The most prominent ones are the excellent makeup and photography lenses, the close-up of the characters and the artistic shots with a large number of blurred backgrounds, and the color processing, which are all unique and attentive, and have well completed the task of presenting the story.
Let’s talk about the other advantages we saw:
1. Compared with similar claustrophobic survival-themed movies: for example, "The Heartbeat Fang", "The Ultimate Interview", "Fermat's Room", "The Cabin in the Woods", "The Devil in the Elevator" "The design of the scene in this film is relatively spacious in a basement. The focus is on the game and struggle depiction of human nature. It appears more plump and flexible. It avoids that the space of the scene is too small, simple, and repetitive and monotonous. Suspense design adds too many compulsory factors such as this problem.
2. All roles have played a key role, and there is no redundant role.
3. The suspense design of the story is reasonable and there is the thrill of a counter-attack in the thrill.
There are not many shortcomings, but they are obvious flaws:
1. The character transition of certain characters is still lacking in nature, or the background is too little. For example, the heroine’s critical personality change, and her always strong, calm and compassionate personality, but hastily brought her to be a drug addict, and the image is not complete. The big villain josh's transformation from heroism to dictator is slightly blunt. Uncle Micky was so calm, estimated the external situation, and had superb survival skills. He even casually gave the radio to the nigger, and later accused the nigger's wool cable to attract the enemy. The design of this bridge section is obviously unreasonable.
2. The addition of science fiction and war elements in the plot is not reasonable enough. Even if the ruins are captured after the nuclear explosion and biochemical research is carried out, it is completely unreliable to send troops there and encounter counterattacks without taking safety measures. The people inside can come and go without guards outside. Moreover, the soldiers in protective suits, fully armed and holding m4s, were no match for a group of civilians with no combat experience, and magically did not even have a flash bomb. . . . . How to fight indoors? Not trained?
Finally, talk about a few roles.
1. The injured art man, the younger brother of the demon man. When the artist is at a dangerous moment, he has a calm mind, and still uses his creation to play time, and captures the trembling heart of the addict’s child. This setting is also reasonable. The design of this character from beginning to end is ok.
2. Raising a big axe is effective in dismembering and disposing of corpses, but because the appearance is strong, the heart is too fragile and collapses, the personality change and design of the perverted wicked character Bobby is also reasonable. He has no autonomy and values obedience to others and obeys orders. Mickey splits the body, and asks Josh to torture Mickey and rob the secret room. He is basically a character of a bad thug, a bad dog and a running dog in extreme environments.
3. Attorney Sam’s design has some problems, that is, the last shot was too unreliable. Normally, he ravaged and tortured his two most serious villains, and even told him to pretend to bark, almost wanting to burst his chrysanthemums, and force him. When he does gay oral sex, it is more reasonable for him to blast off the two evil talents first. The possibility of first shooting a rival in love is not high. He has a weak personality and a kung fu, he can eat well in a civilized society and an environment with laws and regulations. He still has the superiority of the original social laws in his psychology. Therefore, he believes that the addict’s child protagonist was originally saved by him, but he is against it. When he came to survive in the basement, he was not as strong as his girlfriend. His role is a bit like Andrea in "The Walking Dead", too idealistic, but not suitable for role conversion in extreme environments. Of course, Andrea’s situation is more serious. She also fantasizes about her own set of theories and viewpoints that can serve as the savior of the world, how fragile the truth is in the state of survival of the weak and the strong. Mickey (has survival ability and experience, can repair tools, power supply equipment, reserve survival supplies, and has combat ability; although the demon josh and bobby are average-minded, they have a keen sense of smell, and they are quick to judge the situation when changing roles. In addition, Kong Wu is powerful and young. In extreme conditions where the living environment is more primitive and the rules are barbaric, the power of these people is easy to rise, perhaps just what the director wants to say. They are like the Nazis and totalitarians, and there are always such people. When self-destruction Will find someone to bury it.
4. Negro, the representative of this guy is well known by the excessive rightists. He believes that food should be rationed, democracy, and rescue. These universal values are not wrong. The fault is that he is only a theoretical school. The actual operation is very clumsy. He lacks actual combat experience and correct assessment of the situation. The blacks died early. The essential. He didn't even calm down and patiently discussed with Mickey, he just played yin and engaged in a coup, which can be said to be more than deadly.
5. Marlyn, the middle-aged wife’s role design is also more reasonable and complete. After her daughter was taken away by the enemy, her daughter has become abnormal, collapsed, and transferred with cathartic anxiety. By relying on the strong, she proactively provides sexual services. There are factors of compromise , There are also factors of self-depravity and exile. But it is a pity that when the wrong target is discovered, the result and fate of fighting with a tiger is that life is better than death. But she also represents a disadvantaged group of women. In this extreme environment (it can even be mapped to the current patriarchal society, after all, the extreme environment in the drama is basically that patriarchy has always occupied a strong position), some women Adopting the law of exchanging hues for living conditions has its rationality and the inevitability of its degeneration and failure.
6. Mickey, in fact, this person has the most full design. With a complete family background, his love for his deceased wife and daughter has a sufficient basis, allowing him to achieve strong ability and courage to face difficult environments, coupled with the professional background of firefighters, his survival experience is the highest, and He has experienced the misfortune of the dispersal of his wife. The strong personality makes this kind of person have the temperament to become a leader. When facing death, he also shows an admirable smile. Generally speaking, it is more reasonable and reliable.
7. The heroine, the only problem with the heroine is that she should explain more about the background of her former addict. She had injections and drug abuse, but she played a key role when the artist was injured, and was considered a nurse by Wu. The story does not explain why the heroine is so calm, sensitive, yet careful, and determined. It is true that drug use is a life-damaging behavior, but only because drug use causes a waste of money and damage to the body. Whitney Houston and many successful celebrities also take drugs, whether drug use is not necessarily related to personal ability, personality characteristics, etc. There is an inevitable connection. At most, someone is tempted or curious under certain circumstances, or has a bad mental state and becomes addicted to drugs. However, the heroine's story background is less explained in the play, and this point of guessing is no longer possible. Maybe her initial mentality was just to maintain the balance of the situation, hoping that the situation would not develop in a bad direction, and the lawyer helped her, and the two became lovers. It was not very good to say that it was not much different from successful people raising slutty girls ( I know from Sam that at least the female protagonist’s background was not very good, not only because of drug addiction, there must be other.) The female protagonist’s awakening is to show sympathy for Mickey and Marlyn, but Marlyn doesn’t appreciate it, and Sam is actually big. At this critical moment, the enemy is still jealous of art men and shoots randomly. Of course, it is natural to like art men. The director’s arrangement is not too deliberate, and it is completely natural emotions (painting, guitar and music art men pick up girls, than Nagging and nagging lawyers who are like Xiao Niang Cannon? This is what the director wants to say? Laughing... Actually, art men are also small Niang Cannons. They have no independent opinions. They are not very different from sam. If sam is not the last one The mistake of the gun is really a person who has contributed more than the art man. Here, the death of the art man, the awakening of the selfish consciousness of the heroine is not because of the idiot, it should be because of the disappointment in human nature, it is all like this, there is only one set of protective clothing , Self-preservation is the top priority, and how can you be sure that Mickey will not help yourself at the last moment? Because Mickey did conceal the problem of food storage, and there are unreliable factors.)
So, in the final analysis, the transformation of the heroine tells us One truth is that under these conditions, people are unreliable, and the survival instinct in human nature is the most reliable. As a result, the outside world was a desolate, hell-like scene colder than death. Very disappointed and desperate for human nature.
Maybe, maybe this group was a little more patient, communicated, grabbed a few sets of protective clothing, sealed the mouth with tape, and changed a group of people who didn't have so many independent opinions. If they were united or obedient, would there be more Way out? This is of course purely yy.
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