The various groups of people trapped in the small-town supermarket formed an independent and isolated social group. When faced with a crisis, everyone had a different reaction, and each individual's individual value and social role were most concentratedly displayed. . If you downplay the right and wrong between different choices caused by different beliefs, I would prefer this film to explore the different choices of human beings-as a species or group-in the face of an objectively unknown external environment. . If you stand a little higher, this entertaining film dressed in horror and horror takes a serious approach to the subject of how human civilization evolves. The mist came suddenly. When pushing mankind into a corner of desperation, human beings who thought they were already quite civilized seemed to have returned to the previous barbaric era. As for the future, it's like when civilization started, humans were discussing whether the earth was square or round. Just like the persecution of free thought by the Inquisition in the Dark Ages in Europe, the weakness of human spiritual civilization that has been concealed by the highly developed material civilization is suddenly exposed. From this perspective, we have seen the epitome of the development of the entire human race and human society, and we have seen three types of "people": one is the progressive forces represented by lawyers and David, such as rationality, science...Although there are violent conflicts between them The former represents the law, but he is overly arrogant and feels that humans or the law he believes in is omnipotent; while the latter is an artist (do you think of who initiated the European Renaissance first) and also represents human society The power of progress. But standing at the height of civilization development, what they have in common is that they all firmly believe in the positive power of mankind. On the other hand, Mrs. Comardy represents the passive or even reactionary force of the Inquisition, which believes in the unknowable, gives everything to God, and even oppresses others in order to maintain religion; there is also a large number of ineffective followers. But what is interesting is that the director also arranged some different individuals: one is the mother who ran away early in the morning, as some friends talked about, she represents human instinct, whether it is love or a deep love for the calf. Fortunately, her choice is entirely based on the instincts of humans or mothers; the other is the motorcycle party (called this for the time being) to get a gun. He said to Mrs. Comardy when he went out, "I believe in God too; I just don' t think he is the bloodythristy asshole you make him out to be." He represents an intermediate progressive force that believes in religion but is relatively rational. The addition of these two characters makes the composition of the small human society besieged in the supermarket more stepped and more flesh-and-blood.
Let's talk about David's ending. Just like Copernicus was mercilessly burned to death by the Inquisition, most of the human prophets did not have a happy ending. They go out, either like Galileo advocating new theories and opposing ignorance and blind obedience; or like Magellan exploring new land, opposing seclusion and conservativeness. Because they are progressing, they are always a minority compared to ignorant prophets, and their strength is small, but they are an indispensable beacon for mankind to explore civilization and its own fog. When David asked sadly, "they are dead; for what?", the movie itself had already given the answer earlier: David saw his wife's body and asked "let's see how far this fuels can take us to?", Amanda : "Maybe we can clear the mist". At this time, the theme of the movie The Mist obviously represents the unknown of the external environment and the ignorance of human society itself and the dark conservative forces that hinder progress. And their departure symbolizes the pioneering power of human progress, but it is also obviously fateful and tragic. They died just before the army came to rescue them, and they died under David's own hands. Is the director implying the limitations of our progressive power, the duality or the contingency of historical development? Maybe it's both. The director gave an unexpected ending, implying the contingency and uncertainty of the outcome in the development of human civilization. Perhaps such a statement is a bit gloomy, but when David and the others drove past the gate of the supermarket, when the crowd in the supermarket watched them leave, as the power of prophets and pioneers, I believe that many people already believe that they are the real power to promote human development.
Another thing worth discussing is the scientists and army of the Arrow project. They are the instigators of the entire disaster, but it is ironic that they are precisely the representatives of science. In the traditional sense, they are the progressive force for the development of human society. But they opened the door of Pandora and stole the apple of God. Where will the development of science lead human civilization? Recent movies such as Matrix and AI have discussed this proposition, so I won’t discuss it here.
The fog occurs in a closed space, and it is an epic drama of Hollywood packaging the internal development of human society and exploring the unknown world outside. The torches used by humans to fight alien creatures in the supermarket and the high-profile Enigma-like music in the movie all correspond or symbolize human history in an elemental way. I really like what a friend said on the website, to the effect that "humans believe in themselves blindly, humans give up on themselves, humans save themselves, humans attack themselves, humans doubt themselves", etc. Of course, you can ignore these obscure symbols and enjoy the thrilling journey Steve King and Frank Darabont brought us!
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