Endless sky wanderer storyline4/3/2023 What might happen if the human personality was still inside a mind that had been replaced? That is the problem facing an alien host named Wanderer (Saoirse Ronan). Imagine what happens if one operation doesn't go quite right. Aliens from another world, called "souls," have come to Earth, taken over our bodies, flushed out both our personalities and our emotions and replaced them with their own. Imagine what might happen to Earth after "Invasion of the Body Snatchers" ended. To be sure, the movie has a fantastic premise. Some movies dare you to look at the screen. This movie is so slow that after a while you fear that the movie will go in reverse. The problem is that what comes in the middle is one of the longest, chunks of torpor you'll ever experience. "The Host" (from Chockstone Pictures) opens and closes with two scenes that contain elements of great science fiction. The Host is another victim of a generic young adult film adaptation that doesn't understand much of the meaning of the story, and throw away the most bland of all romances. Too bad, they could have also shown what's behind the words as well. Again, they are unable to show it because the only fan service for adaptations of teen books is to follow every single sequence from the book because they love comparing. An apocalyptic world about relationships of these good looking couples with fast awesome cars crashing on the road. Hormonally, this could be a perfect escapism for teens. Well, you can make peace out of love but the film only shows kissing and I think there is more in love than just making out. It thematically talks about peace and stuff. Most of the action are well shot even though the action itself isn't really that interesting but everything in the film looks good. The exteriors serves a lot of intrigue to its world. It gets to explore something magnificent around. I mean what choice does she have? Still, it's ridiculous. I don't know if I should blame anyone about it. Even more laughable is one scene when the protagonist tries to wake up her subconscious by kissing her boyfriend. There are dialogues that may get way out of hand, ends up being laughable. The script explains some points of the concept which is fine in that way in spite of the plot holes but it gets terrible on the romance. The roles of Max Irons and Jake Abel seems to be only designed for kissing, slapping, and sometimes strangling, leaving William Hurt being the only likable gentleman of the picture. Diane Kruger looks like she is enjoying playing the film's villain. Saoirse Ronan plays two roles here and she fills enough heart on both characters. The film has a solid cast but not all of them standout. It is directed by Andrew Niccol who is somewhat a Sci-Fi expert but it looks like he's afraid that too much Sci-Fi than romance might disappoint these children. It is also filled with plot holes because of course it wants to appeal teens for the endless love that didn't even work. We do not get to know much about why they care for each other, other than being one of the last normal human beings of their age. It is noticeable that most of their "love" only rely on their lips. But it strays from its plot giving us a lousily told story and romance. When it goes to the romance, it says that Melanie and Wanda's love between the boys might revolt their world's condition. Humans are not the most peaceful beings either and maybe the order and mentality of both sides are the reason why they couldn't get along. It seems that both stories have the same morality. It is kind of similar to the recent young adult novel based film, Warm Bodies, except the antagonists in The Host are virtuous beings instead of ravenous monsters. It would have been a fascinating idea but it just can't get away from its typical teen angst. They're just making out and saying ridiculously cheesy lines. Love may not be a problem to these stories but this romance is terribly empty. It has romance that is suppose to save their world and change their lives, but once again just like any other young adult film, the romance is nothing more than a bunch of good looking people falling in love and doing romantic cliché stuff. It's based on a young adult novel so definitely there will be teenage hormones scattered around the context. The Sci-Fi bits are pretty interesting but it doesn't end there. The story might have an idea that the humans could be the real enemy here or it's just both of them. It is about a post-apocalypse where aliens take control on every human body then the remaining unpossessed humans fear them despite that these aliens only want peace.
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