Darkness invades, absolutely!

Coralie 2022-04-20 09:01:25

I spent a dollar on Taobao to buy the resources of the two films. It seems that the first one just felt that a group of women who were not very attractive gathered together, and I didn’t expect what was going to happen. I didn’t have any mental preparation. It's a bit lengthy, but after watching the movie, I realized that these foreshadowings are necessary and closely matched. This movie integrates the closed and repressed cave, the strange and unknown carnivorous birth, the sisters' display of their human nature in the face of life and death, family, friendship, love, etc. The heroine Sarah is still in her heart after being severely damaged by the car accident of her husband and daughter. There are shadows, the heart is tired and fragile, and there are often nightmares and hallucinations. A weak female figure is endlessly slaughtering in the cave, the partners are brutally killed and eaten raw, and the endless abyss of the cave has no end. A series of subsequent factors have transformed into A female warrior who is brave and good at fighting and smashes a bloody path in desperate situations. This is forced by circumstances and by the instinct to survive. As for Juno, I personally don't hate her. She hurt Beth after she met an unknown monster and slaughtered them for the first time. She savagely slaughtered Heli's body and then ate it raw, and then accidentally injured Beth in the fight with the monster. Of course, she has lost her mind and killed the red eye. In that situation, she was full of fear. She had no ability to protect the injured Bess because she accidentally injured Bess and the monsters around her. She felt guilty for self-protection. And helpless emotions, for Sarah, she has a feeling of guilt, she wants to do something for Sarah to change their relationship, give herself an explanation, and see that her relationship with Sarah is better than with other people. , So there is no absolute good and bad, good and evil, in that kind of situation, any kind of reaction is possible, one second is the enemy, the next second may fight side by side. The first film of the film has both a wide field of vision and a narrow and difficult cave in the cave. The cave is visually real, fearful, unknown abyss, steep cliffs, very depressed, low and full of blood and rotting corpses. The design of the cave, the bloody blood pool, etc. is indeed more professional and more realistic than the scenes in the second part. Bringing viewers a more depressing, more reasonable, and more desperate movie-watching experience, the Dark Invasion series is definitely a rare good movie!

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The Descent quotes

  • Holly: [Sarah has just been scared by a bunch of bats which attacked her. Holly films the bats flying away]

    [in imitation of 'The Count' from Sesame Street]

    Holly: One bat, two bats, fifty bats!

    [Beth comes up to her]

    Beth: Holly... Fuck off

  • Juno: [while fighting a crawler] Fucker!