Experts in any field have one thing in common, turning decay into magic, and turning the ordinary into the unusual. Plants and trees, handy at hand, are artifacts. Stephen King, who writes horror novels, is such a master.
It is said that Si is an extremely timid and sensitive person, who always feels that there are horror factors in the surrounding things, such as refrigerators and typewriters (see "Ten Days in Crisis" for details). When writing to the scary part of the novel, I will speed up and write quickly. It is precisely because of this that the horror atmosphere created by Si is always closely related to our daily lives.
"The Mist" is a horror story that combines the supermarket and the fog.
Are bugs scary? If you choose affirmative, it is mostly psychological fear due to its appearance. In this movie, bugs are not a horror factor, they are just a part of the story environment, just like the fog. By the way, it also played a catalytic role.
The word "bewitching" in Chinese comes from something like Gu. Putting worms in a vessel for refining is Gu. Gu can confuse people's will, even fatal. Stephen King, who doesn't understand Chinese, happened to also use this concept: bugs, confuse people. In other words, those alien insects catalyze the monsters in people's hearts.
Fear, timidity, selfishness, hatred, anger, these are the monsters in our hearts.
The group of survivors in the supermarket did not unite. But from fear, timidity, to suspicion, distrust, to hatred and killing.
In the crowd, the timid female believer went through a process of transforming from a pure religious believer to a witch who incited the crowd, until she wanted to sacrifice the little boy in order to "sacrifice to God."
The female believer was originally just a timid and covetous little figure. Low morality does not give her the ability to influence everyone.
So, what made her come to this point?
When I thought of this, my mind was confused for a moment. Until I turned to Le Pen's book.
Le Pen wrote this passage in 1895: Groups are not affected by reasoning, they can only understand ideas that are pieced together. To make the group believe in something, you must first understand the emotions that excite them, and pretend that you also have such emotions.
Unknown bugs, God's punishment, God's condemnation, people are eager to get rid of fear. When all conditions are ripe, there are no more than
three methods to influence the minds of the group: assertion, repetition, and contagion. She did it one by one.
So the female believer successfully transformed into a witch.
I was thinking, but when the army at the end of the movie drove to the small town to rescue the residents of the supermarket, will the witch be pushed to the apex of worship: "The person who does not believe in God’s punishment (the male protagonist) leaves and becomes a sacrifice, Therefore, the remaining talents are saved."
Even the last actor and others have been imperceptibly imperceptible by the witch in their hearts. The monsters have already taken root in their hearts, so their despair will come early.
Is this an anti-religious movie? Compared with "I Am Legend", "The Mist" seems to have a more desperate outcome of human victory. The insects are wiped out in the fire, but the ugly monster in human nature is always ready to swallow our hearts. Where is the hope?
Those things that do evil in the name of justice have never stopped by our side. The demon in the cloak of God has never given up inducing us to release the monster in our hearts.
It seems that the crowd is indignant, and the whole country is shaken. In fact, we are just a group of people locked in the supermarket by the fog.
When extreme emotions flood all around us, each of us should first ask ourselves: Believe in the majority, or believe in ourselves.
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