Silent trial

Shana 2022-01-11 08:01:44

Yesterday I had nothing to do, and went to the cinema to watch "The Lost of Doom". In fact, before, I wandered between "Bo Ren Biography" and "Doomsday" for a long time. In the end, I chose "The Doomsday". The most important reason is that the starring role is Nicholas Cage. I like this actor very much. At the same time, I am interested in apocalyptic movies.
I vaguely remember that the last time I watched a doomsday-themed movie dates back to "Mysterious Code", and it is still a movie starring Nicholas. In recent years, the consumption of doomsday themes has gradually increased, and many movies have more or less added some doomsday themes. After all, after the "2012" fire, many directors and businesses found that the doomsday theme is very popular with the public, which is also the main reason for the increase in consumption at the end of the year in recent years.
The film began with the very usual father-daughter estrangement. The derailed father and the religious mother led to the fragmentation of the Croy family. Croy Miles flew back by plane to celebrate his father's birthday, and found that his father Ray had gone to London to have an affair with his lover Katie under the pretext of working. In the first ten minutes of the film, it was almost all about how the Croy family fell apart, which caused me to forget that this is a doomsday movie. As the film progresses, the focus gradually returns to the subject. Croy's mother believes in God and believes that God brought her daughter home. The reporter Cameron also encountered difficulties from religious fanatics at the airport, and the atmosphere of doomsday gradually became stronger.
Not long after the hero Lei flew the plane, the climax of the plot came. With a white light and a shock, millions of people disappeared at the same time. Since the film adopts a two-line parallel narrative, the film has been switching between the plane and the city, respectively showing the people's reaction after the disaster. But it's all the same. Most people are crazy, and the disaster has caused Ray and Croy, who once again did not believe in God, to question their own ideas for the first time.
Let me talk about disasters. According to the clues of the film, it can be known that the people who disappeared were brought to heaven by God. Of course, this conclusion is only deduced by Lei himself, and there is no evidence in the film to directly prove this point. On the plane at the beginning, an Indian said that the Ministry of Defense had developed a new technology that would allow the plane to travel from the United States to London in just 6 minutes. When I saw this passage, I thought it was a certain high-tech that can make people disappear instantly.
The disaster happened at the end of the film and there is no clear answer. There is no specific answer to who took away millions of people and where to take them. On the contrary, after the disaster, the film shows more people's performance after the disaster. The society has lost order, people are robbed and destroyed everywhere, the whole city is plunged into madness, and people behave as if the end of the world has come. As the saying goes, if God wants to destroy a person, he must first make him crazy. After disasters, people behave like crazy, as if God made them self-destruct.
It can be seen from the film that there are two main types of people who disappeared in the disaster, one is religious people, and the other is children. Needless to say, religious people, if they believe in God, they will naturally receive God's salvation. Most children are not religious, so why does God take them away? The answer is simple, because they are innocent people. In Western religions, there are only two kinds of people who are innocent, one is a dead person, and the other is a child. Among the children who disappeared, there are also many babies. Children who don't understand anything, naturally don't believe in religion. So the only explanation is that they are innocent, and God will naturally redeem the innocent. The rest are either atheists or sinners. The sin here does not refer to specific crimes, but refers to everyone, especially adults, who always do something wrong in their lives. Therefore, I feel guilty about what I did wrong and feel guilty, just like when Lei finds a mistress, Croy's contradiction to his mother, he always bears his own behavior afterwards. In this way, because of guilt, he was invisibly put on the shackles of sinners. Even if you think you are guilty, then how can God redeem you.
On the plane, the crimes committed by some passengers were also expressed, and drug abuse by women in sunglasses is itself a crime. The old businessman only makes money, and even only thinks about business when disasters occur. This indifferent view of the family finally made him feel guilty in his heart. The black woman and her husband snatched their daughter, believing that they made her unhappy.
After the film enters a typical Hollywood plot, relying on one's own power to save everyone. Croy alone helped the plane get out of the runway, while Ray drove the plane alone to let everyone land without injury. The most interesting thing is that when the plane flies so high in the sky, Lei can actually see the narrow runway with the naked eye. However, as a typical feature of Hollywood movies, I believe that everyone has already taken offense.
The ending of the film was happy, everyone was saved, and it also left an open ending. Croy's last sentence, "The end has only really begun" reveals that man-made disasters are more terrible than natural disasters. Although the ending is very open, I don’t think there will be a second one.

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Extended Reading
  • Wendell 2022-03-28 09:01:08

    So the ending of a suspenseful disaster movie is that millions of people go to heaven and never come back? Is God's criteria for choosing people random?

  • Zackery 2022-03-26 09:01:10

    Nicolas Cage is perfect for this role. How did she get the pistol on the plane? https://www.bilibili.com/video/av35195556

Left Behind quotes

  • Rayford Steele: I have no spoilers, no flaps, no elevators, and if I run this thing dry, no reverse thrust, I need some room!

  • Melvin Weir: A prayer? A prayer to who?

    Hassid: To God.

    Melvin Weir: Whose God? Yours or mine?