The film tells the story of survival in the wilderness, a plane crash, the billionaire and his employees, fighting and breaking through the snow jungle of Alaska, the story template is very simple. Emotional conflict is a dark line, and some places are a bit vague and obscure, so it also gives room for imagination.
Let me introduce the two protagonists first:
1. The billionaire Hopkins is
a person who possesses everything in material but is extremely lonely in spirit. Yi suspects that those who approach him are all for money. There is no friendship, only the wife I love the most. Now that his wife cheats, she will have nothing.
2, employees Alec Baldwin
wealthy wife's secret lover, robust young, hating the Cock wire a privately jealous resentment against Hopkins, have dove over the magpie's nest of ideas.
As a smart man, the rich and powerful Hopkins has already seen the clues. At the beginning of the film, he always read with a book, and the camera gave a close-up of the title page of the book. It was a birthday wish: Happy birthday, to a most thoughtful man ,and a wonderful employer. Ms. Harriet Smith. Besides, he is to anyone They are all indifferent and thoughtful.
In that bedroom scene, his wife asked him: A new book? (Just a conversation), Hopkins quickly raised his head, "It's a book for survival in the wilderness, sent by the female secretary, know why?" and repeated "Do you know why she gave it to My book?" Lao Huo thought his wife had forgotten her birthday, so he reminded him again and again. He loves his wife deeply and longs to be loved. The wife said, "You are the best man. This is the reason why I married you." Lao Huo looked at his wife deeply, "You are the only woman I ever wanted."
Personally guess the story behind the scenes, the female secretary Miss Smith has fallen in love with Hopkins. She even sent a survival letter to the wilderness on her birthday, indicating that she knew the boss’s trip to Alaska a long time ago, bought it specially, and an important manifestation of being loved is that the other party is very attentive to a word you casually say. The birthday message can also tell that Miss Smith is likely to be unmarried, and appreciates the boss’s thoughtfulness. And Hopkins almost always stays away from that book. On the one hand, he is interested, and on the other hand, it can be said that he likes Miss Smith and subconsciously like it.
Hopkins still firmly believes in his love for his wife. He wants to face this secret lover and confront him to save his almost only emotional wealth. So he agreed to take a flight with Alec Baldwin to take an adventure. The plane suddenly asked: "How do you plan to kill me?" So people were shocked. This emotional conflict just broke out, and the external conflict came at the same time. The plane was hit by a bird. Out of control and forced landing.
Three people survived. On the way to survive, Hopkins still asked the truth about the derailment: "Do you think I'm a fool?" But he was provoked by Alec Baldwin and his words were horrible. This secret lover deliberately expressed anger, trying to hide the facts in disguise. Although Hopkins was provoked, he fell into confusion for a while. At this time, the brown bear came. When he fled, Hopkins was rescued by his rival in love. He was surprised and fell into a deeper bewilderment. I said earlier that Alec Baldwin had the idea of occupying a magpie's nest, but it was just an idea and has not yet been implemented. He didn't want to kill Hopkins either, he just thought his existence was a BUG, so why does he have everything! Saving Hopkins in danger is out of human nature.
This action shocked Hopkins. Perhaps the fight on the market was more ruthless and ruthless than natural fighting. He was accustomed to the cruelty of the rich, and was touched by this unconscious action.
Zong Neng killed a teammate, leaving only the two more conflicted. In the face of dangerous cooperation, this primitive law of survival has to be followed, which can deepen the friendship between men the most. For example, a strong team, the more brilliant it creates, the deeper the brotherhood. The emotions and trust established among them are the most innocent, sweeping all negative emotions, including loneliness.
In this movie, one of the charms of Anthony Hopkins's role is initiative. This initiative is not about going forward in everything, but controlling destiny. Being followed by a killing machine like the brown bear, he almost died several times. He became weaker and weaker. Even the younger and more aggressive Alec Baldwin repeatedly asked, what should we do? I'm afraid the audience is also nervous, how can we get rid of this beast. Hopkins pondered for a long time and said, kill the bear! This idea is so shocking, so charming, just an idea is amazing. For example, the role of Xu Zheng as a lawyer in the "no man's land" not long ago was criticized for being passive from beginning to end.
No one can be timid to kill a brown bear, and save each other's lives. This is a primitive instinct. You can't live if your teammate is dead. After successfully killing the bear, the two men supported lying on the brown bear's corpse. At this time, all the confrontation disappeared.
The two of them are walking in the snow and have begun to talk to their hearts. Hopkins said "i said this is my life, this is my life, but you can change your life" (if this is my life, this is my life, but you can change your life). The "life" here is the state of life of a person, such as his own loneliness. This is changeable. Love rivals can become confidants. What else is impossible. Anyone can have innocent feelings, so you can choose not lonely. "I didn't believe it before because I had never seen anyone who really changed their lives," Hopkins lamented.
In the wood cabin, Hopkins still found evidence of his wife's derailment. The engraving of the wife on Alec Baldwin's watch is "To Bob from Michey, for all the nights", which is simply too explicit. Hopkins wanted to burn the paper slips, but now Alec Baldwin came in with a shotgun, ready to load the bullets. This is definitely a misunderstanding, and it's time for Hopkins to think of his murder. It is logically inevitable to think this way. We have reached a safe place, there is no need for cooperation, and there is no third party. At this time, when will we not kill. And when we saw Alec Baldwin holding a bullet, we were saying that if I took the camera, I would definitely make a fortune (he is a photographer, and the scenery is so beautiful. We can also find that Baldwin’s character lies in the love of money and hatred. Rich is not bloodthirsty).
At this point, thinking that he would be silenced, Hopkins questioned the lettering on Baldwin's watch. Alec Baldwin was shocked when he heard this, and knew that he couldn't hide it, he continued to load bullets and pretended to be stupid, and his murderous intentions slowly appeared at this time.
When he raised the gun, he dared not start, he kept talking nonsense to cover up his nervousness, and asked Hopkins to turn around, afraid to face his sharp eyes. I think it was at this moment that Hopkins remembered the trap on the ground and forced him to fall back into the trap. I believe this statement is the reason why Hopkins escaped from the dead but did not kill Baldwin. It is not that he is noble and has the quality of forgiveness. Imagine that there are no twists and turns, and the man who gives the cuckold will kill you, will you kill him after you get the gun? Will you save him? If you still save, you are not a human being, you are a god! The inevitable result of character behavior is because there is a psychological inevitable factor.
Life is too easy to be alone, and it is a blessing to have a confidant who can experience life and death. Now that there is friendship, if you can get rid of loneliness, why do you want to destroy it because of an irreparable relationship. Saving him is an inevitable choice.
Baldwin was seriously injured by the trap, and Hopkins rescued him on the boat and kept encouraging him to live. Baldwin began to repent, he realized the power of friendship, and he really repented for his sins. The words before dying were in tears.
"I know the reason. You never had a close partner, did you?"
"Yes"
"Now I am your pet plan, and I am your hobby"
"Whatever you say, Bob!"
"To kill you" People, you save him, you stupid son of bitch!"
"No, you haven't done that yet"
"I'm dying, I'm dying but I've never done anything decent, Charles, I'm sorry! I did it for me I'm sorry for what I did. "Baldwin is dead.
Finally, Hopkins returned to the camp and interviewed by the overwhelming reporters. He walked in the middle and hugged his wife with a gentleman's smile. It was very brief, but his eyes were far away. The wife seemed to have noticed, but she lowered her head to see her husband returning the watch to her. It was given to Baldwin by her, and it was engraved with To Bob from Michey, for all the nights.
The reporter asked: Where are your friends? How did they die?
Hopkins was in tears: They died, to save my life.
Many people say that the last sentence is impressive, so how do you understand it? My personal understanding is that Hopkins who originally lost love is equal to a dead person. He wants to save, wants to save love, but he has no intention of realizing that there is true love everywhere in this world. It depends on how you choose. Their death taught him life, and he shed tears because he missed them.
In the following plot, I think Hopkins should go to Miss Smith, because he already understands that his wife doesn't love him, and he has the ability to get a new life.
PS: In addition, I understand that when Anthony Hopkins made this film, he fell into a glacier and was seriously ill and was hospitalized. The red airplane in the film is the one from Harry Fordson's "Six Days and Seven Nights". I have seen it before and I am still very impressed. The movie starring originally chose Robert De Niro or Dustin Hoffman, and finally chose Anthony Hopkins.
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