孤岛终结

《孤岛终结》，一部中国科幻独立影片，在12月美国加州福克斯片场颁奖的Raw Science电影节上获得了剧情长片银奖，并且是整个电影节评分第二高的影片，还得到了来自星云奖雨果奖得主，著名科幻作家David Brin（《邮差》、“提升”系列）的热情赞美。同时还传来了影片入围2017年度迈阿密国际科幻电影节和2017年度伦敦科幻电影节的好消息。

科幻电影，一直是中国电影不敢想不敢碰的类型。每一部好莱坞的科幻大作，都像是不可攀登的高峰，以天文数字般的预算以及令人惊叹的概念，横扫全世界。也许在任何的电影类别里，好莱坞都有来自世界各国的挑战，唯独在科幻电影领域，至今独占鳌头。一谈到拍科幻电影，电影人就摇头抱怨没预算拍不了。事实是如此吗？几年前的《月球》就很好地证明科幻电影并不一定需要上亿的投资和豪华的特效。电影的本质还是故事本身，故事是否有趣，感情是否真切，才是电影成功的基石，而并非那些电脑特效和豪华的布景。归根到科幻电影上，故事是否足够地科学严谨，足够富有逻辑，非常重要。

《孤岛终结》讲述的是一个末日的故事，但是对于连1万美金都不到的预算，连一场群演戏都拍不了。于是导演用了很巧妙的方式避开了末世城市可能需要的大量特效，将主要的舞台搬到了一座小岛，而这座小岛恰恰是整部电影的缘起。导演在8年前来到这个岛屿旅行，到了夜晚，因为远离城市灯光，整个星空非常清晰。而那一晚，巨大的银河横贯天际，从天顶一直延续到海平面，当人在这样一幅震撼的场景面前，就会自然而然地感到渺小，对宇宙充满敬畏。那时那刻，这座海中的孤岛恰恰就像孤独地承载着人类文明的地球一样，被整个宇宙所包围。导演说，在那一刻，《孤岛终结》的故事就开始形成了。

随着现代社会的发展，人类生活条件越来越好，向外探索和进取地脚步变得越来越受到预算和环境的制约。于是就如同无数科幻作家所担忧的那样，人类探索的动力变得越来越不迫切。讽刺的是，人类对于太空的大跃进，都发生在二战和冷战，也就是说，只有生死存亡才能激发出人类的潜能。于是《孤岛终结》就设计了这一种极端情境，让人选择究竟是维持现状视而不见，还是破釜沉舟孤注一掷。

任何一个理念都需要一个情感故事作为载体。《孤岛终结》中就是林夏与方致远的感情。当我们进入宇宙，距离上的尺度让所有我们熟悉的沟通方式全部失效，我们将被迫重新去适应以月甚至以年来计算的交流，那个时候我们将真正意识到“时间”这个敌人。“时间”的存在让我们真正地感受到孤独。这与我们当今社会越来越快的节奏形成了巨大的反差。对于“时间”的认知，是阻碍大部分人理解真正科幻故事的障碍。《孤岛终结》相对还是做了妥协，设定的前往半人马座A的时间是8年左右，而以片中的科技水平，其实需要的远不止这些时间。但是8年的单程时间设定已经足够表达了，当你的爱人需要离开你将近20年时间去往遥远的彼岸，你将如何选择？而当他回来的时候，他又将如何面对这个已经跃进20年的世界？影片在很多方面其实都仅仅开了个头，比如人工智能博弈论，人性选择等等。预算限制下，导演必须要放弃很多野心，来讲清楚一个基本故事。更何况，《孤岛终结》原本是按照短片方向去写的脚本，只是有些东西必须讲清，才将时长最终拉到了60分钟，勉强达到了长片标准。因此，作为长片入围以及获奖，实在是无心插柳之举。

尽管将影片规模局限在一个小岛上，这个包括了演员才只有7个人的小剧组仍然面对着无数的困难。镜头是只有几百块钱的二手康泰时老镜头，使用的变形镜头在第一天就损坏了，以致影响了全片的画质。没有多余人手携带和操作辅助设备，同时为了节省时间，只能选择手持拍摄方式。没有任何辅助光源更是导致光线稍差便噪点爆棚。与这些技术问题相比，更大的困难来自自然环境。由于是在冬天进行拍摄，冬季海上恶劣的气候严重影响了拍摄进程，大风大雨，以及随时可能停航的渡船，无时无刻不在给拍摄进程添上不确定因素。山脊上的十级大风以及冬季成千上万的蚊子，给这个本来已经精疲力尽的小团队带来了巨大的考验。影片的画质音质也许无法与院线电影甚至是一般的独立电影相比。但是，的的确确感受到了这群人对于电影的热情，以及想要表达的冲动。不是任何一个人都可以获得执掌百万千万预算的机会，当你还没有得到那个机会的时候，也许更重要的是你自己创造一个自己表达的机会。

孤独是对这个小剧组这段拍摄旅程的最好诠释。就像影片的故事一样，林夏在这个小岛上，拼命地试图去拯救世界。这个小剧组，也在这个远离喧嚣城市，远离电影圈的地方，克服万难，用仅有的条件，去拼命地完成自己的电影梦想。

当你们努力创作出这样一个作品的时候，世界会看到的。《孤岛终结》获得的一项项入围和奖项，是对这群人努力的最好肯定。也许因为条件所限，你们只能表达出原有想象的10%，但是你们的努力和认真，连远在大洋彼岸的人们都感受到了，这就是某种意义上的成功。而不断地在这段孤独的旅程上坚持下去，相信你们能最终成为众多优秀中国电影人中一员，为我们带来不再被吐槽和谩骂的属于中国的科幻电影。

听说是一部国产获奖科幻影片，就专门去看了这部片子，作为一名科幻迷的我来说，潜意识里有一份支持的责任。

看过之后，没有让我失望，在国内这么恶劣的科幻电影环境下，有勇气去拍一部真正的国产科幻电影，这本身就很难得。从整个故事来看，基于科学精神，讲得通，逻辑还很严密，可以看得出是花费了很多心血的。虽然从场景和特效上来说，根本不能和好莱坞大片相比，但是万事开头难，我们应该以包容的态度鼓励还在襁褓中的国产科幻电影逐渐发展起来。

 


个人认为，《孤岛终结》放在同类影片参照系中，可以打到八分。从整体来看，影片具有非常强的科幻内核，无论从悬念设置还是科幻元素上，都在及格线之上。影片涉及了多个科幻的主题，比如人工智能，深空旅行，超新星爆发，都是当下科学领域的热门话题，在影片中一一铺展开来，概念专业，逻辑严密，完全具备了一部科幻片所应有的科学精神。

 


这部片子的观影核心可能并不在于它的科幻场景和特效，也不在于其中的一些先进的科学概念，而在于在这些科学概念包裹下的人类世界观与情感的深刻讨论。

在影片中，女科学家林夏的男朋友作为人类第一次恒星际旅行探索者，乘坐“神州20”飞向了“南门二”。后来超新星爆发，世界末日来临，超级电脑TESS判断地球上所有的人都活不过八个月，人类需要tess计算药物模型续命。可是就在这个时候，林夏男朋友乘坐的飞船也出了问题，飞船上还有1000多个深空探索科学家和数以万计的人类胚胎，也需要TESS才可能保住小命。

 


就在这生死存亡的时刻，林夏选择了放弃地球人，拯救自己的男朋友和科学家。

这是一个背离我们一般感受的选择。至于林夏做得对还是错，我觉得这可能仁者见仁智者见智，但只要引得我们对未来深思，这部科幻片拥有了它的价值和意义。

《孤岛终结》带给了我们很多在日常生活中被遗忘的思考机会，让我们懂得在这个安逸的时代也应该学会居安思危，正如片中所说：我们背负不起的……是对黑暗前路的无视。

特效不够好，影片对白太西方化了，也太文，没有普通人对话的感觉，有很多读起很美很有道理的关于人性啊世界啊之类的语句，但念出来就很尴尬，假如是一篇小说我估计会很棒，但还是支持这种全国产的独立电影，一下是剧情简介：



原创的剧情简介，相关贴吧里也发过：



女主是人工智能TESS的开发组长，一次事故中，未开发完成的TESS用一条游船的爆炸阻止了一个油田的泄露，保护了未来几百年那附近的生物的生命，却因此杀了500名游客，TESS项目扑街，同时男主是引力波通讯的研究人员，却参与了天朝第一次移民其他恒星系的旅行。男主旅行中途，地球被超新星爆炸辐射到了（具体可以看刘慈欣的相关小说），所有人类面临扑街，开发完成的最强人工智能TESS表示人类没救了，并开发出了一种能暂时治愈的药剂，但会加速人的死亡，于是TESS在遭受人们的质疑的同时却被寄以厚望。同时男主的飞船出了事故，无法到达目标恒星系，只能擦肩而过，于是女主用TESS计算，发现了可以拯救那些飞船的人的方案，于是她用剪切的方式把TESS发送了出去（我也不知道为什么复制一份那么难，也有可能说我没看懂），期间遭到领导阻止，说你剪切走了地球怎么办，说不定TESS能找到拯救人类的办法呢云云，于是女主赶往男主曾今的引力波通讯台，赶路期间各种回忆，导致尿点很多，顺便干翻一名来抓她的黑衣人，全剧终。

小成本以及小故事并不影响其成为一部科幻佳作。
作为一部小成本作品，重要的就是把故事讲好，孤岛恰到好处的完成了这个任务。
电影采用穿插叙事，手法很生硬，但是不影响故事的走向。
特效总体不错，唯一的遗憾和槽点也就是曳光弹的表现，实在太5毛。

从电影的内容可以看出，电影设定中有很多刘慈欣的影子（超新星等作品），但作品讲的不是科幻，而是科幻表象之下的人类自我问答，电影里的苔丝，代表着理性，而女主，代表的感性，这一同构成了完整的人类情感。
硬科幻的包装，使得这部软科幻作品比起文字性的小说更具可读性和说服力，受众面更广，但这中表达同时也大大降低了观看者的想象空间。
好在孤岛团队并没有偏离故事主体，去像一些小说一样，把各种各样的数据和设想都以特效的形式给放出来，使得观众能够把注意力更集中于故事本身（小成本是弱势也是优势，哈哈）。

希望以后有更多此类的作品可以出现在我们的荧幕上，感谢孤岛给我带来的这个好故事。

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Lin Xia is a scientist on the run. She has 24 hours to save the Earth and, guided by a mysterious benefactor, makes a run for a small island as the world collapses around her. The island is vital, not just to her mission but to her past, her love for astronaut Zhi Yuan and the future of everything…
Ren Chao Wang’s movie is 60 minutes long and in that time covers the singularity, Artificial Intelligence, predicting the future, global viral apocalypse, true love and the collision between popular science and necessary science. Amazingly, it gives each a surprising amount of exploration and screen time.
Using a combination of found footage style documentary techniques and talking heads, the movie focuses in on one woman as a lens to explore massive global changes through. It’s a quiet, intimate story that uses that scale to surprise you time and again with massive scale and impact. A city-wide blackout, the northern lights dancing above the streets is haunting. The opening, which shifts from ocean to stars to lead character Lin Xia dragging a dead man out of his car, is flat-out astonishing. There are four distinct gear shifts in the scene, each of which serves the plot, sets the movie up and sets the tone.
Better still, the film continually unpacks itself. As we flash between a dying Lin Xia trying to complete her mission and the past leading up to that moment we get several twists you never see coming. They all make perfect sense too and this feels like one of the most measured, well-crafted scripts SF movies have produced in a very long time.
XI Liao is on screen for pretty much the entire hour and the movie is carried on her shoulders. She’s a focused screen presence with natural authority who takes us through the full spectrum of Lin Xia’s emotions. The scientist is complicated, self-centred, selfless and brilliant in a way that feels unflashy and thoroughly earned. She’s more Ellie Arroway than Ellen Ripley and her quiet, calm, passionate performance holds the movie together.
Wong’s direction is great too, mixing handheld shots with natural locations and subtly worked special effects. This both is and isn’t our world, convincingly real and quietly fantastic. The script also impresses, especially the ending. Ambiguous in a way that still offers closure its reminiscent of Lars Von Trier’s Melancholia albeit with noticeably more hope and space travel.
The End Of The Lonely Island isn’t perfect. Its pacing is a little too deliberate in the second act and there’s a distinct lack of urgency in places. But in the end that doesn’t matter. What does is that this is a fiercely ambitious film that achiever every single one of its seemingly impossible challenges. Much like its determined, steely heroine.



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林是一位在跑步的科学家。她有24小时拯救地球,并在一个神秘的捐助者指导下,为一个小岛运行,因为世界各地围绕她。这个岛屿至关重要,不仅对她的使命,对她的过去,她对宇航员智的爱和一切的未来…
任潮的电影是60分钟,在那时候涵盖了奇点,人工智能,预测未来,全球病毒启示,真正的爱和流行科学与必要的科学之间的碰撞。令人惊奇的是,它提供了每一个惊人的勘探和屏幕时间。
通过结合发现的镜头风格的纪录片技巧和会说话的,电影聚焦于一个女人作为镜头,以探索巨大的全球变化。这是一个安静,亲密的故事,使用这种规模,给你的时间,再次以巨大的规模和影响。一场城市灯火管制,街道上空舞动的北方灯火正令人难忘的.开幕式从海洋转向明星,主角林从车里拖出一个死人,真是令人震惊。场景中有四个不同的换档装置,每个换档都服务于绘图,设置电影并设置音调。
更好的是,这部电影不停地解包。当我们在一个垂死的林试图完成她的使命和过去的领导,在这一刻,我们得到几个曲折,你从来没有看到未来。它们都是完美的感觉,这感觉像一个最被测量,精心制作的脚本科幻电影在很长时间内产生。
习在银幕上整整一个小时,电影被搬上了她的肩膀。她是一个有着自然权威的聚焦银幕,带领我们领略林的情感。这位科学家是复杂的、自我中心的、无私的、卓越的,以一种自我感觉和完全获得的方式。她比埃伦•里普利更多的是艾莉,她的安静、平静、激情的表演将电影连在一起。
王的方向也很棒,混合了自然位置和微妙的效果的手持射击。这既是也不是我们的世界,令人信服的真实和安静的神奇。剧本也给人留下了深刻的印象,尤其是结尾。模糊的方式仍然提供关闭令人想起拉尔斯的忧郁,尽管有明显更多的希望和空间旅行。
孤岛的尽头不是完美的。在《第二幕》中,它的节奏太谨慎了,在地方上明显缺乏紧迫感。但归根结底,这无关紧要。这是一部雄心勃勃的电影,它颠覆了每一个看似不可能的挑战。就像它所确定的,钢铁般的女英雄。


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By reputation, Chinese science fiction cinema is best known for big-scale, set-piece, effects-heavy spectacle. But a new breed of filmmakers have come to focus on lower-budget, independent genre movies that prioritise high-concepts and immersive storytelling over monsters and explosions. In Ren Chao Wang’s debut feature The End of the Lonely Island, an exemplar of this new approach, the director crafts an enigmatic and captivating tale that unfolds in the dying days of planet Earth.
Opening with a downbeat, and colour de-saturated, sequence following scientist Lin Xia (Xi Liao) as she begins a race-against-time to reach an isolated island, following instructions provided by a disembodied voice in her earpiece. As the film flips back and forward in time, Xia recalls her previous trip to the island in the company of her lover Zhi Yuan (Duo Duo Tian). He was eager to join an interstellar space mission to the Centaurus planetary system, with the ‘Bi’an’ (“another shore”) project, and the Shenzhou 20 starship, overruling her objections. Back on the island many years after the launch, Xia is driven to complete a vital, final mission, before a black-clad SWAT team can hunt her down.
 
Over the course of the hour-long running time, Wang gradually fills in the blanks on his initially incomplete and disjointed storyline, including Xia’s work on the discredited TESS problem-solving AI and the events that appear to seal humanity’s fate on Earth, just as the Shenzhou spacecraft runs into trouble. For so brief a film, this comes with a meticulous and intricate plot.
 
Wang struggles to direct action scenes (the one fight sequence is clunky), but he has a sharp cinematographer’s eye, a confidence in handling non-linear storytelling, and is a clear adherent of the less-is-more school of oblique understatement. This is a movie infused with reflective melancholy. Wang’s script introduces a wide canvas of themes, including humanity’s perception of the risks of exploration, the place of Earth in the vast firmament of the universe, the essence of artificial intelligence, and the nature of fallibility and of culpability. There’s more going on here than can possibly be accommodated in an hour-long drama, but the sense of ambition is to be applauded and, despite the overcrowding of ideas, this still succeeds in being a movie of genuine substance.
 
Held together by a singularly, focused performance by Xi Liao as humanity’s steely, would-be saviour, The End of the Lonely Island is an exercise in extraordinary filmmaking, in every sense of the word.
 
THE END OF THE LONELY ISLAND / CERT: TBC / DIRECTOR & SCREENWRITER: REN CHAO WANG / STARRING: XI LIAO, DUO DUO TIAN, LEI LI, REN CHAO WANG / RELEASE DATE: UK RELEASE TBA

机译：

在声誉方面,中国科幻电影以大规模、设置、特效闻名于世.但是一个新的电影制片人已经开始关注低预算,独立的类型电影,优先考虑高概念和对怪物和爆炸身临其境的故事。在任潮的首次亮相中,孤独的岛屿的结束,这种新方法的范例,导演制作了一个神秘和迷人的故事,在地球的死亡时代展开。
开头是一个低沉的声音,颜色已经饱和,下面是科学家林(习),她开始一场比赛,到达一个孤立的岛屿,按照她的耳机发出的无实体的的指令。随着电影的翻转,夏回忆起她以前在她的爱人智(多铎)公司的岛屿。他渴望加入星际空间飞行任务到半人马座行星系统,与“bi”(“另一个海岸”)项目和神州20号飞船,推翻她的反对。在发射后多年后,夏被推动完成一个重要的,最后的任务,在一个黑色的斯瓦特队可以追捕她。

在长达一个小时的运行时间里,王姓逐渐填补了他最初不完整和支离破碎的故事情节,包括夏关于不良的苔丝问题的工作-解决人工智能和似乎封存人类在地球上的命运的事件,就像神州飞船遇到麻烦一样。对于这么简单的电影,这是一个精心和复杂的情节。

王姓到了直接的动作场面(一个是笨拙的动作),但他有敏锐的观察力,对处理非线性叙事的信心,是一个明确的追随者,更多的是斜。这是一部充满沉思的电影。王姓的剧本介绍了广泛的主题,包括人类对探索风险的认识、地球在宇宙浩瀚天空中的地位、人工智能的本质以及不可靠和罪责的本质。这里的事情比一个小时的戏剧所能容纳的更多,但是野心是要得到赞扬,尽管思想过于拥挤,这仍然是一部真正的真正的电影。

通过一个独特的,聚焦的表演,由习作为人类的钢铁,将-是救世主,结束孤独的岛屿是一个演习在非凡的电影制作,在每一个意义上。


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Sci-Fi London Film Festival: The End of Lonely Island – Review
“In the last 24 hours of saving the world, it’s the loneliness that will kill us first”

You know, there is a very little number of films that examine the loneliness that comes from being a human in a science fiction environment. I mean can you name any? In a world riddled with technology and the destruction of mankind, it certainly does seem like a rather lonely environment. Being left alone in such a situation definitely sends shivers don one’s spine.

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As part of Sci-Fi London, director James Wang’s hour long debut explores this providing us with an engaging and terrifying tale. What if a piece of technology was so smart, that it decided to take over? Better still, it was so far ahead, so superior that it didn’t even know that its actions were sinister – it was just doing what it thought was right.

Of course, this is a concept that has been previously explored in many a TV series and film, yet The End of Lonely Island takes you on its very own emotional journey with a sci-fi infusion. We are introduced to female scientist Lin Xia who seems to be taking on the biggest task of them all – saving the human race from extinction. Through a series of slick flashbacks we gain the knowledge that she invented an AI, called TESS far more evolved than she could have ever imagined. And it’s because of this she desperately tries to save everyone she can.

At first this beautifully secluded island seems full of warmth and adventure soon for it to be a place consumed emptiness and a place flooded with painful memories. However, it’s those thoughts that allow our strong female lead to strive and push through in order to do her best in such a crisis. The post-apocalyptic atmosphere alongside its dark tones and textures embody the sci-fi genre to a T. Lin’s desire to survive succumbs everything and above all else her love for her boyfriend, 4 years away somewhere in stars is what truly lies beneath this narrative. Their story is a touching one that transcends time and space as we hear Zhi’s voice from far away on a mission to start over on another planet. As we ourselves are quickly finding out the human race is single-handedly destroying our Earth as we know it and to take to the stars to find a more desirable home is a very real subject.

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Carefully placed CGI and effects give us just enough to chew on without overbearing the real story that resides at its heart. At times confusion takes hold as Wang decides to withhold certain facts and information about what truly happened here. Although perhaps if there was a short explanation or an additional scene this would have been a very impressive debut from an upcoming director. Ordinarily there are a few dud translations, but this is nevertheless entertaining and upon a second viewing much more accessible.

Maybe this is a message – don’t trust machines too much because they could be much more than we think they are.

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在拯救世界的最后24小时里,寂寞将会让我们菲尔斯特


你知道,在一个科幻小说环境中,有很少数量的电影来审视人类的孤独。你能说出名字吗?在一个充斥着技术和毁灭人类的世界里,它看起来确实像是一个相当孤独的环境。独自留在这种情况下肯定会让人不寒而栗。




作为科幻电影伦敦的一部分,导演詹姆斯.王姓的《小时长秀》探讨了这一问题,为我们提供了一个引人入胜的恐怖故事。如果一件技术如此聪明,它决定接管它怎么办?更好的是,它遥遥领先,以至于它甚至不知道它的行动是邪恶的——它只是在做它认为正确的事情。


当然,这是一个以前在许多电视影集和电影中探索的概念,然而孤独岛的结束带你踏上了一个充满科幻注入的情感旅程。我们被介绍给女科学家林,她似乎正在承担他们最大的任务——拯救人类免于灭绝。通过一系列巧妙的闪回我们获得的知识,她发明了一个人工智能,称为苔丝远比她想象的更进化。这是因为她拼命想救所有她能救的人。


起初这个美丽的与世隔绝的岛屿似乎充满了温暖和冒险,因为它是一个被吞噬的空虚和充满痛苦回忆的地方。然而,让我们坚强的女性领导和推动的想法是为了在这种危机中竭尽全力。与黑暗的色调和纹理一起的后启示录般的气氛,体现了sci的生存欲望,一个t的生存欲望的欲望,除了她对她的男朋友的爱之外,4年后,在星星中的某个地方,这是真正的谎言。他们的故事是一个感人的,超越时间和空间,因为我们听到智的声音从遥远的任务开始在另一个星球上。当我们自己很快发现人类的种族是单一的破坏我们的地球,我们知道它,并采取明星寻找更可取的家是一个非常真实的主题。




仔细放置的CGI和效果,给我们足够的咀嚼,没有专横的真实故事,在它的心脏。在混乱时期,王姓决定保留一些关于这里发生的事情的事实和信息。也许,如果有一个简短的解释或一个额外的场景,这将是一个非常令人印象深刻的首次从即将到来的导演。通常有几个无效的翻译,但这是娱乐和在第二次观看更容易。


也许这是一个信息——不要太信任机器,因为它们可能比我们想象的多得多。


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Fifteen minutes into The End of the Lonely Island, I nearly gave up on the movie. I simply couldn't follow what was happening. A man and a woman are walking on a deserted island. He's telling her about his time spent there as a child and partway through his story, the movie flashes forward to the same woman on the same island but apparently years later. She's talking to someone in an earpiece and trying to find something on the island as quickly as possible but there's no indication of what she's looking for but more importantly, why she's in such a hurry to find it.


The two stories don't seem connected and what's more, there's no indication of why they're important. We know nothing about any of the characters and yet... there's something compelling about the story. In truth, the slim 60 minute running time is what kept me with it for most of the first act and boy am I glad I did.


Ren Chao Wang's feature film debut doesn't feel like the work of a first time filmmaker. Its scope is large, the story is dense with detail but perhaps most impressive is Wang's brilliant handle on how the story unfolds. The first 30 minutes of The End of the Lonely Island feel like a disconnected series of moments that are happening to the characters but almost exactly halfway in, Wang begins to weave the various stories together, filling gaps and eventually bringing the movie together into a satisfying conclusion.

Along the way, he poses some interesting ideas about AI, humanity's ability to survive, relationships, space travel and ultimately, explores the concept of how far one would go in order to save humanity. Any one of those ideas would be enough to sustain a movie but Wang manages to cram them all into an hour and it doesn't feel rushed.

Actress XI Liao is tasked with being our guide through the lofty ideas of the movie and she does a fantastic job of keeping the audience engaged; particularly in the opening act when so little of the story makes sense.

The End of the Lonely Island is a challenging watch. Wang throws around a lot of ideas and crams a lot of story into the movie (it also doesn't help that there are a lot of subtitles and in parts it's difficult to keep up with the dialogue) but the fact that it's so short also means it lends itself beautifully to repeat viewings and I found I liked it, even more, the second time around.

If Wang was making movies in the US, Hollywood would be knocking down his door. I expect it's only a matter of time before he steps up to bigger projects. I certainly can't wait to see what he does next.


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离孤岛的尽头还有十五分钟,我差点放弃了这部电影。我只是不能理解发生了什么。一个男人和一个女人走在荒岛上。他告诉她关于他的时间在那里作为一个孩子和到中途通过他的故事,电影向同一个岛上的同一个女人闪烁,但明显几年后。她正在和一个耳机的人说话,并试图尽快在岛上找到一些东西,但是没有迹象表明她在寻找什么,更重要的是,她为什么急着找到它。


这两个故事似乎没有联系,更多的是,没有说明为什么它们是重要的。我们对任何一个人物都一无所知...这个故事有令人信服的地方。事实上,小60分钟跑的时间是什么让我对大多数第一幕和男孩我很高兴我做了。

任潮的电影处女作并不像第一次的电影制作人。它的范围很广,故事情节紧凑,但也许最令人印象深刻的是王姓关于故事如何展开的精辟论述。第一个30分钟的孤独岛结束的感觉像一个断开的系列瞬间,正在发生的人物,但几乎完全一半,王力宏开始编织各种故事,填补差距,最终使电影一起成为一个令人满意的结论。

在这一过程中,他提出了一些关于人工智能、人类生存能力、人际关系、空间旅行以及最终的一些有趣的想法,探讨了一个人为了拯救人类要走多远的概念。任何一个想法都足以维持一部电影,但王姓设法将他们塞进一个小时,它不会感到匆忙。

演员习的任务是作为我们的指导通过崇高的想法电影和她做一个出色的工作让观众参与;特别是在开场表演时,很少有故事讲得通。

孤岛的尽头是一块具有挑战性的手表。王姓抛出了很多想法,并在电影中穿插了很多故事(这也不能说明有很多字幕和部分很难跟上对话),但是它如此短暂也意味着它很适合重复看电视,我发现我更喜欢它,甚至第二次。


如果王姓在美国拍电影,好莱坞会敲他的门。我预计他要做更大的项目只是时间问题。我迫不及待地想看看他下一步做什么。