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BEIJING, Feb. 10 (Xinhua) – The Chinese science-fiction blockbuster "Wandering Earth" has hit the box office. While its visual effects, considered rivals of Hollywood, impress a global audience, a united human community facing a calamity as in the film also attracts attention.
The newspaper's director, Guo Fan, quoted in The New York Times, reportedly said he deliberately avoided creating a main character, a Chinese astronaut on board an international space station, who has to deal with a computer similar to HAL, an autonomous superhero.
"The struggle to save the Earth is being carried out instead by a whole, including an affable Russian cosmonaut," the paper said, adding that the film "had a vision of the international collaboration needed to address the threats to the planet".
"Jingoism" is a label "The Wandering Earth" gets rid of him, the Times added.
Humanity in "The Wandering Earth" is threatened by a dying and swelling sun, from which a journey through the space of several generations to find a new one. In the center of history, a Chinese astronaut and his son, emotionally separated, join a global mission to prevent Earth from crashing on Jupiter.
"It's patriotic without sensation sensationalist," wrote Scott Mendelson, one of Forbes's foremost collaborators, in a recent review. As Hollywood has established rules and its rivals follow, the film ensures "to do what he wants".
When the film draws to a close, an international force comes to the rescue of a Chinese team at the last minute and tries to save the Earth.
It shows that the Chinese characters "cooperate eagerly with an overwhelmingly unnamed international hero force," said a popular user review on imdb.com, an online movie database. "It reminds us once again that in this depressing future, even the Chinese force can not succeed alone."
The film "puts strong emphasis on collective global action, on the need for international cooperation and on the will of the group on the will of the individual," wrote Tasha Robinson, film critic to the Verge.
"Wandering Earth" earned Sunday more than 1.8 billion yuan (about $ 267.1 million) in box office sales, according to Maoyan, a professional tracker.
"As China embarks on the action-blockbuster, it will continue to be fascinating to see how the country brings its own distinctive voice and talent to the global market," wrote Robinson on the Verge. .
"Once each country creates potential international crossings, the strongest attraction can come from the most distinctive personal visions, with the most to say about the cultures they come from," Robinson added.
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