Independence Day- Two guys' cooperation

Rating: 7/10 (27 June 2010)

The two main factors of Independence Day are heroism and the spirit of unity. Actually these two factors are old acquaintances to many film-goers, but they can also move every person who watches this movie. Leading role can focus the power all over the world on saving the earth or human beings. This is the most excited thing in the world I think.
Another theme which is usually talked in this sort of disaster movie is humanity. But there is a little in Independence Day, the shrinking violet Secretary of Defense, who is completely different with our young and energetic President Thomas J. Whitmore. Who can save the world? The answer is clear in every audience's heart I suppose.
As for the golden combination, Captain Steven Hiller and David Levinson, they separately represent wisdom and courage. Two parts of a prefect saver. This method makes heroes more like an ordinary person by giving each part some weaknesses.
David Levinson is a scientist without great aspirations. He has a simple life. He likes laying chess with his old father and riding bike. To him, the life now he has got is the one he wants the most, besides the part of he and his ex-wife. He has been in deep love with his wife even after they got divorced. His charming wife, Constance Spano, is a presidential assistant. Her busy work and his easy life make a sharp contrast in theirs daily life; this contrast is also the reason of their divorce. If Constance were not the Presidential assistant, I think David can't save the world because he has no chance to talk to the President.
Captain Steven Hiller is an excellent soldier with a strong body and honesty. People would simply deem that Steven is a nice guy at the first sight of Will Smith's face. Jasmine Dubrow, Steven's girlfriend, who has a little boy and his father isn't Steven. Steven treats him like his own son. We can realize that in the scene of Steven went back to his base, he made a promise of setting fireworks after he accomplish his mission with that little boy. In the end of the final war, the boy watches the fireworks made up by remains of aliens' spaceship.
One person breaks the code of aliens' communication and comes up with the idea of saving human beings, the other person has the ability of driving spacecraft, strong body to fight with a real alien and the courage to challenge unknown. These two guys make all the expectations come true. David's idea of beating aliens is implant virus into mother ship of aliens to make all spacecrafts 'get cold '. And it just comes from David's father's comforting words. From the very beginning, they two have no tacit understanding in the battle. I think their only tacit understanding is embracing their beloved woman as soon as possible after winning the war. Maybe love is the real theme of this disaster movie.
We have another hero in this movie, the President. He wanted to be a President full of passion and energetic. But there was no opportunity before aliens' invasion of Earth. "I'm a combat pilot, I belong in the air. " This is my most memorable lines. Do you like this kink of president? A president attends a war in person, an act to inspire everyone's patriotism to protect their own nation. The President is a normal person, he loves his cute daughter. But he can not be an ordinary person because he is the President of the United States. He is responsible to the whole National; so he can't express his sorrow of wife's death completely.
Aliens are poor, because they are usually beaten by American for strengthening National cohesion and proving the achievement in Special Effects. Everybody has a unique imagination of aliens, but most of them are aggressive. Nobody hates aliens; we all have sympathy for the weak and loathe aggressive part. If men invade other plant for its resource, audiences will also acclaim for men's failure. For example, in the movie Avatar, the audiences applaud for human beings' failure of invading Pandora.
"Mankind, that word should have new meaning for all of us today. We can't be consumed by our petty differences anymore. We will be united by our common interest. Perhaps its fate that today is 4th of July and you will once again be fighting for our freedom, not from tyranny, oppression or persecution, but from annihilation. We are fighting for our right to live, to exist. And should we win the day, the fourth of July will no longer be known as an American holiday, but as the day when the world declare in one voice we will not go quietly into the night, we will not vanish without a fight, we are going to live on, we are going to survive! Today, we celebrate our Independence Day!"
This is president's exciting speech before the final war. And remember: we will not vanish without a fight, we are going to live on, and we are going to survive! Today, we celebrate our Independence Day!