This is a movie that the director has been preparing for more than "ten years". Before entering this film, let's talk about the director first.
The director of this film has a great background. Who is he? He is James Cameron, who has filmed many Hollywood classics. If you count his brilliant works in detail, in addition to the most popular and most popular works, Avatar in 2009, earlier works such as "Terminator" in 1984, "Alien 2" in 1986, and "Titanic" in 1997, they were all written by him.
This "Elita: Battle Angel" (hereinafter referred to as "Elita") is a work he never forgets when directing "Avatar". Compared to "Avatar", "Elita" is his real heart. It is said that he has prepared for this drama for ten years to create a refreshing "nightmare doomsday worldview".
is adapted from the Japanese manga Yukito Kiki Castle's work "Gunmeng", published in Shueisha from 1990 to 1995. It is said that when Cameron saw this masterpiece, compared to "Avatar", "Alita" was the masterpiece that director Cameron really longed to shoot, but unfortunately, the technology at that time had not yet shown his inner appearance.
There are too many examples of movies adapted from comics that are seriously "out of flavor" when they are remade on the big screen through Hollywood hand. There are really countless examples (Asians, Attack on Titans, Ghost in the Shell, etc.), and there are too many terrible examples, which is also something that many original comic fans are worried about. However, this worry seems to be useless in this "Alita".
Although the heroine's name in the movie was changed from Carrie in the comic to Alita, and the plot was slightly modified, after the entire movie was released, even Yukito Kikiwa specially hand-drawn a movie poster, praising Cameron's god restoration, you can know how high the restoration of this movie is!
plot introduction: The story takes place in the future world in the 26th century (2563 AD). After the Battle of Death, only "Salem" remains in many sky cities, and the people (scrap iron town) are dominated and ruled by Sarem. Strictly speaking, all underground cities (including scrap iron town and the dungeons below it) are garbage dumps and manufacturing factories for the upper resident Sarem. All the unnecessary waste is concentrated downwards, while resources and processed products are transported upwards.
As a synthesized doctor, Id accidentally discovered a synthesized person with a brain alive and incomplete limbs in the scrap iron factory, and repaired and reborn her.
In the background of this story, there is a strong "cyberpunk" style. "cyberpunk" refers to the compound word of control science and punk. Its biggest feature is "high-level technology, but the quality of life is very low", presenting two contradictions and extremes in the world, and also bringing out the "class" and opposition that have always existed in human society and are becoming more stable.
Alita, who was picked up from the garbage dump, helped her to pick up a new body, regained her new body and lost her memory, like a newborn child, feeling novel about everything in the world (such as eating oranges for the first time, riding a motorcycle, etc.). The joy and joy are beyond words. Try to think about it, how long has it been since you have hit her heart, and truly feel novel and ecstatic about every bit of life, and take everything around you for granted?
Perhaps, the setting of Alita's rebirth without memory is to let her feel the happy warmth of the world again and feel the beautiful existence again.
Is it really possible for one person to be a substitute for another person?
In the movie, Alita's first reborn limbs were made by Dr. Id using his previous preparation to give his dead daughter, but her daughter was killed by her own synthetic man, leaving only this body and endless longing.For Dr. Id, "Alita" seems to be more than just an ordinary "synthetic man"...
About "alternatives"
Alita: "Maybe it is a bit rude to say this, but do we know it?"
Id: "Who you were in the past doesn't matter... Your current name is: Alita"
just woke up Alita, facing everything that is strange is learning and familiar. During the interaction between Alita and the doctor, you will find that whether it is the feelings that accompany Ed helped Alita "naming" or the enthusiasm of Alita to regain his memories and the mystery of his life experience, or the doctor's opposition, you can feel the special emotions of Dr. Ed towards Alita. Alita is a substitute for Ed's dead daughter, and he does not want Alita to regain his memories, because he hopes that Alita can be his daughter more than to regain his memories. "Emotional projection" of
has also become the operation theme of many movies. In the context of the general maturity of high-tech and synthetic technology, it is indeed an easy task to change one's appearance or allow one person to continue his life compared to now, but can one person really be a substitute for another person?
About "Identity"
In the movie, Elita actively wanted to solve the mystery of "Who am I", subconsciously touched the device on the URM spacecraft, and successfully removed the high-tech body - the Berserker. But when Alita asked Id to install the body of a berserker for her, Id said he would not want to do anything, just because the body of the berserker was made by the Republic of Mars (URM) using the lost technology and specifically for war killing. In short, it is a human-shaped killing weapon. If Alita hadn't been cut to a total destruction due to the battle, Alita would have been out of reach for the Berserker's body all her life.
The focus is not on "who are you", but on who you want to "become"
Although the adaptability and endless sense of power brought by the new body fill Alita's whole body, Alita did not lose her original self. Instead, she used this body that Dr. Id was worried about to fulfill the justice she recognized in her heart.
Alita's true identity, speculated from the play, it is very likely that she was a member of the Republic of Mars (URM) who lived hundreds of years ago, that is, she was once the "enemy" of Sarem and the scrap iron town; but whether it is this new body of the berserker (killing weapon) or a member of the enemy camp, for her without memory, what is more important is not who she was in the past, but who she wants to be.
About "class"
" People climb to high places, and water flows to low places", this sentence is also deeply staged in this movie. The sky city "Salem" has become a paradise that people at the bottom of the country yearn for their whole lives, a symbol of fame, wealth, wealth and power. Many people have spent their entire lives trying to go up, but in the end they find that most of the time, it is almost impossible to flow upwards and go upwards, except to become a dead experimental product. The concept of class is no longer a new subject. For example, the Mobile Maze Series, the Hunger Games, the Divergents, etc., they all use the concept of "class" and the concept of good and evil justice. Even after various dynasties and time passes, no matter how the world becomes, whether humans look like "persons", class, and power, these are still games that will not disappear.
