When the thick fog shrouded the surrounding of the supermarket, the eyes were extremely limited, and fear began to permeate. When we encounter something more than we realize, we make radically different choices.
1. Ego, rigid dogma
The black lawyer never believed that there were so-called "monsters" in the thick fog. He believed that the cause of the thick fog was either natural disasters or man-made disasters, and that "monsters" did not conform to common sense. , but they were all misunderstood by him as a conspiracy. In the end, he decided to walk out of the supermarket, and his life and death were uncertain. Black people are heavyweight lawyers who are likely to sit on the judge's chair in New York. The legal requirements are strict, and all things are stipulated within the rules and regulations, so like all the terms, people are easy to be framed. Arrogance and rigid dogma have always hung over us like a dark cloud.
2. Swing
The old supermarket guy himself is not well educated, and should have been discriminated against in the era of advocating the elite, so he is full of jealousy and hostility to intellectuals (highly educated class, artists), what the protagonist says about this old guy Instinct confrontation, until tragedy happens. But he didn't realize that it was his own instigation that led to the tragic death of the young man, and he began to wake up after being beaten by the male protagonist. This old guy did a lot of work seriously after that, and finally even overcame his fear and took medicine next door to the male protagonist to save people. At the beginning, he scoffed at the mad woman's theory of destroying the world, and almost beat her. However, after experiencing extreme fear in the pharmacy next door, he began to follow the mad woman and became a real bloodthirsty executioner. Most of us are old supermarket buddies, always swinging, and when we are feared more than we can bear, we will take the initiative to surrender our beliefs, give up thinking, and just kneel and pray.
3. Religion and Belief
Mad Woman: "Humans have violated the ancient prohibition, landing on the moon, splitting atoms, stem cells, abortion, and wanting to explore the secrets of life. Only the Lord has the right to do that!"
The mad woman really believed in his Lord, even at the cost of blood sacrifice, she believed whatever the Lord said. This movie in monster skin is actually a religious movie. What is Faith? What is religion? Is religion just belief? Is it to carry out the teachings one by one, ignoring right and wrong, and even killing blood? Or follow the inner call of truth, goodness and beauty, without paying attention to the details of specific teachings, but are we really truth, goodness and beauty according to the call of truth, goodness and beauty that we follow, and will our cognition lead us in the completely opposite direction? Kill the wolves on the grassland and protect the sheep, but who protects the grass? Should we ignore all rules and institutions, break all confinement, and explore the end of the world and the secrets of life, or should we respect traditions and stop in restricted areas?
Fourth, hard work
The male protagonist is a hard worker, always trying to find a way to make things better, no matter the price. Going to the pharmacy next door to get medicine, people did not survive, but many people died, but this cannot be calculated according to the utilitarian algorithm, just like the famous train track problem, it is impossible to simply judge right and wrong. The male protagonist finally embarked on the road of exploring hope. When the headlights illuminated the fog and the holy voice sang, I thought the road ahead was heaven, but when he saw his wife die and encountered a terrifying and huge unknown monster, the light of hope followed. With the exhaustion of gasoline, I finally chose to die with dignity. The reversal at the last moment is the greatest stroke of the film. Many people feel sorry for him. Why don't you hold on for a while? Actually, what I want to say is that the reversal looks like a fleeting moment, but on the road of exploring the unknown , it is more likely to be hundreds of millions of light-years long, and the reversal just gives us hope, he glances at ten thousand years. The fog will clear, but no one knows when.
Five, sacrifice
In order to save her own child, the woman who ran away first sacrificed her life for justice, because love found a miracle, but because she loved her, she cursed everyone, and hatred came from love.
6. Children
The child sleeps a lot of the time, he doesn't know what's going on in this world, and his own destiny cannot be determined by himself.
7. Youth
Pure blood in itself can bring fatal disasters.
8. Shorties and Guns
Guns have a strong symbolic meaning in the movie. The dwarf is proficient in marksmanship, full of disappointment with humans, fully aware of human stupidity, he believes that as long as there are more than two people in the room, we will choose sides and then find ways to kill each other, which is why we invented religion and politics. He only trusted the gun in his hand. But in the end the gun fell out of his hand and was picked up by the male protagonist. When the male protagonist picked up the gun, tragedy was doomed.
The film is a modern version of a religious fable.
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