The Wandering Earth

[Marcos Rico]

I selected The Wandering Earth because I already had the opportunity to watch the movie, I really enjoyed the movie. Now that I had the opportunity to read the short story that inspired the movie, I believe that the movie could have been better. As a matter of fact a series would have been a better choice that just a movie.

R1: Great story but does not explain how the coalition was formed. It mentions the Leavers and the Takers, but does not provide more background information. How where the engines built, or the underground cities.

R2: The mood is on the first chapter is one of constant surprise and awe

“Our school was scheduled to relocate to an underground city, and we were among its first inhabitants. Our school bus entered a massive tunnel, which sloped gently downward into the earth. After driving for half an hour, we were told that we had entered the city, but nothing outside the bus windows resembled any city I had seen before.”

R3: The story depicits a avery desolated planet surface, where everyone is living underground. Only the “Mountains” and “Peaks” (engines) are above ground. The Oceans are frozen on the surface.

R4: The keep on mentioning the massive, powerful engines that are pushing the Earth to its new solar system.

R5: This story reminded me of the movies Interestellar and 2012 among others. All three of these stories talk about the end of the world. In interestellar the have to find a new planet and find a way to transport humankind there. 2012 is about the end of the world as we know it, and how the governments of the planet organize to create arks to save some of the chosen ones. The Wandering Earth is about moving the whole planet to a new solar system to escape the destruction that will be caused by our own sun.

R6: Chinese science fiction is increasing and becoming better known around the world. Just like in USA science fiction, the USA always plays a crucial role to save the world. In Chinese science fiction, China has a crucial role in saving the world.

R7: This story makes me thing of all the people who are turning against Science and do not believe that global warming is happening and its grave consequences to our planet.