Invasion of Darkness is a very thoughtful film

This is a very thought-provoking movie. Many people say that the movie is about the ugliness of human nature that trumps the danger of the environment, but I think it should be closer to the danger and ugliness of human nature. This is the complete creation of this underground cave. By. What is scary is the rationality of this film. It is not a fantasy film. All the monsters here do not have special functions, nor are they ghosts. What are they? In fact, they are people who have been exploring caves for a long time (the murals show that the creatures in the caves actually had the consciousness of civilization). In the depths of darkness, the ugliness of human nature is constantly magnified. In the depths of the ground, there is no more Civilization can be said that a group of people constantly hurt the visitors (people, animals) of the cave for food, and the visitors (people) continue to kill these former human beings in order to survive. In such a war, many adventurers have become those The monster ate Chinese food, and the rest became a monster underground.

And our protagonist, Sarah, is a monster from the future.

We can see that Sarah has slowly lost her humanity in the cave. After smashing her companions to death, she began to become a cold-blooded killer, killing an entire family of monsters (suggesting that the reproduction method of underground creatures is related to human beings) It is no different) including the monster child, mother, and father. The process of destroying the family symbolizes the lack of human nature (the monster was actually gone when she killed the monster father, but she did not let the monster go, and the killing thought in her heart made the original People who fight for survival become ghosts who fight for killing), and then the methods of killing cave monsters become extremely cruel, and they also bury their companions themselves. Note that Sarah did not directly kill Juno here. , but intended to let Juno die in the bite of the monster. At this point, Sarah has no humanity anymore. In a stupefied hallucination, Sarah saw her own daughter, and her daughter was also illusory. , When she woke up from the illusion, there were no companions, family members, only endless darkness and purgatory and terrifying creatures. From this moment on, there is no need to retain civilization anymore. It is necessary to survive in this environment, and it can only become ferocious, dirty, and scavenger... In the end, Sarah will become an uncompromising "cave" monster".
In this way, the protagonist, who has experienced a car accident, bereavement of a husband and a daughter, emotional betrayal, fear of darkness, fear of death, and bloody scenes, pushes her into the darkness step by step, turning her into a face. Ferocious, twisted and perverted monster, and everything is so natural and logical.

What this film wants to talk about is the devil in the human heart. This battle is not a battle between beauty and beast, but a contest between humans and "human beings", a confrontation between humanity and the extinction of humanity. What makes people feel tragic is that, Human nature is so humble and useless in the cruel reality, Juno, as the representative of human nature, cannot escape the invitation of death, but Sarah, as the representative of the devil, can survive in the cave and change from prey to hunter.

This kind of strong contrast is terrifying when one thinks about it carefully.

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