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The most frequently discussed zombie movie is not the bloody thrill, but the…
How to survive in a zombie apocalypse!
The doomsday scene presented by [Resident Evil], [The Walking Dead], and [Zombie Doomsday] made the audience experience the zombie disaster invisibly.
So fans also summed up all kinds of strange doomsday survival guide.
(A safe house to prevent zombies, are you sure?)
And related searches reveal people's real concerns about zombies!
Although the zombie apocalypse is just an imagination for us...
But we take it so seriously!
This just reflects that we are not so sane and strong.
Just like the protagonist of this new zombie film——
The night eats the world
La nuit a dévoré le monde
The zombie disaster in the movie has swept all over the world, and the United Kingdom, the United States, Japan, South Korea, and China have not been spared...
This time, the zombie runaway journey came to romantic France!
[Dark Night Devours the World] tells the story of a young man named Sam, whose lonely journey of survival after the outbreak of zombies.
Alone, facing the zombies in the city...
If you follow the routine of previous zombie movies...
He will touch a set of equipment first, and then he will meet his teammates A, B, C, Ding around the corner:
A wordless girl who is hot on the outside and hot on the inside, an all-around otaku who is in charge of technology, an old man in the market who guides life, and a little girl who symbolizes hope...
The technical otaku took the box lunch first, the old man's last words sublimated the theme, the silent girl and the hero gave the only escape quota to the child...
At the end of the scene, the male protagonist and the female protagonist continue to fight for survival!
Most of the zombie movies in the past are this kind of routine...
But as a French zombie film , [Dark Night Devouring the World] obviously did not retrace such an uncreative business path:
Hi after a party, young Sam hid in the corner and fell asleep...
When all night’s loud partying returns to quiet in the early morning…
Sam opened the door drowsily, and what was displayed in front of him was a terrifying surreal scene.
The room was empty, save for the stench of blood that spread through the chaos.
What's even more puzzling is that the girls who were winking and flying yesterday have now become bloodthirsty two-legged monsters!
Unfortunately, this sleep went straight to the zombie apocalypse...
Sam calmed his heartbeat and looked out the window first.
There are no more people coming and going on the street...
Instead, hordes of zombies chased the living, and saw a family of three on the opposite side being dismembered by zombies when they tried to escape.
Sam, who originally wanted to escape, was frightened and had to hide to save his life...
Step 1: Find firearms, food, medicines and other supplies
Sam found the shotgun in the neighbor's house downstairs for self-defense.
Then I found canned food in the kitchen of the residential building to replenish my stamina, and put on a leather jacket to adjust myself into a fighting form...
Step 2: Safe range to ensure that the activity space is firm and reliable
Sam packs his gear and starts checking the condition of the building...
The dangerous rooms with zombies are marked by him, and the keys of each room are collected by him in case of emergency...
Step 3: Make a plan and arrange survival needs based on comprehensive conditions
Sam gathers the clothes, food, and medicine he finds.
He divides the daily ration according to the date, and the few rations are enough for him to last for a long time after being used sparingly...
Exercise every day and collect rainwater when there is a shortage of water.
Reward mode: spiritual needs, games, music, bad taste
Sam was lucky enough...
In addition to ensuring survival, the residential building also provided him with toys, music, shooting and other projects to relieve loneliness.
Shooting zombies with paintball air guns is quite humorous.
The first half hour of the film demonstrates the "Zombie Doomsday Survival Guide"!
Not only did Sam survive, he lived well...
Different from the zombie films that don't need money for blood plasma, [Dark Night Devouring the World] presents a realistic and real survival process from a peeping perspective.
But without the stimulation of plasma, this alternative zombie film will inevitably be sprayed:
Such a cold zombie movie has no soul!
In fact, in recent years, zombie films have already given up the style of "selling blood" :
The popular Korean movie [Train to Busan] in 2016 combined the virus outbreak and the confined space of the train to show the state of all sectors of society in the face of disasters…
In the end, I did not forget to follow the customs of the country and blended the Korean-style tearjerker.
In the same year, the Japanese movie, titled [God, my zombie!] , reflects the complex darkness of normal people with a lonely and lethal zombie.
The British drama [Resurrection] uses zombies to express acute social issues, and the movie [Bearing Forward] expresses complex emotions with the escape route of a father and a child.
Even domestically produced zombie mashups like [ My Zombie Girlfriend] on campus...
Horrible shit! (I have to say, bad films are also a style)
Let the literary French make zombie movies, can they pour blood on you?
(The director of a literary film is more or less poor in money)
In fact, [Darkness Devours the World] expresses a kind of…
The zombie apocalypse creates a small world of loneliness and autism for Sam...
He hid in the room safely, because when he went out, he would be chased and injured by zombies and eaten into their kind.
If you hide, you can keep your own little world, even if you are autistic and lonely.
At the beginning of the story, there is a hint for Sam's loneliness:
He came to his ex-girlfriend's house to get his things back...
Unexpectedly, the ex-girlfriend was throwing a party at home, and the men and women were dancing, chatting, and having fun in the catalyst of music and alcohol.
Sam is a lonely outlier in the corner.
Waking up the next day, his loneliness was shown more extreme:
Last night, the crazy men and women turned into zombies, and Sam, who was locked in the house, was lucky to escape, but it was irrefutable that...
Sam is still a lonely outlier to zombies.
When he climbed to the rooftop and looked at Paris, the isolation from top to bottom, from far to near was more oppressive than zombies!
If the first half hour is his survival plan, then the plot behind is Sam's lonely inner struggle:
Loneliness is the first choice of life and death!
A pair of elderly people downstairs in Sam went to death one after another. After the husband shot and killed his infected wife, he committed suicide by drinking bullets...
In fact, the old man can continue to survive after giving his wife "Mercy".
But the death of his loving wife, leaving him alone may be a more unbearable torment for him than death.
Loneliness is also an escape from comfort and self-torture.
Single Sam doesn't deserve to die because of who's missing...
But the long-term "excuse" and "aphasia" were still annoying, so he listened to the past sounds on the tape, played musical instruments, and shot zombies.
He also chatted with the zombie old man trapped in the elevator...
Risking his life to save a feral cat...
When the cold winter comes, I feel sad with the only green plants...
It feels like the last potted plant in [Killer Leon], and like the frozen potato seedlings in [The Martian]...
When the vegetation dies, so does the person.
That is a hopeless time, the solitude of life as solace!
To be sad for a plant is to mourn for one's own fate...
Therefore, he seems to be worry-free, but he will still look at the world outside the window, or will be awakened by zombie nightmares in the middle of the night!
The film observes the state of survivors in a closed environment.
Instead of the bloody slaughter, the loneliness brought by the end of the day is not the case in Robinson's desert island survival in Defoe's writings.
Trapped in any kind of closed space in reality and heart, people can't get real pleasure and freedom...
Many netizens complained that this zombie movie was too boring.
But the detective, I think it is too rare to describe the story of the end of the day!
Not only does it implement practical, rather than dramatic, survival strategies, it also visualizes thinking about loneliness and courage:
A world full of zombies is our world...
The world we hate, complain about, and dissatisfaction with, people who go out are either killed and assimilated, or give up in despair.
And isn't the Sam hiding in the room the same you and me who are in the comfort zone, hiding in the closet, living in daydreams?
Looking back at the scene of the zombies that Sam used to attract with the sound of drums, perhaps it was the desperate roar of those who fought alone...
The film seems gloomy, but inadvertently reveals romantic hopes:
The film begins with Sam expressing disgust at parties, while his ex-girlfriend offers him kindly a piece of advice...
Why not stay for a drink, meet some new people and try a change.
Later, he may have understood this truth after experiencing zombies...
Just like Sam scolded the old zombie trapped in the elevator later, and every sentence was to wake up the timid self!
Because it's easier to refuse and give up than try and persevere...
But what we often should not miss is that there may be exciting unknown results after trying and persevering.
There are clouds, life is lonely...
And what we have to do is to experience loneliness and properly place loneliness!
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