Some people say: China's best science fiction film was born in twenty or thirty years ago.
is not worthy of reputation. If time goes back to the 1980s and 1990s, it will definitely be the wildest era of domestic science fiction films.
From the subject type to the genre of thoughts, domestic science fiction movies at that time were blooming and a number of masterpieces were born.
From the early "Dead Light on the Coral Island", which involved laser weapons, to the later " Pili Beibei ", which was charged by the human body, "Doctor Invisible" who invented the invisible magic medicine, to the cult movies "Poison Kiss" and " Crazy Rabbit ", which was regarded as the shadow of childhood.
In that era when the film industry was still immature, domestic science fiction movies had been produced frequently, creating many classics.
When it comes to one of the representative works of domestic science fiction films, Fanyingjun always thinks of an old movie 30 years ago.
video combines science fiction brains, doomsday disasters, fantasy fairy tales, humans and animals, documentary ethics and other elements. The plot is very enigmatic, and the story is thought-provoking. Especially the smog siege and the atmosphere set in the film disappear, causing the crisis of human demise, which has become a warning fable that transcends the times.
Nowadays, it is definitely a rare classic work of the domestic science fiction disaster film . To date, Douban has reached .8 points.
This issue of " Forgotten Domestic Type Film ", let's relive a sci-fi masterpiece 30 years ago -
"The Disappearance of the Atmosphere"
The Ozone Layer Vanish
The film was filmed in 1989 and produced by China Children's Film Studio.
This film is also the director's debut work of director Feng Xiaoning , and also serves as the screenwriter and producer of the film.
Although it is a science fiction disaster movie, the entire movie actually has no special effects scenes.
The most sci-fi setting in the whole film is that the animal can speak human language .
According to director Feng Xiaoning in a later interview, the cost of the film was only 400,000 yuan, so that during the filming, all the crew could only squeeze into a van, and the pay for , one of the leading actors in the film, was only 500 yuan.
However, although the cost is limited, the style is also very simple, it cannot prevent this film from becoming a masterpiece in the history of domestic science fiction.
The video begins with a documentary of news, listing the various destructions of human beings to nature.
The 100th nuclear test in human history, the Chernobyl nuclear leak, the Daxinganling fire, and the Persian Gulf tanker leak.
From this news screen, it points out the theme of the film advocating humanity to attach importance to environmental protection.
Then the style changed, and the movie showed a thrilling robbery.
That morning, a pair of male and female thieves robbed the local bank with guns, and the female robbers were young Lu Liping .
The female robber was originally just an ordinary chemical factory employee, but because of her boyfriend's implication, she became a wanted criminal by the police.
When the two fled, they had a gunfight with the police. In a critical moment, the man robbed a train and ran away.
On the way, the man handed over the stolen money box to his girlfriend, told him to meet at the next stop, and then pushed his girlfriend off the train.
Unexpectedly, the man was chased by the police and was shot dead on the spot. The panicked female robber could only run around with a box.
Because the robber fled along the railway, a train transporting chlorinated hydrocarbon gas was forced to stop in a nearby station.
It turned out that the oil tanker was parked here, so there are often lumberjacks in nearby mountains stealing oil while the parking gap.
Another day, two ignorant lumberjacks wanted to steal oil. They mistakenly thought that the few cars parked at the station were oil tankers.
So they quietly opened the valve of the air pipe on the car, but what was flowing out was not oil, but highly toxic gas.
Two lumberjacks were poisoned and died of poisoning on the spot. After the station manager discovered this, he rushed forward and tried to close the valve.
Unexpectedly, it was too late and the poisonous gas was leaked. The webmaster was poisoned to death as soon as he approached. The liquid tanker with a large valve opened began to leak a large amount of highly toxic gases.
What's worse is that under ultraviolet irradiation, the chlorinated hydrocarbon gas will release free chlorine atoms.
chlorine atoms can catalyze ozone to decompose it. Therefore, the ozone layer over the city quickly burned through a large hole. This abnormal phenomenon was soon discovered by a nearby satellite monitoring station. Uncle Ge, who plays the meteorologist, reported the matter to the leader, and everyone realized the seriousness of the problem.
Because the ozone layer is an important barrier used by the earth to prevent ultraviolet radiation,
Once the ozone layer disappears, all living things on the earth will perish.
This time, a huge hole was burned out of the ozone layer, and humans were in danger.
So the great leader instructed scientists to block the news while looking for countermeasures. After
, scientists sent planes to high altitude to sow special mixtures to block ultraviolet rays. However, this can only temporarily alleviate the problem. The most urgent task is to find the source of pollution.
At the same time, on the other side of the city, there was a little boy who was sick and was at home alone.
At nine o'clock in the morning, the little boy was coughing because of a cold.
Unexpectedly, the white cat raised at home was actually humane, and took the initiative to come over to the little boy with a handkerchief in his mouth. The little boy thanked him casually.
A magical thing happened, and the white cat actually spoke and said: No need to thank you!
The little boy was surprised, but the white cat told him that it was not because he could speak human language, but because he had the ability to understand animal language.
It turns out that there is a magical phenomenon in the universe. Every eleven years when sunspots are the strongest,
There will be a person on the earth to gain the ability to communicate with animals, but this ability can only last for one day.
Before the little boy could be happy, a nearby pigeon told the white cat at home that bad news:
The atmosphere is about to disappear!
Once the atmosphere disappears, all life on the earth will face a catastrophe.
As the only human being who knows about this crisis, the white cat hopes that he can tell humans and stop the disaster.
Ironically, today's adults are busy making money every day and don't care about the environment at all.
And they don't care about a child at all.
The little boy repeatedly emphasized to passers-by, but everyone's attitude was:
What does it have to do with me?
Even scientists treat children's words as nonsense and ask them to go home quickly.
Someone even had a bad idea and wanted to snatch the human-like cat from the little boy's hand, and planned to sell it.
The little boy was anxious. In order to stop the tragedy, he could only take the white cat on the way to find the source of pollution alone.
Along the way, the little boy saw that nearby rivers and land were polluted, and all kinds of animals were dying, and all this was caused by excessive mining and pollution by humans.
In the forest, the little boy saw a fish dying in the sewage. The little boy wanted to help it find a clean water, but
could not find a clean water source at all. The sewage discharged by humans was everywhere. In the end, the fish could only die in pain in the sewage. After
, the little boy encountered another black bear that had lost his home, but it refused to help humans and angrily said:
I will not tell you anything! No one can escape, the sun will kill all life!
Then he encountered the last Siberian tiger on the verge of death. The tiger questioned humans:
This planet is shared by animals, why are you only allowed to survive?
Fish, black bears and tigers, these animals have lost their homes because of the destruction of the environment by humans. They have begun to resent humans, and even regard humans as enemies of the earth. They also believe that humans' destruction of nature will eventually bear fruit.
In desperation, the little boy could only continue to search in the mountains and encountered a female robber who was fleeing in the forest.
The two of them got on the car of the driver who planned to go into the forest to steal wood Ru Ge .Ru Ge also brought a big yellow dog watching coldly.
At this time, a wanted order for the female robber who robbed the bank was broadcast on the radio in the car. Only then did the woman confess her identity.
In order to atone for her sins, the woman said that the place in front of her was the place where the poison gas was leaked, and
The three finally found the location of the three chlorinated hydrocarbon tanks.
But at this time the gas tank leak is already very serious, and only the valves of the liquid tank truck can stop leaking.
Brother Ku, who was originally going to steal wood, stood up. He found a wet towel to cover his nose, intending to close the valve.
The female robber knows chemistry. She could have told him that wet towels were useless, but she was worried that Brother Ku would survive and report her.
So she watched Brother Ku die without saying a word.
In the end, Brother Ku fell down without being able to close the valve, and the poisonous gas was still spreading. After
, the female robber carried the money box and wanted to slip away, but the little boy stopped her:
The ozone layer is burned out, everyone will die, so are you!
But the female robber asked back:
You think that people can be saved by eliminating this source of pollution, and people will also create thousands of sources of pollution.
If all human beings have to die together, then no one will complain, that is what humans ask for.
The little boy picked up the gun she fell and forced her not to leave. Let's try to stop the poisonous gas from spreading.
Finally, the female robber was persuaded and she thought of a solution.
decided to start the oil tanker to hit the nearby liquid hydrogen chloride tanker, and then detonate the oil tanker with a pistol to let the pollution source burn.
Unexpectedly, when two tank trucks were about to collide, the female robber's leg was stuck in the engine and could not move.
In critical moments, she decided to sacrifice herself to atone for her sins, pushed the little boy out of the car, and died in the collision of the tank truck.
Unfortunately, the plan still failed, the tanker did not explode, and the poison gas still did not stop leaking.
After all the methods failed, the little boy lit a torch and decided to light the tanker himself, walking over step by step.
At this time, the wolf dog raised by Brother Ra suddenly grabbed the torch from the child's hand and rushed towards the tanker truck.
Wolf dog ran and said his tragic last words:
Children, I also love life, but you people don’t cherish this world too much. You kill each other and destroy the water and forests that have given birth to you. Finally, you burned the atmosphere through, and the sun would kill you, and no one could escape.No, you are wise and can save the world. Please tell you and our children that the sky on this earth should be blue, the water on this earth should be clear, and the grass on this earth should be green.
This drama once touched countless audiences, and many people were one of the most impressive scenes of this film.
Finally, the dog rushed towards the tanker with a torch in his mouth, and finally successfully detonated it, preventing the crisis of the disappearance of the atmosphere.
The last video is that the crisis is resolved.
After nine o'clock the next morning, the little boy turned back to an ordinary elementary school student and could no longer understand the animal's words.
From today's perspective, this "Atmosphere Disappears" is more like -
A social problem drama with a soft science fiction genre.
Although the film is a children's movie, the fight between police and gangsters at the beginning shows an adult style. Although the story in the film tends to be a fantasy fairy tale, it uses the narrative mode of the disaster film. The story is fast and the plot is full of imagination. It is completely a doomsday fable in which humans are backfired by nature.
The movie reinforced the tension of this crisis from the beginning, from the gunfight between the robbers and the police at the beginning, to the subsequent leak of poison gas caused by lumberjacks, to the death crisis of animals in the middle of the film, especially the film has many fierce and cruel plots and scenes, which are listed as a childhood shadow series by many people.
At the same time, under the packaging of science fiction, the movie carries reflection and criticism of modern human civilization . The film uses the perspectives of animals and little boys to show human destruction of nature, and at the same time emphasizes the selfishness and greed of adults before the end of the world.
Compared with the little boy who actively saves the world, the adults in the movie show even more chilling numbness and indifference when they know that the environment has deteriorated. Ordinary people only care about immediate interests, which reflects people's indifference to environmental protection and nature.
The most meaningful thing about the end of the film. The movie gives a set of shocking data.
uses this to warn us in reality that if we do not pay attention to environmental protection, the disasters in the movie may one day become reality.
, the "Atmosphere Disappears" is a movie that aims to advocate environmental protection, but both films use typographical packaging and make it into a cult science fiction fable with avant-garde style, which is extremely novel and rare in the past.
No matter how inconsistent the animal dubbing is, how naive the dialogue is, and how simple the idea is, "The Disappearance of the Atmosphere" undoubtedly expresses full of conscience, seriousness and sincerity. In 1990, such advanced environmental themes were even enough to amaze us.
Unfortunately, such a movie can never be shot again!
