With the development of science and the advancement of technology, human beings have become stronger and have a certain self-protection ability, which can prevent the invasion from nature, instead of being in a panic like primitive humans. Just the outer strength does not mean the inner strength. The inner fear is always with us.
I remember a classmate once said to me that people's fear of the dark is inherited from the ancestors of human beings. At that time, human beings became difficult to see in the dark, and they did not have the keen sense of smell and night vision of wild animals. This fear is so powerful and so indelible that it penetrates into people's muscles, bones, hearts, and even genes, and has been inherited to this day. He said that people are afraid of the dark, not the darkness itself, but the fear of not knowing what is hidden in the dark. I think that although humans eventually learned to use fire, they only illuminated the darkness and did not acquire immunity to the darkness.
What people encounter in this film is actually a kind of darkness. In the face of a sudden disaster, people are ignorant. They don’t know where the disaster came from, and they don’t know how to protect themselves. Under such heavy pressure, people feel like they are stuck in darkness . At this time, people have to look for life-saving straws and torches that can bring light. Religious belief is a choice, but sometimes it is too emotional, and it is easy to fall into extremes if it is not grasped well. Just like in the movie, people are affected by religious emotions. Bewitching is just walking into the darkness of ignorance from the darkness of fear, and the heart is still fragile and frightened.
And scientific weapons seem to be a rational choice for self-protection, and can even defeat religious beliefs for a while, just like the revolver in the movie, helping the hero and his party to rush out of the crowd crazy because of religious emotions, but we will find , when people are finally overcome by fear and fall into the darkness of despair, that gun is no longer a weapon to protect us, but just another way of self-destruction.
What is the darkest thing? What is the most terrifying thing? What is the kind of fire that can finally light up the darkness? Can we finally gain immunity to darkness? The movie does not give a clear answer, maybe we can find a clue in the eyes of the mother holding her child at the end, looking at the hero!
This is another Stephen King work that has been put on the big screen. It is said that it was also ambitious back then, but I don't think this work is as profound and touching as "The Shawshank Redemption" and "Miracle on the Green Mile". It may be the theme of the content. The reason? I feel that this film is more profound than the general Hollywood horror movies with similar themes!
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