Preface:
"If I can have superpowers, I hope I can teleport, and if I have that ability, I can go home early." This classic line is from the movie "Crazy Aliens".
This film continues Director Ning Hao's usual absurd, exaggerated, and noir cold humor style, and starts a series of adventures with aliens "invading" the earth as the main line. This film draws on Liu Cixin's novel "The Country Teacher", embedding the tragic core into the comedic plot interpretation, and behind the nonsense is endless sadness......
1. Absurd comedy
In the movie, the alien accidentally fell into the earth, and where he went, became a mystery, causing a widespread search in country C. A top agent who is accustomed to playing with others, and is played around the world by the scenes of the big world; Geng Hao and Shen Tengfei, two little people whose lives are full of worries, mistakenly brought aliens back to Earth by mistake and miraculously saved the Earth; The aliens, who claim to be superior beings, become the controlled by the instinct of pain, and when the chains are taken back, they become the drivers.
The aliens turned into monkeys, intending to destroy the earth, and they were menacing, but they were stopped by the "Pavlov" effect; Only one country knows about interstellar relations in outer space. a foreign spy organization that investigates aliens in downtown areas but no one cares about them; Agents of Country C encounter aliens, but they don't know who they are...... This series of twists and turns turned this disappearance and search into a big joke.
In the movie, Geng Hao and Da Fei are both small people living at the bottom of society, while the aliens and the agents of Country C are relatively elite. Ordinary people also have their own heroic dreams, Geng Hao adheres to the principle of inheriting monkey opera, in order to continue his performance, he has to swallow his anger, back down again and again, back down again and again, and refuse the extraterrestrial bid again and again.
However, it turns out that Geng Hao is not a hero guided by firm beliefs, and when faced with bizarre encounters where he cannot control his own destiny, he also has times when he gives up on himself, and will say decadent words such as "Go quickly, go quickly, I'm tired". First of all, Chika, who was on a diplomatic mission and should have been courteous, was mistaken for a monkey by Geng Hao and Da Fei, who did not know the truth, and used the threat of force to rehearse and perform in place of the injured Huanhuan.
It is precisely because of human ignorance that Chika has fallen from the top alien to the lowest monkey, which is the main reason why this movie is crazy and absurd. After that, the arrogant Chika couldn't escape, so he had to obey Geng Hao's training skills: practicing the golden gun, performing martial arts, and even pouring himself wine and vegetables, which highlighted the character's "inconsistent words and deeds" psychology and behavior, creating a humorous comedic effect.
Secondly, after Chica's identity was revealed, Da Fei, who was tortured by Chica, did not hesitate to "soak" him to death in order to protect himself; When the agents of Country C found him, Geng Hao chose to "pretend" as an alien monkey in order to escape.
This is not only an insult to the "advanced civilization", but also a "transgression" of the status of the entire civilization, making the monkey at the bottom of the ladder become the highest alien. Even country C, the most "advanced" country in the world, has been played around by this "monkey tricker."
In the end, Chika used Huanhuan's body to wreak havoc and destroy the "World Park", while Geng Hao, the "monkey tricker", subdued Huanhuan with a banana and quickly lifted the energy ring.
The seemingly most "advanced" alien civilization eventually succumbed to the most "low" "animal nature", and in fact, the ultimate showdown itself was nothing more than a ridiculous game; The absurd victory of a banana saving the entire planet is a testament to how empty, ridiculous, and meaningless this discriminatory antagonism between civilizations is.
2. The world of "games".
"Crazy Aliens" opens with the Statue of Liberty of United States lazily walking into the White House, lighting a cigarette through the fire in the window, and then the drone flies over the roof of the White House, and a golden five-finger mountain appears among the colorful buildings, where Geng Hao and Huanhuan are performing monkey shows.
The story of aliens slowly unfolds in this small world park, and Lehua Park in the film is a virtual park built in a studio with Suzhou and Changzhou as the background, which can be said to be a miniature landscape integrating famous places around the world. The White House in United States, the statue of Jesus in Brazil, the Cathedral of St. Sibal in Russia, the pyramids in Egypt, all these are collaged into the Leroy World Park.
The splicing elements of the movie scene are also the foreshadowing of the agents of Country C to save the aliens. In the movie, all the energy of the alien Chika is stored in the energy ring, and Geng Hao mistakes the energy ring for a key chain stuck on his belt. Chica desperately tried to break free from the monkey's grasp, but each time, he scrambled to open the energy ring and shoot it down.
The scene Chika accidentally filmed was supposed to provide useful information to the agents who rescued it, but the "World Park" gave them the wrong message, causing them to encounter obstacles in the rescue process, and even sent a message of "Are the aliens here for sightseeing?" Helpless words. One is a visual effect that simulates the flight path of a rescue team, and the other is a shot at a rescue site in a foreign country.
The blurry statue of Chika for the first time, obscured by green leaves, was enlarged to the side line, as a tracking target, enlarged on the big screen of the think tank of country C, the agents of country C self-righteously called on everyone to conduct comparative analysis, looking for the target pattern, after a group of elites geared up and worked hard, the close-up showed the advanced scientific and technological level of country C with realistic and precise visual effects, and finally "accurately" locked in Rio, Brazil, 100% consistent.
In the next second, the agent of country C said "It's in Rio" (this is Rio), then turned his head, looked at the audience outside the camera, and said in a tone of "advanced civilization" of God bless country C: "God bless America". His arrogant elite posture contrasts sharply with the fake ruins "collaged" by the World Park, and uses verbal irony to reinforce the absurdity and absurdity of the rescue operation.
When the agents boarded the dangerous smuggling ship protected by heavy weapons, they expected to encounter aliens, but what they did not expect to see was a "new breed of meat", a hybrid of cattle. The use of scene irony perfectly satirizes the stupidity and arrogance of the agents, and when the sense of absurdity has not yet dissipated, the director uses the sound effect of the aircraft propeller to bring the plot back to the battle of wits between Chika and Dafei Geng Hao.
In the second Russian rescue operation, the director portrayed the combat effectiveness of the fighting people as an exaggerated imaginary image, implanting a set of mirror narrative language system. The film is shot in upgraded slow-motion mode, mimicking the aesthetics of violence, and using the high-pitched battle songs and intense gunfight scenes of the first rescue.
The stark contrast between the confident judgment and the blank expressions of the agents of Country C, coupled with the omniscient perspective of the audience, the doubts of the agents have become a laughing stock. The exaggerated battle scenes are beyond the scope of reality, but in the eyes of the audience, this is a carnival, and the audience only needs to watch the self-proclaimed "advanced civilization" of country C, but being played around, enjoying the absurdity and madness brought by the collage game.
It is worth mentioning that when the tape recorder was blown up by bullets, the two countries confronted each other in the interval between the music stopping. At that moment, one of the shots shows the agent of country C yelling at the camera in confusion, and the Russians watching the agent of country C yelling hoarsely.
Huanhuan pulled the energy ring and took a photo of "The Pyramids of Egypt", and the director played a dazzling white light, accompanied by a majestic soundtrack, and the route turned from Russia to Africa. The camera moves away from the pyramid and shows the image of a country C agent lying exhausted on the desert, holding the few remaining bottles of water, hoping to drink some water.
“Is this alien sightseeing?” John muttered to himself with a blank look on his face. As the agent on the left rested against the tree, the tree was suddenly uprooted and collapsed, leaving a dead silence except for a few agents sitting like statues, looking at each other.
epilogue
The director did not deliberately arrange the scene of "Spring Festival" in order to attract the audience, but used "Backgammon", a song that made Huanhuan react instinctively, which was already well-known to Chinese in the CCTV Spring Festival Gala, plus this song has been playing, so that the audience's emotions were involuntarily mobilized.
But it is undeniable that this film does break the embarrassing situation of using meaningless quarrels to set off the atmosphere in previous similar films, and all kinds of misunderstandings and contradictions set up in the film are to set off the final theme.
Due to the difference in aesthetic standards, even if these emotional nodes are not fully acceptable in terms of the audience's moral level, wisdom level, novelty expectations, etc., it is natural to understand when the theme of the film is finally highlighted.