In order to fill this big hole, the director took great pains. With limited budget growth (the sequel budget was only 9 million), first moved the scene from the indoor to the outdoor in the first part, turning the thriller of the secret room into a team escape. ; Then increase the number of people and expand the range of classes. The first part focuses on middle-class families, while the sequel adds local tyrants and the poor. After these two adjustments, the layout and vision of the sequel has been changed immediately. It has changed from a relatively isolated sample to a relatively panoramic view of all beings in the removal plan, which is obviously higher than the first one.
On this basis, the most obvious point in the sequel is the darkening of the government. The background of the national conspiracy is even more fruitful than the first. If the original government was only the makers of the rules of the game, allowing citizens to kill freely within the prescribed twelve hours, now the government has become a direct participant in the game, organizing government forces to the society under the instigation of the so-called founding fathers. Targeted massacres of the people at the bottom. On the other hand, while the poor fell victim to the state's population control, crime rate, and unemployment rate, they also became prey for the rich for pleasure. The local tyrants waved their money and turned the annual "National Killing Day" into a grand carnival through various channels. Eva’s father is an example, voluntarily becoming a lamb to be slaughtered, using an old sick body to exchange a living allowance for the family; or spawning a gang like the mask gang in the film, grabbing people and selling them to the rich for their pastime . Therefore, the ecological environment of the "National Killing Day" is clearly revealed-except for the middle class who will not die if they don't die (unless they want to go out and get addicted), these twelve hours are a paradise for the rich and the poor. hell.
Of course, when there is oppression, there will be resistance. The resistance army headed by Carmelo John came into being. Not only did they shout loudly on TV, they also used practical actions to save the poor from crisis. What's interesting is that I don't know if the director deliberately did it. "Carmelo John" is set as a black image, and its meaning is quite interesting.
It seems that De Monarch has used many methods to continuously bury the soil and fill the pit, but the proposition of "clearance plan" is really too big, and the sequel will naturally need more pen and ink to fill up the various main lines. This It's not a 100-minute film length, let alone the limited director's skill. Therefore, what we saw became a sequel with a little confusing and sloppy clues. The former is manifested in the half-concealment of the blackened government and the rebels leaving only a glimpse at the end, but instead put the game of local tyrants showing the gap between the rich and the poor on the foreground. The latter is manifested in the lack of preparation for your main characters, and the contradictions and conflicts that may arise after the formation of the group are basically irrelevant, resulting in a very thin and flat character. If there is anything in this episode that makes me remember more deeply, then Leo’s grievance with virtue can be counted as one. He gave up revenge for his son at the last moment, unexpectedly saved his life, this is undoubtedly a positive energy to praise humanity in the style of ridicule and irony throughout the article.
The global box office of this sequel exceeded 100 million U.S. dollars. The good performance will certainly not let the producers give up. It is said that the third part is already set for next year. It is conceivable that the stigma between the government and the rebels is bound to continue to ferment in the next part, and it is doomed that the "Human Removal Project" will be a pit-filling work that stretches for several parts. Of course, it’s okay to fill in the hole, I'm afraid that it will become a silly work, after all, such examples have long been counted in Hollywood.
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