Mist---Ugly Human

Nick 2022-04-22 07:01:05

The third collaboration between Frank Darabont and Stephen King is dedicated to this excellent work. Just as King's novels have never let me down, Frank's remake of Stephen King has never let me down. If the Shawshank Redemption and the Green Mile miracle It preaches the good in human nature, and the fog preaches the ugly nature of human beings.

If anyone loves watching this movie, there is no doubt that they are social psychologists, mass psychology in local space, religious paralysis, personal Democracy, crisis of democracy, crisis of belief, tyranny... If it really happened in reality, it is estimated that these psychological researchers would be euthanized.

The main tone of the film is very depressing, even despairing, and children who are not good at thinking may even end up after watching There will be the urge to curse, and this urge is exactly where the film wants us to reflect... I have to praise the handling of the ending, it can be said that the theme of the movie is sublimated to another level: the ending is not the traditional 5 people finally got The rescue, but after the actor ended the other four with the remaining 4 bullets, the self-propelled gun, the soldiers, and the rescued people appeared in front of him, among them the useless mother and her 8-year-old daughter at the beginning. .At this moment we think of what she said before she left: I hope you all rot in hell...

As she said, except for her, everyone else went to hell... Maybe many people don't understand this part of the ending, Perhaps when you are in such an environment and you have to make a choice, you may also look for a quiet way to die. This is the fragility of human nature, and the "rescue soldiers" that have appeared since then have made such people the most vulnerable in their hearts. The despair is completely released, why do they want to die? With the roar of the hero, our hearts are also covered with a layer of fog...

As said in the movie, when human beings lose everything created by civilization and are thrown back into the darkness, the madness and barbarism in human nature will be fully revealed. This darkness in human nature is what the fog wants to tell us, Remind us, where I need to reflect... At the same time, this is also a satire of modern civilized society. Americans often advertise their own democracy, and stephen happened to give the small American people a blow to the head, the spirit that Americans depend on for a living. The pillar is a developed civilization, and this civilization is rooted in the science and technology of modern society. Imagine when all the machinery can't work and human beings return to their original life, it is conceivable that people will become so crazy and the society will become so crazy. Vulnerability, fragility of civilization, fragility of spiritual support, when you lose the spiritual support you depend on for a living, you turn to anyone who can give you a promise. At first people agreed that Mrs. Carmody was a A religious fanatic, a mad woman, even laughed at her, but when her "prophecy" came true, people even worshipped her as a god, expecting the god's spokesperson to save them. What crazy things can humans do when they confuse the crowd, and even start bloody human sacrifices... Originally, her original intention was not this, but she suddenly rose from the weak to the powerful, this sense of superiority coupled with the blindness of the ignorant people The leader can definitely do crazy things, and in fact it's this chilling truth that makes this movie so hopeless. For the portrayal of the characters, the description of the psychological state changes, it is almost like a re-enactment of Kim. The crime scene... Maybe human beings are afraid that they will fall into this state, that they create politics and religion, in order to restrain this animal nature in people's hearts...

The fear of the unknown, human nature, the impermanence of fate, powerless resistance, the choice of life, all these are what the movie wants to talk about... At the same time, it also wants us to think about what decision we will make when we encounter this situation What? The ending is despairing, and this despair just shows the impermanence of life, and sometimes the so-called rational choice is the most irrational choice. Someone told me that this movie is too depressing, there is no hope at all, the director is Not crazy...Frank is crazy, I say you are crazy, the scene of the mother walking out alone at the beginning holding her daughter and passing by is not hope, this seemingly desperate ending gives us another kind of Thinking about it, if the protagonist and his party hadn't so calmly decided to speak softly, the male protagonist didn't abide by his agreement with his son, but went out to fight with four bullets, maybe he wouldn't have to end up like this... The same brave escape Why are the two results so different? Maybe this is what Frank and King want us to think about...

Mist... It really is the essence of King's novel...

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The Mist quotes

  • Wayne Jessup: I heard stuff.

    Mrs. Carmody: Stuff...

    Wayne Jessup: Yeah, we all heard stuff! Like uh, how they... they thought that there were other dimensions. You know, other... other worlds all around us, and how they wanted to try to make a window, you know, so they can look through and see what's on the other side.

    Mrs. Carmody: Well maybe your window turned out to be a door. Isn't it?

    Wayne Jessup: Not my door! It's the scientists!

    Mrs. Carmody: [sarcastically] Oh, the scientists.

    Wayne Jessup: Yes, the scientists! They must've ripped a hole through by accident. That's how their world keeps on spilling through into ours. That's what Donaldson was saying right before he killed himself. I didn't understand half of it.

  • Dan Miller: [after the car runs out of gas] Well, we gave it a good shot. Nobody can say we didn't.