Never want to grow up to be anti-globalization

Jada 2022-03-22 09:01:18

After reading it, I know that this is the third part of the "Blood and Ice Cream" series after "Zombie Shaun" and "Blood Detective". Those of you who have seen the first two films naturally understand where this film is headed. Needless to say blood, fortunately, the color has been changed to avoid the blood from overshadowing its true theme. Ice cream, you have to look carefully.

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The comedy effect of this film is slightly different from the previous two films. After the high-energy drama begins, the plot is more tense than humorous. Most of the hilarious tasks are on Simon Pegg's mouth in the first half. Such as discussing how to call aliens at various critical junctures, and the use of English pronouns. Fortunately, the effect is not bad, and there are not many movies that can make me laugh several times. Of course, apart from being funny, how can blood and ice cream be without blood. The battle between the young man and the four-legged twins in the toilet is just right, making the audience high without being overly nervous, and more energy can be used to understand the jokes.

What is the theme that "The End of the World" doesn't want to cover with blood? Gary, played by Simon Pegg, is just a little kid, not only the children criticized him, the goddess criticized him, and the aliens also criticized him. No family, no career, no children, no achievements, and he doesn't blame others, but looks happier than everyone else. In fact, what was wrong with him? The ultimate meaning of life is happiness, and everyone's way of obtaining happiness is different. Peter Pan who doesn't want to grow up, his happiness is the simplest to have a good time. When his life was at stake, he was the only one who still had to drink 12 glasses of wine. This is all he has, why do the aliens make irresponsible remarks about the little goddess?

The refusal to grow up, or "Peter Pan Syndrome," is actually tied to nostalgia. Gary brought the kids back to their hometown, just to miss the past. The town in the film seems to be the same as it was more than 20 years ago, but as the goddess said, "everything is the same, but sort of different. It's just weird." The most powerless thing for nostalgic people is that the world around them is inevitable Little by little change, and it is a homogenized change, euphemistically called "globalization". All bars have become the same, all coffee shops have become Starbucks, all kinds of music have become pop songs, and people who are looking up at the stars or worshipping the gods are looking down at their phones. The splendid and splendid cultures that have been bred by the scattered human beings for thousands of years have all disappeared under the unified American chain and the banner of the Internet. As an Englishman who is closely and awkwardly connected to American culture, he must be particularly sensitive to this. In the climax of the film, Simon Pegg scolded the alien "big table lamp", which is exactly what he said.

The "fuck it" from the foreign (mei) star (guo) who is determined to engage in the "integration of the Galaxy Internet", let go, and at the same time takes away all the technology of mankind. The days are still to pass, the hobbit who had half his head chopped off continues to work as a real estate agent, the goddess and male partner return to the countryside, and Gary is the most comfortable, but he has fun with a few alien remnants. When it comes to goddesses, Rosamund Pike does not have a sense of joy when she plays the only normal person among a group of neurotics, such as "Barney's Life", such as this film.

Another discovery: the blood and ice cream trilogy, the deadly zombies, aliens, and British town residents.

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The World's End quotes

  • [last lines]

    Big Ugly Bastard: Who the hell do you think you are?

    Gary King: Me? They call me the king...

  • Gary King: That settles it then, the last thing we need to do is get pulled over by the police. A - we're all drunk, B- they might be in on it, and C - we've got blood on our hands.

    Peter Page: It's more like ink

    Gary King: We've got ink on our hands.