The discussion between Granny Vaccine and Melanie about Schrödinger’s cat is actually about the state of Melanie (and a group of infected human descendants like her): Does she belong to a human or a zombie. However, at the end of the film, when Grandma Vaccine finally had a conversation with Melanie, after the final human observation, the real collapsed state was: Melanie is a new species. At the beginning of the film, various soldiers with live ammunition faced the infected second-generation children in the base, and the soldiers outside the classroom sometimes called the infected second-generation children as freaks. It can be seen that from a human perspective, the second-generation children belong to zombies. category. Of course, they will not be attacked by other zombies, their bloodthirsty nature, and their sensitive sense of smell can all prove that the second-generation children have the characteristics of zombies. But later, the surviving team went to downtown London and found that the next form of zombies was symbiotic with pathogenic fungi and became the soil where the fungi grew. The second-generation children obviously do not belong to the category of ordinary zombies. Are those second-generation children special zombies or special humans? When Melanie was in the small shop to protect teachers and soldiers, and savages children in martial arts, I suddenly felt that this is a dispute between two species. On one side is Melanie, who protects humans, and on the other, savage children who want to eat humans. Melanie has clearly chosen to safeguard the interests of mankind, protect the teachers and soldiers from leaving, confront the savage children, and beat the savage king to death.
The second-generation child who infects not only retains humanity and intelligence, but at the same time does not become the soil of the pathogenic fungus. This special feature is itself a natural evolutionary choice. Regardless of whether humans have vaccines, second-generation children are survivors who adapt to the environment, and are species that are more suitable for this environment than normal humans. The mission of saving mankind forced the vaccine grandmother to have no time to think about how to define the infection of second-generation children, and whether there is any other possibility for the cat in the box besides the state of life and death. Melanie said before going to the operating table: "Then why do we die for you", here we refer to this new species that adapts to the environment, and you are the old humans that are out of date. So in the end, the savage grandma smiled relievedly before she died: after all, she also knew that this was indeed the optimal solution. In the end Melanie set fire to release the seeds, and the story corresponding to the teacher is Pandora's box. But what she released was not only evil and disaster, but also hope and rebirth.
In addition, corresponding to Melanie's own story, the teacher is her weakness, her Achilles heel, for the teacher, Melanie gnawed the first human, but also for the teacher, Melanie almost sacrificed herself to let grandma complete the vaccine. Regarding the role of the teacher, the Virgin Mary symbolizing humanity, she represents the most basic level of humanity. After that was Vaccine Grandma, she reminded me of the swordsman in "Three-Body", who pays more attention to the fate of human beings, decisively and resolutely, in exchange for the continuation of mankind with the sacrifice of some people. But it was also this determination to be loyal to mankind that made her fall into the limits of her proposition. Melanie is another species with human intelligence, but completely different from humans. She represents more possibilities beyond human imagination in the future.
This is a movie about evolution, and zombies are just a package. Although it can not be said to be a very grand masterpiece, the details of the movie are still well done, such as the green fungus on the faces of zombies, including the hair. The rhythm of the movie is also smooth. As a skit, the score is 7.5, giving an extra star to give the movie an interesting entry point.
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