"Old Age" is the new work of M. Knight Shyamalan, an Indian-born director who is good at horror movies. When it comes to M. Knight Shyamalan, most horror thriller fans are familiar with his classic work "The Sixth Sense". ","Split".
M. Knight Shyamalan said his inspiration for the film came from the graphic novel Sandcastle by French cartoonists Pierre Oscar Levy and Frederik Peeters. Sandcastle tells the story of 13 people who are imprisoned on a secret beach, where time passes at a different rate than in the normal world, where perils and death follow.
At the beginning of the film, a family of four - a young couple and their two children take a vacation to a paradise-like island. They were greeted warmly by the resort's manager and service staff, who believed it would be the perfect breakaway.
By chance, the wife learned about this unknown resort hotel from the Internet, and the surprise in the words of the wife seemed to imply that the price of this resort hotel, which was like a perfect paradise, was low.
The camera has repeatedly given the hotel's logo, the shuttle bus and the door number of the entrance. The camera language that is always tilted like a stare indicates that there is a problem with the hotel. The manager will come to each table in turn to ask and answer questions. The lobby manager with a slightly wider pupil distance is as beautiful as a perfect artificial intelligence, and brings a cocktail to each arriving guest according to their preferences.
On the first night of arriving at the hotel, the two quarreled violently. Outside the closed heavy solid wood door, the two children hugged each other tightly, at a loss for their parents' quarrel. From the couple's brief bickering, viewers learned that it turned out that they wanted to take the kids on a final perfect family trip before their official separation.
The day after the argument, the manager warmly recommended the family for a perfect day out on a secluded private beach. There are also two other couples who are also managed by the manager Amway. One is an African-American psychologist, and the husband is an Asian-American nurse; the other is a scrawny wife who likes concave shapes, but lacks calcium due to long-term stones. Internet celebrity, middle-aged husband is a typical Republican, heart surgeon, accompanied by a dog, their daughter and husband's mother.
Surrounded by a ring of boulders, this private beach is amazingly crafted and has extraordinary views.
The crowd met the black rapper Stan on the beach, followed by a series of strange things.
They first found a female corpse in the sea, and when they approached the mothers, they found that their children were growing at an almost crazy rate, and the heart surgeon's mother and dog died quickly...
It didn't take long for these industry elites to figure out the weirdness of this beach. Time flies faster here, and everyone is aging at an extraordinary rate. If they don't leave quickly, each of their lives will end in a day. However, all possible exits were blocked by some strange force, and the cell phone had no signal at all.
Like all horror stories about enclosed spaces, these people quickly fell into hysteria. The white doctor attacked the black rapper Stan, and for no reason believed that Stan was responsible for all accidents.
Black psychologists watched the heart surgeon warily, panic and fear written all over their faces.
Although the Asian nurse is just a nurse, he has shown a strong ability to organize and coordinate. When the tumor in the protagonist's mother's body was growing wildly and no one knew what to do, the Asian nurse instructed the doctor almost like a textbook, where to cut and how deep to cut, and finally the tumor was successfully removed. When everyone found that the exit to the beach could not be passed, he resolutely decided to swim and escape from the beach in order to get medicine for his wife's epilepsy.
The Asian nurse seemed to have a psychological problem, and he was concerned that others couldn't remember his name. This may stem from his frequent neglect in his life and work.
The Asian nurse's African American psychologist wife, who suffers from epilepsy, first came up with the theory that it wasn't accidental, but man-made, after she understood that beaches accelerated people's aging and made people crazy. together for a reason. Kind of like Chainsaw and Panic Fang. Based on this speculation, African-American psychologists put forward a proposal: Everyone tells about their origins, why they came to this hotel, and how they discovered this hotel.
But the people surrounded by fear didn't take the psychologist's words seriously, and the Republican heart surgeon interrupted her rudely and contemptuously. The cardiologist also has a very serious illness, his mood is very unstable, he has a very violent tendency, he is very narcissistic but does not seem to be very capable. During the operation for the mother of the protagonist's family, the words flickered, and the operation needed to be directed by an Asian nurse, and there seemed to be some kind of stress response due to excessive psychological pressure before the operation.
Seeing this, I have probably guessed that this is an experiment.
This movie doesn't have too many thriller pictures, and it basically relies on narrative, which is in line with the director's consistent style. The only scene that can be called a cult is the doctor's internet celebrity wife, whose spine is curved after aging due to a long-term lack of calcium. She hides in a dark cave because she can't face her ugly appearance. The child" smashed his own bones because of the unsteady center of gravity.
But time passed so fast here, and before she had time to feel the pain, the bones had healed in the wrong place. She crawls forward, the bones in her body that are loose and fragile due to lack of calcium keep breaking and then healing.
For various reasons, the people present were almost dead very quickly. As night fell, only the family of four remained. The elderly mother is deaf in one ear and a little back in the other, and the elderly father has lost almost all his vision.
The two of them were sitting beside the bonfire by the seaside, and the old man said, "Are we quarreling because of what?"
The old lady said: I don't remember, but I just want to be with you now.
The old man said: Do we still want to leave this beach? Why, how beautiful it is here.
At that moment, they held each other's hands, found their love, forgot all the pain of betrayal and derailment, let go of their mistrust, and reached the end of their lives. I thought this picture of the movie could reveal another layer of deeper core of the movie besides its own story line. It is indeed a very terrifying thing for the body to experience the aging of an ordinary person's whole life in just two days. Between the scale of the universe or the scale of nature, isn't human life inherently small and short like an instant?
When this short and tiny life ends, the past love, the past hate, have no meaning, and no one will remember. Only in this short and smiling life, gently holding the hand of a loved one, to listen, to watch, to be happy, to remain calm, does it seem to have any meaning.
The image of internet celebrities and white surgeons in this film is a counter-example to this value, chasing fame and fortune, hypocrisy and vulgarity, and the last one is worse than the other.
Before dawn, both parents died. It seems like a lifetime ago, the brothers and sisters who were 6 and 11 years old the day before, have passed the year of knowing destiny overnight. Brother asks: Are we going to continue to find our way out of this beach?
My sister nodded and said: Until then, let's build a sandcastle.
No matter how sturdy, complex, majestic and majestic sand castles are, after the ebb and flow of the tide, they will become a piece of loose sand again. The siblings played sand happily. "Can adults have fun playing with sand like we do? Or can we just because we were kids yesterday?"
Why can't adults play with sand happily? This question is much more thoughtful than the real reversal at the end of the movie.
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