Plot aspect:
(1) The husband of the female protagonist Sarah died inexplicably. Neither car was driving at super high speed. The flying steel rod could not continuously penetrate the front windshield of the car and the human skull according to common sense;
(2) The car accident describes the scene of Sarah's husband's death, but there is no relevant explanation in the follow-up plot. Sarah's pain is also mainly reflected in the nostalgia for her daughter Jessy;
(3) Before the cave exploration, Juno made up for the knowledge of cave exploration for everyone, mentioning that the darkness can make people anxious and even hallucinatory, but in the later stage, he almost did not respond to this foreshadowing. The monster is a real monster, and there is no reaction. Turn (of course it may be that I watch too many suspense movies...);
(4) The girl who Juno accidentally killed was too bad... He clearly had to backhand Juno because he was dead; (5) Sarah's transformation in the early and later stages was too great. In the cave, Juno had to turn around to save her. Once she found out that her husband had an affair with Juno, she turned into a Valkyrie and singled out monsters;
(6) Sarah's hatred for Juno is difficult to explain. Before she killed Juno, she did not see any hope of escaping from the cave. At this time, it was obviously better for two people to form a team than to do it alone. Juno's leg was pierced by the cheating incident of Zhang Du, who didn't seem to be grieving for his death before. Although I know this is her will and choice, it still doesn't prevent me from yelling at you stagflation.
Monster settings :
(1) Regarding whether the monster is the product of human evolution in the underground cave, I personally tend to be, and I think it is not the survivor of the expedition team discovered by Juno and others a hundred years ago, but the prehistoric human of a certain era, that is, The group of primitive humans who left the murals.
The reason is that this group of monsters has bred a huge population, and even if the expedition team was very lucky and left 5-6 survivors, it is very unimaginable to breed in the sea while surviving underground; After the death, the first choice should be survival, followed by returning to the human world, multiplying in the cave, and then putting the offspring in the same danger as them is hardly the best solution.
And because these monsters look exactly like humans, they are likely to be similar or identical to humans in the evolutionary chain, so the most reasonable inference is that a group of prehistoric humans came to caves to take refuge or live on their own, they have developed a certain degree of civilization and Murals documenting their previous lives were left on the cave walls. However, due to a certain accident, the exit of the cave was blocked (it was impossible to escape by manpower), and this group of prehistoric humans had to rely on their hunting skills to live a long life in the cave. Their first food may have been fish from underground rivers or small animals that fell into burrows by accident. Over the long years they have continued to evolve their underground life: their eyes have deteriorated, their skin has turned white, their bodies have become hunched, their hands and feet have grown stronger, and they have walked on all fours. After another long period of time, the outlet of the underground cave was reopened due to some kind of address, but because of the adaptation to the underground life, they could no longer (and would not) return to the surface.
(2) But this does not explain at all why they hunt by sound alone, and completely abandon their sense of smell. It also doesn't explain that although they hunt by sound, they can perfectly miss the frantic heartbeats of the female protagonists who are close at hand. This can't explain why they are not afraid of fire. Although they can't see it, I believe that the underground creatures can't stand the high temperature. It also can't explain why their body structure is so fragile that they have been climbing walls in the cave for a long time, and the head is slammed against the rock wall to cause the effect of watermelon cracking (well I know this is the need for filming, or they have not seen the sun for a long time and lack of sunlight. calcium)
These irrationalities aside, this film is quite good as a thriller. Although I know that thrillers have always been silent and then suddenly sound effects explode, but I was so scared that I burst the Coke can in my hand.
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