Few movies have both entertainment functions and realistic thinking education functions.
It just so happens that this film has both.
As a horror film, a thriller, this film is an excellent work.
Back in college, when the students in the dormitory heard that "Sadako" was playing, they were so frightened that they didn't dare to enter the door.
After watching "Silent Hill" in the cinema, my wife reportedly had a nightmare for a week.
In my opinion, this film is the most advanced existence in horror films. Because the scenes of most horror movies are too far away from our real life, we don't have a strong sense of watching the times.
While watching this movie, my sense of substitution is still very strong.
In real life, this film can also give people a lot of thinking and enlightenment.
1. Safety awareness
The world is not a utopia.
There are many unimaginable risks in various countries and regions.
For example, when traveling in Bali, I encountered a tsunami.
Some were robbed on the bus from the airport to the city while traveling in South Africa.
Of course, there are many risks, and the probability of tourists encountering them is not high. But someone like me who has lived and worked abroad for a few years has a completely different feeling. I was robbed at gunpoint in Africa. My colleagues and friends also had many experiences of being robbed, and some were beaten up after being robbed.
For example, it is impossible for people who have not been to South Africa to know that bank money transport trucks are robbed in that place every day.
I was watching a program on a local TV station in South Africa. The reporter went to interview the locals, but later the locals tried to grab the reporter's camera.
Not to mention that some people robbed South Africa's high-end supermarkets and battled with the police. They fired dozens of shots and left.
For example, I have also traveled to Thailand.
But unlike many small freshmen who yearn for Thailand, I am well aware of the darkness behind Thailand's peaceful and beautiful surface. For example, Thailand is an important node in the world's dark web transactions (human trafficking, etc.).
2. Thinking of adapting to change
The male lead of this film, I think that although he is an ordinary engineer, he is very capable of adapting to changes.
I believe he will be very successful in finance.
People engaged in finance must be very good at adapting to changes.
If you look long in the first second, you may be short in the next second.
For example, financial giant Soros, in fact, the most worthy of their family to learn is not how Soros later short the British pound to make a lot of money.
What should be learned more is how Soros and his family can escape from Germany by abnormal means and avoid the tragic fate of being slaughtered like other Jews.
At the beginning, the male host found that he had not received the company's phone call in the hotel, and the hotel's communication network, internal telephone, and TV were all cut off.
At this time, he did not arouse his vigilance, thinking that it was just a normal phenomenon in the third country in the world.
But he has a normal mindset. When there is a lack of information sources around, he must get information in time.
In fact, as a tourist, you must have this kind of thinking.
Generally speaking, tourists' psychological default is that the destination country is safe, and they will lose more vigilance to environmental changes.
After consulting the front desk, the host went to a local gathering area next to the hotel to buy English newspapers.
On the way back, he found that the marching crowd had begun armed clashes with the police.
Before returning to the hotel, he found that a white guest was publicly executed by the local rebels at the entrance of the hotel.
The locals found him, chased him, and he went up the fire ladder to the hotel room.
3. Courage
Many times when we watch horror movies, we only scold the protagonist. Why are you so stupid and so persuaded that you dare not run away or resist the bad guys.
This is the difference between "knowing" and "xing".
I watch horror movies and never have nightmares at night. If I watch too much at the level of watching a horror movie, I think I can make 10 copies.
But when faced with a real horror scene, you will find that your reaction is not much different from the protagonist in the movie, or even worse than the protagonist.
For example, when I was robbed with a gun in Africa, once the gun was pointed on my head, I was really scared to move.
The overall response of the male lead of the film is quite qualified. The most impressive thing in the film is that the male protagonist's family fled to the top of the hotel, thinking that a helicopter was coming to rescue them. As a result, the helicopters are all death-reaping gods.
The host was very calm and led the whole family to the top of the hotel.
He tried his best to encourage the whole family, and finally succeeded in jumping to the top of the building next door.
The last person who stayed on the roof of the hotel was shot off the roof by the rebels.
Maybe you would say, isn’t it just jumping from the top of a tall building to the top of the next building?
Doesn't the police chase fugitive criminals often have such a bridge?
I used to bungee jump on the Victoria Falls Bridge and the Nile River in Africa. Every time I jumped on it, I shivered.
"Take up the courage", sometimes it's really not that easy.
I have a friend who once bragged that he has cultivated the Tao and is fearless.
I asked him, saying that no matter how much it is, it is better to do it.
If there is a beautiful woman stripping naked in front of you, if the ancient enemy soldiers invade the castle, you will be decapitated without surrendering. If you can do it in front of these truly testing scenes, you can truly prove your courage.
In "Above the Cliff" directed by Zhang Yimou, what impressed me most was the shooting scene. The last captured person from our side who was about to be shot finally couldn't bear the psychological pressure and surrendered.
I mentioned the story of Soros's family escape from Germany. On the one hand, it is because they have the mind to adapt to change, and on the other hand, it is also their courage. Going abroad through forged documents is essentially the same as going abroad by smuggling.
Many people only see that many overseas Chinese in Wenzhou are now very happy in Europe. They haven't seen how they smuggled abroad, let alone how many of them crossed the snow-capped Alps back then.
In general, I think this movie "Nowhere to Run" is one of the few five-star movies with both entertainment and thinking education functions.
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