The film tells the story of a truck driver named Paul who was assigned by the company to work in Iraq. After a terrorist attack, he suddenly found himself waking up in a coffin, with only a mobile phone, a lighter, a pencil, and a flashlight. The biggest suspense is, how does Paul use these tools to escape?
However, the uniqueness of the film is that it does not tell the cliché inspirational story of how a desperate person exerts his self-improvement spirit to successfully save himself, but tells us a story of loneliness and despair in nature through the death of Paul at the end. .
When Paul was buried alive, he made calls to the FBI, the government and the company for help, but what he encountered was not only indifferent rejection, but also hypocritical perfunctory and deceitful comfort. Even calling his friends and family was not taken seriously.
In fact, despair is more terrifying than death. In such a desperate situation, when quicksand seeps into the coffin little by little, and Paul suffocates step by step, death is less terrifying than despair.
The film was not made into a fast-moving survival guide film such as "The First Line of Life" and "Sniper Phone Booth", but added political metaphors and factors of human thinking into the film, which made the film a higher level in terms of conception. From this point of view, it is more like "Horror Live". Of course, considering the time sequence, it may not be necessary for "Terror Live" to learn from "Buried Alive".
What is more terrifying than terrorists is the indifference of the government, the neglect of relatives, and the resulting deep despair.
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