Reflections on "The Cassandra Bridge"

Lottie 2022-04-21 09:03:16

I heard about this film in Chai Jing's book "Seeing", because for a while, I couldn't remember what this film was quoted by Chai Jing to explain. Maybe it's about human nature, maybe it's about politics, or maybe it's a disaster. But no matter what, it doesn't matter after watching this movie.
It's about a train full of passengers infected with a highly contagious and deadly plague heading towards the Cassandra Bridge in years of disrepair (a government conspiracy for the benefit of the majority.), the final bridge As predicted by the government, the collapsed, high-concentration oxygen in the airtight train that seemed to be used to provide patients with breathing was actually a bomb prepared by the government for them, and it was no accident that the sparks generated by the oxygen during the fall detonated, , the outcome can be imagined. But no matter how catastrophic it is or how tough the government is, as long as it goes against people's will, people will always rally and resist. (Besides, the people who should have been infected by the plague were rescued by the invisible bomb prepared by the government—high-concentration oxygen, and the “pathogen” that should have been executed and pulverized no longer need to be ruthlessly destroyed. The resistance of time is a just resistance. Of course, while I am happy for those who have successfully saved themselves by their own resistance, I am also thinking of such a dramatic (comedy) scene in the film and television. In real life, people will still Are you that lucky? It's unknown.)
This seemingly simple film brings up a lot of topics worth thinking about:
First, when a disaster strikes, the government has the right to act in the interests of the majority Are the interests (life) of the few people with disregard?
Second, the people gave up some of their rights and freedoms to form a government and a state for their own greater well-being, but when the government has no longer benefited the people for its own interests, does it still make sense?
Third, for individuals, whether they can give up their own interests or even their lives for the interests of most people (happiness, life, etc.) when disaster strikes. Is there such a spirit of sacrifice? When disaster strikes, can I stay calm and think calmly in the face of danger?
Fourth, survival is the nature of every human being, and it is also the nature of primitive natural people. But as a civilized person, can reason overcome nature?
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Extended Reading
  • Luigi 2022-04-23 07:04:09

    Sophia Loren's Strange Skull, Oj Simpson, Dumbledore Political Satire 70s

  • Zachary 2022-04-23 07:04:09

    40 years later, I still feel nervous and heartbeat. Except for the special effects, the film's narrative, characters, and theme connotations are still high-level works under the current aesthetics. The relationship between the characters is very well set, and each of them has a dual identity, which satisfies the functions of entanglement, conflict, opposition, emotional construction, metaphor and atmosphere adjustment. I have never seen a train movie construct a nearly complete strong ideological society. This is so clear and effective, accompanied by the US poking at the virus, small individuals from Britain, France, and Italy appearing on stage, the Finns vowing not to return to the concentration camps, and the fake priests and the real ones. The first half is perfect, the crisis of the Shaoshui Bridge in the middle and the latter part is a bit late, and the climax ending is extremely shocking. The train fell one by one, and the corpse, luggage, and isolation coffin floated on the water, which was too shocking. When I was a child, I thought the old rich arms dealer was stupid, but now I think this is a woman who is used to seeing wind and rain! Off-site information: OJ's acting is very natural, and the gun is not bad. Sophia Roland, who is not confused above, is still full of girlishness and romance, and Richard Harris can use blue eyes to give people a hug even if he is bald.

The Cassandra Crossing quotes

  • Susan: [Very ill] I don't look too good, hunh?

    Herman Kaplan: Ah, liebschoen, even now you make me wish I was fifty again!

  • Nicole Dressler: Oh, what is it all about?

    Dr. Jonathan Chamberlain: I'd say a slight case of, uh...food poisoning.

    Nicole Dressler: I think either you're a lousy doctor or a lousy liar.