Contradiction; Life; Humanity

Bailee 2022-04-19 09:02:28

The development of the movie's plot is intertwined, but it seems to be so unnatural. What touched me the most in the movie was the scene after their group entered the house. The female doctor told a story to the little zombie girl, the story of her birth, and their second-generation zombies need to eat all the way from the mother's womb to the outside to come out. While they were talking, the movie footage showed the heroine taking a gun to patrol the building. The heroine found a zombie on the first floor. Unlike the sleeping zombies outside, the zombie's feet were chained and gnawed at her left hand. According to the setting in the movie, when there is no external interference, the zombie should be in a quiet state, but the zombie is eating itself. Combined with the fact that when the female doctor's assistant was just infected, she was lying on the ground, sucking her own blood greedily. From this, it can be roughly judged that the zombie should have been infected not long ago, and here is a hidden line . The reason why this shot is alternated with the dialogue between the doctor and the little girl may be a metaphor for the birth of zombies from the inside out, and the zombie who was locked by the chain still has a little humanity because he was just infected, but He keeps gnawing at himself. This is a metaphor for the demise of human beings. In essence, on the one hand, human beings use chains to lock up their own morality and the shining things in human nature. Constantly nibbling away the fierce contradictions between itself and the human race. The birth of zombies is not a single factor, but the cause of both internal and external effects.
Another thing that left an impression on me in this movie was the portrayal of the female doctor. At the beginning of the movie, the female doctor asks the zombie girl to report the number. After reporting the number, the children in the ward corresponding to that number will disappear. Later movies reveal that this is because those children were treated as experimental subjects by the female doctor. It can be seen here that the female doctor's contempt for the lives of zombie children. But on the other hand, she constantly wants to complete her own experiments to save humanity in the film, at the expense of the lives of zombie girls. At the beginning, more or less I thought that she might have a little selfishness of her own, but after she found out that she was not saved, she still wanted to save mankind, and even at the end of the movie, she could stay at the base completely. When he was inside, he still resolutely went after the little girl. It can be seen from this that her feelings for human beings are greater than her own life. But isn't the life of a zombie girl not life? The film asks us a question, what is the definition of life, is it a physical definition, or is it a spiritual definition? Of course, the heroine survived at the end of the film, which seems to answer this question vaguely.

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The Girl with All the Gifts quotes

  • Dr. Caroline Caldwell: In dissection it's very clear. The fungus is wrapped around your brain like, ivy around an oak tree.

    Melanie: But I can talk. I'm like you.

    Dr. Caroline Caldwell: You're not like anything that's ever existed before.

  • Melanie: Babies can't eat people.

    Dr. Caroline Caldwell: These ones did. The mothers were probably all infected at once, in a single incident. Then the embryos they were carrying took the infection as well... through the placenta... They ate their way out.