By the side of the road, with a broken car, a cute rabbit tried to cross this tortuous road. This was originally their world, but in return it was killed under the wheel and the body was crushed into meat sauce.
This is the beginning of the film, unknown, lonely and bloody, revealing a sense of uneasy horror. A couple wants to drive through this wasteland, so a sense of fear hits the audience's heart along with their experience. The dragon slammed on the windshield, bloody and bloody, which also predicted the horror of this journey. But the protagonist's reaction was just disgusting, and washed away with mineral water at will.
In the United States, most road movies are always inseparable from killings. The blood and gore will be staged in a hotel where they are staying, even if it does not happen while driving. But the meaning of each road film is different.
"The End of the Road" is a classic road movie. Two women challenge the world of men, so they move on the road. The road symbolizes their imaginary future, but unfortunately this future is hindered by the cliff, so the woman is in There is still no feminist artistic conception on the roads made by men.
But most of the killings of road movies cannot rise to this level of social meaning with the word "ism", and what is left is fear. Perhaps, roads mean journeys, and journeys are always unknown, so, People have feared the unknown, and the feared unknown has turned into some perverted murderers, walking on the highway.
I believe that people who have watched this film will begin to believe in a rule, that is, never let strangers hitchhikers, first strangers, later generations, we are afraid of such strangers, and people become alienated and terrified because of strangeness. But in fact, this criterion will only make strangers more terrifying.
This remake of a classic from 1986 turns the protagonist into a couple. They could have refused to carry a stranger, but by chance, after escaping, they had to take this man named John with them. The plot is so deductive, but I prefer to believe that strangers are following the couple, so the incident that I am afraid began to happen.
The plot of the first hand-to-hand scene takes place in the car of the couple. Of course, this is also a plot that contains a huge amount of information. The ring that John wears is said to make people believe him more. Why does a murderer need someone to believe in this way? To kill? To let the victim relax his vigilance? Wrong, at the end of the film, John was merciless and cruel and decisive when he murdered. This has nothing to do with whether the victim believes him or not. Therefore, the subtext for people to believe him is that people do not believe him. Combined with the couple's first refusal to upload, the image of a person abandoned by society appears.
The tragic death of a rabbit on the highway was not because it did not know how to cross the road, but because the driver ignored its existence. Then, people hurried in the wasteland will notice whether the people who are abandoned by society exist? The answer is of course no. This is the real unknown. Because of ignoring the unknown due to abandonment, the unknown has two options. The first is to continue the unknown and fend for itself, and the second is to use the unknown to stimulate those who are known. Perverts often choose the latter.
Death is terrible. When John used Grace to threaten Jim to say the words "I want to die", perhaps this is the voice of John himself. Only death can arouse the fear of the unknown in the hearts of those known people. This fear will divert people’s attention to the unknown. Therefore, John began to use death to reinforce the young people's cognition of the unknown.
Those who choose to die must first face death, so a family of four became victims, Jim and Grace began to face death, and therefore became the executors of death. Although this is just a brief blaming, it is obvious that death made them deeply impressed by the unknown. It's a pity that this couple is always evading death, which is undoubtedly not enough to make John feel his wish. Although the death made the couple affirm the significance of John's existence, escape still did not solve people's attention to him.
Human courage is sometimes extremely cowardly. When facing death, they only adopt an escape. Similarly, when people face the unknown and the world they are indifferent, they will also only adopt escape. However, death will come after all, the unknown will eventually manifest in front of the known, and the neglected will eventually appear in the life of the neglected. This is why John always let go of the couple, and always followed them in the death game.
When Jim was pulled between the two trucks, Grace pointed a gun at John's head. John said the four words he had asked Jim to say "I want to die." In fact, this is indeed John’s true thoughts, because he finally got the opportunity for others to face him, but the more important reason is that he thinks Grace can truly face death, the so-called true face of death, its meaning lies in Being able to start with death, not just escape, is far more participatory than ignoring death. Although this is an extreme idea, it is quite normal for an abandoned person. It's a pity that Grace disappointed John after all, she was still running away, and Jim died tragically because of it.
At the end of the film, when Grace pointed a gun at John, John said that it's not difficult, right!
When the United States replaced the original wilderness of America with urbanization, all places outside the cities were in a state of indifference and neglect. Only one road seemed to be connected to the city, but it seemed so fragile. A kind of unknown arises from neglect, and a fear arises from neglect. Therefore, the film expands this fear of unknown with an illogical abnormal behavior. Death is also unknown, and fear is also unknown. , But it has given a kind of social meaning in American culture. Although it is not strong, it is actually rooted in the development of the United States.
This is a kind of extreme psychological suggestion. Under this kind of suggestion, many horror and thrillers have been produced. Although it has not really risen to the point where it can be explained by a certain kind of doctrine, this phenomenon is unique to Americans. "Hitchhiker" is naturally also a work under this kind of psychological suggestion, and the feeling of alienation between people and a sense of weakness that desires to be recognized is still involuntarily revealed.
I haven’t seen the 1986 version of "The Hitchhiker", so I can’t compare the quality of the new and the old. But as a B-rated film, the new version of the hitchhiker is quite satisfactory in terms of rhythm and action. As for the blood and violence The lens is the most eye-catching feature of this kind of film, so I don't have to be burdensome here.
Finally, to explain one point, in fact, many unknowns are caused by our neglect, and so is terror. This has nothing to do with logic, because we have lost our thinking about weak logic!
Han Xi
2007-5-29 in Tongzhou
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