The story of the dark night visit and some misunderstandings.

Kadin 2022-12-18 17:37:35

First of all, my opinion: The Will family has no malice at all, and Will did not lie.

In the end, it was indeed that Xiao Hei sleepwalked out to find a dog and was infected, and then infected other people.

I tend to talk about distrust between people in this movie. And doomsday disease is only the carrier of the story line. To provide the background for the story, the tight environment of the outside world and the two families in a small space. Sleepwalking is the fuse. In the end, we can see that in the face of a disaster that humans cannot resist, it is not infectious diseases that really kill the Will family, but bullets from the same kind.

Misunderstandings: 1. The two people that Will and the hero meet are not Will's father and brothers. The last shot I looked at their bodies was the male lead, who buried them, not Will. Will was repairing the car.
2. Will lied to the male protagonist about having a brother. In fact, he didn't lie to the male protagonist. At first, Will said he was a brother (brother) and later he said he was a brother in law (brother in law). It was just a slip of the tongue.
Those suspicious plots and dialogues are actually deliberately arranged by the film itself, so that the audience will empathize. If you are a male host, you will also have such doubts. But from an objective point of view, Will broke in with a gun at the beginning, was tied to a tree, and then was forced to leave. Will is not harmful at all. Although, we can't conclude that he is really not wicked, but we can really be sure that everything that happened from beginning to end is in his calculation of the male lead family? Obviously not.
We can also see that the male host’s family looks very kind from beginning to end, but in the end he shot and killed a five-year-old child. Although the child is sick, this is not a zombie movie. The child will turn into a zombie. Come back and bite them. The patients did not pose a direct threat to them, they killed the Wills only out of fear that they would come back to take their material resources. So what's the reason for the story from saving lives at the beginning to killing at the end?

My conclusion is: The Will family has no malice at all, and Will has not lied. Just a simple family fleeing, it is misunderstanding and suspicion that ultimately exposes human nature and instinct in the face of danger.

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It Comes at Night quotes

  • Paul: I'm just going to turn through a few things. When we go out during the day we like to stick to groups of two, just for safety. The red door, it's the only way in and out of the house. That stays closed and locked all the time. I have the keys, this is the only set.

    [he shows them the keys tied around his neck]

    Paul: The most important thing, we never go out at night. Got it?

  • Travis: [as the dog starts to bark at something in the woods] What's he see? What's he see?

    Will: He heard something.

    Paul: Let's get back in the house! Now!