■The thriller plasma drama "Mayhem (Great Riot)" (USA/2017), the 320th film I've seen this year, the film tells about a red-eye virus called ID-7 that quickly spread in an office building. Scenes of bloody massacres. The most famous work starring Stephen Won is Glenn in the American drama "The Walking Dead". His Korean identity and solid acting skills have left a deep impression on Asian audiences. The plot of "The Great Disturbance" is quite close to the "Belco Experiment" I watched in July this year, but it is definitely worse than the level of violence and tension. First of all, the killings in the film are stepped up by the company's high-level ranks. The male protagonist who was immediately fired by the company and had nowhere to redress the grievance, combined with the female protagonist whose rights and interests were not treated reasonably, and took advantage of the virus infection after the company closed the building. In the eight hours of this year, he took "carpet-like" retaliation against the company's executives at all levels up to the treacherous and miserly CEO. Secondly, the film made excellent use of the enclosed space of the office building and the rare opportunity to exploit legal loopholes to "kill others" , Created a violent incident that evolved from the “Office Palace Fighting Opera”. The infected person is like a wild horse running out of rein, constantly violating the bottom line of morality. The environment is fully released. Capitalists don’t care about the lives and deaths of their employees, they only pay attention to the loss of accounts, while the aggrieved employees have also taken advantage of the opportunity to take various measures to try to protect their own interests. The two parties who were originally not equal in strength have formed in this "special 8-hour" confrontation. The real fight is for you, you live and die; in the end, the director sets the climax of the main event on the mysterious "boss floor" that can only be reached by getting the access card. The red-eyed male protagonist has long been killed, giving the greedy, selfish and fat company boss heavy. The fatal blow made the ordinary audience scream and applaud, and at the same time, it also indirectly showed a kind of indulgence and joy. Here, viruses, blood plasma, and intrigue are all the so-called background boards in front of death. The real core meaning of the film is nothing but the concentrated outbreak of the brutal force accumulated in the repressed and helpless hearts of urban people. Director Joe Lynch cleverly chose the disadvantaged angle of the lower class of society, and shot a new type of killing movie that is ingenious, angry, kills with eyes open, and can win the sympathy of the audience. He himself has become a laid-off worker and an angry youth. White-collar "friends uncle". [Score: 7 points/10 points]
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