Cassandra Bridge

Lottie 2022-01-22 08:02:18

During the 7-day holiday, I was fortunate to review a disaster film I thought was the best, "Cassandra Bridge". A severely contagious patient was found on the train, and healthy people conspired to make the train go on the road of no return-a bridge that had been abandoned for many years, and the bridge was destroyed in the deep valley of no man's land. . . The storyline, actor performance, special effects and other aspects of the whole film have reached a very high level. It is hard to imagine that this film was shot in 1976.

The film is full of suffocating atmosphere and contradictions: whether to abandon more than a thousand innocent lives or to let the virus spread everywhere; whether to obey the orders of superiors or to see if oneself is ruined, this series of objective contradictions and psychological contradictions makes people panic. Striving for a moment of sobriety and rationality, the depth of the plot directly captures the audience’s most vulnerable nerves. It displays morbid onset and death very realistically, showing the ignorant struggle between people in the face of disasters,—— The virus hasn't killed people yet, but people have killed each other! Layers of deception have created a car of innocent people, and the destruction of human self is indeed sadder than anything else.

In the reality of helplessness, they all accepted the tragic and extremely inhumane result—too many souls floated under the bridge, but they all didn't say who was right and who was wrong.

In 2003, after we experienced a thrilling SARS, this amazing similarity made people a little bit dumbfounded.

Does drama come from life, or does life copy drama?

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Extended Reading
  • Alfreda 2022-01-22 08:02:18

    I watched this movie after watching "Travel to Busan". Suddenly felt that the Busan trip was inferior. On one subject, bacterial infections and infectious diseases are very likely to happen in daily life. Second, in the context of the Cold War at the time, this film satirized bureaucracy and international politics, disregarding human life, and politicians would rather sacrifice the lives of innocent people for the sake of stability as a secret. Third, the relationship, contradictions and conflicts between different characters in the movie are very real.

  • Daryl 2022-04-24 07:01:23

    Very good plot, a childhood classic~ When my dad talked about it yesterday, I just remembered such a good film~

The Cassandra Crossing quotes

  • Susan: [Very ill] I don't look too good, hunh?

    Herman Kaplan: Ah, liebschoen, even now you make me wish I was fifty again!

  • Nicole Dressler: Oh, what is it all about?

    Dr. Jonathan Chamberlain: I'd say a slight case of, uh...food poisoning.

    Nicole Dressler: I think either you're a lousy doctor or a lousy liar.