"Walk Forward": The smallest plane and the farthest range
It's hard not to compare this movie with the Korean movie "Travel to Busan" the year before. The similarities between the two are that they are infected with the zombie virus, and the father is desperate to protect his daughter, and finally achieves his goal. Moreover, both movies explored the good and evil of human nature. So, in this way, is there no difference between the two? Is the movie "Walk Forward" just a simple repetition of "Travel to Busan"?
of course not. Personally, I feel that "Walk Forward" is completely different from "Travel to Busan" in these aspects.
On the portrayal of the image of zombies. Traditional zombie films, even including "Travel to Busan", portray zombies as aggressive and fierce animals with extremely strong offensive power, and the virus infection of zombies is extremely rapid. However, in "Walking Forward", the zombies we saw had almost no offensive power and were almost completely not opponents of normal people. They were slow and lack intelligence. Of course, they were also bloodthirsty. The most important thing is that the zombie virus has an attack time, 48 hours. In other words, it is basically human at this time. I personally feel that the setting of such zombies should be more credible and more in line with the development of the plot.
On the shaping of the image of the male protagonist. The male protagonist in "Travel to Busan" embodies more of his personal interests. In order to protect his daughter, he can disregard the interests of others. Of course, later, the actor had some changes, but the reason for the greater changes was the persecution of the external environment. In "Walk Forward", the actor is not only a good father, but also a good husband. Although he knew that his wife had been infected, he still did not give up his last hope. In fact, we also understand that what he did not want to give up was the last time the family could live together. This kind of role setting not only has no possibility of divorcing from human nature, but also embodies the nobleness of human nature. Of course, some people also think that this father’s behavior is stupid or extremely irresponsible, because according to their thinking, if he leaves his wife in time, he will not be infected by his wife and can protect him. Daughter. If you follow this approach, there will be no performance of the male protagonist behind. His previous behavior determines the behavior behind him—helping the little girl locked in the iron cage to escape, and becoming friends with her, even in Being infected with a zombie virus, after the virus attack time arrives, he still maintains his final dignity as a human being. So, from this point of view, the biggest crisis of human society is not the outbreak of the zombie virus, but the time when the deep-rooted selfishness and coldness of people hidden in human nature will erupt.
From the aesthetic point of view of the film. "Travel to Busan" is set in a train, and the scene is extremely bloody, with horror film elements. In the movie "Walking Forward", we see not only the scenes of zombies and walking dead, but also scenes of warmth, beauty and even poetry. Regardless of the river, the desert, or the wilderness in the film, people feel some visual beauty. It is worth mentioning that the little girl in the film, her smile, every movement of her can make the corners of our mouths upturned, and can make our hearts softer, so from this perspective In other words, the best actor in this movie should be that cute little child. Also, the little girl who finally walked with the hero and took the hero to find a safe place. After arriving at the destination, when their family was about to kill the hero who had become a zombie, she took out the hero The perfume in the protagonist's backpack is sprayed on the unconscious protagonist. The familiar smell of perfume, I don’t know if it has awakened some of his last memories of the world, that is the smell of his beloved wife, that is also the smell of his daughter that he cannot let go, it is also beautiful, and there is no zombie virus. The taste of the world.
I also thought of the English name of this movie: cargo, its original meaning is cargo, cargo. Seeing the last episodes of the film, after the virus attacked the father in the play, he used a thick tree branch to carry his daughter and the injured girl and walked forward. At this time, it was heavy or not heavy. It doesn’t seem to make any sense to the zombies who don’t feel anymore. The only meaningful thing is the bloody things hanging in front of the branches. Walking along this way is not only a load, but also a kind of transportation, a kind of delivery of goods. Dar, like a ship to transport goods, and echoes the plot of the male protagonist and his wife using the ship to find a safe place for their young daughter in the beginning. So, I guess, this may be the original meaning of the English name cargo. However, the ships were unable to find a safe place to survive for their daughters, and shipping had become the last kind of transportation on the back. The way of transportation made the male owner look like an airplane and a small one. The small plane, and that part of the road, became the voyage for him to escort his daughter. It was the longest voyage between them, the voyage in a lifetime.
In fact, when we open our arms, each of us is a small plane, and, every day, we are flying hard for love, can you feel it?
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