I watched this movie during the famine period about three or four years ago. Out of the curiosity at the time, I watched a series of "Darkness", "Eyes from the Mountain", and "Zombie Land" in batches at the same time. A wonderful horror movie, so I didn't pay too much attention to the uniqueness of this movie. Until a few days ago, I saw Friends mentioning this movie when I thought it was the best movie combining art and business. I recalled the various contents of these movies, and finally I couldn’t bear it and downloaded it. Come down and feast your eyes.
A few days after watching it, some of the content of this movie has been lingering in my mind, so I will talk about some feelings here.
What surprised me most during the filming process many years ago was the soundtrack of the film. The strong back-swing rhythm makes me want to stop. Take "In a heartbeat" as an example (many bgm in the film have similar styles to this song) , The song has only a monotonous melody, first the keyboard is hitting alone, then the bass appears, then the guitar comes out, then the drums are added, the electric guitar is also noisy, and finally everything is calm after reaching the climax, leaving only a simple guitar Accompaniment to the end. This is also consistent with the entire rhythm of the film, the plot is pressing step by step, and after the climax, it returns to calm again, and hope appears in the calm.
But this time I felt more content. First of all, there was a strong irony at the beginning of the film. A group of animal protectionists broke into a biological laboratory and tried to use it as the research object of the gorilla (as for why not choose I’m more inclined to think that the anthropomorphic features of orangutans are more strange and threatening to the audience. The rise of the previous several apes also contains similar fears-if humans may be What happens if other species replace and cease to be the rulers of this planet) are liberated. The first is that the decoration and lighting of the laboratory are more like a prison dungeon rather than a biological laboratory with a large bench and an air circulation system as we can think of. The orangutans inside were restrained and forced to accept the ingestion of violent information (the orangutans who were initially tied to a laboratory bed and forced to watch human violence documentary) and the aid of the virus (the experimenter’s warning later), but this group of animal welfare professionals is obviously They did not understand the meaning of this level. They were rude and liberated animals with simple violence-eventually spreading the source of infection to the world.
Here you can see the pessimism rooted in the director from the beginning-deep distrust of humans, whether you are a scientific and technological worker representing technological development or an affirmative activist representing animal welfare, the former knows the dangers of his experiments However, he did not hesitate to carry out the experiment (the film is limited in length and does not explain the possible significance of this research, but in any case the laboratory did not do enough safety protection, after all, the person who broke in looked amateurish), and the latter's behavior was simply ridiculous , They broke into this laboratory in London, but did not imagine the possible risk, even if there is no virus, I think they will release the gorilla on the spot with a high probability, and fend for themselves in the city of London.
The background of the movie is extremely concise. After 28 days, the hero woke up in the hospital alone. As the absolute protagonist, he was portrayed very plumply: He lives with his parents and has deep feelings. He works as a courier. At that time, there was an accidental trauma, but a blessing in disguise escaped the outbreak of the plague. After the protagonist woke up, a set of shots in a hospital gown was very interesting. The middle shot, and then came outside the hospital, we began to follow the male lead to explore this new London, the author walked through the deserted landmarks, accompanied by the swaying melody, the perspective became a deliberately tilted perspective. After watching the author travel through the block, the male protagonist began to take the initiative to pick up waste and money, and the camera began to move forward steadily in the distant view-the male protagonist has already begun to quickly adapt to this new environment. The contrast between two of the shots is very interesting. One is a overhead shot of the top of the building, a sculpture of a goddess (you can only see the open right hand, I can’t guess who it is) in front of my eyes, and the male protagonist walks alone on the street downstairs. ; The second shot is the confused expression of the male protagonist appearing in front of the huge commercial advertisement in the background, and the commercial advertisement is the girl's huge bright smile. In short, this road brings the audience to reality step by step with the male lead. At the tracing wall, bgm has reached a limit. I am always worried that a bunch of zombies will be killed here, but it does not. It can be seen that the director's intention is. It lies in portraying the shock of the protagonist himself, which is what distinguishes this film from many horror movies-the characteristics of the protagonist no longer rely solely on the advancement of the plot and the protagonist’s aura to achieve, but the protagonist’s inner cognition changes step by step. Guided the direction of the ending.
Later, the protagonist was rescued and met the heroine and another boy A. This boy A had a sense of humor, had a plan, was brave and helpful, but quickly received a lunch, leaving the heroine and the hero to continue. And the heroine represents another existence that the director highly appreciates-a responsible and rational female image, which subverts the image of women with big breasts in many horror movies, and it is not like the action movies of Resident Evil. So extreme. From the beginning of the encounter, the heroine was very calm and described the outbreak of the plague (even boy A also complained that she had no sense of humor), and she seemed very calm (how likely is it that the average person will be hysterical here?), of course the characteristics of the heroine The development of the film has also been very well improved, so we have a good acceptance of her motives and behavior.
For this desperate reality, the male protagonist was hysterical at first. For example, he began to ask the government. After getting a negative answer, he could not accept it, explaining that there must be a government (There's always a governance), maybe in a bunker. In or on an airplane, of course, this also laid the groundwork for the end of the movie. It also shows that the director is not really desperate for humans. The plague should be compared to Noah’s Ark-style flood salvation rather than planets. Earth-hit extinction.
Returning to the male protagonist, he wanted to go home to see his parents. Both companions suggested that he give up. Among them, boy A gave two suggestions: 1 is not to act alone unless absolutely necessary, and 2 is not to act at night unless absolutely necessary. I don't know if it is a deliberate design, the hero's counter-kill at the end is a kind of transcendence of these two suggestions. After the three came to the male protagonist's house, the male protagonist saw the photos and last words of the parents who committed suicide, and then the picture of the male protagonist crying alone (BGM is similar to the singing of a spiritual song). This again shows the difference from most horror movies, because the lens does not follow the fear and curious pictures to stimulate the senses, but introduces the sadness of losing parents (after adding a section of the video tape), and this Emotions dilute the atmosphere of a horror film (because the horror image is not just a zombie when confronted behind), making the audience more sympathetic and paying attention to the male protagonist.
Then boy A received a lunch box and was killed by the heroine keenly aware of it. The next few paragraphs portrayed the heroine's image: the heroine looks independent, cold, and decisive, and she has no feelings for the hero at the beginning It is necessary to preach the principle of survival, so that the male protagonist is stunned. After meeting the father and daughter, they also expressed that they might be dragging them down. After that, the hostess also expressed strong doubts about the content of the military broadcast. But as the journey continued, the hostess began to change. When camping on the lawn, she told JIM that she might be wrong. Before, she thought that being alive is more important than having it, but she doesn’t think so now (the change here is from A topic about movies began to unfold).
When Frank died, she was very sad. Jim came to comfort her. She said with grief that although the world was already fucking, she just didn't want Hanna (Frank's daughter) to go through these bad things.
To a certain extent, this transformation of the heroine makes this movie show more human glory under the connotation of dystopia. The original human world is not beautiful, so a fateful plague came, and everyone re-searched for their own identities in this catastrophe, and made a choice, and this choice contains a kind of gentleness of the director. . Jim and his group have to adapt and survive more in the process, but they want more than that. Therefore, in the end, they chose to transcend survival. Jim saw the airplane after he was born on the run (like the Buddha). Discussed under the Bodhi tree) and risked his life to start anti-killing (the director of this passionate anti-killing filmed very publicly, sweeping away the previous cautious suppression, thus strengthening the legitimacy of JIM's behavior, as if everyone expected it. The hero saves the United States), the heroine first conspired to take Hanna to take medicine to commit suicide, and then boldly led everyone to escape at the end.
But from another perspective, is the choice of soldiers reasonable? If the rest of human beings perish, in order to continue civilization, will every human being bear the obligation to reproduce? (Of course, the movie here obviously weakens women and distorts the values of soldiers, making this plan look more like a collective of idiots If you think about "Three-Body", in fact, the choice of the soldiers is very correct. If survival is not guaranteed, then what dignity can be talked about? The "unscrupulous" progress is also easier to understand.
Of course, the author did not kill all the soldiers with a stick. Although this profession requires a high degree of obedience and is good at obliterating personality, in the first resistance of JIM, an officer has always stood up to warn and even resist the command of the colonel (of course he did as he wished) Received a box lunch), this choice is even more difficult in his environment.
In addition, the appearance of some imagery in the movie seems to be idle writing, but in fact it is very intriguing: when four people were camping in the grassland, they saw a group of horses running, so some people commented that they are like a family, so the camera shows After the horse group, two white horses and two black horses, one large and one small, are just like theirs.
Having said a lot of nonsense, it is difficult to explain why I love such a movie. It may be because of his certain complexity, which just fits in your life, and thus appears real.
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