One day, an unknown creature will come to the earth. It can easily destroy the human nervous system and confuse people's minds. Anyone who sees it will suddenly go crazy and cause self-harm and death.
Some people killed themselves by hitting the wall with their heads, some walked towards a fast-moving truck and killed themselves, some walked into a burning car to burn themselves, some jumped from a high building and fell to death, all kinds of strange suicides swept the whole thing like a flood in an instant. City.
This is the story to be told in Netflix's 2018 finale film "Blindfolded Your Eyes", a doomsday disaster film called "A Quiet Place".
In the film, Oscar actress Sandra Bullock played the heroine Melly, a lonely and world-weary painter, except for her own sister, it is difficult for her to establish long-term relationships with others.
When the end came, she was about to give birth, and her boyfriend had abandoned her. During the checkup, she thought about letting others adopt her baby after she was born, because she believed that she was not capable of being a good mother, and was not capable of letting a small life grow up healthily and happily. .
Soon, the sister who accompanied her during the birth check had committed suicide because she saw an unknown creature. She was driven by her survival instinct to live with a few unknown people.
As her companions died one by one, Melly had to be alone, with two children and three green birds that could perceive monsters. By virtue of her indifferent nature, she crossed the dangerous river blindfolded and found it. A refuge, a school for the blind called Janet Tucker.
The whole movie is not only a fight to find hope for survival, but also Meloli’s personal growth and struggle, fighting fear, fighting herself, fighting the most subtle part of human nature, and fighting a group of mentally ill patients. .
In order to survive, Melody gave up tenderness and extravagant fantasies. She did not name her children, but simply called them "boy" and "girl", and refused to let them call her mother. She and another survivor trained them to wear blindfolds to live. In addition to going out to find food every day, they conducted harsh military training to make them adapt to life in the end. The two children never knew what the outside world was like.
As the plot unfolded, we gradually learned that Melly was not like this by nature. When she was a child, she didn’t get much love from her parents. She hid her desire for love to the bottom of her heart, because she cared too much and was afraid of losing. I have never dared to put myself in too much emotion for fear of being hurt.
It’s just such a woman. From her loneliness and indifference at the beginning, she finally used love to call back the little daughter who was about to be taken away by the monster, and named them warm names. She finally understood how to be a mother and completed her spirit. A huge change in the world.
"Blindfolded Your Eyes" makes people feel terrible, first of all, because of the unknown. You can't see your opponent, it seems to be a surreal existence, and humans have no room for resistance. People who saw it either committed suicide or were mentally ill. Only they were immune to monsters, but they would become believers of this monster, trying to make everyone worship it. These mentally ill, lunatics are perverted, looking for normal humans everywhere, forcing them to open their eyes to watch the monsters, then commit suicide, and complete their sacrifices to the monsters.
Another scary thing is that there are horror scenes in the movie, but humans have not found a solution. Even if Melly found the refuge with two children in the end, it is only temporary, as long as your eyes are still there. If you can see it, you will inevitably have to face the monster and will be affected by it. As long as your human nature remains the same and your greed, anger, ignorance, and suspicion remain, you will not be able to confront it head-on.
In "A Quiet Place", we at least see what the monster looks like. At the end of the film, the mother and daughter also found a way to kill the monster. In "Blindfold Your Eyes", the monster never appeared in front of it, only in one Mental illness appears in the painting.
When you have just watched this movie, you will feel that the ending is pretty good, but after careful consideration, there is a kind of fear that slowly penetrates you, just like the fear after watching "Master Key", you will never be able to expose those two people. They will also occupy other people's bodies countless times and continue to do evil.
Fortunately, there is still hope. Children are hope. In "Blindfolded Your Eyes", Melody takes two children into the shelter, and there are many children inside.
In "A Quiet Place", the protagonist's family is struggling to avoid monsters. The youngest son is killed by the monster because of the sound of a toy airplane. The family did not indulge in pain, nor did they just avoid or live numbly. They actively searched for ways to deal with monsters, and once again gave birth to a small life. Knowing that the sound of having a child is very deadly, they have made perfect preparations. Their lives are more than just struggling to survive, they are also actively looking for the meaning of survival, using new lives to fight against passing away, and using new lives to find infinite possibilities in the future.
The writer Jia Xingjia said that the terror is also because we are following the victims. If you change it over and shoot from the perspective of a monster, although the scene is still bloody, this is not a horror film, but a documentary. Even the audience may feel sympathy and secretly hope that the monster will succeed.
He said that this is not moral depravity, it is a tactic of propaganda and storytelling. Your position and perspective will affect your emotions.
In the movie "Blind Your Eyes", normal humans are victims. We follow their emotions and empathize with them. If it is replaced by a monster as the protagonist, and he has come to the earth to perform a certain task, and needs to eliminate most of the humans in some way, find his own followers, and then achieve his own goals, then he will become the one who is sympathized with.
Just thinking about it like this makes me feel terrifying.
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