Many people say that bear spray is not recommended for use in tents. Because even if it takes effect, people will be smoked out of the tent after half a minute because they can't stand it. Faced with the bear who was still outside while being so hot that he couldn't open his eyes and coughed so hard to breathe.
I think the biggest highlight of this film is the depiction of animal habits, and the combination of habits and the standard killing behavior of horror movie protagonists.
The biggest mistake the protagonists make is behaving like the prey. While leaving the trail without a map sucks, people can live a long time with shelter and water, and probably survive without attracting bears. The bear followed them for several days, in fact, he was exploring the reality of human beings. They have been proving themselves to the bears as a food source with actions these days. Smell the bloody socks and tell it that the human has been injured and torn apart for this taste; letting it steal the food is equivalent to telling it that it will have something to eat when it gets close to humans, and if you keep approaching, you will continue to have something to eat. You should continue to follow and approach.
Wild animals treat uneaten animals like toddlers treat unseen food. If you see your parents eating, you will definitely learn to eat, otherwise you will be a little hesitant. They will look at it for a long time, touch it with their hands, play for a while and get it everywhere, smell it, and lick it. They will continue to hunt if they make sure that this thing is edible and the risk is controllable. The predatory behavior of bears is even more complicated. Their foraging behaviors include hunting, catching fish, digging honeycombs, scavenging, picking up rubbish and bird eggs, etc. --- They will try various interactions to obtain food , which is useful and will continue to use, and can even learn to bow and ride a bicycle in order to eat. Of course, these interactions sometimes end in 'kill and eat'.
It can be said that the protagonists completed the food conditioning quickly in a few days. This process is slow and smooth, just like watching them pass round after round of interviews, confidently and firmly persuaded the interviewer to get the food position. It can be said to be the best part of the whole film.
The last time the bear hunted was 4-7 days ago, and probably ate the carcass of the buck for 2-3 days. After that, he should have picked up and eaten all kinds of things, but such a majestic old bear needs a big prey every few days. Pushing harder and harder, he finally got into the tent.
After getting into the tent, the two humans sent out the high-frequency screams and groans that the small animals made when they were frightened and injured, and hid in the depths of the tent, like rodents dug into their burrows by dogs. Such behavior irritates all predators, just as a dog-afraid screeching, "Don't come, don't come" because of a nervous voice and backing away, can irritate a dog to pounce. The squeaking cat and dog toys are designed with this principle in mind - imitating the sound of small animals hurting to stimulate their prey drive. The black bear is very cautious. Even if he has fully committed when he got into the tent, there is still a chance to persuade him to reconsider, such as stabbed a few times in the face and nose, or calmly confront it (general field safety education is taught in this way Yes, but it's better to insert a few knives when they are all in the tent). Not necessarily useful, but definitely better than screaming, which is only counterproductive.
The part of eating people is also very beautiful and very realistic. Bears eat their prey alive. Bears can do jiu-jitsu and are skilled at knocking down their prey. The jiu-jitsu will find a flaw to subdue the opponent at this time, and the bear will directly start eating. For deer, the bear will usually start at the butthole, go through it, and eat it up. Because the internal organs of animals are rich in nutrients, there are trace elements and dietary fibers in the intestines of herbivores that are already easily absorbed (after all, they are semi-finished products), and they are easier to absorb than large muscle groups. Predators usually eat this part first after they start eating, so even if they are cut off by scavengers or other predators, the best and most nutritious parts are already in their stomachs. The black bear in the film is so big, it must be difficult to meet an animal that can drive it away, but after years of habit + a new animal that has never been eaten, it is very habitual to start eating from the abdomen. It must have marveled that the animal was so soft, so fat, and salty. I think this process must be very painful, because nothing in the abdominal cavity can be directly fatal. Can only hope for shock or dmt kicking in when eaten. In 2019, a man in the west was jumped by a bear while riding a bicycle. When he was eaten, he took a knife from his pocket and stabbed the bear in the neck. The bear was injured and fled, but he survived but lost a kidney and an intestine, and his hip bones were full of tooth marks, like the bite of a dog. "He just kept on chewing." That's his description of the scene. To say that our western residents are more sturdy, this person later returned to the camp with his intestines on a bicycle and was rescued. The picture in this part of the film is not very shocking, but the sound effect is very good, because it is a very real "hear people die amsr", which releases the tension that the film has always accumulated.
The last chasing, chasing and running is a little boring, especially after watching Cannibalism, I always feel that it is not exciting enough. The heroine finally started to do a series of right things after her boyfriend died, although I don't know why the ship was retrieved. My understanding is that the audience should start supporting the heroine at this time, hope she survives, and be nervous about it. It would be nice to have that kind of emotion. But her performance always had a feeling that she was determined to survive, and she didn't look so nervous.
Finally, I want to complain about Irish man. I also met a similar Irish man in the wild this year. Is this a new stereotype? How come there are so many?
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