I still clearly remember the scene of watching "The Mist" in the university dormitory. At first, I was just watching it myself, but when I saw half of it, all the people in our dormitory and the opposite dormitory were attracted. At their strong request I played it again from the beginning. When the movie ended, everyone was successfully defeated by the movie's divine turning point. The scene of a group of big men who were so heartbroken that they couldn't breathe should not be too beautiful.
Now that this depressing movie is going to be remade into an American drama, let's review, where is the god in the original movie.
The story of the film takes place in an American town surrounded by mountains and rivers, where the protagonist David and his wife and children live. One night, a storm suddenly hit, causing a lot of damage to the residents. After dawn, although the storm had passed, in the distant mountains, a thick fog was spreading.
David drove his son and neighbors to the supermarket in the town to buy some daily necessities, but at this time, thick fog had come to the town, and an injured person who ran out of the fog told them that the group There was something else hidden in the thick fog.
The frightened people decided to stay in the supermarket until the fog cleared. Only one woman was determined to leave for her child. She asked everyone for help, but no one dared to respond to her. In the end, the woman walked into the fog alone. middle.
The following plot explains the content of the book "The Rabble" very well. In this closed environment, the frightened people began to shake and split, and a woman who believed in the "Old Testament" also took the opportunity to spread the word. religious beliefs. As time passed, people's fragile psychological defenses began to collapse, and the attacks of those mysterious creatures in the fog completely overwhelmed the rationality of the crowd.
The best soil for religion to spread is fear. Under the fear of the unknown, the woman with extreme religious beliefs successfully bewitched most of the people in the supermarket. The most steadfast believer. At the behest of the woman, a soldier was maimed and thrown outside for sacrifice.
At this time, David finally realized that this seemingly safe sanctuary had become a paradise for lunatics, and he would go crazy sooner or later if he stayed any longer. So, he teamed up with a few conscious people to escape from the supermarket, but those lunatics had already decided to use them as sacrifices. After a fight, they finally escaped from the supermarket, but then came Yes, it was the attack of those monsters in the fog. In the end, only David and his son, an old grandfather, an old grandmother and a woman managed to escape.
The five people drove a jeep and began to find a way to escape in the fog, but along the way, they saw devastation, corpses, and even a super-gigantic and indescribably complex monster. Jeeps aren't even as big as monster toes. Eventually, the gas in the car ran out, which became the straw that broke the camel's back, and everyone lost the strength to move forward. They decided to die with dignity, so David took out the revolver he picked up when he got in the car. Pistol, but only four bullets left in the pistol.
After shooting his own son and others in great grief, David stepped out of the car and waited for the monster in the mist to take his life. However, after despair, there was even greater despair. What appeared in the fog was not a monster, but a military tank. Then the fog dissipated, and more and more troops and survivors appeared in front of him, among them There was the woman who ran out of the supermarket to look for the baby in the first place. Just like the sudden appearance of the fog, it also suddenly disappeared, leaving David alone to face the people in the car who had just been killed by himself, screaming in collapse.
The reason why this movie is called a god movie largely comes from this very depressing ending. After seeing all this, it is impossible for anyone to hold on anymore. Suicide is the only and best choice. David helped others to leave decently. When he wanted to be torn apart by monsters like before, he just waited. It was a rescue that had not appeared for a long time, which made people both heartbroken and helpless.
In the escape team at the end, a pair of elderly, a middle-aged and a child, this is a standard family combination, they are sitting in the car and walking through the fog, like the ship drifting in the biblical story. Noah's Ark in the ocean, but Noah persevered and found the new world, and David didn't persevere and finally fell into pain. This can be regarded as a kind of ridicule of Stephen King, the famous horror novel writer and author of the original author. The unstoppable patience of human beings ridicules the ridiculous beliefs of human beings.
The director of this film is Frank Darabont, and his most famous film work is "The Shawshank Redemption", and the original author and screenwriter of these two films are Stephen King, so the "Shawshank Redemption" "Redemption" and "The Mist" are linked together, and you will find that they have one thing in common, that is, you have to rely on your own efforts when you are in trouble, and don't hope for a miracle to save yourself.
In "The Shawshank Redemption", Andy did not hope for a miracle to escape his guilt, but relied on his own efforts to open up a road of life in more than ten years; and in "The Mist", the one who is in the The woman who rushed into the mist for the sake of the child at the beginning also explained this very well. She rushed out bravely, so she could finally appear in the surviving crowd. For David, he decided to hide in the supermarket. At that moment, it meant that he had sealed the door to his escape in his heart, and no matter how hard he tried, it would be in vain.
In addition, the portrayal of the collective unconscious in this film is also quite wonderful, fully explaining the theory of popular psychology discussed in the classic book "The Crowd". The various types of mysterious monsters in the film have strong Cthulhu mythological characteristics, especially the giant monster that appeared at the end, no matter how you look at it, it looks like the clan of the evil god Shabu Nicholas in the Cthulhu mythology system. The fear elements in this film are all derived from the fear of unknown things hidden in the fog, so it can be said that this film is Stephen King's kind of lovecraft, the writer who created the Cthulhu mythology system pay tribute.
Today, the film has been remade into an American drama. Judging from the trailers that have flowed out so far, the location of the story has been expanded, churches and large shopping malls have appeared, and elements such as homosexuality and mysterious experiments have also been added. For the series, the expansion of the scene and the complication of the character clues are necessary measures, but it is not known whether it will weaken the story of "The Mist" itself. Whether it will become a magical drama like "Westworld" or a god-like drama like "Under the Dome", we all don't know, everything can only be seen after the broadcast on June 22nd.
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