Doomsday movies are born with their own traffic, and all unknown but imaginable things can arouse great interest from the audience. However, with the end of the Resident Evil classic, many zombie-type movies were produced during and after, and it is unceremonious to say that the quality varies from good to bad.
In fact, the simplest way to judge is to look at the dress and movements of the zombies to get a glimpse of it. Such as "Resident Evil", "I am a Legend", "Busan Tour" in South Korea and Japan, "Please call me a hero", in which the hunger for flesh and blood of zombies has led to the distortion of behavior and the weird movements. Does a movie think attentively: Although zombies have no human breath, they still have emotions and instincts.
Also important is whether human beings in the apocalyptic world are lingering, living all the way, have no bottom line, or are interdependent, all of which test the quality of a film.
After more than ten years, the things that zombie films can express and the things that need to be expressed have long been unearthed. Many films can only shoot their own things on the existing basis, and it is possible to capture more box office.
The zombie movie we are talking about today once gave people a refreshing feeling: "Zombie Paradise."
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Last month, "Zombieland 2" has been released. Like the first film, as a restricted film, it may be difficult for us to see it on the big screen, but this does not prevent the audience from seeing this film. The pursuit of zombie movies.
What are you looking for? Of course, it’s not like a zombie movie, but has a unique temperament that is more attractive than ordinary zombie movies. There is no urine point throughout the whole process, but it is recommended not to drink water and then watch it, because some pictures are easy to cause associations. In addition, the film’s constantly thought-provoking plot, content Don't waste time running to the toilet.
Even if the zombies inside are dressed up heavy and disgusting enough, and the picture often cannot bear to look directly at it, it still doesn't look like a zombie movie. If a zombie movie is not like a zombie movie, and loses the original fear element, why can it make people think about it? This also needs to start from the protagonist’s law of survival.
The hero Columbus is one of the few people who survived the disaster. It is not accurate to use "survival" to describe this person. The reliance on which he survived is actually the advantage he is good at summarizing. In the panicking world, he summarized N rules of survival.
For example, you can’t be too fat, because you must run slower than your partner, so you die first; for example, if you hit a zombie, you must make a shot, or you will die first; for example, you must wear a seat belt when riding in a car... seemingly meaningless rules , Are all summed up from the lessons of blood.
Columbus is not a muscular superhero, or an X-Men with supernatural powers. He has a temperament. This temperament belongs to the little people of all living beings. The kind of character who survives in the cracks and stays at home for more than ten days. No one cares, but a small person who is observant of life.
If the world continues to be normal, he will still be a small person, but the zombie virus makes him a survivor.
One of the highlights of the movie lies in the thrill of counterattacks by such small characters. Including all the Hollywood stars in the later stage of the film, there are no one out. Columbus, who originally survived in the dust, can walk through the villas of various stars and choose the residence he likes.
All this is because he has summarized and mastered his own laws of survival. In fact, in the world outside of movies, the same rules operate.
Yearning for accumulated money, longing for proud fame and fortune, continue to operate, even some people use tactics, some people do not care about the consequences. But at the end, if fame, wealth and money are within reach, but you can no longer lift your hands and can no longer take money, then what is the point of the previous efforts; or in another case, you lose your humanity in exchange for the previous wealth , In the end, lonely, how much meaning is there then?
Film and reality blend together in this way: the things outside the body that are exchanged for soul and health are not worth mentioning in the face of absolute disaster. All gains and contributions are about a balance, a perseverance, and a normal life is guaranteed to have normal achievements.
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The biggest conflict of movies is that the old world is not changed, and completely different rules operate. Coffee shops, supermarkets, and even the White House all have their original appearance, but without human civilization, the original splendor has become a piece of shattered glass.
The seemingly surreal scene is actually no different from the real world.
I remember watching modern Peking opera "Shajiabang" when I was a child, A Qingsao had a line like this:
As soon as people leave, the tea will be cold. What is unclear.
People take the tea to cool, which is the unchanging rule of this world. However, this rule is also conditional. In the movie, the tough guy takes the role of Tallahassee looking for the sandwich cake all the way, and likes the powerful off-road vehicle the most. Therefore, he was able to ignore everything that was once beautiful and smashed the beautiful jewelry shops of the Indians with everyone. He didn't care about those beautiful, colorful handicrafts that were once loved by mankind, broken into scum. Similarly, he wiped his tears with banknotes, because the banknotes in his hand, at this time, were ordinary paper.
However, he is interested in the abandoned cake car on the side of the road, looking for the layer cake in spite of the danger, even the cheapest layer cake makes him crazy.
It is totally unreasonable for a tough guy to like layer cakes so madly, but the following plot suggests that layer cakes should be his only son's favorite food, and his last relative lost his life in this disaster.
The longing for love created the extreme duality of this tough guy. Even if the most valuable thing once turned into dust, he couldn't throw away his original son's favorite food. As for the sandwich cake, he will never experience the tragedy of "people go to the cold".
Therefore, even if it is a horror movie, even if it is a comedy movie, "Zombie Paradise" has its artistic quality worthy of the audience's taste.
On the other hand, it also has its own unique enlightenment: if you don't want people to take the tea cold, you must let your own value be able to ignore changes in the environment.
If a person is surrounded by stars, when his money is exhausted, when his status drops, if there are people beside him drinking tea and playing chess, then his value is deeply imprinted with his own name, There is nothing to take away.
Therefore, we need to manage not only things outside the body, but also our own inner world in order to obtain the most fundamental respect.
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In the first "Zombie Paradise", the two sisters had the worst impression.
As the first female and the second female, their behavior is unreasonable and nonsensical. Since they live by deception, always tell the audience why they became such cold-blooded animals. You must know that when they deceived the male protagonist's car and gun for the first time, the two men will undoubtedly die.
In order to conceal this point, the movie made two men unarmed, without encountering a zombie, which covered the hostess's heinous behavior. This kind of arrangement with no groundwork before and no explanation afterwards is really unacceptable.
Fortunately, the sisters have lovely images and lively personalities, neutralizing strong male hormones, and reducing blood and fear in an environment where both zombies and men are violent.
In the process of slowly accepting the two men, human nature played the most crucial role. After all, in a cannibalistic environment, two weak women can only rely on distrust to get more chances of survival.
Their destination, Pacific Playground, is the ultimate metaphor of the movie.
Depression, you will lose your life at any time, and there will be no way to survive if you don't work hard. This is the constant tone of the zombie world. This environment resembles the realistic pressure faced by modern people. The film was released in 2009. In 2008, the financial crisis swept the world since the United States. In this country, the rich first came out of the shadows, while the people at the bottom are still struggling.
Looking back at the movie, there are not many zombies shots, mainly concentrated in the war in the final playground. Obviously on the verge of death threats, why did the two girls go to the playground to cheer? This kind of completely unreasonable thing, the movie was blatantly performed.
The zombies’ desire for flesh and blood in extreme hunger, and the heroine’s desire for happiness and freedom in extreme depression, the two desires violently collide in this playground, just like ordinary people struggling to survive under the tide of the financial crisis. Although there are funny elements, although there are plots that are illogical and do not conform to the laws of physics, this playground war still represents something deeper: the bottom people are hungry in a harsh environment, even if they are repressed, they are not free. The longing for beauty is still unstoppable.
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Columbus’s little characters counterattack. The tough guy misses his relatives so much that he loves the house and the house. The girls have been suppressed for too long and yearn for freedom regardless of danger. This movie uses the funny doomsday despair to tell everyone one of the most forgotten truths:
Even the most ordinary day, the most boring work, the most unpalatable breakfast, and the most disturbing road conditions may be burned in a very short time; looking back, you may miss the most annoying cup of hot drink. Therefore, the most important thing in zombie movies is not to tell us the rules of survival when the end is coming, nor to satirize the unknowable human nature in extreme situations, but to tell everyone to cherish the current life, and don’t wait until time takes away everything that is right now. To miss the happiness that was originally taken for granted.
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