When it comes to "The Hunger Games", you must be familiar with it.
This is a story about the survival of the fittest.
There are still many such dystopian movies, such as "Divergent", "Maze Runner", etc. There are no morals and laws here, the only thing you need to do is only three words:
survive.
And the "real "Battle Royale" of "July 22 on the Isle of Ute" is more terrifying than the fictional story.
On July 22, 2011, Norway suffered two terrorist attacks: a car bomb in front of a government office building, and a mass shooting at a youth camp on the island of Uter.
The two terror attacks killed a total of 77 people in what was described as "the worst violent attack on Norwegian soil since the end of World War II".
The incident has been made into many movies, such as "The Bourne 2" and "The Bourne 3" director Paul Greengrass' "Norway 7.22 Bombing", and the "July 22nd of Utre Island". .
Among them, "July 22 on the Isle of Ute" is very different because it is not only based on real events, but also uses a "one-shot" approach.
There are not many movies in one shot, such as "Birdman", the best Oscar film, such as "Victoria", which was very popular in the past few years, but they are all fictional stories, such as "July 22nd of Ute". Movies based on true stories are rare.
The whole film revolves around a little girl, Katya, one of 650 young people attending a summer camp on Utre Island, along with her sister Emily.
The film also uses the "breaking the fourth wall" approach, in other words, the film characters interact with the audience.
I saw Katya said to the camera: You will never understand, you just need to listen to me.
At this point, Katya had already learned the news of the car bomb explosion, but what she didn't know was that she would be involved in the next.
At the same time, Katya was looking for her sister Emily. She called Emily, but Emily refused to answer her and just kept going.
When Emily heard her sister calling her, she still silently went back to the tent to zip it up, ignoring her sister.
When Katya walked into the tent, Emily was impatiently playing with her phone, ignoring her sister.
It turned out that it was Emily's mother who called Emily countless times and she didn't answer, so she had to ask Katya to see what happened to her sister.
Even Emily threw rubbish on the spot and asked her sister to clean it for her.
On the surface, these are just trivial matters, but they are actually very important foreshadowing, which shows that Katya is always thinking of others, and Emily is a very selfish and self-conscious person, and does not consider the feelings of others.
Seeing that Emily was so unfriendly, Katya walked out of the tent.
It didn't take long for the shooting to happen.
Katya hid with her companions, but she still thought about Emily, worried about Emily's life, and even wanted to go out to find her.
At this time, it was no longer safe indoors, and Katya and her companions hid in the woods again.
But in the woods, Katya still only thinks about her sister.
In the end, regardless of her own safety, she risked her life to run out of the woods to see if her sister was in the tent...
In this way, "finding my sister" has become an important clue in the film.
They played a cat-and-mouse game with the criminals, first hiding indoors, then escaping into the woods, and then going to the seaside and hiding under the cliffs, but they were always unable to escape the criminals' clutches.
Even hiding under a cliff and covered by trees does not mean it is safe.
At such a critical juncture, Katya always thinks about whether her sister is safe and whether she has been injured by a gunshot. If she cannot find her, she shoulders the mission of rescuing others.
A girl fell down, she helped the other up and ran with her;
When a child can't find his brother, she tells him to hide first;
Another girl was injured, and she took off her clothes and bandaged her wound...
After an hour passed, Katya still hadn't found her sister.
Finally, the rescue ship appeared.
It was at this time that Katya was shot in the head by a criminal while searching for her sister.
Seeing the rescue ship coming, people who had been hiding under the cliff ran out one after another, and took the time to get on the boat to escape.
Among the survivors, Emily is on the list. As for where she hid before, we may never know.
Katya has been looking for her sister from beginning to end, and in the end she died, while her sister quietly survived. This comparison is too ironic.
When Katya hid under the cliff, she talked to her companions and sang songs, but Emily did not come forward to find her in order not to expose herself.
And Katya was exposed to the criminal's sight just to find her, so she was killed.
Although it wasn't Emily who killed Katya, Katya died because of her.
You think of him wholeheartedly, but you are not important to him at all.
At first, I thought Katya was too much of the Virgin, isn't it good to run for your own life at this time? Why not save others.
But when I saw the ending, I realized that what the director satirized was someone like Emily who only ran for her life in the face of danger.
It's as if someone piloted a helicopter over Ute Island, but the people on the helicopter just took pictures and didn't save them.
I was reminded of Titanic, everyone wanted to get on the ship, and the whole ship was overturned.
In order to save Rose, Jack froze to death himself.
In the face of disasters, he was unwilling to live and left the chance of survival to his lover, which moved countless people.
Whether it is "Titanic" or "2012", whether it is "Skyscraper" or "Doomsday Collapse", all disaster films will have such a plot: one person runs for his life first, and in the end he hurts others and himself.
Selfless humility may not necessarily live to the end, but the first to escape must be the first to die.
And "July 22 on Ute Island" is the complete opposite of the previous movies. Katya, who saved the wounded and rescued the wounded, eventually died, but Emily, who was running for her own life, survived. This is the cruelty of reality.
Bad guys tend to live longer because they can do anything to survive.
A good person does not necessarily have a good reward. It is his goodness that is used by others, so he is deceived or slandered.
But if Katya is given another chance, she will definitely not regret it, and she will still be a selfless and helpful person, because she would rather die in honor than live.
On May 13, 2008, the body of the people's teacher Tan Qianqiu was picked up by rescuers. During the earthquake, Tan Qianqiu lay on a desk with his arms outstretched, guarding the four children under the desk. The children survived, while their teacher Tan was gone forever.
On July 30, 2018, Solway, a young man from Guizhou, in order to save the drowning woman, his life will always be fixed at the age of 20...
There are still many such news. Well-meaning people went to rescue the victims of drowning/falling/fire/earthquake. He rescued others, but he sacrificed himself.
Some people may think that this is not worth it, why pay for the mistakes of others at the cost of their own lives?
That's why Katya said to the audience: You'll never understand.
But how cold would the world be without people like them?
When they saw others in danger, they did not hesitate, put their lives at risk, sacrificed themselves to save others, and accomplished those touching deeds in the midst of natural and man-made disasters.
In the "Norway 7.22 Incident", a total of 77 people were killed, 99 people were seriously injured, and more than 300 people were traumatized.
There are still many people like Katja. It is they who sacrificed themselves to save others and exchanged their lives for one life after another, which minimized the number of casualties.
If everyone just ran for their own lives like Emily, there would only be more people killed.
The "Norway 7.22 Incident" reminds me of the Tangshan earthquake and the Wenchuan earthquake... Whenever disaster strikes, some people sacrifice their ego to achieve their greater self.
Some people are alive and he is dead; some people are dead and he is still alive.
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