Doomsday. It's so close to us.

Stephon 2022-04-20 09:01:44

I watched this movie after the earthquake in Wenchuan, Sichuan, and I felt more panic in my heart than when I watched disaster movies in the past. When I looked at it, my hair stood up, my chest was stuffy, as if I was facing a tragedy, and I couldn't do anything about it.

April 3, 2008. Glasgow.
It was a contagious disease that turned the city into a hell on earth. Those tiny biological tissues steadily attacked the crowd, plundering lives and bodies that did not belong to them. The city was surrounded by a 30-foot-tall steel-steel wall, and the area was littered with mines, and the sky was set up as a no-fly zone. Those who are inside cannot get out, and those who are outside cannot get in.
The epidemic area is full of broken walls, overgrown with weeds, and corpses everywhere.
In a war without gunpowder smoke, all those who participated in the war were innocent people. But their endings, without exception, are self-inflicted.
Fortunately, this is fictional.

How these look like Wenchuan after May 12, 2008.
Without an inch of flat land, not only houses but also hills collapsed. There are many people lying down, and few people can move. Power outages, water outages, communications interruptions, and anything we can imagine about hell on earth are happening in this once rich and warm land. Nothing was missed.
To this day, there are still aftershocks of magnitude 4 or higher.
Unfortunately, these are not movies.

People who are hungry and thirsty, how much heavy load can they take, how many days can they go without sleep? What's more, some of them were still wounded, bleeding, skin and muscle punctured by broken bones, tormenting every nerve of theirs. They are getting closer to death.
What a similar scene. The helicopter could not land, and the crowd outside had no way to enter the disaster area. Very few people survived inside. What a shocking sight it was, like a sharp knife stabbing the heart.

Another fundraiser was organized in the class in the morning. There are still so many responders.
Everyone wants to save people with the little money in their hands. Even if one person's breathing is prolonged, it is worth it. I suddenly felt very moved. It was the disaster that made the hearts of people from all corners of the world connected. The sky of this world has no more patches, it is a whole sky of clear hope without haze.
Some people said to donate blood, and when they said it, they squeezed their tiny arms. I hope that at that moment I can be a certain god, who bestows the person in front of me with happiness and peace that will never fade for a lifetime.
Some people say it would be nice if I were a soldier and I could rescue those people instead of these tiny donations. I thought to myself, although you can't save someone with your own hands, trust that someone is thanking you out there.


The Kuomintang said it was ready and waiting for the call of the Communist Party at any time.
Those foreign media and the military have extended a helping hand one after another.
Yup. When disaster strikes, should we also learn to be optimistic. You see so many good things happening, and you see the world tilting toward this center of gravity.
When I watched "A Thousand Splendid Suns", I was thinking, why do human beings create so many wars like infighting? What are the benefits for the development of this earth when the Afghan people are struggling? Why use so much effort to hurt ourselves instead of trying to deal with nature's disasters without solidarity.

I am looking forward to the great harmony of the world.
Let the end of the world be far away from us.

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Hope that kind people can be safe.
People who hope for peace can be optimistic.

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Extended Reading
  • Gust 2022-04-22 07:01:31

    While becoming an American street rock beast, and returning to the Middle Ages. In the end, the heroine stayed a little bit incomprehensible, maybe it was safer inside than outside.

  • Robb 2022-03-27 09:01:08

    Mixed, bloody, unreasonable but still enjoyable.

Doomsday quotes

  • Eden Sinclair: So, if we don't get out, no one will know we went in?

    Michael Canaris: You've got forty-eight hours. If you don't make it back, all of London and everybody in it, will be left to die.

    Eden Sinclair: If it's there, I'll find it.

    Michael Canaris: You'll need this. It's a GPS locator beacon. It'll tell us exactly where you are. We'll have a gun ship standing by to extract your team.

    Eden Sinclair: So much for low profile.

    Michael Canaris: Once you have the cure...

    [slides open door of helicopter]

    Michael Canaris: it won't matter.

    Eden Sinclair: What happens if I don't find anything up there?

    Michael Canaris: [as he steps out of the helicopter, looks back:] Then you needn't bother coming back.

  • Dr. Ben Stirling: [on the goods train] Where are you taking us?

    Cally: Somewhere safe for the moment.

    Eden Sinclair: Sorry to piss on your chips, but we haven't got time to play safe. You said you'd take us to Kane, and I need to see him *now.*

    Cally: I said I would help you find him. I can't take you to him.

    Norton: Why not?

    Cally: Because he will kill me. And if he finds out where you're from, he'll kill you, too. Ever since Sol left, he's become suspicious of everyone, even me. These people are too afraid to defy him. And those who dare are tortured or killed. You're living proof of a world beyond that wall. All our lives we've been told there was nothing out there. You being here makes him a liar.

    Eden Sinclair: What were you doing in the city?

    Cally: I went to find my brother. Sol.

    Eden Sinclair: That maniac is your brother?

    Norton: That is one fucked-up family, man.

    Cally: They're at war. And we're caught right in the middle.