Personally, I think the whole movie has a great religious meaning. The first is the unreasonable apocalypse situation at the beginning of the movie. The coming of the end times is God's disappointment and test for mankind, testing whether mankind can be redeemed. Cannibalism and the annihilation of all kinds of humanity have always happened around the protagonist and the children, "Dad, are we still good people?" "Yes, we are still good people." Father insists on human nature and never eats people to survive like others. There is still hope in his heart for redemption. Its metaphor also exists in the two groups of people that the father and son met on the way: one is the old man; the other is the family who finally appeared and saved the child. The old man can be seen as a metaphor for God, and the last family can be regarded as the salvation of the whole movie. The family has been following the father and son, and naturally knows what the father and son have done on the way, so they finally help the child; while the old man met the father and son on the way, had a dialogue with the father and son, and received help from the father and son in desperate moments.
Since I don't know much about Christianity, this is just my speculation. However, the original author Stephen King has religious metaphors in many of his works, so I also brought this metaphor into the film "Doomsday", so as to be able to effectively connect the intentions of this film and realize Works thought. The first is the author's dissatisfaction with contemporary human production habits, which is reflected in the fact that the entire film's environment is gray, even the sea is gray, that is, the great damage to the environment caused by human production. The second is to think about human nature, and to plunder the weak and small groups by occupying resources and food everywhere, in which the plundering film expresses it very clearly, without any circumspection: cannibalism. But the author's main line of thought is still relatively optimistic, believing that the advantages of human nature will not disappear, and it can bring redemption to human beings. The father's love for the child, and insisting on being a "good person"; the child's innocence and help for the weak. All this is reflected in the final scene of the film: the child is helped, which is a symbol of the ultimate redemption of mankind.
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