The film begins in a chaotic nuclear explosion, with a few lucky ones hiding in a basement. At least this time is lucky, and the person who didn't hide is probably dead. When I saw this, I thought, if a nuclear explosion really comes, am I so lucky? Students who have seen this film will probably say that they are more fortunate not to go in. . .
Let's talk about the owner of this basement---mickey, a neurotic old man. He turned the basement into an apocalyptic sanctuary. There's a food reserve, the door is sealed, there's tape, there's water, and there's a gun (which is important). It can be seen that he cannot simply be described as a persecuted paranoia. As the plot unfolds, it can be seen that he lost a loved one in 9/11, which would explain his neuroticism. In order to build this shelter, he did his homework, and even controlled the food at the beginning, and then instigated people to chop up the corpses of the invaders for food. When it comes to food, it will be the most vicious and out of control. Yep, I'm sure it's true, although he killed the nigger who tried to grab the food. But this black buddy has threatened mickey for a long time, and sooner or later it will be an unstable factor. Keeping a gun is to control the situation in the event of an accident. But accidents always happen, or should the movie be renamed: The Survivor, nuclear escape, or the canned food we ate together in those years? Pull away, pull back. The role of mickey is still quite full.
Speaking of the weak, the little girl and her mother, marilyn. In that case, the child passively waits except crying. No matter what comes, I am afraid that there is no ability to refuse. And marilyn may be more vulnerable. When the little girl was taken away and the food was insufficient, she turned herself into a plaything in order to find a backer. She may be the first person to collapse in this isolated space. On the one hand, the loss of her child makes her lose her spiritual support, and at the same time, she also feels that there is no need to maintain self-esteem. It can be seen that before the disaster, the living condition of this marilyn, how to say, can't live without children? But why did she choose to "live" instead of committing suicide when she knew that the child was dead? I do not understand. . The ending that the director gave him was also death, not by nuclear radiation, but by the "backer". .
In the film, the scumbag male sam is timid and cowardly. In the end, he fought desperately for the female pig's foot eva. He raised his gun and killed the good man Adrien by mistake. However, this good man, Adrien, is also dead, caught between his brother and the female pig's feet. It seems that he once wanted to give the female pig's feet a drunken sex. As for the others, he was indifferent. Even when he died, he wanted to take down Sam's gun and continue to maintain that precarious balance. Probably this is the silent majority in Xiaobo's writings. . .
It's time to talk about "backer". Michael Eklund, who plays bobby, is already a veteran, and the villain is no longer difficult for him. What should I say this time? Neither eye-catching nor lost. When Milo cut his hair, he cried, and when he first entered the basement, he seemed to cry too. There is also the indecision after getting the gun, and even want to kill Josh, how should I put it, this guy obviously wants to show us more, such as vulnerability, fear, despair, etc. In contrast, Milo's performance makes Josh's character look a little thin. Josh seems to be the worse villain in the film than Bobby, and the two occupy the food together. Play dead marilyn, but also want to engage in eva. But don't forget that this guy was a hero when he first started. In order to find a chance for everyone, I took the initiative to walk out of the basement and look for children and hope. In the end, he changed after he came back and was desperate, so he was worse than Bobby. Even so, he still cared about his younger brother Adrien. Assuming Adrien hadn't died, he probably wouldn't have set fire to destroy everything.
The biggest breath of the film is despair. Women and children die, the wicked die, the pleasing people die, the cowardly die, the greedy die, and the silent majority die. As the protagonist of this film, eva is probably the most hopeful to live. She has always been kind, brave, and strong, but in the end, she found that she also started to lose her hair. Grandma's sister quit, and her sister wants to live! So Eva closed the door, took off her clothes, put on a protective suit, brought a can, and got into the only septic tank with hope of survival, leaving a sea of fire and struggling Sam and Mickey outside the door. In fact, the film has been desperate to the end here. Even if the world outside waiting for eva is full of vitality, the audience is already extremely disappointed with human nature, so the director did not explain the identity of the intruder and the reason for the nuclear explosion. Just freeze the final shot at the ruins facing eva.
After reading it, I imagined, assuming this was just an experiment, what would be the result of locking a group of people in a completely isolated space? This is probably the time to make The divide 2 again. Can the female pig's feet let me choose? .
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