I won't say much about the plot. The film was very clean and neat, advanced layer by layer, and there was no cold spot, which fully demonstrated the director's skill. The entire film is only 100 minutes long with ending subtitles. The long essay in front clearly explains the relationship and personality of the characters, and all the foreshadowings that should be given are also laid down. (Juno has a leg with Sarah’s husband, a problematic watch, a dead deer in the wild, etc.) Then enter the cave, from the first rumbling vibration to the cave collapse, to Sarah seeing the monster flash by, knowing that the show is official Opening.
The process of Sarah's character/behavior gradually advancing is quite interesting. At the beginning of the fear, when I saw the monster eating its companions at close range, I didn't dare to breathe in the air nearby. Then the monster dissipated, and she looked for something to make a torch on the corpse of her friend. At this time, her skill and agility was beginning to emerge. Then the wit and courage killed the monster family. After fighting in the blood pool and the monster crawling over the body, the transformation from an older young woman to a super Saiyan was completed. Later, there were several shots, Sarah in blood crawling in the cave looked like those monsters, I don't know if the director deliberately did it. I even guessed that she would eventually become one of the cavemen.
I sympathize with that Asian-faced Comrade Juno. Extramarital affair is not guilty of death. As for manslaughter of a companion, Juno has just gone through a life-and-death struggle, and the hapless aunt (without remembering her name) appears silently behind others, who is to blame. Then seeing that there is no air but no air, Juno abandoning her is a reasonable move. In fact, it is best to make up another knife and give it a good time, so that she will not chew her tongue when she is dying.
So I am quite dissatisfied with Sarah's cut to Juno. I think the director’s painstaking efforts are nothing more than deliberate arrangements to highlight the so-called "humanity good and evil in extreme situations", as if this can add a bit of depth to the film. After reading a lot of people's film reviews, there really are a lot of fans. I don't think so. The complexity of human nature is much more vivid when encountered in real life, so there is no need to deliberately show it in an entertainment film. Most of the audience are ordinary students or office workers, and they have not experienced any extraordinary storms. Watching a movie at home and talking lightly about human nature is too vain.
There is also a very dissatisfaction with the end. It's good for Sarah to escape from birth alone. Although it is a normal Hollywood ending, she must be pulled back to the cave to show her complete despair. Well-speaking is a clever idea, but bad-speaking is that the director is teasing you. (You can edit it, you are justified in how you edit it...)
The key to these two points of dissatisfaction is that the deliberate tail is exposed, and the artistic conception is inferior. If you can't achieve the magical touch, it is better to tell the story of an adventure and encounter an ogre honestly.
Maybe it's cultural differences. . .
In fact, when I saw Sarah kill the monster family, I sympathized with that family of three for a while. (I don’t know if anyone else thinks the same way). They live the life of a wife and children in the cave (the hot kang does not seem to be there), that is, they usually go out to hunt a hare and mountain deer to make ends meet. It's rare to see a few middle-class women who were fed up and had to have nothing to do to find things. For them, they were just prey to the door. As a result, the tooth sacrifice was not beaten, but was destroyed, pitiful and pitiful. From our point of view, these cavemen are disgusting and terrifying. From the other side's point of view, they have only evolved into this way in the underground environment. Whoever provokes them is not for you to see.
There is a question. Where did the steel pipe that killed someone in the opening car accident fly out from? The car on the opposite side doesn't seem to be big, it doesn't look like a transport car with pipes, right? (The movie has been deleted, so I can’t review it.)
By the way, this movie has to be of better quality. I watched it in 720P. Although most of the scenes are in the dark, it is actually clear. Some netizens’ film reviews say that the effect of the picture is not good. It is estimated that they are watching rmvb and the director has been wronged.
Overall it is still a good film, reward a little red flower.
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