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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.
机译：
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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starburst杂志评论搬运
http://www.starburstmagazine.com/reviews/latest-reviews-of-movies/18167-movie-review-the-end-of-the-lonely-island
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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wemakemoviesonweekend网站评论
https://wemakemoviesonweekends.com/2017/05/08/sci-fi-london-film-festival-the-end-of-lonely-island-review/
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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.
机译：
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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http://www.quietearth.us/articles/2017/05/SciFi-London-2017-THE-END-OF-THE-LONELY-ISLAND-Review
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.
机译：
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。
http://www.mymbuzz.com/2017/05/04/the-end-of-the-lonely-island-film-review/
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.
机译：
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
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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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quiet earth网站评论
http://www.quietearth.us/articles/2017/05/SciFi-London-2017-THE-END-OF-THE-LONELY-ISLAND-Review
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。
