However, realist works such as "The Shawshank Redemption" are rare in horror masters, and the horror headlines with ghosts and ghosts are the trademarks. It's no wonder that many people have always believed that "The Mist" should be a common monster movie, and should be filled with a lot of horror elements. And that hope was shattered by Darabont in just 15 minutes.
Darabont films have been enriching Stephen King's vulgarity, turning a commonplace horror story into a highly human collection, exemplified by its predecessor, The Green Mile. Darabont exposed all kinds of human nature through the fear of human original sin in his works. "The Mist", a B-level genre film, has become a diligent interpretation of the summary of human nature in the hands of Darabont.
The film environment is set as a supermarket, which is a place where people gather. A fog makes people lose their ability to observe, and the horror contained in it makes people feel desperate. In the fear of isolation, human beings lose their basic security, from being fully armed to nothing, and the human heart also regresses from the state of civilization to the original state.
In a closed and open place like a supermarket, how would people react to the high-density death probability? How the resistance and potential of instinct based on survival needs are developed. In other words, what would you do if you saw that you were about to die? In The Mist, there are certainly no heroes, no saviours, or even any chance.
Ordinary people must be positively educated by mainstream ideas on a daily basis. They believe that human beings can overcome difficulties, they should believe in optimism, and believe that people will conquer the sky. For the public who watch a lot of such films, even if they are convinced of the realism, they will still find a way out of formalism. In other words, after the necessary sacrifices and proofs, humans will always survive. However, what "The Mist" wants to tell us is the inherent inferiority of human nature, the unavoidable blindness.
From the characters' discovery of anomalies to the final shocking ending, viewers can see many common phenomena that survive around them. These phenomena are often ignored in daily life, and only when faced with desperate situations will they suddenly intensify and reveal the true face of the devil. A movie, which has gathered so many negative human nature models, is like a mirror that looks into a demon, and can deal with these spiritual demons that need to be understood and paid attention to.
In a deceptively simple plot, Darabont delivers a brilliant interpretation of rough temperament, religious beliefs, group living, herd mentality, and heroism. These powerful and cruel laws of Darwin's origin of species, "the survival of the fittest", are packaged like a bomb, which makes people who are stunned.
Humans in the ancient ignorant period lived all day in the life of avoiding natural disasters and resisting death. They fantasized about creating their own gods, and their bodies still had to face powerful diseases and disasters. In this way, staying alive in the end and allowing the brain to develop into what it is now is clearly a way to overcome the environment and achieve progress.
The essence of the crisis faced by the groups in the film makes these people completely return to the primitive period of human ignorance. Facing bloodthirsty giant monsters, the characters in the film are equivalent to primitive people. These people with a strong sense of security in a highly civilized world were suddenly dominated and defeated by the most primitive sense of fear and despair, and they could only fight against reality by instinctively following the desire to survive. And these people, the education and experience they have received throughout their lives make them have to do something.
The first to die was a young man, full of enthusiasm and adventurous spirit, with emotions like adventure. He was simply killed. From the look in his eyes, he could understand that from the eagerness to try and the despair and fear before death, youth and childishness is a magic weapon, but sometimes it is also the easiest resource for death.
There are always a large number of vulgar people in the world who lack sufficient knowledge and rely on experience to survive in a limited field of vision. The electrician in the film belongs to this category. Behind the viciousness of the local snake, there is the courage and bearing of a street rat. After seeing is believing, it is the fastest and the most enlightened to bow down to the court. Such a person can quickly become a vassal in front of authority, and only hope that he can survive in peace.
Some people are born with ugly flaws. In the time of peace, he was a vulnerable group who was ridiculed and neglected. In times of crisis, they may become wise men in the face of crisis, and achieve surprising bursts of energy with the mood and actions they have been forced to hone over the years. The world is always like this. When faced with danger, those beautiful, arrogant and indomitable people always disappear the fastest.
But these people are not enough, they are individuals who conform to authority. And who is the real authority? In Darabont's mind, religion and heroism, the two systems that produce traditional authority, are the ones that really make it possible to guide popular behavior.
Most of the Western world are religious countries, so the role of religion is obvious. As a form of belief, the root of religion is actually the deep fear of nature in the ignorant period of human beings. In modern times, the purpose of religion as a powerful and comprehensive spiritual belief is still to lead people to good paths. It is a must for believers to follow religious principles.
However, this must bring something to the dark-hearted person. The reason is very simple, even the incomparably powerful divine power cannot make the person of selfish desire return to the benign human nature. At first, the goddess in the film seemed vulnerable and weak, living in isolation, indulging in the logic of religious thought to console herself. People with extremely low self-esteem always move in two directions, one is pathetic to suicide, and the other is delusional to madness.
Desperate monsters in the mist create opportunities for the goddess. Because, she saw that her peers who were powerful and suppressed in her daily life were also panicked. This guy who hated human beings in his heart finally got the opportunity to rectify his name, and then went crazy to become the messenger of God, the savior of mankind, and the same kind of devil. What is even more tragic and terrifying is that more cowardly and superficial people see a shell after despair, a shell that can escape reality and talk about masturbation. As a result, the goddess and her team not only grew stronger, but also tended to become the devil's accomplices. In the final analysis, this is roughly the case with the evil that human beings derive from narcissism and from despair.
Darabont is powerful, virtualizing how a person goes from an ant to an angel. This process has allowed us to see some darkness that must exist in the human heart but has been whitewashed. This darkness is not just a movie story, but a truly heart-pounding reality.
The hero image is a psychological suggestion used to satisfy people's physical and mental self-realization. For a civilized society, a hero is a standard that should appear. It is extremely unlikely to become a hero, but it does not prevent it from becoming a psychological suggestion. Individuals have a subtle self-imitation of heroes, especially the concept of hero in form. Worshiping heroes has become a habit and a necessity.
In "The Mist", the painter, as the leader of the crisis, plays the role of a hero. The artist who makes a living off hand-painted movie posters on the verge of extinction is grassroots, humble and low-key. In the face of danger, it shows energy and wisdom that are different from others. In the face of external and internal troubles, in the face of men and beasts, he is more like a person with a complete personality. In times of crisis, this is what a hero should be like. But in the end it wasn't like that at all.
Facing the desperate situation in the fog, when people concluded that the ending that appeared was completely subverted, Darabont showed the viewers another state of the world, a cold cognition that is worthy of believing in reason. At first, the hero embarrassedly rejected a mother's tearful suggestion: go out of the supermarket and go home to find the child. This signal is not a good omen, it is not the act of a hero, and there is a sense of cowardice like the everyday goddess. In the final ending, the abandonment of his desire to survive and his most shocking and absurd handling of it are more proof of this.
Cowardice in the human heart is everywhere, not only in the hearts of the ignorant, but also in the elites. Because of this coexistence of inertia and fear, the heroic feat is to give up the pursuit of life. And the generation of this cowardice is entirely given by society. A man with excellent qualities in himself, after all, still falls in the long-term life cognition. His actions may have been reasonable, but the reality he faced turned out to be pathetic. In the real world, the things that make people regret often lie in respecting the reality of seeing is believing and lacking enough persistence.
Darabont is very powerful, creating a heroic and useless real world blended with monsters and monsters, just for this shock. Even those who have experienced it have to bow their heads to the cold and ruthless ending of this kind of ending. And this kind of ending is not only about the weakness of human nature, but more about making people believe that such a thing is completely possible, and the probability is very high. This is the despair and sadness of human nature, but it will always be there.
When the "hero" faced the returning mother's physical and mental breakdown, Darabont used this maverick observation to recycle the cowardly commonality of human weakness. Even if the dwarf clerk applauds the arrogant witch and is then swallowed by the monster; it still clearly reminds that the mother who entered the crisis for the child is really great and can survive, and the viewer can only live in the reality designed by Darabont Feeling cruel and depressed. However, in this film, which can only stimulate people with certain life experience, at least the cowardly nature and its harm in the weakness of human nature are thoroughly and clearly described.
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