"Doomsday"

Kiana 2022-01-25 08:08:00

A future prophecy is at the same time an allegory of the present.

Apocalyptic themes are really endless, and this film hopes to find another way, at least on the surface. The state of life, the law of the jungle, the darkness and innocence of human nature, the protection of the family, etc., are all manifested. The old man played is more like a prophet, and he basically answered the questions of all moviegoers.

The film does not have more brushstrokes on the reasons for the formation of the apocalypse, focusing on embodying the state of human beings, while the enemy is set up as a human being who is also for survival, trying to express more philosophical categories. However, it still seems to be biased towards the story as a whole, and it seems familiar, and there is not much room for real thinking.

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The Road quotes

  • The Man: The clocks stopped at one seventeen. There was a long shear of bright light, then a series of low concussions. I think it's October but I can't be sure. I haven't kept a calender for years. Each day is more gray than the one before. It is cold and growing colder as the world slowly dies. No animals have survived, and all the crops are long gone. Someday all the trees in the world will fall. The roads are peopled by refugees towing carts, and gangs carrying weapons, looking for fuel and food.

    The Man: Within a year there were fires on the ridges and deranged chanting. There has been cannibalism. Cannibalism is the great fear. Mostly I worry about food, always food. Food and the cold and our shoes. Sometimes I tell the boy old stories of courage and justice, difficult as they are to remember. All I know is the child is my warrant, and if he is not the word of God, then God never spoke.

  • Wife: My heart was ripped out of me the night he was born.