Let me talk about the relationship between the legend of the black cargo ship and the watchman that I personally understand.
The story of the legend of the black cargo ship is interspersed throughout the movie, telling a very simple story. A captain was attacked by a black cargo ship, and all crew members were killed. Only the captain survived. The black cargo ships are full of evil spirits, heading for the captain's hometown. The captain suffered physical and psychological torture and finally arrived at his hometown, but mistakenly believed that the black cargo ship had ransacked his hometown. Misunderstood his wife for the enemy and killed it in total darkness. The captain did not believe the facts and fled to the port, only to find that the black cargo ship was waiting for him at the port. Eventually, the captain also became a member of the black cargo ship.
Watching the entire movie, I have been thinking about the purpose of this legend of the black cargo ship in the movie. I think the most likely role is actually to explain the motive of the conspiracy master.
The film has been rendering the Cold War between the United States and the Soviet Union. As long as 1% of the nuclear bombs fail to be intercepted, the rest is enough to destroy the world, and the end of the world is about to come. This corresponds to the black cargo ship heading towards the captain's hometown.
The captain is the hero, and the hero plots a series of conspiracies to save the world. He even killed millions of people.
Eventually the Cold War ceased, and people all over the world were united again. The hero saved the world.
But what is the premise of all this? It is the third world war that will break out. What if there is no outbreak? Then the hero just killed millions of people for no reason.
So, even in the world of this film, will it explode? The film has been suggesting in various ways. The people marched with signs suggesting that the scientists set the clock to 12 to suggest that the president’s various assumptions and theories about the end of the world seemed to really come.
But does that mean that the end of the world is inevitable? Or are we actually immersed in the same fear as the captain? In the story of the black cargo ship legend, the film takes a lot of shots to describe the captain’s psychological struggle in despair. The captain has also been wandering. Will the black cargo ship arrive home? Can he arrive early by himself? How could the cutting of the corpse be comparable to the speed of the boat? How horrible a black cargo ship is, it is by no means a good kind!
After the story of this black cargo ship legend, we certainly know that the captain was wrong. The reason why he killed his wife was because of the difficult living environment at sea, which was physically and psychologically distorted. When I returned to a peaceful environment, I couldn't return to normal sanity for a while.
The US-Soviet Cold War was just after the crazy World War II. The world was at peace and the American dream became a reality. However, those heroes are still immersed in the glorious fantasy of fighting evil forces in the past. When evil comes again, they will also turn on the aircraft that hasn't moved for a long time, and once again the masked man rescues civilians. It's just that some people's ideals are too grand.
I don’t know how you think about it. Did the hero save the world? Are you deceiving yourself?
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