It seems that the director said that the child jar outside the door is just to add some sci-fi elements, but it is actually optional.
The main issue of this film is that people get together, and the mere infighting has already killed themselves.
What is the reason for the infighting?
In the beginning, the nuclear bomb went off, and a group of people ran around desperately and hid in the basement of the building. The owner and manager of the basement is Mickey. Speaking of him, it's interesting, according to the movie description, he was a firefighter in 911, his family died in 911, and he was the only one left. Because of the disaster experience, he may have sold the air defense basement and remodeled it to store doomsday rations and equipment. He lives with remorse and guilt, but pay attention, he must have wanted to be a savior in his subconscious mind. Back then, he thought he couldn't save his family mainly because he missed it, and time didn't allow it. An illusion, 9/11 is unpredictable, the scale of 9/11's disaster is unstoppable for ordinary people, even if he is at the scene, he cannot predict it, he can't know ahead of the CIA, or he can send surprise troops when the disaster occurs Saving his family in a collapsed building, the reason why he kept chewing on the disaster was that he was too conceited, self-centered, and felt that he was the head of the family and that everyone should obey him. When death is not allowed, he cannot die casually. Therefore, when the nuclear explosion occurred, it was not that he could not resist the gang to hide in, but he welcomed the gang to enter more, so that he could give himself a chance to rule. However, it turns out that even if history gives him another chance, he can't do it well. He is still the same person he was. He is conceited, irritable, violent, and doesn't know how to coordinate. Maybe it wasn't that 9/11 ruined his beautiful family. Before, his family should have actually fallen apart, it's just that he hallucinated himself to be in control after the disaster. After the nuclear explosion, his performance in the basement has proved that he is not the good parent he imagined at all.
Going back to the infighting, at the beginning, when everyone didn't know where the pantry was, when food and water were strictly rationed, although the 8 people had a small friction, they still restrained each other, until the heroine found out Mickey's secret and told others, which inspired everyone's selfish desires, the first to attack the black people, this setting seems to be a mockery, everyone knows Martin Luther King, advocate equality, think carefully , is that a false equality, social wealth is created by white people, under a legal framework that protects private property, is advocating equality a kind of incitement, equal access to social resources? The creation of wealth is not equal, why does Mao want you to enjoy it equally? This is an inherent and profound contradiction. The human rights declaration says that everyone is equal, just to maintain equality in performance, equality in the right to work, and in other respects, people with a lot of private property will not give you equality at all, he has to protect his own Power boundaries, not to be violated by others. The logic of the black man is that if everyone hides together, they are equal. All food and water must be shared equally. He has the right to ask for it. But this place is a private property built by Mickey alone, why should it be shared equally? It is kindness to have a limited supply to keep everyone alive. So, the black people were killed in the dispute.
After killing someone, Mickey committed the original crime and provoked public anger. Two people headed by the Nazi brothers tied him up and tortured him, thus establishing a new order in the secret room, violence. The secret room fell into hell in an instant, everyone was in danger, and finally collapsed in the internal strife. Even if the heroine escapes, there is still a dead end. Originally, if everyone restrained and had limited rations, they could support them for a longer period of time, escape the nuclear radiation dust, and then return to the ground, the survival rate would be higher, but they would collapse in an instant and die.
Therefore, don't instill in people the idea of robbing other people's property and forcing equal rights. This will only lead to the end of everyone in a short time. Look at South Africa.
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