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I have been busy with company projects recently, and have no time to pay attention to the series of Baoqiang's divorce incident on the Internet, because the incident itself is meaningless, but the human nature behind the incident is worth discussing. After seeing these entertainment gossips, don't take it too seriously. Living your life well is the most important thing.
The "Wangma Incident" can reflect everyone, and reflect on themselves in life. Everyone has their own shortcomings and weaknesses, as well as hidden sinfulness. Everyone's temptation is different, and the temptation index is also different. In the face of temptation, the state is similar. Maybe you can stand now, but it doesn't mean you can stand forever.
A utilitarian society, a society that has gradually lost its moral bottom line, does make people feel insecure. In fact, people's sense of security comes from a certain set of values. Since then, it will not be disturbed by the outside world, let alone swaying. You need to rebuild values and security. In addition, everyone has a different moral law and a different moral height. But you can use the moral law in your heart to illuminate and reflect on yourself.
In the following British horror/thriller film "Dark Invasion", the heroine Sarah encountered the betrayal of her best friend and her husband's secret affair, etc., and finally the heart of revenge expanded rapidly... Director Bruce Hunt Bruce Hunt From "The Devil's Nest" to the well-known "The Shawshank Redemption", most of them are horror movies, and few of them can be like "Dark Invasion".
The dark underground, deep and humid caves, long and narrow and cold and seemingly endless, seem to have a fatal attraction to people in modern civilization. A cave is a natural underground space that people can enter and exit. At present, it has become a comprehensive and mass leisure activity. Countries not only have national cave organizations, cave associations, but also many cave clubs.
According to incomplete statistics, there are more than 450 cave clubs in France with more than 6,000 members, and there are more than 200 cave clubs in the UK. Perhaps, the love for the unknown caves comes from our curiosity and yearning for the unknown world, our love and return to nature, and even the call from our ancient ancestors that has melted into our blood. It's a low-budget British film, unlike Hollywood's big guns, through its overall dark tones, perilous caves, tight and gripping music, fast editing, and a plot that advances layer by layer.
The film depicts the suffocating claustrophobic environment of the cave and the deep dark side of human nature vividly, like a sharp scalpel in the naked analysis and torture of the dark side of human nature.
The film begins with the audience's appetite to the highest point. Sarah, who has returned from drifting, lost her daughter and husband in a car accident. In the hospital at midnight, the lights in the empty hallway that suddenly went out as Sarah ran took us into a realm of illusion. Then the scene suddenly turned around, the cozy cabin in the jungle, the hot tea with the fragrance curling, gathered together to comfort Sarah's six old friends who knew each other.
As the sun sets in the west, the twilight is dark and the car travels through the winding and desolate road, and the darkness begins to cover the earth, which seems to herald an unfortunate beginning. The characters of the six people determine their different destinies. The film spends a lot of space to describe the degeneration of human nature, because it is like the monsters gradually surround the girls in the dark. It is a kind of oppression from the outside to the inside. The environment makes all kinds of negative emotions madly breed, and eventually leads to the loss of human nature.
Different from Japanese horror films, Japanese horror is more focused on expressing a mutation from the inside out, and the abnormal genes that exist in nature (such as Gayako in The Grudge). This British-style thriller more directly reflects the depravity of human nature, and it also hits the nail on the head of the problem. It will not heal the soul, but only bring about reflection.
This film more realistically simulates the psychological changes of normal people in a dangerous environment. The women in the film find that when their survival is seriously threatened, their friendship is severely damaged and their reason becomes vulnerable, while violence and cruelty are the dark sides of human nature. prevailed.
Rainbow-kun considered that some scenes in the movie are too bloody and violent, so they will not be listed separately.
Six girls venture into an unexplored cave, only to be accidentally trapped in the cave with no outside help. And Juno, who has always claimed to have come and gone before, confessed that he never came. This is a cave that no one has discovered. At this time, the warm surface was broken, and the six began to have their first dispute.
With the development of the plot, the marks on the animals, the bats in the cave, the six people could work together to overcome it at first, but when the first climax of the film broke out, the friction became prominent, and several people One of them quarreled without looking at the map, but fortunately, some people remained relatively calm, and under persuasion, they were still ready to work together to find an exit.
The appearance of the dormant monster in the ground caused all limited forbearance to break out. Some people are hysterical, some people just run for their lives, and some people fight back madly. All the ugly sides of human beings are displayed in front of the audience, the norms of modern civilized society collapse, and the friendship of the six people begins to face severe tests.
As the monsters hunted them, and as their companions died one by one, the spirits of several people began to collapse in fear and despair, and suspicion and suspicion began to spread among the survivors. Juno accidentally hurts Beth, and Sarah encounters the undead Beth and begins to doubt Juno's motives.
In this dark and narrow claustrophobic space, in the fear and despair, the human civilization has been stripped unreservedly, leaving only naked anger and primitive killing.
When Sarah finally kills her at Beth's request, all the remaining humanity has been wiped out, and humanity's primitive bestiality begins to erupt. After fighting to the death with the monsters, Sarah finally cut Juno's feet in suspicion and suspicion and went away alone, leaving her to the roaring monsters in the surrounding darkness, which was like a trial of the past, But it seems to be in exchange for enough time to escape for himself. Such a setting of the monster's shape in the movie makes it more like a contest between two creatures' desires and instincts for survival when the final battle between man and beast is not divided between high and low, justice and evil. Only in this moment of life and death can the darkness and horror of human nature be deeply highlighted.
It is worth mentioning that the monsters in the film are similar in appearance to humans. They are fast in action, cruel and bloodthirsty in character. Their vision has been completely degraded, but they can rely on hearing like bats to fly around in the dark.
Maybe they are a group that has been forgotten by God in the history of evolution, but after hundreds of millions of years, they have been hiding in isolated caves to form their own systems; Driven by a little bit of loss of humanity and finally reduced to a beast.
Finally, when Sarah stepped on the mountain of countless corpses and climbed to the light, she finally saw the sun again. She drove frantically to flee, under the clear sky and on the flat road, in the oncoming trucks, the breath of modern civilization rushed to her face, Sarah was ecstatic and bleakly buried in the steering wheel and cried.
brutal violence
If a horror movie is reasonably successful in its atmosphere, but without terrifying substance, it will only make the audience feel cheated, and violence and gore often fill that aspect—because only enough to come close to pain and death, It makes people feel real fear.
Although the six protagonists of "Dark Invasion" are all women, the degree of violence is unquestionable. When human beings reach the extreme of fear, there will no longer be a gap between the genders. This was already in the Japanese movie "Battle Royale". be confirmed.
Several women in the plot showed incomparable courage and madness at the last moment of their lives. The speed of every knife and every move was amazing, the landing was accurate, compact and powerful, making the audience alternate between gasping and suffocating.
The movie ended happily in the last survivor's weeping, but the plot took a sharp turn at this time, cruelly ripping apart people's last fantasy of beauty.
Sarah opened her eyes and found that she was still at the bottom of the dark man-eating cave, buried in the boundless darkness together with the monsters. She snuggled up to a little candle like this, peacefully waiting for the judgment from an unknown fate.
At the end of the film, when the camera zooms out, Sarah's figure and a little candle are again buried in the endless darkness and the original bloody scream. Or, for people who have been through catastrophe and their spirits have been devastated, light is just a warm and illusory fairy tale.
This film reminds us that each of us hides the ugliness in our hearts that we don't want to see. If we don't restrain or guide and release, it will become a tragedy after losing the kindness of human nature.
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