Although it’s a bit late to watch the movie now and missed the discussion craze, I still like it after watching it (I haven’t read the original, so I only discuss the look and feel of the movie itself), and I don’t feel anything. Logical loopholes.
Some people say why people don’t hide in the supermarket. On the one hand, the hostess slowly gained the upper hand by being redeemed by others (especially the Asian boy who provided the house) in the process. She insisted on sharing the goods in the supermarket with everyone still in the house; On the other hand, since everyone has discovered that there is a fish seller in the supermarket who was bewitched by the spirit body, and the fish seller killed his friend supermarket brother (sorry I can’t remember the name), stay in the supermarket in this case There is nothing more than a question of how soon or later you will die.
The movie has two timelines intersecting, one is the timeline of the disaster outbreak five years ago (female protagonist has short hair), and the other is five years later when they receive a signal to advance to this community (female protagonist has long hair), and at the end there is a little bit A flashback, explaining how the male lead sacrificed, and why in the end only two children and the female lead were left.
Regarding why some people don’t need to wear blindfolds, the movie explains this setting more clearly. In my personal opinion, this kind of spirit body is probably similar to a cult (?). It does not cause harm to people, but it can arouse people's saddest, deepest, most shameful, most instinctive sense of fear, and confuse people. Mind. It is built on human nature to destroy human nature itself. Whether it’s the fish seller in the supermarket, the thug who drives without blindfolds, and Gary who pretends to be a normal person and mixes into the villa (ah I finally remembered a person’s name!), their common characteristics are: normal The society is recognized as a lunatic. These people may not have clear logic, no sense of society, and no sense of responsibility, let alone love and be loved. Their understanding of fear is not as deep as ordinary people. For them, normal life is also purgatory. It is better to liberate these demons and degenerate the whole world. This is what they call "purification." To put it bluntly, their survival is precisely because of their human flaws. As for what is the actualization of the spiritual body in the film, I think the benevolent sees benevolence, what do you fear most (including what you are afraid of, and what you are most afraid of losing) is what it is.
In the end, I think that the film’s deeper connotation lies in the fact that the heroine and the child entered the blind school community and found that there is a stable world here. This world is isolated from outside dangers, allowing children to play with other children, but at the same time it also isolates true freedom, like a bird box that encloses them.
Generally speaking, I think the movie has a good look and feel, the rhythm is tight, the narrative is not logically flawed, and many details (such as the car bell in boy's hand) and narrative techniques (the intersection of the two timelines are very suitable) are explained It’s very clever, and maybe I’ll scan it again when I have time in the future to see if I can find more logical details.
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