I remember one sentence in a commentary on "I am a Legend": Americans always think that the world is almost over, but Chinese think that the emperor is not dead yet. Unlike the Chinese people’s court soap operas and some serious historical themes, Americans always feel that their lives are too easy, so they have to come up with a few catastrophes in the genesis of the Bible to invigorate their spirits and regulate their emotions. . So freak monsters, alien invasions, viral zombies, natural disasters are ruining the world with dazzling CG effects and model props in the cinema. Blue-skinned superman and heroes with different functions can also borrow careers. Poop bubble beauties.
In "I Am Legend", Erlang God and Xiaotian Dog walk in an empty world, without women and bitches, and their boring one-man show makes them truly legendary. On the whole, "The Mist" is not so quiet, the dramatic conflict is obvious, the plot is ups and downs, and some scenes are bloody and violent for the children. It is about the story of a small town with a strong platoon of residents who were trapped in a supermarket by a strange fog and monsters, struggling to survive in a desperate atmosphere.
A group of people struggling and conflicting in a closed space seems to have always been a good analysis blueprint for social psychologists. The director said in an interview that the most terrifying thing is not the monster, but the human heart. People either help each other or destroy each other. This is what "The Mist" hopes to show. On this theme, the seemingly perverted plot in "Battle Royale" by Takeshi Kitano actually wants to tell the truth.
When watching the film, I remembered the famous hypothesis in quantum physics: Schrödinger’s cat. It is about the inability to rely on subjective experience to judge the life or death of a cat in a box with radioactive atomic decay, thereby defining the problem of superposition.
Moderate lawyers become rude and rude, devout believers confuse the public with rumors. Often the human nature that we can't really see through under normal circumstances is undoubtedly exposed in special "experiments." I want to say that human nature is like the half-dead cat in the box. In fact, everyone has good and evil, both strong and weak. True, good, beautiful and fake, evil and ugly are mixed and hidden in people. That supermarket is undoubtedly a box used by Stephen King to do experiments. Human evil and kindness, tolerance and trust collide in that small box like atoms, and the gloom of human nature exposed in that extreme situation seems to have become again. Sartre’s “other is hell” argument, for example, no one is willing to send a woman home to take care of the children, and most people are unwilling to take the risk of going to the pharmacy to get medicine for the burned.
Legend has it that Stephen King always likes to write his own screenwriters and criticize other screenwriters. His behavior is a bit imperialist, so his own subjective feelings are inevitably infiltrated into the film. Therefore, the final ending of the film puts the hero of personal heroism in a very embarrassing state, unlike the invigorating and majestic rain outside Shawshank prison. This made everyone a little surprised. He felt that he had worked hard for most of the day. In the end, he had spent the rest of his life in grief. The so-called fate is unpredictable, good luck makes people, probably that is the case. After watching the black ending, you may be surprised, why didn’t the fog dissipate a little earlier, why didn’t the army arrive a little earlier? In fact, Stephen King just wanted a tragic effect to keep the whole desperate of the film. Temperament is only, this is natural, there is no too deep meaning, and there is no pretentious and profound intention. And in that situation, everyone hopes to have a bullet for themselves. I think as far as Stephen King’s style is concerned, he didn’t let the survivors of the supermarket. He smiled at the protagonist with a lollipop in a military car and was already very human and warm. Those who feel uncomfortable can be just like me. , I am obsessed with the ending of their later life together happily.
But like the old man sitting behind the car who escaped with the protagonist at last sighed and said: "After all, we worked hard."
Yes, they worked hard. So after the four gunshots in the small off-road vehicle, even if everyone in the vehicle except the protagonist died, the perfection and fighting spirit in the human nature still survived.
As for the metaphors of religion and science, original sin and redemption, democracy and tyranny, civilization and barbarism in the temporary social structure in the supermarket, there are many themes that can be used by academic men to utter nonsense and express humanistic care. As an IT worker, I can do it. It is not my job to sympathize with human beings and be compassionate for others-I am just an audience, not Guanyin.
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