How to interpret the film "Coming"

Only after the movie ended did I know that the movie won 96 praises on rotten tomatoes in a row, and the freshness was as high as 100%. Not surprisingly, this film has basically locked in a nomination for best picture at this year's Oscar, but I don't think it will win back the Golden statuette in the end. It doesn't seem to be in line with the usual taste of Oscar judges, but I believe this film will definitely leave a strong mark in the history of film, because it is destined to be a great film.

As the title, the film tells the story of 12 shell-shaped UFOs coming to all parts of the world. It seems to be just an ordinary alien invasion of the earth. Who would have thought that this seemingly sci-fi movie, the core is full of social care? Today's science fiction films are full of dazzling special effects, or the brain-burning settings are unconstrained. Coming is a valuable way to bring the perspective back to the initial collision of civilization, so that the film can be down-to-earth at the same time.

If you hold a friend to watch the war between earthlings and aliens, you may be disappointed. In fact, as in Independence Day, the setting of aliens invading the earth without saying anything is very dramatic. When two alien civilizations first came into contact, they should explore and communicate with each other more carefully, instead of blowing up English as soon as aliens landed. The future is to set the perspective on this unremarkable link that has been neglected for a long time.

From the very beginning, the film is portrayed succinctly and powerfully from the perspective of the heroine Louise: through the TV news in the university, 12 spread to all parts of the world, the students in front of the TV were in a panic, and Louise walked behind the crowd, paying little attention to the news, and went straight to class. After that, she went to work as usual. She came home and turned on the news. People were full of fear of "shells", but she still slept soundly at night.

There is no nonsense in this description, and it is even more than one thing. It not only explains the background and social environment of the film, but also paves the way for Louise's tenacious and brave image, which is very wonderful.

Louise, a professor of linguistics at the university, has cooperated with the military in translation for many times, so naturally, she was invited by a colonel of the military to the front line where a "cannonball" was located. Accompanied by physicist Ian, the two of them will work together to decipher the language of the alien "Seven-legged Monster" in Shell and find out the purpose of the "Seven-legged Monster" coming to the earth from the perspective of physics and linguistics.

What is more regrettable about this film is that it weakens the hero Ian in order to focus on the heroine Louise. Ian's image in the film is not full. In a sense, Ian even became an accessory of Louise. The significance of this role is only that the screenwriter feels that such a role is needed to enrich Louise's whole life. Of course, this is another story. You have to watch a movie to realize this. Louise's communication with the seven-legged monster and the process of decoding alien languages step by step by using language skills are very interesting.

When a group of people wearing orange chemical protective clothing stood in front of the seven-legged monster and communicated with them, Louise patted her chest and wrote her name on the whiteboard. Can the seven-legged monster tell whether this string of English refers to the writing villain in front of her or the common species name of this group of monsters in front of her?

When Louise threw "What's your purpose" at the two "seven-legged monsters" in Shell? What's the purpose of your coming to earth? ), can seven feet blame understand? Does "you" here refer to the two seven-legged monsters, or to all the seven-legged monsters who came to earth (that is, the difference between you and you)?

These seemingly insignificant little ambiguities are the most important and crucial basis for the communication between two strange languages at the beginning. Once it deviates from the foundation, the ambiguity brought by communication will multiply. As a result, Americans who communicated in written form finally translated the "Seven-legged Monster" with the purpose of "providing weapons for mankind"; China's military used mahjong games to communicate with the seven-legged monster, which was finally translated as "coming to earth to use weapons".

When you think of reality, you can easily find that even in the human society where various language systems have been integrated for a long time, there are still problems. For example, Michael Shannon, a famous actor who played the villain General zod in Superman: Superman: The Man of Steel, was reported by the media that he fell asleep while watching Superman's sequel Batman vs Superman. You may think that the movie Bat Super is too boring when you see such a title, but in fact, he watched the movie on an overseas plane. He is too busy. It's a pity that he can only enjoy movies in this way. He added that he joined Superman: Superman: The Man of Steel because he thought it was a beautiful story. Of course, the last sentence can't be a news headline.

Interesting, isn't it? At the beginning of language integration and establishment, scholars and experts discussed it carefully and repeatedly agreed to make some progress. Caution is only to make the language more accurate. Now, misinterpretation and out-of-context have become popular means to gain interests and attention, and the accuracy and authority of language have become jokes.

Rumors and rumors are endless. Language was born for better communication. Communication is really much more convenient now, but my mind is a mess.

As a sci-fi movie, I think it's great, great, great to have such social attention. The arrival of this film has undoubtedly injected a fresh blood into the science fiction theme.