really didn't feel much at first when I watched this film. The cliché doomsday assumption, the naive children's film opens. I originally watched it as a light-hearted fairy tale adventure movie.
After the offender who went out and came back after hitting the Afterglow City, the style of the film suddenly became alarming. I suddenly thought of the pioneer in the preface of Van Loon’s "Tolerance". He walked out of a small isolated town and went through a thousand adventures. Although he did not reach another paradise, the old-fashioned old man has the slightest character. Not badly reflected in the mayor and residents of Yuhui City.
If it is really possible, hundreds of years later, in a different place, human beings are still living in a different place with our cockroach-like vitality, a place like a refuge, I believe we will keep human beings since ancient times All the roots of the evil, including fear of change. People in Yuhui City knew that the generator was about to collapse, but they still didn't want to go out. Whether it’s the mayor who was prepared to hide in food like a big mouse (he indeed died in the end) or Aunt X, who treated the builder 200 years ago as a god, they are just like their city, like a flame. A afterglow of light, quietly waiting to go out. There was also a conversation that impressed me. After Linda's grandmother died, Aunt X (as if he belonged to a church-like organization) who took care of her asked Linda not to worry. She firmly believed in "Help is coming." Like a belief in God. Builders who have been dead for 200 years will come again and guide her path. This belief is as absurd and unreasonable as God is ridiculous to atheists.
City of Afterglow, I like this name. Just like its name, afterglow uses a little afterglow to give the only remaining human hope for survival, but this weak afterglow will eventually extinguish when it burns out its last energy. But if the hope in that Pandora's box is released, even if it is afterglow, it can rekindle a new flame in the wind.
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