is only one actor, as long as death is constantly approaching, he can perform a good movie. And combining such themes with other themes can produce good results: for example, the Saw series of movies is an organic combination of horror movies and disaster movies: in the movie, the way the jigsaw tortures people; in fact, it is more about letting people experience disaster.

Cloaked in the guise of science fiction, describing the coming of disaster is, in many people's eyes, the essence of this movie.

However, some other people think that it would be somewhat unobjective to view The Three-Body Problem simply as a disaster movie.

General disaster movies, even if they film disaster scenes, at most reflect the selfishness of individual people fighting against each other regardless of the overall situation. However, in this movie, this kind of selfishness, regardless of the overall situation, has risen to the level of all humanity and even the entire universe. There are some individuals' actions in facing disasters, but most of them reflect the actions of a large group of humans.

Even at the most critical moment, humans already hate each other, plot against each other, and are suspicious of each other. There is hatred between different cultures, calculations between different countries, and even couples deceiving each other. The identities of these characters are different from others. In addition to struggling survivors, they are also politicians from various countries. And the various actions of these politicians in disasters have naturally been interpreted by people with profound meanings.

"Levi once made a political film, and it is impossible for him to completely understand political films. In the Three-Body movie, the receiver at the beginning of the Three-Body world reflects the characters in The Eavesdropping Storm. In this movie, the portrayal of politicians is actually the focus."

After the movie was released, many media outlets also discussed what kind of political metaphors there were in the movie. Are there any deeper thoughts about the settings of the four Wallfacers, the thoughts and arrangements of their respective plans, and their fates and endings? These are also what people are discussing.

For a movie, different people can always see different things. Ordinary movie fans see technological innovation, fanatic movie fans see science fiction, and those who are compassionate see the picture of humanity before the end of the world, while conspiracy theorists see politics from it - the connotation of this movie, at this time It has been interpreted in various ways by people, and everyone hopes to derive from it what Levi really wants to express.

However, there is at least one thing that no one has any objection to this movie is very successful, which cannot be questioned.

*****

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