In 2013, an Australian short film called "Walking Forward" became popular on the Internet, and it has another translation: "Father's Love Is Not Stiff". This short film touched countless netizens with its short 7-minute story.
In 2017, the directors of the short film "Going Forward with Loads" Ben Howling and Yolanda Ramke made it into a 105-minute movie version. The overall framework has not changed much, but the characters, background and plot of the story have been enriched. .
Whether it is the recent hit "A Quiet Place", the 2016 hit movie "Travel to Busan", or the two versions of "Going Forward with Heavy Loads", they are all stories of fatherly love wrapped in the shell of a horror film.
If there are a lot of horror and horror elements in "Travel in Busan" and "Quiet Place", when it comes to "Walking Forward", it is not terrible at all, but a movie that brings together love, family, and family.
The movie revolves around three families: Andy and his wife Xiaolan, daughter Rosie; Toumi and father Willie; and Beard living by the river with his wife and children.
In the past, zombie films often explored how to protect themselves in the face of zombies, but "Going Forward with Weights" went the other way, showing whether people can sacrifice themselves for their families when the end of the world is coming.
Among them, Beard is a negative textbook. He was buried with his wife and children when he was infected. On the surface, he reunited the whole family underground. In fact, he has no right to decide the life or death of others. Obviously the family still has decades to go, but Beard made a choice for them privately. This is not called love, this is called selfishness.
Compared with Big Beard, Andy and Toumi are more humane and warmer. Andy and Toumi have similar hearts, but they are in different situations.
Andy is about to corpse, but he is thinking about his daughter; Toumi is healthy, but he is thinking about his father who has been corpse.
One is the patient taking care of the normal person, the other is the normal person taking care of the patient; the other is the father taking care of the daughter, and the other is the daughter taking care of the father.
Andy and Toumi are in diametrically opposite situations, presenting a complementary relationship. Although the problems faced by the two are different, and their backgrounds, experiences, and educational backgrounds are completely different, they both have the same love and willingness to sacrifice for their families.
The phrase Andy said, "Think of it as your mother's pasta", is exactly the same as what Toomi's father once said. Tumi saw his father's shadow on Andy, and Andy's move forward carrying Rosie on his back also reminded Tumi of his father.
As for Andy, he saw Tumi give the blood to his father and wanted to ask Mr. Wise to heal his father. These details influenced Andy. Therefore, while Andy is willing to carry Rosie on his back, he also carries the injured Tumi on his back.
After a short time together, Andy has treated Toumi as his own, and Toumi also regards Andy as his second father.
In addition, the movie has a dark line.
At first, Andy and his wife disagreed. Andy wanted to stay on the boat, and his wife wanted to go ashore.
Andy got food from the broken yacht, and to reassure his wife, he lied that the broken ship was safe.
Xiao Lan was convinced of Andy's statement, and out of concern for her husband, went to the broken ship to find a razor, but was bitten by a zombie. This was the scene where Xiao Lan bit Andy later.
Although Andy didn't say it, he always felt ashamed. He believed that everything was his fault. If he didn't save face, but told his wife the true situation of the broken ship, his wife would not be infected.
Therefore, he finally decided to sacrifice his life in exchange for the safety of his daughter.
Of course, even if he told the truth to his wife at the beginning, they survived a catastrophe, and they couldn't escape one life. One day Andy would still be infected by zombies. But I believe that Andy’s love for his daughter will not change because of some small details. No matter how many more opportunities Andy is given, whether Andy makes a mistake, he will make the same choice.
"Walk Forward" is a zombie movie, not just a zombie movie.
The doomsday world is life, and zombies are the difficulties in life, or the passage of time. The story of zombies cannibalism is constantly being staged around us. People are overthrown by difficulties and grow old due to time. But we are not alone, and our parents accompany us to fight side by side.
How many parents work hard for their children without asking for anything in return?
How many parents give up better jobs for their children and choose to accompany their children to grow up?
How many parents give up the opportunity to work hard for their children and choose to be closer to their children?
How many parents are there to give up a better life for the sake of their children, just to leave the best to their children?
Andy uses his life to protect his daughter, which is an atonement and an instinct as a parent. And Andy's act of sacrificing himself and protecting his daughter is also a true portrayal of the hardworking and deep affection of parents all over the world.
Because of the virus, Andy became a zombie;
Because the years passed, the parents walked into their twilight years.
Parents in the world are like Andy, at the expense of themselves, in exchange for our growth. And we will grow up from Rosie, who is waiting to be fed, to Tumi, who can take care of our parents and give back to them.
Andy raised Rosie. When Rosie grew up, she became Tumi, and she had the ability to care for her parents (if the parents were still alive); when Tumi grew up, she became Xiaolan/Andy, she He will also have his own children, raise him and grow up with him. This is a cycle that will never end.
Whether it is peace in the world or the end of the world, whether it is the difficulties of life or the infection of the virus, it will not defeat mankind in the slightest, but will make mankind become more frustrated and courageous, and become steel. Because at any moment we are not alone in the fight, but with our family as our strongest backing.
You keep me young, and I accompany you to grow old. The story of family love is endless, never ending.
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