"Let people speak, the sky won't fall, and I won't collapse myself. Why don't I let people speak? It will inevitably collapse one day" - Mao Zedong, "Speech at the Enlarged Central Work Conference" (1962) 30 January)
After watching "A Quiet Place" three years ago, I was stunned by the elementary technique of jump scaring. Even within a few days after watching the movie, I still couldn't calm down for a long time. However, I love and fear this kind of thriller. I recently learned that "A Quiet Place 2" was released, and I bought a ticket to "seek guilt" while I was not working overtime.
The theme of the first part is very novel. The whole film uses less than 100 lines of lines, subtle steps, professional sign language, and a low-key atmosphere to make the audience immerse themselves in the scene and participate in the survival path of suppressing the throat. . Yes, as long as you don't speak or make noises, then you can escape the pursuit of the "sound-hunting monster".
The second title begins by recalling how a monster descended from the sky slaughtered the residents of the town, taking care of the new audience with a historical account. When the monsters raged, the residents fled like lambs to be slaughtered. The male protagonist of the previous work took his daughter Regan to hide in a restaurant on the street with the crowd. The monster was looking for the sound outside the door. The old man who believed in Christ crouched under the table and prayed softly, calling for Jesus to come to the rescue. However, where there are people, there is trouble. An iPhone ringtone introduces the monster into a massacre, and the old man is killed. The survivors fled for help to the police, who were still chopped over after they opened fire on the invulnerable monster. So far, when religion and government lost their protective role in the end of natural disasters, poor human beings were forced to return to the predicament where their ancestors lived in the grasslands and jungles, and set out again.
It is recommended that such monsters be introduced immediately in high-speed train carriages, cinemas, and library study rooms.
After the time came to the death of the previous male protagonist, his wife Evelyn took her son Marcus, daughter Regan and the newborn baby to find a safe place alone. On the way, Marcus suffered an accidental one-leg injury. The four fled into an abandoned factory in a hurry, and were rescued by Emmett, the man in the hat, who took them into a closed pipe in the basement to hide, and needed to open the pipe regularly. to get air, and while this can be dangerous, oxygen is also important. In any case, there is someone who can fill the vacancy of father.
Just when the audience thought that the temporarily crowdfunded family was about to implement the policy of accumulating grains and building high walls, and slowly trying to achieve the great cause of revival, the director made a joke for everyone. He untimely uses parallel editing to split the two big, two small and one baby into three path lines: one is the woman Evelyn going out to find medicine alone; the other is the daughter Regan and the man Emmett looking for a boat; Marcus, who was asked to stay in the tube to take care of the baby. When the crisis on their respective lines came, in the parallel segment they kept pace and breathing at the same frequency. In the tension created, the three separate paths were completed with the blessing of radio weapons. The great feat of turning the tide against adversity: The two brothers and sisters used their wisdom and courage to protect the adults and killed powerful monsters on their respective fronts.
If it were me, I would choose to follow Regan and Emmett, actively search for the ark in my heart, cross to the Taoyuan on the island, and enter the peaceful village of the survivors. But will Taoyuan last forever? not necessarily. According to the description of the black uncle on the island, the survivors on the island also experienced crowding and panic before boarding the ship. The lucky ones who were screened just looked happy and carefree. Everyone sat around the bonfire and sang and danced. The mess outside the island is in stark contrast. However, born in distress and died in peace, just as the plot develops later, once a foreign demon invades, heaven will instantly turn into purgatory, and Utopia will inevitably collapse.
Often the most terrifying point in doomsday movies is not ghost disasters, but twisted human hearts. Friends who have watched "The Walking Dead" and "Train to Busan" are all too familiar with this. Regan and Emmett found a boat on the shore, and were suddenly attacked by another group of humans. This group of people squatted on the shore, using traps and bait to kill the same kind, and seize the same kind of resources (it smells like chicken). Trouble for Regan and Emmett. It is the same kind of person who is helpless in the face of alien monsters, and ultimately suffers the consequences. The excavation and criticism of human nature has become a must-order dish for every end-of-the-world movie banquet. Without this dish, I always feel that there will be less flavor. Therefore, new works of literature and art will continue to remind us that those selfish individuals often do not end well, and the selfless and great protagonist is the only candidate for victory. We all understand the truth, but on the day when the real disaster strikes, who can guarantee that he will not slash at his companions just to survive? What's more, in the modern age where material conditions are affluent, there are also people who slander their colleagues for the slim chance of promotion, deceive their friends for trivial benefits, fight for two inches of land, and cut in the queue for the sake of half a second... Rolling up has inhibited the enterprising spirit of contemporary young people, and lying flat has become the most cost-effective choice. Alright, farther away.
Going back to the movie itself, unlike most female characters who are portrayed as "troublemakers" in disaster series movies, Evelyn, as the core character, is always online with her IQ and has repeatedly saved her family from distress. It is a matter of experience and courage. Synthesizer. She knows exactly what she should do when she is dragging her three children to escape, and she can calmly organize a counterattack to shoot the monster's head, which makes people feel that she is the most stable one in the whole movie. Also amazing are daughter Regan and son Marcus. Even Regan, who was congenitally deaf, knew how to turn his disadvantage into an advantage, transmitting the noise of his hearing aids from the broadcast, interfering with attacking monsters and killing them. On the other side of the closed tube, Marcus and the baby were deprived of oxygen at the same time. When faced with only one oxygen bottle that was about to be exhausted, the choice of who to live was handed over to Marcus. All the audience did not Expect too much from Marcus. However, when Evelyn opened the tubing door, the oxygen mask unexpectedly hung over the baby's face. Because of that promise to take good care of the baby, we saw that as an older brother, Marcus grew up. Moreover, when Evelyn was injured and Marcus bravely stood between his mother and the monster, he picked up his pistol and killed the monster for the first time. We had reason to believe that this timid boy was finally able to take on the responsibility of protecting the whole family. responsibility. From the end of the first part, Evelyn killed the monsters to protect the children, to the end of the second part, his children killed the monsters to protect the adults, the screenwriter showed us a kind of inheritance, which made us have greater expectations for the third part .
At first, we thought that sound attracts monsters because these beasts like sound, like mosquitoes to light and wild cats to fishy. Then, we found out that the sound-hunting monsters don't like sound, on the contrary, these tyrants hate sound so much that they ban others and slaughter the whistleblower. In the end, we understood that it turned out that they were afraid of a voice that would cause them to lose control. Having said that, I'm not sure the movie is a metaphor for some kind of political oppression, even though it does.
Open the history of the blood and tears of the Indians' colonial rule, and maybe you can get a glimpse of it. After the end of the American Civil War, General Sherman said, "The only best Indian I have ever seen is the dead", revealing the tragic fate of this nation. The U.S. government views the Indians through colored glasses, continuously squeezes the territories and resources of the Indians through the bison policy, and even uses the reward system to encourage the scalping of these "savages", but does not allow anyone to speak up against it. The founder of the United States, Washington, said: "Don't listen to any peaceful advice until all Indian reservations are effectively destroyed." How many Indians died in this massacre cannot be counted, and not many people outside know about them, and they have no chance to state and defend themselves. There was a white photographer named Curtis who photographed the life of Indians out of sympathy, so that the outside world could truly understand this race, but was suppressed and excluded because of this, and finally died of poverty and illness. In this way, the race and culture of the Indians have disappeared day by day in the man-made disasters of history, leaving only a few scattered settlements. "Silence, silence, do not break out in silence, die in silence", Lu Xun's words have full warning significance to the fate of a nation, even another group of primitive residents living on the other side of the ocean.
In modern times, freedom of speech in the United States is not necessarily pure. The presidential election ended a few months ago. Since Trump's defeat, he has lost not only the official residence of the White House, but also his "power tool". Due to being suspected of "inciting riots and continuing to pose a threat", the social account of the former president, who was committed to "making America great again", was jointly blocked by multiple platforms in the United States. In early January, his Twitter, Facebook and other accounts were suspended and frozen. At that time, before the new king ascended the throne, the old king was rushed by speculators to abdicate. Knowing Wang said that he was blocked because he had evidence of fraud in the election, not an unwarranted charge of inciting riots. We don't know the truth, but we can see that when the defenders of capital are finally suppressed and silenced by capital, and their bodies and thoughts are nowhere to be placed, normal speech has become a luxury under the lighthouse democracy.
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