I revisited the movie The Fog again, and found that drinking tea in foggy weather is the most suitable for watching this movie, because it really has a sense of substitution. This movie is also one of Lao Jin's works that I personally prefer. The rhythm of the movie is relatively fast, and it is not sloppy. The fog came at the beginning, and they were all trapped in the supermarket. The plot is not procrastinating. The characters are also more clearly shaped. Various customers in the supermarket show their humanity in a darker way in the face of life and death disasters. The characters change back and forth in their personal positions, and they follow the trend of the masses who do not think independently. The monsters in the fog are not created by tall and fancy monsters to attract attention, but some so-called abnormal spiders, big mosquitoes, big crabs, big octopuses, and strange birds, etc. A series of different-dimensional creatures are used to create The horror atmosphere is in place. This film actually forms a sharp contrast with Lao Jin's other work, The Shawshank Redemption. The comparison is that the Shawshank Redemption shows that people have great hope, and hope is all good things, while this film is a Lost the last remaining hope, just like at the end of the film, the male protagonist has gone through untold hardships and finally made a bloody way to escape with the old man, the child, and the old lover, and then as the gasoline burns out, the hope also burns. Yi Jin finally collapsed and killed everyone who escaped together, including his son, because he was out of bullets and couldn't commit suicide. When he wanted to seek help from monsters, he suddenly saw the scene where the army came to clean up the mess and saved some survivors. Screaming the end of the film, this may also be what the director and the author want to express, or to tell everyone that no matter how bad the conditions are, no matter how serious the development is, don’t lose the last hope in your heart.
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