Published in Tianjin Daily "100 Days Holiday" Weekly Issue 309; 2007-8-03, the 78th edition of the disc reading column. Please specify if reprinted.
■Title: "Prey" ■Translation: "Bloodthirsty Lion", "Jedi Lion Kill" ■Director: Darrell Roodt ■Starring: Bridget Moynahan, Peter Weller, Carly Schroeder ■Country: United States, South Africa ■Genre: Thriller/Horror ■Length: 92 minutes ■Language: English ■Release: Lions Gate ■Released: January 30, 2007
■Title: "Primeval" ■Translation: "Alligator Behemoth" ■Director: Michael Katleman ■Starring: Dominic Purcell, Brooke Langton, Orlando Jones ■Genre: Thriller, Horror ■Length: 95 minutes ■Country: United States ■Language: English ■Release: Bowei International ■Release: January 12, 2007
The Phantom of the Beast Shadow: A defeat on both land and water. Wen/Vulcan
The lion asked the crocodile: Why do we always catch those animals that run so fast, such as antelopes and zebras,? Crocodile: Yes, have you seen those people? It's clumsy to run slowly and get up to the water. Although the meat is not more delicious than horse meat, it is easy to grasp and easy to grasp. I really don't know how their entire ethnic group has survived to this day and thrived so huge. Lion: They are smarter than us. Crocodile: Actually, some of them are quite stupid. Lion: Ha ha. That is also true. Compared to their ancestors who were vicious and vicious, they seemed to have degenerated to be weak and incompetent. ——The Fable of Fire. Inscription.
When the fangs and claws of ancient times encountered contemporary civilization, when the cruel and rude status quo surpassed the wisdom of civilization and friendship; how will everything happen and how will it end. Both stories took place in Africa; one in South Africa and one in Bhujandi. A huge cannibal crocodile, a ferocious group of lions that cannibalize. The same stories are about large carnivores attacking and devouring humans. "The Alligator Behemoth" and "Killing the Jedi Lion", which were released at about the same time, told two similar stories. Two different groups encountered similar experiences after entering the hunting range of crocodiles and lions. I seem to have become indifferent, numb and cold-blooded, because when I watched the crocodile or lion biting my kind in these two different styles of movies, and the scenes that should have made me sad or frightened, I was actually His face was indifferent and without feeling. Rabbit death dog cooking, mouth death cold teeth, rabbit death fox sadness... I can use countless words to express the emotions that I might have at that time. So what? These emotions were far away from me at that time, and I couldn't find any adjectives to describe this emotion now.
As emotional animals with high intelligence, humans are undoubtedly better and more advanced than many other species. All species that have existed on the earth that have coexisted with our human beings have been conquered by us without exception, and we have ruled this earth aloof from a long time ago. Although we don’t have fangs and claws like them, we don’t act as fast and powerful as they are, but we can cut their limbs with a sword that is harder and sharper than fangs and claws, and we can give them too. Set traps, or many people can work together to conquer them. We can make guns and ammunition to kill them from a distance. We can even make nuclear bombs that can completely blow up the entire planet hundreds of times. Everything is under our imagination, everything is under our control. We are used to looking down on them as rulers; because we are stronger, more vicious and more cruel than any other species. Once upon a time, our ancestors defeated all ferocious beasts except humans with the simplest stone tools and manpower, and opened up homes that belonged only to humans one after another. We drove them from their habitat to more. Go to distant jungles, grasslands and primitive forests that we don’t like. In that era, human beings should be feared and feared by any creature, because we live in villages in the jungle just like them, and we rely on capturing them to thrive on their meat. "Dinning wind and drinking rain", "Broken bamboo, renewed bamboo, flying soil, chasing the dead", Wu Yue Chunqiu's "Playing Songs" once wrote about scenes like this in the Huangdi era. Killing and chasing have given us large territories. In those ages of beauty and publicity, we deserve to be the Lord of the earth.
Many of our ancestors are old and have been passed on from generation to generation. What we have inherited is spirit, benevolence and all kinds of interaction with people; for too many years of easy life, we no longer need to fight those fierce beasts. , So we choose to forget. These two bloody movies suddenly brought us back to the primitive era full of fatal crises. When modern people face the beasts that are still fangs and claws, we may have nothing to do. The two films express almost the same feeling of awe. For the barbaric ancestors, and for these creatures that are also at the top of the food chain, we may have nothing but awe. We can't face them fearlessly like our ancestors, we can't defeat and drive them out like our ancestors, we can't even keep our own safety, we don't even have the strength to flee. When they treat us as their food like our ancestors treated them, we are as powerless as their ancestors. Awe, the awe of barbarism; the awe of the ancestors in the prehistoric age, and the awe of these beasts. Everything that modern people lack lives on them, cruel, fierce, killed in one blow, and swallowed. As mentioned in the movie, a hungry lion will swallow anything that can be eaten without hesitation, so when we wander in a territory where food is lacking during the dry season, they might pounce on us. Excuseable.
On one side are innocent women and children who are in trouble, without long objects and without the strength to bind chickens, trapped among the lions like lambs to be slaughtered. On the other side is a professional photography team and a crocodile catching team, with a heavy iron cage and the most advanced equipment, heading to Buchandi to catch the crocodile that killed more than a hundred people. "The Jedi Lion Kill" may pay more attention to the humanity of humanity, while "The Behemoth of Alligators" may pay more attention to rational confrontation. In terms of personal preference, maybe I prefer "Kill of the Jedi Lion". Fighting with a group of lions with the power of a young woman, a young girl and a little boy is undoubtedly more attractive. The plot is compact and the atmosphere is tense. As a beast movie, this movie should be regarded as a relatively good masterpiece of humanities. In contrast, "Big Crocodile" is much inferior. Too much commercial operation color and the taste of stubbornness, this movie looks good, but it still seems straightforward and tasteless. Rather than depicting the fierce crocodile, this movie is more depicting the ugliness of human nature. Compared with the ferocious and huge crocodile, the politician and armed forces with the same name as the crocodile looked much more terrifying. Lions and crocodiles may eat people just to feed their stomachs, while people may eat people without vomiting their bones. Fruit belly is just a livelihood, and cannibalism is only because of greedy desire and self-preservation conspiracy. Can the two be the same?
The two films also used animal perspective lenses to look at this bizarre world, but the difference in tone and angle makes the two lenses look different. "Big Crocodile" is extremely ugly in the depiction of human nature, while "Absolute Lion Kill" is much more tender. It can be said that "The Jedi Lion Kill" may be regarded as an inspirational thriller. The same perspective, close to the story frame. "Alligator Behemoth" tells us that the most terrifying beast may not be terrible, but even more terrifying is the greedy heart; but "Jedi Lion Kill" tells us that no matter what kind of danger we are in, when we don’t give up When we fight to defend the last line of defense, we will finally be redeemed. The two routs, underwater and on land, this year's beasts are roaring and roaring. However, in these two completely different endings, maybe, whether we can find all that we have been searching for. Amy in "Kill of the Jedi Lion" said: He will find us and rescue us; and the wizard in "Big Crocodile" said: We must face it. I was thinking that we might not always be defeated.
2007-06-27; Bingwu Moon and Renchen Day of Dinghai Year. Guan Yu's birthday.
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