Although this is a "good" tearjerker disaster movie, it won't make some audiences' "sensational allergies" attack. The film is based on real cases. The prototypes of the male protagonist "Henry", his wife "Maria" and their three sons "Lucas", "Thomas" and "Simon" survived the 2004 Indonesian tsunami. A family of five. The 8-minute tsunami rushed towards the Henry family and the audience with incredible realistic images. After that, every minute they spent in turbulent water, mud, and ruins made people breathless. It is worth commending the production team that they are still careful to distinguish between "true and fictional". They took the picture of the characters being played by the waves like toys in the turbulent flow, which was extremely thrilling. Afterwards, you will feel that it is the technology of the director and the special effects team, and there must be exaggeration or ingenious intentions, but these skills can be seen not out of dazzling skills, but the sincerity of the intention to convey the horror of the disaster to the audience. . This sincerity wants to stimulate the "compassion" of all audiences in Anle Township, which has been gradually buried, through the reproduction of real suffering.
In the face of disaster, anything is possible. Disaster is the best psychiatrist, it can make people show their true colors. Originally selfish, he could climb to the heights by stepping on other people's bodies. Those who have always been charitable may escape alone because of their inability. In addition to the protagonist's family of five showing their different personalities in the disaster, the film includes the unknown elderly Thais who saved Maria and Lucas' mother and son, and the man who gave Henry his cell phone to call his family. , In order to maintain the order of the hospital calmly and follow the rules of medical personnel, there is even the tricycle master who gave Henry 5 minutes to go to the hospital to find his family despite being impatient. They showed up for a short time, but they made the tone of the film more solid. They constitute the shock after the 8-minute tsunami. I think this shock can be summed up as: suffering begets mercy.
Lovingness and compassion are noble emotions, and to a certain extent, compassion is also an important emotion in treating the aftermath of a disaster. The most "movie-like" passage in the film is a conversation between a 74-year-old old lady and five or six-year-old Henry's second son "Thomas" about the stars. The old lady told Thomas that many stars have died before we can see them. The naive Thomas could understand the old lady's words. They thought "this is a mysterious beauty" and stared at the starry sky in a daze. Behind them were corpses and ruins, and the pictures were full of compassion. The elderly and children, these two creatures at both ends of life, have a perfect attitude towards life cognition: awe of the unknowable mystery, admiration of the beauty in front of them, and not afraid of suffering.
To be honest, before watching the movie, my heart was full of dissatisfaction with the status quo of life, and I felt that my life was lifeless. When I opened the Internet, it was either a miserable life or a very good life, and it was just whitewashing the peace, and Compared to them, my life needs to change. After coming out of the theater, the flawed world that I can see has not changed, but the feeling of suffocation has been relaxed.
A life without disasters is worth cherishing. People have to remind themselves of this before life has meaning. But at the same time, people also need to understand how terrible the disaster is. Remind from time to time, understand from time to time, and compassion will manifest.
Published in "Taizhou Daily" on September 6
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