In addition to the rich metaphors, the film is meticulous in details, and even a glimpse of the extras is heart-wrenching.
I love those little loli at the beginning. At dawn, he resolutely walked to the sun to end his lingering life, tragically and decisively. In the shot floating in the roadside shop, the little girl holding a cigarette has a beautiful face, but her eyes are vicissitudes and cold, as if she has lived more than a lifetime.
Vampires are desolate and sexy creatures with golden pupils. Pale face. Charming smiled, revealing sharp white teeth. No heartbeat, cold all over. won't grow up. not getting old. Only in the dark night, with dazzling red lips and bottomless eyes.
This is the world occupied by vampires. Only bloodthirsty can survive and obliterate the boundaries between life and death. In the future 2019, this term will change from a distant legend to a virus that is close at hand. Once infected, it will immediately turn into an alien, unable to survive or die. In just a decade, humans were widely infected and quickly reduced to food for vampires, livestock to be hunted and raised, and then one of the few endangered species left on the planet. After all, human blood is limited, the output of "food" is shrinking, and the blood rationing system in the vampire world is also in jeopardy.
Vampires are also divided into strong and weak, rich and poor, and three religions. The rich ghosts ate and drank human blood, and the poor ghosts lined up to buy a cup of hot coffee with only 5% blood content. The bloodthirsty impulse and hunger make the vampires at the bottom of the society cannibalize each other, and the vampires who eat the same kind of vampires will mutate and become ugly and cruel "night walkers". ash.
The increasingly chaotic and crazy ghosts seem to be the reflection of the human world.
Here, the film proposes the first choice -
if you are infected, how will you choose? Whether to become a vampire hovering on the boundary of life and death, waking up every day without a heartbeat, daring to see the light, drinking blood of the same kind every day and living immortally, or jumping into the sun and fulfilling one's identity and belief in the fire and ashes recognition?
Some people choose to live forever and take pride in it. Some people are unwilling to join forces and have no choice but to embark on the road of escape, traveling thousands of miles and panicking all day long. Some people were forced to become vampires, but they did not dare to die under the sun. They had to use animal blood instead of human blood as food, and lived a life of unpleasant food and a torment of conscience.
When will these days end?
In fact, such days have to come to an end sooner or later.
The film gives two paths: to find a substitute for human blood through scientific research, or to find an "antidote" to return to the world - to cure the bloodthirsty virus and make vampires "re-human".
It's just the final discovery that's troubling. It turns out that if a human who was infected as a vampire wants to return to a human body, he can only be exposed to sunlight and reborn in a raging flame, and his blood will also become the "antidote" to save others from being human again.
So, the second choice came to the surface -
only if you muster up the courage to go to the sun to "die" once, you can get a chance to live. you, dare?
Coward or brave, is redefined here. Those powerful characters, shunned in the sun, reveal weak and filthy souls.
After the bloody battle to the end, the third choice was finally put in front of the survivors -
only by feeding people with one's body can save all beings. Are you willing?
There are too many rich political and religious associations in this setting, but there are also many insights and touches.
Whether it is to sacrifice one's life, actively throw himself into the bloodthirsty crowd, or be bitten madly and destroyed by the sharp teeth of others, all kinds of tragic methods of death have brought hope to those who are eager to see the sunshine again. The "antidote" is the blood of the cured vampire. The world of vampires from blood is like dominoes, which will eventually disintegrate and collapse under the reversal of blood.
There is no dog-blood love in this film, and the description of family affection is also bland and bland, only the constant pursuit of fate - when the entire human race is facing an identity crisis, a species crisis, and a survival crisis, do you have the courage to stand up and become a The one facing the sun?
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