Doomsday is an incredibly fascinating theme. In this film, it can be said that among the films I have seen so far, there are few excellent films that can arouse emotional resonance. The focus of this film is not on the word "danger", but on the word "way". .
The whole film is shown in a hopelessly dark tone. The background of the story is set in the long nuclear winter after the sudden global disaster. Not only the end of mankind, but also the end of the world's flora and fauna. The disaster can be understood as a large-scale disaster. A nuclear war or an asteroid hitting the earth is more like the post-apocalyptic environment after the asteroid hits the earth in terms of the content of the movie. The protagonist is a father and son. During the initial period of the disaster, the little boy has not yet been born. By the time of giving birth, the whole world has fallen into a huge panic and crisis, so the mother will be reluctant to give birth to the child. When the shortage of resources was desperate, one night, the mother took off her clothes, wearing only thin short sleeves, and walked into the cold night, never to be seen again.
At the beginning of the film, the little boy seems to be in his teens. The father and son are dirty and hungry. They are walking to the beach, stopping from time to time to find something to feed their stomachs. At this time, most of the survivors have begun to hunt the weak for food, and the protagonist father and son, in order to keep the "burning flame" in their hearts, the final bottom line is "we don't eat people". But in such a harsh and cruel environment, in order to protect his son, the father sometimes had to kill someone - "I will kill everyone who wants to hurt you".
Once, father and son found a house with obvious signs of human settlement, with the door to the basement locked. After his father pried the lock, he lit the lighter and walked into the basement. Then he saw several extremely weak humans. One of them almost caught them into the man-devouring devil's cave in order to survive. Afterwards, the father and son hid in the bloody upstairs bathroom and saw several people with shotguns returning. There is no doubt that those people in the basement were their food.
After escaping, the father and son accidentally found a basement covered by mud outside an empty house. This time, they were extremely lucky - this basement was full of food and daily necessities, which was an Eden in the apocalypse. Even in the midst of desperation and ecstasy, the little boy still asked his father, "Shall we take these things?" Afterwards, the father and son spent a period of heavenly days in this basement. They also took hot baths, cut their beards and hair, and turned from savage savages into human beings in the civilized world. One night, people and dogs barked from above the basement. In order to prevent the danger of being hunted, the father ignored his son's objection and resolutely used a cart to pull the food they could pull, and set off on the road to the sea again.
Not long after walking, the father and son met an old man who was stumbling. According to him later, he was in his 90s. It was a huge miracle that such a thin and vulnerable old man could still survive in such hell. The old man was too old and hungry for too long, even if the little boy gave him a bottle of canned food, he vomited it as soon as he ate it. After a night of suspicion and warmth coexisted by the fire, the old man embarked on the final journey of his life again alone the next day.
When I finally got to the beach, all I could see was a mess of filth. The father went to look for supplies on the stranded ship. The little boy fell asleep on the beach because of illness. At this time, a black man with a knife approached quietly. After a moment of hesitation, he just smuggled the car of supplies. After the father came back from the boat, he woke up his son and chased after him. Because there was a gun, he asked the black man to return all the supplies obediently. Because of his anger at his son's kindness that was out of tune with this world, he forced himself to be a villain in front of his son, made the black man strip off his tattered clothes, pants, and shoes, and threw them on the cart, and then decided to leave. The black man who was shivering and crying in the cold wind looked so fragile, like a newborn baby who was about to face the doomsday environment.
My father's health was deteriorating. When passing through a small town, he was shot in the leg by an arrow from a sneak attacker. Although he counterattacked and killed the attacker, but in the environment at the time, there were no medical supplies for treatment. Because the wound infection worsened, my father finally At the beach, he explained to his son that "the pistol must be carried on the body, keep walking along this road, and keep the fire in my heart". After the death of the father, another family found the little boy. It turned out that they were the family with the dog that the father and son heard in the basement. They did not eat people. They also preserved enough humanity. Together, they went to find a civilized society that might still exist.
The whole film has no particularly exciting sections, no bloody scenes, and it is different from other disaster films. The director did not give the audience enough stimulation on the senses, did not have a grand idea, and was quite emotionally restrained, but just showed the audience a possible situation of the end of mankind - there are good people and bad people, there are lonely travelers, and there are groups to keep warm The ogre has family and love, and most importantly, there is hope.
Under the apocalypse of extreme environments, when human society collapses and human civilization collapses, the brilliance of human nature will be covered by a thick haze, and only at this time can the inextinguishable flame in the heart become possible Rekindle the fire of hope for human civilization.
If the end of the world comes, where is the true return of mankind?
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