This film is about a manned Mars expedition force who encountered a terrible accident when the six-month mission period was about to end and only 19 hours before returning to Earth. For six months, each group of the expedition has been exhausted, but unwilling to accomplish their unfinished tasks and unreconciled discoveries. Everyone has their own negative emotions. The protagonist chief system executive Vince (Liev Schreiber) is mature and steady, and he has a warm ambiguity with team member Lane (Romola Garai). Player Kim (Olivia Williams) is irritable and outspoken. He feels frustrated and pessimistic about this fruitless trip. He keeps expressing his dissatisfaction and even confronts the entire team. When Captain Brunel asked everyone to make the final preparations to return to the voyage, two male members of the other team acted mysteriously and insisted on closing the experimental site as an excuse to leave the spacecraft in violation of regulations. The daring Kim peeped into their expedition log and found that they had found possible life forms on Mars, and angrily disclosed their secret operations to everyone. However, before they returned to the base for questioning, they encountered an accident at the experimental site. The surface collapsed, and a team member fell into an unknown abyss. Everyone thought he was dead, but he came back to life like a zombie, returned to the base, and attacked the medical team, his partner and the captain Brunel one after another. What is even more terrifying is that all the team members who were attacked and infected continue to become the new living dead. Vince, Lane, Kim and the technical team Irwin (Johnny Harris) plan to rescue Brunel, but in the face of the terrible facts, they can only watch Brunel slowly turn into a zombie. In this section of the movie, various wonderful confrontations between the characters began: the frank, unsentimental Kim wanted to deal with the corpse, and conflicts with all his teammates; Irwin was selfish and pragmatic, and once wanted to abandon the infected teammates. And he himself was hurt by zombies; Lane’s love for Vince broke out and collapsed constantly at the moment of crisis, but he couldn’t do enough to face death that might appear at any time; Vince, the most calm and normal, was also constantly facing in action. The fears and hallucinations in his heart continued to appear, and the mental breakdown like hermetic phobia gradually eroded him.
In the end, what should happen happened. Perhaps the way the movie ended was the reason most fans felt it was "not exciting enough"—Kim was abandoned by Irwin and died, Lane was also infected. In order to prevent his corpse from harming his beloved Vince, he ran out of the cabin alone and chose to commit suicide. . In the end, Irwin changed his body unsurprisingly, and started a final duel with Vince. The "Dawn" rescue team that came to the rescue was besieged by the corpse teammates, and all hopes were shattered. Vince took Irwin on the rescue ship of the Dawn and flew into the sky, throwing him into the endless abyss of the universe. When the illusion of self-fear struck for the last time, Vince saw Lane stretch out his forgiving hand, and the love of the two dispelled the last haze. But when I opened my eyes and looked around, I was left alone and at a loss. Because Vince was finally scratched on his face by Irwin's knife, he didn't dare to guarantee that he would return by different routes, and he dared not rush into the route back to Earth. At the end of the film, he left his last words in the airwaves. He made a record of what happened, and left clues and evidence for the team searching for the wreckage of the spacecraft. He decided that if he found that his body had changed, he would sail to the distant universe and choose to die. The movie came to an abrupt end in a situation full of infinite possibilities and no choice. It seemed to leave an open space for the audience, but it seemed hopeless and no miracle would happen again. The hero's sacrifice has not been praised by too many shots, and it has drifted to the faraway universe that we can never reach.
As mentioned earlier, if you think of "The Last Days on Mars" as a "alien" movie, then it will definitely not be enjoyable. The film did not even give too many scientific explanations to the biological virus on Mars. It only expressed it as a kind of "heavy infective dividing cells", and after being hit by antibiotics, it would trigger a stronger antibody and kill the corpse. The infection becomes more serious and even more incurable. The focus of the film is only on the entanglements and contradictions between people when the crisis broke out, and the judgments and various difficult choices that people make under the influence of different personalities. Human nature, under the dangerous pursuit of a third party, gradually reveals the truth under the surface, and the fragility of being vulnerable. As the four main characters: the male protagonist Vince, the ambiguous teammate Lane, the sensible Kim, and the selfish Irwin, in the attacks, they have cleverly portrayed four distinct character mentalities. Kim's role is very important, and the scene in the first half of the movie is also very full, which is the center of the contradiction. Although she continues to arouse people's disgust and disgust, as the plot unfolds, she increasingly highlights the person's stubborn rationality and exposes the evil consequences of emotional use. Irwin's selfishness is actually understandable, but compared to Kim, his existence has a kind of abandoning betrayal, excluding rationality and sensibility, and eventually even the humanity is gradually stripped away, eventually becoming an inner villain that transcends zombies. As for the love between Vince and Lane, the film did not give too much time to express, not even a kiss. The hand-in-hand encouragement made the film full of reality and made "regret" more deeply embedded in the soft heart of the audience. When Lane used suicide to protect Vince, but finally could not get rid of the result of the corpse, he had to say to Vince the heartbroken "Kill
Here, it is important to mention Liev Schreiber, the actor of the male protagonist Vince. He is not only an actor, but also a director, producer and screenwriter. He has participated in more than 80 films so far. Has appeared in "Scream (screaming)" three parts, and Hugh Jackman has partnered with "Kate & Leopold (Separated Love)" and the most famous "X-Men Origins: Wolverine (Wolverine)", also has Directed the famous independent film "Everything Is Illuminated". He is also a Broadway drama actor and won the 2005 Tony Award for Best Featured Actor in a Stage Play and the 59th Tony Award for Best Supporting Actor in a Drama Series. This year, he was nominated for the Best Actor in a Drama Series for his starring role in the American drama "Ray Donovan", and was only lost to "Breaking Bad" starring Bryan Cranston. He also commented on the PBS series, the official promotional film of the 1994 World Cup in Brazil, "Two Billion Hearts". As an old drama player, although he does not have the popularity of George Clooney in "Gravity", his calm, resolute and sexy appearance, as well as calm, natural and agile character performances, make him an actor that people never forget. "Wolverine" is a major turning point in his career. Although the "saber-toothed tiger" played is a villain, his affectionate image is deeply rooted in the hearts of the people. Liev Schreiber is exquisite enough in both the action drama and the inner drama. This "blockbuster" also allows him to succeed. With the shadow of a second-line supporting role, film appointments keep pouring in. In 2013, "Sweeper" brought successful ratings, and "The Last Days on Mars" was released in the same year, which is also proof of his influence as a first-line actor. His career experience is so rich, as a person who is always ready, finally ushered in his peak.
In 2001, he collaborated with Hugh Jackman in "Kate & Leopold (Separated Love)", there was a wonderful performance in the end. As the slow motion zoomed in, he said in a monologue: "I know it sounds crazy, I Actually found a crack in time. But it’s no more crazy than a dog seeing a rainbow. Dogs are color-blind, just like we can’t see time. We feel time flies by, but it’s so abstract that we can’t see it. We’re like sitting On a supersonic train, if you can stop it, you can see the original appearance of time. It is an unimaginable world, just like the colorful colors of a dog, although it is as real as the chair you are sitting on. Ruo. Finding the trajectory of time, you can see the world clearly. It’s as simple as that. This is what I found-I saw the cracks in the chair that others can’t see. I am the dog that sees the rainbow. But, other dogs, I don't want to believe it." Liev Schreiber used his exquisite expression to draw people into his indulgent emotional world. The same is true in the last words of this "Last Days on Mars". He is helpless but has figured it out; he is desperate, but he is beyond sadness. The self-reported performance was heartbreaking and immersive. Each fine-tuned expression processing shows the experience and skill of this outstanding actor. Like the dogs that see the rainbow, they have new discoveries in life and new insights, but they can only stop in the sadness of isolation and go away with the wind.
Everyone has a trapped beast in his heart, strong enough to swallow everything. When it lurks safely, we live in peace and live happily. If you can live with principles and dignity, you will also have a noose to control it, although the price may be the sacrifice of life. Selfish? contribute? Maybe there is no right or wrong in life, but you are only choosing whether you want to be a Hero or a Zero. Choice is the only topic of life.
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