A
sci-fi and adapted from Pierre Christin and Jean-Claude Mezieres long-running
French
sci-fi
book series Valerian and Laureline.
In the 28th century, Major Valerian and Sergeant Laureline are a team of special operatives charged of maintaining order throughout the human territories. Under assignment of Minister of Defense, the two embark on a mission astonishing the city of Alpha. The city of Alpha was expanding metropolis where species from all over the universe have converged over centuries to share their knowledge, cultures and intelligence with each other.
The
climate of this movie was shot on the outer space and modern and high tech
which is one of the important content in this science fiction movie.one of the
movie scene is where Valerian has a dream inside his spaceship which is can
make any environment that he wanted. Inside his dream, there is a planet that
unknown to him where a humanoid race (Mul People) which does not seem to know
modern technology leads a peaceful life I a beach environment. They harvest
special, energy-containing pearls from the planet and use certain animal (Melo)
to duplicate objects.
After
Valerian woke up from his, he and Laureline have received a mission from the Minister
of Defense to retrieve one of the rare animal from his dream, called a ‘converter’,
from the black-market dealer. For Mul People the rare animal that called Melo
which is a pet for them and the animal have harvest specialities which is can
duplicate object, there is one scene where Laureline remembered about reading
those animals and she tried to fed the animal with diamond and then the animal produces
a lot of diamond.
About
the society in this sci-fi movie all of them living in a group which is not
isolated, every human or species in this movie knows what are they doing. Basically,
they are living in peace and harmony. The best scene that can show in this
movie is Mul People, the princess of Mul people greet all her people with happy
face. For the economy, both of them Valerian and Laureline they work for
living, have to obey to their commander. For their transportation, Valerian
using his spaceship which is looks alike Millennium Falcon from movie Star Wars
which is they can travel super-fast.
The
arrangement of power is with the government, where they tend to have use of
modern technology to access all the species and for instance the Commander
Filitt by name (Arun Filliet) has gain power in his own hands and killed one of
the members in Ministry of defense who know the full knowledge about planet
Mul. Another scene where the spaceship is prepared for flight, Filitt order his
K-Tron (robot soldier) to attack and destroy it to make sure that the
information about his crimes stays secret and does not embarrass human kind. The
type of ritual in this movie is nature resources where the Mul People, the
fisherman collect the Pearls and the Princess fed Melo with one of the pearl
and replicate it hundreds of times to the earth.
There
is one scene, when the Commander Filitt being found out hiding his action which
cause the destruction of Planet Mul, He’s the bad guy, have to admit that he
has high ego but in other perspective he was trying to save human’s reputation
in the Alpha civilization. Even though the Mul people willing to forgive the
human race for the destruction of their planet, the commander doesn’t want to
accept and admit his sins furthermore trying to eliminate the other who know
the truth. This kind of emotion is important where it shows the desperation of person
just to save his own reputations regardless of the sacrifices needed.
As
an architecture student to give review about this movie in architectural
perspectives. For the civilization of the Alpha, I’m actually love of the
modular pattern of different type of ships that merge together in a very articulated
way. The station of one was expanded become a large scale through modular
design. The station also creates a space of different climate which is serve
their function for the civilization to be able to sustain until present. Planet
Kyrion was just a desert like planet. But by using the VR goggle by making use
of the emptiness of the planet is somewhat interesting in a way to see the
Black Market. The architecture of Black Market is what u normally expect of the
sci-fi futuristic movies, for example what we can see in the movie Star Wars,
the scene is an open space desert.
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