First of all, I think this film may express two meanings. One is that scientific research done by human beings often violates the laws of nature. The film did not give too much explanation on how this virus called "anger" was discovered and spread to orangutans. I think the plot design is roughly based on the history of AIDS. Everyone knows that AIDS was first a virus that appeared in a certain type of orangutan in Africa. It seems that the virus was only carried by orangutans without infection, but it is difficult to verify how it spread to the same primate humans. Maybe it's really a good thing done by members of some adventurous animal protection organizations... The original English word for "anger" in the film is rage, which accurately means extreme or violent anger, or a period of feeling such anger is full of violent behavior Anger. I think this word can sum up the theme of the film, and this violent anger on the surface is a terrible move by those infected with the virus, and what the film will express later is more terrifying than the virus. thing.
What is this more terrifying thing? Of course, it is the human nature that has been distorted under extreme panic and loneliness. This point was gradually elucidated after the encounter with the army in the second half of the film. Only then did I realize that the previous content that rendered the virus scary and scary was actually just foreshadowing. No matter how terrible the virus is, the cannibalism it governs is just a natural reflection of bloodthirsty, and they never hurt the same kind. However, the army surrounded and isolated in the castle mutated into a monster that harmed the same kind and satisfies the desires of the same kind under the dual torture of the physical and psychological.
On the one hand, the film deliberately portrays the kindness and beauty of human nature and the hope of living, such as the love of parents for their children (the note left by the protagonist before his parents swallowed medicine and the father’s efforts to protect his daughter), and people’s love in difficult situations. Help and sacrifice each other, free shopping in the supermarket and driving in a car, you can still see the quiet and beautiful countryside on the way to escape. On the other hand, they used the darkness and evil of the army to smash them, and finally led to the explosion of "violent anger", that is, the male protagonist, naked and thin upper body on the rainy night, fought with the soldiers like zombies, killing them. Eye (Oh, it's a coincidence, another famous movie by Sirian Murphy is called red eye).
There is a famous saying in Hu Ge's short film, "All are forced", and it is used here. The protagonist was originally mild and even weak (a woman who could not run up the stairs, and only dared to attack a zombie kid with a big bat), but when he experienced so many lives and deaths, seeing the hope of survival fell into vain, he Finally, they were forced to explode, and violent anger was generated, and the three of them were finally saved.
Seeing some comments attributed this film to another film with blood and violence as a selling point, I don't agree, at least I have to say that this is an interpretation and reconstruction of human nature.
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