Because I was warned by my friends before, I didn't have much expectations for this movie (then what am I going for?). After watching it, I thought it was pretty good, better than I thought. The rhythm is not procrastinated (except at the end), the soundtrack is superb, and the lovely Gal Garcia plays a small bastard in it. I also like that doctor-no matter how he is criticized for his weakness and hypocrisy-he has a vague and gentle accent like a European, and he sounds very comfortable.
As for what many people accuse, how can a blind man easily rise above the crowd with a pistol containing only a few bullets—especially when there is an unblind woman in the crowd, I think, as For such a highly symbolic movie, the gun is only a symbol of violence and power. It can also be a pair of scissors, a steel rod, etc., and women are actually just as bystanders in such a group. The author needs She came to witness such a process, and she did not need any initiative. Too much entanglement in details seems to be petty. In fact, I was even more surprised that Ward 3, which is the representative of evil, happened to be all men. Maybe, as a friend of mine said, the author is a female understandingist? He put all the dark side on the man, whether it is savage and vicious or weak and hypocritical, while women all have the saintly tolerance, compassion and sacrifice. I thought more viciously, if a few gays were placed in Ward No. 3, would there be men who would voluntarily dedicate themselves in exchange for food like women?
I haven't read the original novel. Assuming that the movie is a completely faithful adaptation, then this is actually a very old-fashioned structure: to create an extreme environment to show the essence of human nature. Perhaps Chinese people are more likely to resonate because we have experienced SARS. However, compared with its predecessors, it is always a little shy to answer, and it feels like it can't reach the world or the ground. The author is not reconciled to show human strength and hope like "The Plague". The kind-hearted Ward No. 1 still weakly sacrifices his women in the face of the terrible problem of food shortage; however, he is demonstrating the evil nature of humanity. He did not go further than "Lord of the Flies" in the proposition: there may be some signs at the beginning, people who are blind start to urinate and urinate everywhere, the little order that has just been established is shaky, and the whole hospital is full of turmoil. However, this kind of "evil" was quickly represented by Ward No. 3 in a facial expression, and the contradiction of the whole drama quickly turned into a confrontation between Ward No. 1 and Ward No. 3, which represents goodness. Gal Garcia, who appears in the image of a tyrant, is actually a fig leaf that the author puts on people, covering up more essential problems.
In fact, compared to the old proposition that human nature is evil, I am more interested in a small detail in the play that happened to the doctor's wife. When she first entered the isolation hospital, as the only person who could be seen, she helped every blind person like an angel, regardless of high or low, knowing or not knowing, even if she was exhausted and close to collapse, she clenched her teeth and persisted. After experiencing many changes, they finally walked out of the isolation zone freely and returned to the city that had become a pile of ruins, and found an abandoned cafe as a temporary shelter, still as perhaps the only one visible in the entire city She brutally berated another group of blind people and drove them out of the cafe; she found the storeroom of the supermarket, so she ignored countless blind people looking for food around her, trying to unknowingly carry a large amount of food out—— She no longer chooses to save sentient beings, she only chooses to be the angel of a small group of people. Perhaps this is the commonality of heroes. In the process of protecting a limited group of people, they enjoy the satisfaction brought about by the realization of personal values. However, this protection does do what he can. He cannot protect everyone, and perhaps he does not want to. Protect everyone. Of course, this is just my personal extension. The author is not as dark as I am, although digging down this line may create more interesting works.
Everything changed for the better at the end, blindness disappeared somehow, people could see each other again, and the city was restored to life after a heavy rain that was said to have washed away all evil. In my opinion, what was washed away by the heavy rain was people's sense of guilt, otherwise they would not be able to face everything that happened during the blindness even after their vision was restored. People always live by forgetting. Multiple personalities are not an exception, but a necessity.
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