ed / Director: Frank Darabont Frank Darabont
Cast: Thomas Jane Jane Thomas
.. Gay Harden Marcia Gay Harden Marcia
. Allie Kesha Daiwoluosi Alexa Davalos
put Frank Darabont, the director of Stephen King's novel metaphysics, into another good film after "The Shawshank Redemption" and "The Green Miracle".
The story begins with a hazy fog that has such terrifying power that it traps a small group of people in a supermarket. This is how the story unfolds, as the truth in the fog is revealed...
The concept is very simple: humans are trapped in a limited space, they don't have enough equipment to help them, and they don't know how much time it will take. While understanding the enemy outside, it is more important to overcome the beliefs and humanity of human beings themselves. The film draws on the horrors of Hitchcock's "The Birds" and John Carpenter's "The Fog." The shell of the thriller genre also deeply expounds the deeper content that the director wants to express.
The surface involves fog and mysterious creatures in the fog, and most of the film involves the crisis of belief induced by this natural and man-made disaster and the annihilation of human nature derived from the belief, which is far more than the real creatures of different dimensions. for terrible. Just under the maintenance of this anarchy, after witnessing several biological killings, more and more people lost their superficial knowledge and civilization, and began to listen to the religious apocalypse of an apparently neurotic mad woman, Catherine. fallacy. As a result, the people in the supermarket are divided into two parts, one is those who believe in God who have converted to Catherine, and the other is the belief in themselves represented by the male protagonist - the male protagonist played by Thomas Jane has been using his own way to Find out what actually solves the problem.
In the face of fear, more people converted to Catherine and regarded Catherine as the messenger of the gods and the savior. Whether Catherine took the American soldier out as a different-dimensional creature or made the hero's son as a memorial, her bloodthirsty evil The believers obey her. People's conscience is gradually being wiped out, and humanity begins to lose. The actions of such "blood sacrifice" and "redemption" are far more terrifying than those of other-dimensional creatures. The reason is also due to the concession to this reality and the ignorance of unknown events. People can only place the only hope they can pin on Catherine. " to receive God's forgiveness, as written in the Bible. Perhaps Stephen King has always had a contemptuous attitude towards religious belief, and Catherine's role as the mother who believes in God in "Carrie the Witch" is a very vivid example.
The origin of the creatures in the film is that a military experiment opened the door of another space, so that the creatures of that space were put in. The film does not do much elaboration. Just like Hitchcock's "Birds", it does not talk about why birds attack humans. The extra-dimensional creatures are only a surface enemy to the film. The main purpose of the film is human nature and human nature. The invisible "enemy" of the crisis of belief.
I heard a lot of friends say that the ending of the film is not good, but I like the tragic ending, which makes the movie a horror movie in a different sense. The protagonist fled the supermarket with the other four, including his son, hoping to drive his car slowly out of the fog or until the gas ran out. They couldn't get out of the fog after the gasoline, and all they saw in this dead city were all kinds of ferocious monsters. At this time, they were full of despair, and they were powerless in the face of these creatures. The male protagonist killed the four survivors around him, including his son, with the only four bullets in the gun chamber. Finally, he chose to go out and let the creatures devour. However, the rescue team arrived in time and wiped out the creature. When he saw the rescued children and the mother who insisted on leaving the supermarket to save her own children, he howled...
This ending is indeed very sad. They were the last group of people who persisted to the end, but they failed to achieve the last persistence. Maybe in the face of death, strong human beings will also become vulnerable, and at this time they realize that death is so terrifying. It is better to die early and die early than to continue to live in fear and fear like this. He failed to continue believing in himself at the last moment and surrendered himself to God. As for the mother who was successfully rescued and survived, it may be because of this love and her last perseverance that she and her children were kept in stock. I think this is the belief that the director Frank Darabont wants to express.
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