"10 Clover Road" also continues this much-watched topic, but it is undoubtedly an anomaly. This film borrowed the shell of the doomsday disaster film "Clover Archives" a dozen years ago. The movie that year described the tragic situation of New York being invaded by aliens in the form of a pseudo-documentary, and it was a pure science fiction film. But now this movie with the same name "Clover" only sets the story on the day when the aliens invade, and becomes the background of the whole film. The aliens do not appear until the end of the film. Most of the rest are telling the story of the next shelter in the doomsday.
The heroine Michelle did not experience the end of the day at all. She left the apartment after a love quarrel with her boyfriend. She drove all the way and fainted in a car accident late at night. After waking up, he broke a leg and was still locked in a pipe. He was in a basement. At this time Michelle judged that he must be imprisoned, and the middle-aged Uncle Howard who appeared after that looked like a Rough pervert. But what is strange is that Michelle discovered that there is also a young man named Emmet hiding here, Emmet confirmed Howard's claim of alien invasion. Two men and one woman, confined space, alien invasion, these things are all put together, is this a simple coincidence or the truth? The story unfolded like this.
The next story is divided into three paragraphs.
In the first paragraph, Michelle tried his best to escape from the basement. Howard and Emmet did not seem to be conspiring, nor did they invade Michel, but how could people believe that aliens invaded the earth and the end is coming. Michelle found an opportunity to steal the key, wounded Howard, and fled all the way to the door of the basement, but through the window, he really saw the neighbor who was poisoned beyond recognition by the alien gas. Michelle wants to escape, but the neighbor desperately wants to enter. Obviously all this is true.
In the second paragraph Michelle returned to the basement, Howard also forgave Michelle's recklessness, and the three of them stabilized in peace. Slowly, Michelle changed his opinion of Howard. Howard took out the photo of his daughter, looking very sad, and the two had a relationship similar to that of a father and daughter. Michelle and Emmet exchanged their experiences and looked like brothers and sisters. The days of the apocalyptic world are quiet, but one day the generator stopped. In order to restart, Michelle followed the ventilation duct into the patio. On the glass windows of the patio, he found the word "Help" written in blood and found bloody eardrops. Communicating with Emmet with suspicion, it was discovered that the daughter in the photo taken by Howard turned out to be a high school student who disappeared two years ago. Michelle once again doubted Howard's true purpose.
In the third paragraph, in order to escape, the two men made anti-virus clothes while trying to find Howard's pistol. Howard quickly discovered their conspiracy and finally showed a ferocious look, shot Emmet and liquefied it with acid. At this time, Howard no longer pretended to be affectionate between father and daughter, shaved his beard, holding ice cream, obviously he wanted to start with this "little girl" he thought. In the chaos, Michel kicked the acid bucket down, injured Howard, and then ran out of the patio along the ventilation duct with the made chemical protective clothing. After escaping, the sky was cloudless and the birds flew around. Michelle hesitated and took off the gas mask he made. Everything seemed like a dream.
Is all this a hoax directed by Howard to trick her?
If this movie stopped here, it would be just a simple documentary movie like "The Room". But the aliens are really here. The word "Clover" is not a simple gimmick. The alien in the film is the alien who beheaded the Statue of Liberty in "The Clover Archives". In short, Howard did not deceive Michelle, he did provide Michelle with a doomsday refuge.
It is this reversal of the story that highlights the significance and value of this movie: Is Michelle's escape from the basement of refuge a right choice?
Howard did kidnap and kill a girl two years ago, but he is not a simple bad guy, otherwise why would he accept Emmet’s asylum? He can completely shut Emmett out and share a refuge with Michelle. On the contrary, after accepting Emmet’s asylum, he instead played the role of a responsible parent in a mutually restrictive triangle, even though this parent is domineering and authoritarian. Instead, after the two discovered his secret, he decided to get rid of Emmet and replay his role as a demon. If the two of them did not discover his evil deeds two years ago, can this peaceful refuge last forever? Should Michelle stay here all the time? After all, life can be saved here.
It can be seen that what the director discusses is not an ethical issue, but a question of human nature facing a decision.
Emmet tells about his childhood experiences in the play. He used to study hard, won a scholarship from Louisiana Tech University, and received a flight ticket, hoping that he would leave the town to study. He was very proud of it and showed off his ticket to others, but the night before his departure, he was so drunk that he missed the bus the next day and did not remedy it. He never went out of the town 40 miles away. He just feared that the students in the city were smarter than himself. How could he compete with them.
It was the story of Emmet that once made Michele thankful that he had such a refuge in the doomsday to avoid being slaughtered by aliens. This has also become the reason why the years are quiet and easy to pass by.
But avoid the demon outside, can't avoid the demon around. Howard, a perverted uncle, suffered a great change in his marriage a few years ago (the reason is not stated in the play), and his wife took her daughter away. Perhaps it was this kind of inner pain that created the deformity of the soul. When he faced Michelle, he did not even realize that she was a "woman", and repeatedly insisted that she was a "girl", and he subconsciously He regards his own tyrannical, tyrannical, and control-all "God" character as a "Santa Claus" who selflessly sends out caring. The girl he killed two years ago was the victim of his inner demon.
Therefore, Michel's plight represents the plight of all human beings. Is it to choose a sanctuary that is unsatisfactory, fearful, and tyrannical but can maintain basic survival, or to bravely break out to face all the unknown? Do you live like a mouse or die with human dignity? Do you live under the rule of authority, superstition, and faintness, or die under the bright universe?
This is not just a gender choice, nor is it just a fable that a country is too conservative, nor is it just an ethical boundary to be explored by philosophy, religion, and science. In fact, this movie points to everyone's plight. The famous Buddhist scholar Dzongsar Khyentse Rinpoche said: "If we are truly honest with ourselves, we will think that our feelings are not sacred, but insecure." The fear of insecurity runs through people's lives, so people look to the outside world. The protection of the gods, especially the protection of the gods, and the gods and gods appeared. Then in the weaving of myths, we think that our bad luck is because we cannot worship God religiously and sacredly, and our reluctance to survive like ants is the gift of God. When the myth is revealed as a lie, the gods and spirits no longer exist, but our fears still exist. We are afraid of the connections between people, afraid of aliens, afraid of the end of the world. At the same time, we create superheroes with superficial scientific knowledge and poor imagination. They are the gods of the new century. When superheroes cannot save us, we have to imagine in fear that we can control all insecurity, control our children, control money, and even control our body.
Therefore, fear is the only cage of human nature. It drives most people to live in self-constructed refuges like mice. At the same time, it drives other people into beasts, hoping to expel fear with animality.
As Franklin Roosevelt said: "The only fear we deserve is fear itself." Escape from the refuge, you will indeed encounter aliens; escape the cage of fear, and you cannot avoid loss and death. But people will always die, no matter how you escape. If we know that fear is just our unnecessary worry, we can truly live in this moment and live like a fish in water. Therefore, Michelle, who had just escaped from the refuge, was really embarrassed when he encountered an alien, thinking that his death was approaching. However, knowing that she is bound to die, why not fight hard, so she defeated the huge alien spacecraft without a teacher.
Finally, Michelle heard two pieces of news on the radio. One is the establishment of a safety zone in Baton Rouge, where she can drive to take refuge. One is that there are survivors in a hospital in Houston, hoping that someone will come to rescue them. Michelle drove the car to Houston without hesitation.
Because, when a person walks out of the cage of fear, he is a hero.
Ps: While preparing to write a film review for "10 Clover Road", a piece of news was reported. A young woman in Hunan was stunned by a co-rented man who prescribed drugs and then was raped. After the girl fainted, the man thought she was dead and pulled her out with a trolley box to throw her body away. After arriving on the street, the girl asked for help in the box, the boy who committed the crime ran away in a hurry, and the girl who was naked was rescued. The specific details of the case are being investigated by the police, so it is hard to comment. This incident is similar to this movie, so coincidence, it is worth mentioning.
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