However, thinking about it now, death may not be terrible. There is a famous saying in "Gladiator" that "death has been smiling at us, and the only thing we can do is smile at him". From the day we were born, we were destined to die step by step. We have virtualized heaven and hell, and virtualized past and future lives, all of which show that we are afraid of nothingness after death, we are afraid of that indescribable state, our fear is not actually derived from death, but from death after death. The unpredictable situation.
It doesn't matter that many people praise or despise The Cloverfield File. I happened to watch this film right after watching the first "Predator". It turns out that the two films are bizarrely similar. You can do whatever you think is right, whatever you think must be done, whatever you think will stop the dreaded things from happening. However, everything is in vain, helpless throughout. Just like we can't prevent death from coming, the ending is there, you can't escape, but the one who leads the way is a ghost from Zhongshan (horror movies often like to do this, but the reality is the same, if you go to the bank with a cap with a mask, they will The same scared to death, because that is the unknown).
But if this kind of death is the end of life, we will gladly accept it, but what brings us to death is the unknown, which cannot be seen, touched, or beaten to death (although the monsters in "The Cloverfield File" can actually be seen. to, but we have never seen its complete picture), emerging from the darkness again and again, swallowing life and the remaining hope of those who survived. This blow is twofold. On the one hand, it lies in the grief of the fact that everyone around him has died, and on the other hand, it lies in the helplessness and despair that he cannot control his own destiny.
When disaster films are released, they always try to revise the ending to be as complete as possible. It is also out of this consideration, swallowing everything, and no one can accept it.
I still remember going back to my grandmother's house in the countryside during the summer vacation when I was a child. When I accidentally walk into the yard at night and look up at the starry sky (people in the city don’t mention the starry sky, you can’t understand the dense oppression), the first thing that pops up in my mind is not beauty, but fear.
If I go on writing, I'm going to collapse, so let's end with this sentence from Romain Rolland--
Life is a series of death and resurrection.
PS:
Today, bin Laden died in the bombardment of the US military. Perhaps, the U.S. military is happy that their known fears have finally disappeared. However, this is actually the beginning of a real nightmare, because everything in the future is unknown...
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