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Z for Zachariah, but overall, it is a film that I think has a very interesting starting point. The background of the disaster film is roughly when the world is hit by a devastating virus or radiation, when the world has become a walking dead and a mess. I have watched a lot of similar films, and the plots are basically the same. The special ones, such as 'I Am Legend (2007)', have their exclusive personal acting skills blooming. There are also many good works.
But this film, Z for Zachariah, is a more entertaining film. Why is he fun? First of all, the background of the film is not long after the apocalyptic blow, so it should be a sci-fi film, but the hardest sci-fi element in the whole piece is estimated to be the safe suit, and the elements required for other stories are estimated In 1900, this film could have been made as well. So, if you look at it from a science fiction movie, this is a negative score, okay?
Well, let’s get down to business, the publicity and synopsis of the film have largely induced the audience to classify him as a sci-fi film, but if the audience still uses a sci-fi film to evaluate him after watching it in 90 minutes... In fact, I think the antenna Babies are also science fiction films, no nonsense... very serious.
However, the film is really a more interesting story. The world is coming to an end. The heroine Ann lives alone in what seems to be the most comfortable paradise in a world that has passed away. She meets John, a black engineer who is also a fallen person in the world. His mind will always bring unexpected substantial improvement, machinery, energy, electricity also means light, and more importantly, John's appearance means that even if the world ends, she will no longer have to face the fate of being alone. So, she dresses up and takes the initiative to offer herself. However, John did not accept! He actually didn't accept... I don't know what that fence is really hiding in his heart, maybe it's the girl in the photo, maybe it's u are white and I am black. In short, he warmly reserved this possibility. However, the sudden intervention of a third party, Caleb, a fugitive miner with masculine charm, made all this less relaxing and comfortable...
The film is a bit weird from the very beginning, setting up some scenes and scenes from time to time seems to set a trap for the audience, making you maliciously think that the characters in the play will do what you expect human nature to do. However, when the disappointments began to make me doubt my character, I finally realized that this was actually a trap that the director deliberately arranged in this film. On the one hand, the film is indeed a torture, when the world only When there are 1 woman and 2 men left, what would you do if you were one of the men? I guess I don't know, where should I be? (I heard that there are common wives in communism? The three of them can just set up a party branch, right?)
When the competition in the world has become so cruel, on the surface, seeing the lonely John, he is uneasy and tangled inside. In the end, I love U was said. As well as the heroine's corresponding behavior that the east is not bright and the west is bright, I feel that the film adopts a relatively low-level arrangement and structure in order to deliberately create contradictions. The reason why love is great is not that you can't make an appointment with you tonight, and you can endure such behavior as the old Wang's house next door. So, here, I must say, this is the biggest failure of this film in my opinion. The writers and directors are sorry for the words I love you after Josh's repeated entanglements. Because at that moment in the whole film, after John made a helpless but firm confession after saying U are not a threat for me, he completed his personal abandonment and sublimation from his previous selfish image.
However, here may be the second trap deliberately arranged by the director, after I think he is a good guy, then the director puts a question mark on him for you. Completing the scene of the mountain stream falling down the stream, in fact, everything did not really tell the audience, Caleb's ending. But it can be seen from many hints that he did fall off the cliff and died. Of course, the director didn't do this, he left a suspense, an ending that maybe Caleb chose to leave after being moved by John's behavior. But, as you and I both know, that's hardly the real world. So, when the world is filled with the essence of human social development, electricity, again. For the heroine in this world, the release of Buddha is like the dawn of the dawn, and the sky finally dawns. It's just that people are still those people, and everything is the same as the evening, just a little more sunshine.
So far, this film depicts a story of the purest love triangle with the help of the background of the end of the world. The ending of the story reflects some of the good or bad nature of human beings, cooperation, complexity, hesitation, selfishness, etc... But it is too much. The female protagonist Ann is objectified, ignoring the pursuit in the real world and the emotional world of women, thus making Ann a foil for the male struggle. At the same time, because of the obvious traces of deliberately setting burdens on all plots, it has a serious impact expression of the theme of the film. To sum up, although this film is not a good film, it is an interesting film and worth watching.
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