【Movie】18018[4.14] "Maze Runner 3: The Antidote to Death"

Precious 2022-04-19 09:01:52

The last of the three dystopian teen movies that have been popular in the past few years has finally come to an end. As the parkour team finally arrived at the final city, the movie was able to switch to the WCKD perspective, and a series of puzzles that have been plaguing the audience were finally solved: in the face of the virus, all human beings are not immune, and the safe zone is also infected step by step , Occupied, WCKD builds the labyrinth, it is the antidote to defeat the virus from the immune body. From the perspective of a parkour team, WCKD is cruel, but in the world, WCKD represents the interests of most ordinary people without immunity.

The emotion of the story is a huge reversal in the last episode. This should be a very powerful selling point, but the actual presentation effect is very unsatisfactory.

First of all, the theme throughout this episode is to save Minho, but Minho, who was rescued in the end, did not play any special role. I know that Minho is a good moji of the parkour team, but at the end of the world, he would abandon the entire revolutionary army and go to the enemy's base camp alone, just to save his good friends, the protagonist is too ignorant of the overall situation. At the same time that I can't understand the role of Minho, I also can't understand the role of the male lead. Apart from being daring, he has been coming up with all kinds of bad ideas, but it really doesn't play much of a role as a leader. Even my female companion who was wandering the whole time said "The male lead is in the end. What's the use?" This kind of question shows how obvious the male protagonist's failure is.

The answer to the mystery is indeed filled in a bunch of holes dug by the previous work, but at the same time, it also exposes how many bugs in the logic of the story. Since the purpose of WCKD is so righteous, why not explain it clearly to the teenagers early in the morning? If I were an immunized person, I would definitely participate in the experiment voluntarily. As for cultivating a bunch of good immunized people into a rebel army? WCKD wastes a lot of resources to build a maze, and they are so poor that they can't afford bulletproof glass. However, he did not study the blood samples of the immunized people, and he did not know that the only anti-venom was the male protagonist? ! If the male protagonist died in the labyrinth, and the loss was a former employee of WCKD, the screenwriter would be too incompetent. Also, was that self-destructing truck loaded with antimatter? It was possible to blow up the city walls hundreds of meters high and tens of meters thick at one time! Also, creatures with some kind of structure can dive from dozens of floors without incident. Normal human beings will break their whole bodies without dying. In the end, after the male protagonist had finished reading the warm suicide note written by his brother, he turned his head and saw the girl's name engraved on the stone tablet. What's the point? ! ? !

At the end of the day, I got a little insight from the revolutionary army outside the city. Just like "Rise of the Planet of the Apes 3" half a year ago, it was not the virus that killed the flames of human civilization, but the human beings themselves. People are selfish creatures. It is easy to convince yourself to forgive yourself, but it is difficult to convince yourself to forgive others. Therefore, in the face of disasters, people are used to classifying themselves as victims. People outside the city imagine that everyone in the city has vaccines, so they hate it. , hostile to the last city, and the people in the city have not achieved information symmetry, so the revolutionary army has been cultivated. When everyone went through hardships and sweated a lot, the anti-venom was finally overwhelmed, but the flame of hope was immediately extinguished by an explosion. They all call themselves revolutionaries, but revolutionaries may not be heroes, but mob. Therefore, I understand that in those days the People's Anchorage of the Republic of China supported Chairman Chiang, who was "heinous" in textbooks, because most of them were from the city. For them, what the Red Army launched was not an uprising, but a riot. . The reason why there are diametrically opposite narratives in later textbooks is because history is written by the victors. But how will future generations evaluate the outsiders who invaded the last city? Are they revolutionary or mob? The premise is that there will be people who can write history in later generations.

The 144-minute film is too long, and even I, who have always been partial to the "Maze Runner" series, feel bored. Except for Newt and Teresa, all the characters, including the silly hero, got negative points for their performances. Just to put an end to it, I don't want to watch it, I don't recommend it, and the speed is deleted.

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Maze Runner: The Death Cure quotes

  • Thomas: There's no guarantee we'll make it back from this.

    Newt: But we started it together, we might as well end it that way too.

  • Thomas: Do you regret it? What you did to us?

    Teresa: Sometimes. But I did what I thought was right.