What are the selling points of zombie movies?
Plasma is the main selling point. It directly targets people and gives strong sensory stimulation, which is essentially the same way as pornography.
When we see stumps, broken arms, rivers of blood, the hideous expressions and bloody mouths of zombies, when we hear the screams of the victims, and the chewing sounds of zombies when biting people, we will feel disgusted, scared, disgusted, and cover our eyes. .
But even so, people couldn't help but continue to enjoy the fright from their fingers.
"Dawn of the Living Dead", "28 Days of Change", "Zombie World War", "Resident Evil" series, etc., are almost all based on this.
But there are always similar films that try to give something that is not red in the blood.
For example, "Dawn of the Living Dead", "A Quiet Place", and this film "Alive" all have large chapters to describe the plot of how the survivors survive in the apocalypse. .
The survival of a person can make people feel more lonely and powerless, and also make people feel the tenacity of life, and this is the most eye-catching thing in this film.
When a college student was at home alone, zombies broke out, so in the whole residential building, only he was still alive, facing the environment of upstairs and downstairs, the front and back of the building were full of zombies.
How will he survive?
How to survive in the last days?
Or how to survive on an island?
"The Rest of the Island" starring Tom Hanks and "Everything's Lost" starring Robert Redford are great films that I have watched more than five or six times, and what attracts me most is the survival of a person and their inner struggle .
And is this kind of feeling and resonance stronger for audiences around the world who have experienced home isolation during the epidemic?
Although "Alive" is essentially a plasma zombie film, it still uses a lot of shots to show the living state of the male protagonist played by Liu Yaren in the isolated island. And compared to the lonely island of the rest of the life on the deserted island and the vast ocean where everything is lost, it is more down-to-earth to be trapped in one's own home.
The male protagonist cleverly started planning the food ration, with cereal bars, apples, biscuits, Dad's wine, and ramen as the last meal.
Close the windows, block the doors, and try to get in touch with the outside world.
At the beginning, there is a feeling of male protagonist, decisive and strong judgment.
On the seventh day, the male protagonist drank his father's wine and ate his only bowl of ramen after watching an advertisement for ramen.
I had hallucinations on the fifteenth day, and on the twentieth day, I ran out of ammunition and food, and when I learned the news that all my family members had passed away, my thoughts were burning and I wanted to die.
At this time, the heroine appeared in the form of an infrared transmitter.
The film quickly changed from a zombie survival film to a dog-blood romance in about 15 minutes.
Two people who had never met, were surprised to find that they both love to eat ramen noodles with fried sauce, with a packet of raccoons in the ramen noodles, and a drop of sesame oil.
This fit...
During the period, two heroes saved the beauty, so through the suspension bridge effect, the two became a pair.
Of course, it can't just be the male protagonist showing off his prestige.
It is simply Buddha blocking and killing Buddha and devil blocking and killing devil.
And then the hero saves the beauty...
Regarding the relationship between the two, the film is really bloody. To be honest, it is a lot more fake than the sadness that Liu Yaren showed about loneliness and the death of his family before the replay.
The only thing that can really talk about acting skills in the whole film is Liu Yaren's emotional scenes when he was alone. He used alcohol to relieve his sorrows, made fun of TV, and then had hallucinations, showing that the male protagonist went from a little panic to complete despair, especially when he heard him. When my parents and sister all passed away, the tears that I held back and the shaking shoulders, I can only remember at this time, worthy of being the movie king of "Si Mourning".
At the end of the film, according to the routine of doomsday movies, a morbid survivor was added, who fed his wife with a living person, and finally died in the mouth of his wife. have similar roles. As if there is no such one or a few hateful and pitiful people, zombie movies will always be short of something.
But this film is much better than the other films I mentioned in the portrayal of this pervert. Korean movies have always been outstanding in their portrayal of perverts. This man who loves his wife is timid, brave, and crazy. The man is well deserved to die.
To sum up, I don’t think the film is outstanding in the characteristics of the two zombie films, action scenes and special effects, and in terms of the description of human nature, although it can’t do “Train to Busan” (its group portraits are too good), but with the help of Liu Yaren and Quan Pei Xiu (just because of his ability to play this pervert, I remember him), let him portray human nature, especially in several scenes, especially in the last 80 minutes , Quan Pei Xiu blurted out a few lines, the feeling of contradiction, timidity, hesitation, but also determination and urgency came out all at once, it was really happy!
With the inspiration of these two actors, this film can have its place in the zombie film!
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