If you don't take it seriously, it's easy to be biased by the hot reviews. There are indeed ideological things, but the director has no clear position (except for the socialism of the Celestial Dynasty).
There are several main characters in the film: Juan, Juan's daughter, Juan Jiyou, Jiyou's son, sissy, muscular man. For the sake of convenience, let's call them: Juan, daughter, gay, Miami, gay, strong man.
1. Does the film black out socialism?
Undoubtedly, it was indeed a black one. For example, the nickname of gays is "china", which obviously means the socialism represented by the celestial dynasty and the celestial dynasty (this should be distinguished from the socialism represented by Castro). The setting of gays is not pleasing in itself, and some political metaphors are included, such as the design of Juan and gays being handcuffed together, in order to satirize that China has always tied Cuban socialism and Chinese socialism together political strategy. The director is even more bold in that he predicts the future of socialism in the Celestial Dynasty by using the gay guy to fall into the abyss, and when Juan encounters the gay guy who has turned into a zombie, he stepped on a few feet and spit without saying a word. At this point, the director's attitude towards Chinese socialism is undoubtedly revealed.
As I said before, in this film, Cuban socialism cannot be confused with Chinese socialism. The former still has an idealistic color (obviously the director believes that the latter no longer exists), and Juan is the spokesperson for this idealism. When his daughter persuaded him to do good, he said, "We are Cubans, and we do it when things are bad." When he decided to take everyone to Miami, he said, "We will be poisoned by capitalism." When everyone could escape together, he decided to stay, on the grounds that "I managed to survive in Mariel, Angola, special times and later disasters."
Juan's views before and after the decision seem contradictory but not contradictory. His attitude towards Cuban socialism is not positive, but his attitude towards capitalism is even more disgusting. What he loves is only this land. He is not afraid of struggle or bloodshed. He was willing to defend the land even if he had no chance of winning, and that was the real reason he stayed.
2. The film’s attitude towards America and capitalism
The capitalist world is a place that young people yearn for. Miami yearns for the United States, and so does my daughter. The two have similar interests, so it was good from the beginning. And Miami avoided Castro's socialism. There is a scene worth noting. After the gay fell into the abyss, Miami climbed up the pipeline with food that could save everyone's life, and apparently became a hero who saved the world. Celestial socialism has turned into zombies and fallen from the building, while capitalist America has become a hero and embraced beauty. This is probably the biggest private item brought by the director.
But the protagonist Juan does not like to see capitalism. In the whole film, Juan does not express a positive view of capitalism, including the Spaniards who prostitute Cuban women, the Russians dumping inferior cars to Cuba, and the endless stream of foreign tourists who come to find strange things... All these make Huan have no good feelings for the capitalist world, and the biggest victim of this is the English-speaking Christian who saved everyone's life. The hero who saved people was accidentally shot by his friends. Hu An didn't show much anger, but Juan was very sad when Jiyou was about to die.
The director did have the intention of hitting fifty big boards each, especially when Juan also took the opportunity to black Cuba. Zombies were mixed in with the protesters and no one noticed. It can be seen that the march of the masses is blind and meaningless. The most spectacular and profound part is that of the army of zombies under the sea (although there is a suspicion of plagiarizing the Pirates of the Caribbean), does it imply that the Cuban socialist people are living in dire straits?
3. Some interesting black humor
The cynical male protagonist goes out to sea and encounters zombies. After drying the zombies, he continues his decadent life like no one else; zombies bite people, everyone looks irrelevant and even watches the fun. Although absurd, this may be the closest living state of the Cuban people. They are nervous, lazy, and have fun in a timely manner. It is not that the Cuban people do not want to make progress, but that they are faced with the perennial economic blockade, material scarcity, partisan struggles, and mass demonstrations. People can only live a little comfortably in this state.
The strong man faints blood; the base friend masturbates to the goddess whom the male protagonist has soaked in; the apocalyptic squad with bad views "kills your lover" and charges service fees. Somewhat anti-type, it's a common tool for creating humor. However, the "kill your lover" service is still very interesting. This is probably a sharp satire on the profit-seeking nature of capital tycoons, which is reminiscent of an economics saying "if the profit exceeds ten times, the merchant will sell hang yourself by the rope".
The poor design and editing of the fight scenes turned out to be unexpectedly comical. It is estimated that most people did not realize that the scene in which several people fought zombies had an Easter egg about Bruce Lee. The various honey slow motions, honey transitions, and honey editing in this scene resembled a fighting tutorial.
In the end, only Juan guards the land he loves alone, which is reminiscent of the ending of Zhang Mazi who made bullets fly. . .
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