was filmed in the UK and adapted from the bestselling book of the same name by British author Mike Carey
Since it's a zombie story, of course it's not a real story. Since it is a zombie story, of course, horror and bloodshed are indispensable. You know, zombies live on human blood.
It was a big prison with thick stone walls and heavy iron gates. There is a child in each cell. Every morning, several soldiers with guns tied them in wheelchairs and pushed them to the classroom. Melanie (Sennia Nanua) is one such girl. She seems to be the best in class and is beloved by her teacher, Justine (Gemma Arterton).
Humans are in big trouble, because the fungus invaded the human brain and became zombies. This large military camp is actually a military base surrounded by zombies. It's here by Dr. Catwell (Glenn Close) with these kids trying to find a cure. These children are the children of zombies, due to the mutation of fungi. Although they also have the animal nature of consuming blood, but like humans, they have their own thinking and can learn to accept new things.
Just when Dr. Catwell's research was about to make a breakthrough, the army camp was captured by zombies. In the end, only Justine, Melanie, Dr. Catwell, Sergeant Pike (Paddy Considine) and a soldier were left to break through the siege. They are going back to their headquarters in London.
After many obstacles and adventures, and with the help of Melanie, they finally reach the London headquarters, only to find that the headquarters has long since fallen, surrounded by dead (?!) zombies with fungi growing on their heads spores. They live in an abandoned laboratory. Prepare to go to the liaison station that still exists.
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When Melanie went out foraging, she found a group of children who were just like her. Savage and uneducated, but they also think and communicate with each other. They killed another soldier wandering the store and then ate him.
In the end Dr. Catwell told Melanie that it needed her brain and spinal cord to grow the antibodies. Melanie asks are we alive? When the answer is yes, since we are all living, why do we make sacrifices for you? Melanie used fire to release the fungal spores so that all surviving humans on Earth would die from respiratory infections of the fungus. All that was left was Melanie and her gang. There is also Justine, who is locked in the laboratory, and she will raise these children who will become the future masters of the earth for Melanie.
Melanie and them, as Dr. Catwell said, are also human. They have thoughts, they have feelings, and through learning, they can also have language. But the main difference is that they are cannibalistic. But they have developed brains, and more importantly, they don't get fungal infections. Just like in that ape movie, orangutans can climb trees, so they survive (see my blog post " A new page in the history of "Rise of the Planet of the Apes: Final Battle "). And Melanie is not afraid of fungal infection, so they finally become the masters of the earth. If the world really comes this far, it is hard to say whether it is sad or happy. Of course the humans we know are gone. The new race is physically stronger than us, and more suitable for the new natural environment, so they are the masters of the future. Can we accept it?
From then on, all kinds of deductions can be made, a new human replaces the old human, a new race replaces the old race, and a new religion replaces the old religion. It is not that the new is necessarily better than the old, it can only be said that the new is more survivable than the old. Countless alien invasions throughout history are an example. Sometimes a civilization can continue, and sometimes a civilization is cut off. Chinese history is an example. During the "Five Husbands and China", the original Western Jin Dynasty was driven to the south of the Yangtze River. The entire north was a country of ethnic minorities. The Han people were massacred, but the new regimes often established the imperial court according to the culture of the Central Plains. Dawei, Daqin and other countries later began to accept Han culture until the establishment of the Sui Dynasty. After that, they also became Han people, and the north is also a part of China today. Later, whether the Yuan eradicated the Song Dynasty or the Qing Dynasty eradicated the Ming Dynasty, they all inherited Confucian culture (it can be seen that Confucianism is not without merit). Although we all identify as Han Chinese, our Hu genes are not necessarily less than Han genes. In European history, when the Roman Empire was destroyed by the Germanic barbarians at that time, at least religion and writing were preserved. Of course, many cultures, such as ancient Egypt, Assyria in the Mesopotamia, Sumer, Babylon and other countries have completely disappeared. Putting these historical events into the film makes it hard to tell if Melanie was right or wrong, but for her, she has no hesitation in choosing her own interests over our present human interests. In the end, the clever Melanie used Justine to impart human culture to the savage children. If these children have their own culture or religion in the future, then Melanie is their god.
To say that the film depicts the future is rather a retrospective of history. As far as Melanie is concerned, this is a revolution in human society. And we say it is the end of mankind.
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