Buried alive

Bethany 2022-04-22 07:01:19

This is probably the least expensive movie. Except for another video received by the mobile phone, all the pictures are concentrated in a small wooden box, and there is only one character trapped in the wooden box. Important props: lighters, torches, fluorescent tubes, mobile phones. As the most important prop, the mobile phone has become the main clue of the plot. On the other end of the phone, the 911 emergency center, mother, Dona, the kidnappers in Iraq, the FBI, the commander of the rescue team, the director of the CRT personnel department, and his wife appeared one after another.

The narrow and airtight coffin makes it difficult to turn around. Fear, anger, panic and despair can not help but feel the same. The film profoundly shows the psychological changes of characters in various situations. When I woke up in the dark, I was panting when I suddenly found out, I couldn't understand the helpless panic when I talked to the 911 emergency center and others, and I even lost control. I recorded a video and uploaded it to Yutube. I found out that the poisonous snake broke into the wooden coffin. Pamela Lutti Despair after being shot video, renewed hope after talking to rescue team commander Dan Brenner, desperation after gunfire shattered wooden boxes and quicksand pouring in, Dan Brenner tells of renewed hope when location has been found and final despair and death . The plot is really twists and turns. In the end, the person Dan Brenner rescued and found was actually Mark White who told Paul that he had been rescued, which is also quite meaningful, and the end of the film ends with Dan Brenner's "I'm sorry, Paul, I'm so sorry." It can be said to echo each other.

Back to the content of the movie, the reason why Paul Coreny was kidnapped and buried alive, the movie also mentioned several times through the mouths of the kidnappers and rescue commander Dan Brenner, the kidnappers were originally just civilians, but the war destroyed their relatives, families, work and everything, as Dan Brenner said Say: they're just that, people, no different from you and me.

On the other hand, the 911 emergency center's attitude towards Paul, various transfer waits, Dona's attitude, and the loneliness of not getting in touch with his family, etc., made Paul doubt the enthusiasm of the rescuers. In order to appease Paul's emotions, Dan Brenner gave an example of Mark White who had been rescued. Then at the end of the movie, it was unexpectedly found that Mark White was also being kidnapped like Paul. The movie wants to show that the government army may Are the little people ineffective in their rescue, blaming each other and not caring for the lives of the hostages? Or maybe it is the panic and suspicious psychology of people in such a closed environment. The scene where the director of the CRT Personnel Department recorded a last-minute phone call to Paul and proposed to terminate the contract with Paul, etc., indeed showed the businessman's side of focusing only on interests and ignoring human nature.

The flickering light of the lighter, the flashlight, the sudden recall of the phone ringing or the vibration reinforces this confined situation and the characters' panic and fear.

There is a little doubt: since the cell phone has a signal and the lighter has been burning for a long time, this means that the location of the wooden coffin should not be buried deep. Dan Brenner also mentioned in the call, why Paul Coreny will lie in the wooden coffin and wait to die in the end. Why not dig out of the broken top to find a way to survive? Since the quicksand filled the wooden coffin in the last few minutes, and Dan Brenner gave Paul hope of survival, there should be such a survival. Instinct, perhaps this is an anomaly.

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Extended Reading
  • Dominic 2021-11-30 08:01:24

    The most economical movie of the year! ★★★★

  • Madisen 2022-03-27 09:01:05

    A wonderfully experimental film. The whole film only has a scene in a coffin, a person, a mobile phone and a few sundries, but there is no urine in the more than 90 minutes of the plot, which will make your heart beat faster and hold your breath to watch it! While making people feel despair, the "anti-terrorism" war, various indifference relationships between people and families, companies, countries, and society are all vividly reflected. (8.5/10)

Buried quotes

  • [first lines]

    Paul Conroy: [screaming] Hey!

  • Jabir: You show blood, or they show blood.