There is a joke circulating on the Internet. Someone went to a friend's house to watch a movie. The friend asked if "Armageddon" would be good? The answer is good. My friend asked me which one to play? including the earth. formulate a survival plan. Relevant parties are building 10,000 "planetary engines" on the earth, with the purpose of accelerating the earth to five thousandths. It is expected that it will take 2,500 years to move the earth into the orbit of another star 4.2 light-years away. When passing Jupiter, due to the failure of a large number of engines, the earth was in danger of colliding with Jupiter... The main line of the story is how father and son Liu Peiqiang and Liu Qi saved the earth from the crisis of destruction in space and on the ground.

Father and son save the world

The idea of moving the earth was not pioneered in “The Wandering Earth”. It was already proposed in the Japanese film “Gorath” more than 50 years ago, but moving a distance of several light years should have been proposed by Liu Cixin, the original author of the film.

What’s interesting is that although it is a “science” film fantasy, “The Wandering Earth” doesn’t pay much attention to the most critical “planetary engine”. We only know that it “burns stones”. On what principle does it generate such a huge amount of energy? The movie doesn’t add much explanation, and it’s troublesome to even create a fictional scientific theory name.

What the author is more concerned about is that if the earth is going to run away, what will happen to the moon? This issue is not mentioned at all in the movie (it is mentioned in the novel). In short, the stage for the entire home migration is for Liu Peiqiang and Liu Qi to stage a live drama of saving mankind.

This large father-son scene is full of clichéd details, such as the son’s incomprehension towards his father, his curiosity about the outside world (the ground), and the recurring plot of self-sacrifice to save the earth. These have all appeared in a large number of science fiction disaster films. As for the problems that may be faced by the great migration of mankind, such as what changes will happen to social organizations, in addition to drawing lots to move to cities underground (staying on the surface is a dead end), the human society presented in the movie is close to many dark science fiction movies and even the real world. They are all in a high-tech world, with some low-class marginalized people (that's why Liu Qi and his sister Duoduo can sneak up to the surface). In fact, there is not much ink on how the entire human society faces such extreme situations. The entire focuses film on the father and son. They are one day at a time, but they are the grassroots executors and small figures of the survival plan. The scientists and coalition government officials who coordinated the entire operation were completely absent. astronaut assigned to escort the space station. This space station