The movie had been downloaded for years and had been lying in the corner of the hard drive until I accidentally ripped him out yesterday. . .
Halfway through, I got up from the sofa and walked back and forth in the living room. The reason is that the plot doesn't seem to have ups and downs, with highs and lows, which makes the audience's emotions very dull. Even in the room on the second floor of the cannibal villa, it didn't make me feel more nervous. The long paragraphs in the middle make me feel like I can give up.
However, as the father of a 6-year-old child, there are many small details about the relationship between father and son in the film, which are very attractive to me. So I still read it all. After watching it, I recalled the plot of the entire movie and found that the plot of this movie is really rich. Compared with the "Interstellar Exploration" I watched a few days ago, the amount of information in this movie is much larger.
The plot of the movie is a father and son trying to survive against the backdrop of a doomsday nuclear winter. The film integrates the background and the mother into the plot in a reminiscence way. Compared with "Interstellar Exploration", the protagonist's empty babble most of the time, the plot of Doomsday is complete and the feelings are sincere. Watching the father and son struggling to survive again and again in the film, even in the face of crisis, the way to deal with it is "decent" suicide. It fits perfectly with the gloomy, desolate, and dead background in the film.
After watching it, I wanted to say one, two, three, four, five, six like a film critic, but I am a bit short on words in the face of this movie, because I don't know where to start. The plot of the whole film is so integrated that I can't find anything to say, and it seems redundant to repeat the plot from scratch. In terms of performance, everyone performed very decently and in place, and it would not make people feel like dancing. So, as I found out, there doesn't seem to be anything to comment on this movie.
The theme of the film is human nature, human nature under the apocalypse. Everyone in it is struggling to survive, and the one who gave up the struggle, like the wife of the male protagonist, committed suicide early. Those who are still alive, whether it is a strong man with a gun and a car or a 90-year-old old man, are struggling to live. And how to live is where the film focuses the most. It can be seen that most of them are living relatively well and are eating people. Therefore, in the film, the soul of the father and son by the fire asks: "Are we not allowed to eat people under any circumstances?" "Yes!". When I said this, the father and son had been hungry for two days. For a child whose world view has not yet been formed, hunger is more terrifying than human nature. So, when the child asked this, I was a little shocked. It is conceivable that if the father said that he can eat people, the child may also accept it with a smile. Terrible scene. However it did not appear. My father firmly adhered to the bottom line of morality. I believe that if they continue to starve, maybe the child's mind will eventually turn to cannibalism, so the next scene the director arranged, let the child face the bloody scene of cannibalism, so the young child collapsed, and in the whole film At the most tense moments of the movie, I kept talking about "bad guys"... After such a scene, the child's bottom line was consolidated. . .
The most controversial part of the whole movie is the character of the child. Some people think that since a child is born in the last days and has lived with his parents for so long, how can he still maintain the heart of the Virgin? I also feel bad when I watch movies, especially when I give cans to 90-year-olds. In this context, a can may be the life of the father and son. . . Later, after thinking about it for a while, the memory shots of getting along with my wife may have explained some problems. One of the shots shows the couple quarreling, while the child is painting on the wall. The husband also tried his best to keep his voice down. The footage explains how the couple is protecting their children. The side of them facing the child is the most tender and best side, and even before the wife wants to leave home to commit suicide, they even bathe the child. I think this is also a desire of the couple to have their children live simply and happily. Just imagine, born at the end of the world, the mother of the child has collapsed when she was born, and she feels that the child should not be brought into this world. Born and confined to his own house. You can imagine what kind of life this is. Therefore, it is understandable that both couples want their children not to understand the horrors of the world too early. It can be seen from the fact that the father fulfilled the wish of the child and gave the can to the old man. In fact, this is how the father protects his child. This kind of protection cannot be said to be right. After all, a child who is separated from his father immediately becomes a waste without any ability to survive. But just like the movie "Life is Beautiful", a father may just do his best to make his children live as simple and happy as possible. Since he may die at any time (the father points the gun at the child's head several times in the film), as long as the father is there, the child does not need to do much, so why bother to train his survivability? ! Wouldn't it be good to preserve the most original kindness to the world in his heart?
The father-son relationship in the film is the part that fascinates me the most. There are many details, such as every time he pounces, the father will first protect the child with his body. For example, when a child sprains his foot, his father gently massages him by the fire, and then gently wraps his foot in a blanket. . . For example, the child lost all his luggage when he got sick, and the father quarreled with the child, shouting: I'm scaled. I am also the father of a child, and I can fully understand the emotions conveyed in these subtleties. My son once went out to play and ran around in the scenic area. I was chasing after him, but I couldn't see him for a while, and I was really panicked. Later, he tried desperately to catch up with him. The first reaction was not to hold him, but to slap him first and lose his temper at him. . .
At the end of the film, the father died, the child was alone and at a loss, and the family who appeared accepted him. I believe the director arranged the final shot with good intentions. Because the woman looked at the child with no greed, no desire, and there was a dog. The cannibals in the film are all strong and strong. If they are hungry, they must eat the dog first. The fact that the family can bring the dog shows that they are kind enough. I would rather believe that the child will continue to live with his kindness and humanity. What's more, in fact, at that time, the child is helpless, and there is no need to lie to him. If he wants to eat him, the black man can just go and use the knife. . .
Finally, a word about cultural differences. The western view of the end of the world in the film is killing. I think this has something to do with their ancestors being colonists. If it is Chinese, I believe there are people who cannibalize people, but never to this extent. Now that you can have a basement, clean water, and fire, you can find ways to grow plants that can fill your stomach. Matt Damon can grow potatoes on Mars, and I believe that I will find some places to find ways to grow some food to eat when I encounter such a nuclear winter. Since the problem of eating can be solved without killing, it can help more people to have greater production and slowly get through such apocalypse. So, this is the difference between Eastern and Western cultures. Westerners are accustomed to relying on robbery and killing to solve problems. In the end times, no one thinks about how to produce food, but relies on robbery and cannibalism to survive. The more people eat, the fewer people, what should we do in the end? Finally everyone is done. . . We Chinese people will never be like this.
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