I watched a movie "Buried Alive", an ultra-low-cost niche movie. The whole movie took an hour and a half and only one actor, but I still watched it with relish.
The film tells the story of a truck driver who came to work in Iraq. He was kidnapped on the way. He woke up and found himself in a coffin. He was buried alive. The kidnappers gave him a mobile phone, a knife, a lighter and a light stick. He did not completely kill him, but used him to threaten the US government to pay ransom, but the capital was still disappointing after all.
The feeling of watching the movie is very depressing. I will feel like the male protagonist, being locked in a coffin and trying to escape desperately. The airtight environment makes people unable to breathe.
Come and see life.
Aren't most of our lives buried alive? Being in a depressing environment, throwing you some survival necessities, letting you struggle to live, then giving you a glimmer of hope for rebirth, and shoving you into the ground, and finally being tortured to the point of suffocation, in the process, seeking to survive opportunity and meaning, but the script has long been written to death, there is no possibility of survival, a movie, a life.
Want to know how this movie ends? Or are you looking forward to the ending?
Just like in life, if you don't give in and don't accept your fate, you can't get rid of it in the end.
The ending of this movie is also expected. The male protagonist called the US embassy. The embassy told the male protagonist that the location where he was buried had been found. As the male protagonist opened a small opening in the coffin, sand like The hourglass generally filled in, time was racing against the clock, and hope was placed indefinitely. Until finally, the other end of the phone came out and found the coffin of the person who was buried before. At this moment, the end of the play, fate has become a foregone conclusion.
Chilling with this ending, there are a few more moments.
When learning that the male protagonist was kidnapped, in order to escape responsibility, the company fired him immediately. It was like you had fallen into a pit, and the person you trusted not only did not lend a helping hand, but threw stones in the pit. Humanity is in the interest of We are vulnerable and too realistic. We are a screw in the society and the company. When it rusts, it will always be replaced. There is nothing unique and irreplaceable.
When the embassy received the call for help from the male protagonist, when they knew his identity and the conditions of the kidnappers, I guessed that they did not take immediate action. For capital and the country, the interests were at the forefront, and they would definitely consider "worth it". The question, although he has been talking about rescue, but the male protagonist who gradually lost hope also raised this point and asked the embassy, is it because he is an ordinary person that he will not be rescued? This chilling and cruelty makes us, who are also ordinary people, feel chilled.
The whole film does not reveal who the kidnapper is, whether he is a member of a terrorist organization, whether he has a name or a surname. It cannot be disclosed specifically.
what can we do?
What we seem to be able to do is to keep struggling, to live and grow, and at certain moments, we are like "Schrödinger's cat", maybe there is a chance to breathe, maybe suffocate, but only at the last moment can we know the result.
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