isolated

Nolan 2022-03-20 09:02:19

Extremely depressing and desperate from beginning to end.

It doesn't matter what the background war is about, what matters is how desperate, twisted, broken, destroyed the people in the little basement.

The human nature shown step by step in two hours makes my heart go cold.

But what is the right thing to do in that situation, I'm afraid we onlookers can't give a better answer.

The final outcome seems to have a glimmer of hope, but it is nothing more than escaping from one desperate little cage to another desperate big cage.

It should be said that from the very beginning of the story, the situation of the external world, which is vaguely revealed in the story, has already shown that this story is but a dead end, and the world of this story is but a dead end. However, the collapse of the "small world" people can only concentrate on seeking to escape, and cannot and have no time to think about what the "big world" will be like after escaping. . .

People can only consider how to get out of the current predicament. In a sense, it is also the unconscious self-protection of people?

Speaking of the lighter side, those brothers are very cute~

Brother really loves brother. . .

There is basically no BGM in the whole film. At the end, when the heroine fled, the BGM suddenly sounded, which was exciting, tragic, desolate, and shocking.

The film ED is good!

It suits this movie very well.

All in all, it's a very good, cruel and psychological film.

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The Divide quotes

  • Mickey: Shame we let those bodies go rotten.

    Sam: What do you mean?

    Mickey: You ever heard about that rugby team that survived the Andes?

    Sam: Their plane crashed.

    Bobby: They were forced to eat their friends and family. They survived up there for months.

    Mickey: They ate everything - ears, toes, assholes.

    Bobby: Uh-huh, arms, legs, brains, the spleen. The only thing they didn't eat was the penis. If worse comes to worst, you all have full permission to eat my body. Yeah, you do. But not my penis. Nobody - nobody but nobody eats Bobby's penis.

  • Bobby: [Bobby's about to chop up two dead bodies] I can do this, man. Yeah, I got this.

    Mickey: [walking away, to Josh] But can he live with it?