It is no longer a god-like perspective of overlooking the entire destroyed city from above, and it is no longer the ins and outs of things. The audience knows that this time, we can only see an ordinary person like an ordinary person who falls into an accidental disaster by accident. Part of the truth that can be seen can only be equally at a loss and lost. Through the lens of a family DV, it is more powerful than those big movies that blindly pursue visual shock and grand scenes. Because this time, I felt emotional shock. We are all ordinary people with small or great friendships, loves as individuals. It is the fear and resignation of the helpless individual's helplessness in the face of angry nature that resonates with the audience. I think the director also intends to replay the happy life of the hero and heroine in an ordinary day during and at the end of the catastrophe. This contrast is very touching.
I don't know how to express the feeling of watching this film, but suddenly I can't find the right adjective to express the complicated and anxious mood at the moment. I don't care too much about the filming techniques and actors' performances, but the emotional shocks conveyed in them are still lingering in my heart for a long time. It's like I just experienced a terrible catastrophe, and the rest of my life is still in shock. I just want to cherish the people around me and express my love for this world while I am still in this world, because time is short.
There is also something to say about the plot. I don't quite understand why the male protagonist has to go to great lengths to find his girlfriend in the ruins in the end. Maybe it's hard to resonate with him because he didn't have enough emotional foreshadowing before the opening chapter! Also, some plots are set more contrived, for example, the head of the Statue of Liberty just fell in front of them, for example, hub likes that girl's eyes bleed after being bitten by a monster, and she was caught by the military and executed on the spot, for example, the monster lowered her head and ate it in one bite Taking the hub of the DV machine is a very old and hypocritical part of science fiction films, so there is a lot less realism here.
In the subway, what does it mean when a girl asks "Do you know where Garfield is?" I don't understand here.
It is said that this DV method to deal with the entire movie is not a pioneering work, imitating the creativity of "Witch Black", but in any case, I still like this method. Every day, people all over the world use their mobile phones and DV machines to take pictures of interesting things happening around them, and upload them to youtube for global sharing. This is also the background of the times that makes this film very realistic.
It's like going through a journey, we just use two naked eyes to see, just see the 180-degree range in front of us; like a war, we are just soldiers in one of the battles; this reminds me of Yu Jie's book about war 's novel. Remember, we are only individuals, and only individual stories are most true.
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