Surrender or risk your life to escape?

Maymie 2022-03-22 09:01:12

The boy Thomas (Dylan O'Brien) wakes up in the elevator and finds that he can't remember anything. When the elevator opened, he came to a strange place "Glade". It is surrounded by tall stone walls. Inside the walls live many boys, including Newt (Thomas Sangster), Chuck (Blake Cooper), Mino (Lee Kihong Ki Hong Lee (played by Hong Lee) and others, Alby, the first to come here, has lived there for 3 years. Every month, newcomers and supplies are brought in through the elevator. Those who come don't remember anything, and will remember their names after two or three days. There is a gate on a stone wall that opens in the morning and closes in the evening. Behind the gate is a huge maze. A "walker" team of boys with strong bodies and agile movements will go to the maze every day to find a way out, and must come back before the gate is closed, because there are monsters in the maze and no one has lived in the maze for a night.
Thomas rushed into the maze when the gate was closed in order to rescue Mino and the injured Alby and find out what the maze was. At night, the two used the moving stone wall of the labyrinth to kill the monster spider with a physical mechanical foot. The next day, they found a special electronic device marked WCKD and the number 7 from the body of the spider. Mino told Thomas that they had surveyed the maze and drew a complete map of the maze in three years, but still did not find the exit. The elevator brought them a girl named Teresa (played by Kaya Scodelario Kaya Scodelario). She was the first girl to come here, and the note with her said "She is the last. Forever." Through the same dream, Thomas and Teresa discovered that they were also the experimenters. Thomas and Mino discovered that using an electronic device could open the door to release the monster into the maze, but the maze alarm sounded and the door closed one after another, and they had to run back to the woodland first.
The gate was not closed that night, and several mechanical spiders rushed into the woodland and attacked the boys. Many boys died, including Elby. Gehry believes that the attack by the mechanical spiders is a disaster caused by Thomas breaking the original rules and killing the mechanical spiders, and it is safe to stay. Thomas rushed into the maze with his friends who were willing to risk his death to find an exit with him, opened the door of the maze using the electronic device and the password that was cracked in the sequence of the maze location, and finally escaped the maze.
Thomas and others came to the laboratory through a long narrow aisle and found that there were corpses everywhere. Thomas pressed the button to turn on the video. In the video, a woman who claimed to be Dr. Ava Page said that she was the person in charge of the WCKD experiment in the death zone of the earth. And told Thomas and others that they passed the labyrinth experiment. Dr. Ava Page also said that the outside world was scorched by the sun, countless people died in the fire, and famines and disasters spread across the world. A deadly virus invades the human brain and cannot be cured. The only hope is that a group of newborn babies are not affected by the virus, so this experiment was carried out, placing them in a harsh environment in order to study their brain activity. Figure out why they are immune to the virus. At the end of the video, the laboratory was attacked and Dr. Ava Page shot himself. Gehry appeared to shoot Thomas. It turned out that he also escaped with an electronic device. At this time, he had been poisoned by a monster. Chuck died for Thomas, while Mino killed Gehry with a javelin.
Thomas and others were taken away by a group of militants who stormed into the laboratory and left by helicopter.
In the conference room, Dr. Ava Page declared the first phase of the labyrinth experiment a complete success. Thomas and others had believed the previous video to be true, and now they started the second phase of the experiment.
The film is adapted from the first book of the dystopian science fiction trilogy written by James Dashner.
The suspense did a good job, why I got stuck in it and how I could escape the maze has been attracting the audience to watch, and the final finishing touches pave the way for the sequel to suffocate the audience's appetite. It would be even better if the maze itself had a mysterious design.
The purpose and results of Dr. Ava Page's research are still quite incomprehensible, and the reason is a bit unreasonable.
In the end, Chuck, who filed a gun for Thomas and died, looked a lot like the Internet chubby.

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The Maze Runner quotes

  • Ava Paige: Hello. My name is Doctor Ava Paige. I'm Director of Operations of the World Catastrophe Killzone Department. If you're watching this, that means you've successfully completed the Maze Trials. I wish I could be there in person to congratulate you... but circumstances seem to have prevented it. I'm sure by now, you must all be very confused, angry, frightened. I can only assure you that everything that's happened to you, everything we've done to you, it was all done for a reason. You won't remember, but the sun has scorched our world. Billions of lives lost to fire, famine, suffering on a global scale. The fallout was unimaginable. What came after was worse. We called it the Flare, a deadly virus that attacks the brain. It is violent, unpredictable... incurable - or so we thought. In time, a new generation emerged that could survive the virus. Suddenly, there was a reason to hope for a cure, but finding it would not be easy. The young would have to be tested, even sacrificed, inside harsh environments, where their brain activity could be studied, all in an effort to understand what makes them different - what makes you different. You may not realize it, but you're very important. Unfortunately, your trials have only just begun. As you'll no doubt soon discover, not everyone agrees with our methods. Progress is slow, people are scared. It may be too late for us... for me... but not for you. The outside world awaits. Remember: Wicked is good.

  • [last lines]

    Ava Paige: Well... I think it's safe to say the Maze Trials were a complete success. I wasn't expecting so many survivors, but... the more the merrier. Thomas continues to surprise and impress; and, for now, they seem to have taken the bait. It's too soon to say, but... they could be the key to everything. So let's move forward. It's time now to begin... Phase Two.