The Wandering Earth story
Set in the far future, the story follows a group of astronauts and rescue workers guiding the Earth away from an expanding Sun, while attempting to prevent a collision with Jupiter. It is loosely based on the 2000 novella of the same name by multi-award-winning author Liu Cixin.
23 total · 2 choice · 9 major · 12 minor
| Theme | Level | Motivation |
|---|---|---|
| expanding sun | choice | The United Earth Government initiated a project to migrate the earth out of the Solar System to the Alpha Centauri system when it became apparent that the sun was entering into its red giant phase. |
| hope | choice | The main characters in the story never gave up hope that the earth could be saved first from an expanding sun, and then from colliding with Jupiter in spite of the odds being slim to none against humanity's surviving these existential risks. |
| brother and sister | major | The story followed Liu Qi and his adoptive teenage sister Han Duoduo as they helped to save the earth from colliding with Jupiter. |
| father and son | major | The story began with astronaut Liu Peiqiang promising his 4 year old son Liu Qi that he would return from a mission to a space station. The remainder of the film featured an adult Liu Qi grappling with the fact that his father had yet to fulfill his promise to return to earth. |
| grandfather and grandson | major | Liu Qi worked together with his grandfather Han Zi'ang to commandeer a gigantic truck. In the course of working together the grandfather shared his wisdom about life and memories of what the earth was like before the sun entered its red giant phase. |
| heroism | major | When everyone else in the world resigned themselves to the bleak reality that earth would crash into Jupiter, Liu Qi and his adoptive sister Han Duoduo never gave up and in the end they found a way to save the world. |
| interplanetary space travel | major | The entire earth was being flown out of the solar system to the Alpha Centauri system in a one way voyage that would take 2500 years. |
| sacrifice for one's people | major | Liu Peiqiang blew himself up in order to prevent the earth from colliding with Jupiter. |
| subterranean civilization | major | The people of earth were moved into about 10,000 underground cities while the planet was being migrated to the Alpha Centauri system. |
| world government | major | The United Earth Government was formed to manage the process of moving earth to the Alpha Centauri system. |