When watching "Fatal Visit", I couldn't help but think of her novel "A Man". This novel conceives a society in which collectivism has developed to its extreme. It is not reserved to say that this society is very similar to the cosmopolitan society or communist society that we have described in history or political books since we were young, except that it may be collectively. Too much. When collectivism develops to completely ignore individual characteristics, collectivism will become a form of violence, and once a collective becomes an organization based on collective thinking, individual needs will inevitably be ignored or even suppressed, just like The American society after being infected as described in this film. Cold viruses are less harmful to the human body, and the living host is conducive to their expansion; Ebola virus kills the host within a few days, has the style of killing chickens and retrieving eggs, but reproduces rapidly in a short period of time. However, the virus in the film is somewhat difficult to explain from the perspective of evolution. Let alone the question of whether the personality can be controlled through genetic modification (psychology is still inconclusive), why does the virus bother to change a person's personality? For viruses to effectively infect new hosts, it is enough to spread their own genetic information in large quantities. Some people may say that this is a side effect of infection, just like a cold and a runny nose. Obviously, such a virus will not have such a high level of intelligence. The virus will actively spread itself (through air, blood, body fluids, skin contact, etc.), but if the virus is intelligent enough to use the human brain to think and think abstractly, then it will perfect the corresponding disguise. But thank God that such a virus has not been found to exist.
When I watched "Deadly Visit", I always felt that the group of people infected by the alien virus was like a group of extreme socialist terrorists, using all violent means to make everyone around them a member of this organization, and "injecting "This method of infection feels more like a political brainwashing, so people who become part of the organization after being infected will have no impression of the experience of being injected, just like people who have been politically brainwashed will never feel that they have been Violated the same. As for the way that the movie sets up an infection and becomes a member of the organization after a sleep, it is more like a metaphor for people's thinking that "wish the world will become what you want when you wake up".
The fourth is motivation. There is still controversy as to whether the virus belongs to life. On the one hand, a virus has the most basic characteristics of a living body (sadly that these characteristics look more like philosophical definitions than biological concepts), and it reproduces itself by parasitizing in host cells. On the other hand, from a molecular point of view, viruses are just a combination of macromolecular organics according to rules, which is a reverse evolution and can even be crystallized. Going back to the virus itself, the question of the significance of their existence should not be considered from a human perspective. It is reasonable to be able to use resources to survive and reproduce and to metabolize (if it is a virus). Therefore, the cold virus and Ebola virus are essentially the same, only due to evolution.
In addition, when Ben persuaded Carol to become a member of the organization after being infected in "Fatal Visit", his word "we" made me deeply appreciate the expression of ayn rand's thoughts in this film. In "One Person", ayn rand has spent a lot of writing to reveal the mass thought composition of the collectivist society she assumed. In this collectivist society, there are no such words as "you", "me", and "he". All of you are "you", I am "us", he is "them", you can find that in the film The organization is indeed an organization that ignores individual collectivism as its purpose. There is no difference between people and individuals have no emotions, because emotional changes are too personal expressions for the collective. When the heroine was repeatedly persuaded, the social goal of "no ugliness, no violence, all beautiful" mentioned by the other party is more like a society in the idealist ideals of radical political thoughts. Is it true that when social thought is controlled and monopolized by collectivism, those ugly and violent things will really disappear? Can people really be happy? According to my thinking, there is no happiness in a uniform society that lacks individuality.
First of all, the control of perspiration should be based on the spinal nerve reflex, so it is difficult for us to increase or decrease perspiration through consciousness. Of course, you can make yourself feel that there is a change or sweat because of tension in your palms through psychological adjustment, but this is more of a hormone caused by changes in the brain. Release and then cause conditioned reflex stress behavior. Later, the movie did mention the problem of gray matter and white paper (people who have been infected with encephalitis gain immunity), but the brain and spinal cord are not the same. Strictly speaking, the brain only sleeps, and brain sleep has nothing to do with perspiration. Unless this virus is so powerful, it can completely change the basic functions of the human body.
Of course, since the film is positioned as a horror film, it is also suspected of being too picky about the sci-fi background of "Deadly Visit". But limited to his scripts coming from the best-selling science fiction novels, people can't help but scrutinize his hard science fiction background a bit.
Again, it is a philosophical point of view (admire yourself). It turns out that there is always something like vulgar materialism in the world (I believe that consciousness is just a substance secreted by the human brain, so there is no absolute consciousness, only matter is the origin of the world), I watched this movie Believe. It is confirmed that sleep produces rapid eye movement, so it is a bit unreasonable to secrete solid sweat through the virus during sleep.
The unknown world is always the most attractive, and curiosity itself is one of the reasons for human existence. So the world we have not yet known is a good subject. And accompanied by the unknown, there are always looming dangers and fears. The subject matter of this film just assembles all of these.
The first is extraterrestrial life, a topic that has been debated for a long time. Whether there is life outside the earth, what is more concerned is whether there is intelligent life, and their relationship to human beings on the earth.
The second is the animation of viral phagocytes repeatedly shown to us by black doctors. One thing is certain, this comes from macrophages eating other cells. But the problem is that people are the largest blood cells, and the film is about a virus. If it is really a virus infection, we should see a cell, and then a very small and very small (the hospital equipment can never see it) is attached to it, and then the cell is broken after a while. . . However, if it is photographed like this, the visual impact is definitely not as big as the white blood cells of the bright jellyfish that eat small cells. This consideration is excusable.
In terms of material selection, although far-fetched, a horror film almost involves the common elements of science fiction movies, and I have to praise it. However, as for the specific science fiction logic, I personally think that it can't stand the test.
Next is the virus. Although human medicine is so advanced, our understanding of viruses is indeed so limited. So that for the simplest cold, all we can do is to rely on probability to find an immune vaccine after some people are infected and vaccinate others. The dazzling array of special cold medicines in our pharmacy have all the effects of relieving cold symptoms and improving immunity. It is the so-called absolute cure for the symptoms but not the root cause. The reason why colds currently do not have a high mortality rate is at the mercy of the virus itself, rather than the strength of human medicine (the Spanish flu is a special case). I think this is why the cold virus has repeatedly become the hope of saving mankind in science fiction movies such as "World War" and "Alien", at least it is grateful.
Once again, it is a common problem of science fiction movies, that is to fool the lay audience in pursuit of visual effects. In fact, the art props are ordinary people, and science fiction writers disdain to describe the appearance of each alien species in detail. Therefore, the images of so-called alien creatures we see are mostly exaggerations of the human world. To show his high wisdom, it is a bright big head (ET, Martian); to show his viciousness, it is the scales of reptiles plus insect thorns (MIB, alien); to show his nausea, it is mold spores Yellow-green plus a transparent viscous liquid like connective tissue exudate or lymph.
This film is no exception. Although it tells the audience that it is a virus (also talked about a single-cell virus, sweat), it has formed a colorful crystal-like tissue on the outer shell of the space shuttle. Our common single-celled species that is visible to the naked eye is probably a mushroom like Tai Sui. But mushrooms are fungi, and the crystals of this size formed by viruses are indeed orders of magnitude terrifying. Moreover, the crystals formed by the virus have such hardness (Zhaponik’s ex-husband’s fingers), which is even more powerful. From a scientific point of view, is it the legendary silicon-based life?
Again it is parasitic and mind control. The worst evaluation of a person in Chinese may be muddled, walking dead; and the image in Western movies that is worse than a vampire may be a zombie. It must be terrible to lose yourself and be controlled all the time.
Finally, there are sleep and dreams. Aristotle originally thought that people think with the heart, and the brain is just the outdoor unit of the air conditioner that cools the blood. Soon we learned that people rely on the brain for thinking, but our understanding of sleep is not substantially different from that of hundreds of years ago. And after this is people's deep fear of losing their rationality and restricting the subconscious in their sleep.
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