Cherish today, cherish now, who knows tomorrow or accident, which one will come first.
——Aki Nosaka, "The Tomb of Fireflies"
Quoting classic quotes from novels that won the Naoki Award, it is more appropriate to express your recent mood.
At the time when a lot of waste is waiting for prosperity, the contemporary young people who are forced to become unemployed, ecstatically pack their bags and prepare to get up and fight again, the bad news is like a bolt from the blue sky that once again extinguishes the fire of hope.
The city where "people are struggling to comfort and hug each other, looking for chasing dying broken dreams", finally the salmon that is still being scolded for dying, and the cutting board when they were cut, once again sounded the sirens.
The same job content that I was tired of has become an unattainable luxury. Some people have cursed the company that exploited and squeezed for the early closure of countless times, but they never thought that their dreams would come true one day; some people have found another career to solve three meals a day, but "be in Cao Ying and be in the heart"; Some people have become the most annoying businessmen who swipe the screen in the ticket circle, fabricating the dream of "Xiti Harmony" that they once sneered at. Life is full of sorrows.
Some people have survived the cold winter, but still feel the slightest chill in the scorching heat, while the lives of others are permanently fixed in that winter. Enjoyed a small holiday full of joy, but ushered in the epidemic's dimensionality reduction blow to all mankind.
A good life has become the simplest and most beautiful yearning for this year, and everyone is burdened by unknown injuries. The collapse of adults is often in an instant, just like the "Cassandra Bridge" that collapsed immediately after being overwhelmed.
This movie was born in 1976, an age when parents are still looking forward to playing video games. Even if it is a disaster movie, the soundtrack and color of the opening are still full of the romantic feelings of the industrial revolution era, concealing the death and helplessness behind it.
The story takes place on a train. The carriages are closed and swaying, and the entire vehicle is composed of countless carriages. It is an important image that runs through the whole film.
There are countless works that use trains as images and symbols. The multi-segment characteristics of the train in "Snow Country Train" symbolize class, and the connection between train cars in "Murder on the Orient Express" symbolizes the constant connection between everyone and the victim. "Cassandra Bridge" uses the airtightness of the train to exaggerate the panic spreading under the threat of unknown virus infection and forced blockade.
The catastrophe started when two international terrorists broke into the headquarters of the International Health Organization in Geneva. They wanted to carry out a terrorist attack, but they were blocked by security guards.
A guard who lacked awareness of crisis accidentally broke the glass bottle containing the virus and was unfortunately infected. One was arrested on the spot and was killed shortly afterwards, while the other fled hurriedly onto a train bound for Stockholm.
Also on the train were Dr. Chamberlain, who is well-known in the medical field, who went to receive the award, the proud female writer Jennifer who divorced him twice, who was looking for writing inspiration, and the arms dealer Nicole, who was a mountaineer and lover. Robbie, the smuggler on vacation, extended the business of selling small commodities to the kind old man Herman on the train, the criminal police who lurked undercover as a priest, and people of different skin colors and beliefs, men, women, young and old, all like a microscopic world.
Couples who fell in love and killed each other were discussing different outlooks on life, and they mocked each other poetically; lovers of "siblings in love" with different age backgrounds were full of heartbeat and excitement; couples in love were making full use of the 30s before the train arrived. Minutes; the old man is trying to describe the difference of his product; the girl is praying before the meal.
They are greeted by romantic vacations, long-away hometown, the joy of success and all things full of expectations.
The unique openness of the Europeans and Americans is concealed by the shock of the train, just like the ancient works do not take time to describe the indescribable, but simply take this moment of joy to contrast the ensuing "mourning".
All the peace and beauty were broken by a strange passenger who was sweating and vomiting constantly.
He didn't know whether he wanted to retaliate against society's malice or despair under the threat of death. His footprints spread across every carriage, attracting the attention of a few people, and he was eventually discovered when his condition deteriorated further.
This virus, called "Pneumonic Plague", spreads very quickly and has a mortality rate of as high as 40%. Soon after, his "close contacts" all showed the same symptoms.
In order to control the situation and block the news, Mackenzie, the leader of the relevant authorities, deliberately ordered a diversion of the train and threatened that terrorists had planted bombs in Paris. Everyone reacted differently. The wise were vigilant, the weak were panicked, the activists protested, and "stayed out." The people dismissed it.
History is always surprisingly similar, especially when people face disasters that may lead to destruction, no matter what age, from stubbornness to mastery epiphany, it always costs blood and life.
His keen insight has made him vigilant, and Chamberlain, as a doctor, has an unshirkable responsibility. He worked hard to appease the people around him and took the initiative to take care of the infected people. After simply isolating the patients from other people, he used white lies to deceive them as ordinary food poisoning.
Looking forward to when the train enters the station, what people are greeted is not the call of their relatives, nor the warmth of going home, but the fully armed guards from head to toe, using disinfection and welding equipment on a large scale to weld all the windows and doors of the car. Die, isolating passengers from the world.
The passengers in the car only realized the seriousness of the problem and they kept tapping the windows and wailing in pain; in order to cover up and eradicate the virus, the people of the International Police Department did not hesitate to point their guns at the masses, forcibly suppressing the rebelling people, and The confined train leads to the way of no return to the Cassandra Bridge, which is called humane destruction.
This bridge has been in disrepair for a long time and is overwhelmed. The other side of the bridge is exaggeratedly described as a "concentration camp" by the elderly, and the talk has changed.
The next stop on the train is Infernal Purgatory. People who have been afflicted by illness have long been unable to resist and have to let the authorities sentence themselves to the death penalty.
Things turned around. As the subject, a dog's vital signs, gradually stabilized and his condition improved, a doctor discovered that high concentrations of oxygen could kill the virus. The doctor in the car also discovered this pattern, and the patients are gradually recovering. .
The authorities did not believe in the rhetoric of the humble masses, and insisted on the original plan.
The train was driving towards a dangerous place, and the ears of the people in the car rang--someone outside was nailing the windows.
As the time of death is approaching, people's intention to survive is still the despair of defeating death, and they begin to unite and fight the armed forces desperately, and finally the train is divided into two parts.
The front part crashed, and the back part came to life...
Mackenzie's tyranny and tyranny have led to the sacrifice of innocent passengers. One person can kill hundreds of lives. Those who wander in the corridors in biochemical suits have become the childhood shadow of many viewers.
The passengers became the people abandoned by the world. From Mackenzie's point of view, their lives were like weeds and ants, insignificant. Even if officials are people-oriented, as long as they don't threaten their own power and position, what if they are allowed to fend for themselves.
As the originator of the disaster film, "Cassandra Bridge" puts the sense of urgency and crisis between life and death into the closed compartment and brings everyone's suffering together. This is already full of disasters. Kong's bridge cannot bear the weight of life.
In terms of ending, the protagonist led the passengers to resist successfully, but the survival of most people is based on the death of some people. Any survivor of the disaster of the top of the world is walking slowly on the roadbed laid by the fallen body.
Viruses, blockades, riots, sacrifices, the order of the micro world in the film collapses like a bridge. When an epidemic brings more than just thinking about life and death, the source of fear is no longer a virus, but a crisis from all sides, when people sitting on a high platform are not saved, and people who are pitiful for their lives gradually show ugly faces, No one will be blessed by fate.
At the end, the arbitrary Mackenzie will face high-level surveillance. If the threat of hegemony is still there, there will be countless Mackenzie's successors.
Compared to the misfortune of the passengers, we were born in a peaceful country with a sound system. There were no protests, marches, no burnings, looting, no killings, and no racial discrimination. Our homeland is safe and sound. lucky.
Perhaps this is the temper of the ruthless nature to humans, so that they have stronger physique, willpower and endurance to face the hardships of the rest of their lives; perhaps this is the test of human nature arranged by God, telling the human beings who are gloating and taking advantage of misfortune what it is. The lips are dead and the teeth are cold.
Perhaps one day, a plan to prevent the spread of the virus will be born in the hands of the most intelligent researchers; perhaps one day the reckless virus will once again let go of the unhappy human beings; perhaps one day when you open your eyes and find that you are only playing during the break at work I took a nap and had a dream that lasted a long, long time.
Those who survived have to continue to work around for three meals a day, get drunk in the streets and alleys, stay silent in the stalled car, take root in places where there is no living space, and find a foothold in the bustling crowds.
The train of life will still travel far away. Whether the next platform will be destroyed or reborn is still uncertain. I hope that the pain of the past will fall into the deep sea forever, or the day of the very Tailai will come after passing the dangerous Cassandra Bridge of life. .
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