Such a clear cut is as stubborn as fate, and the ending of the character is laid out soon after the film begins: Sarah's back lights are extinguished one by one, no matter how she struggles to resist and flee, the darkness finally swallows her; , Juno's wandering, determined, unwilling look when he looked at Paul and Sarah's choice to disappear quickly when she grieved the loss of her husband and daughter.
Juno gathers six people to explore the cave, nominally to relieve Sarah's grief, but in reality it is selfish. The last laughing group photo of the six girls before entering the hole is rather a reflection of the human nature before it was torn apart: the more united they were before entering the hole, the more decisive they were after entering the hole.
Desperate situations, especially when it is about life and death, can best stimulate the potential of human beings, and can also tear apart the most hypocritical faces of human beings. In this sense, "Assault" is not just a horror movie.
After the mountain collapsed, in the reality of finding a way out, although the climbing tools left by their predecessors provided them with clues, they also left them with a message of failure. In the face of a brand new cave, hope and the unknown are equally divided.
Darkness can rob the senses, but it can also rob humanity. Under the threat of the creatures living in the cave (perhaps the descendants of explorers who failed to find a way out 100 years ago), the girls' selfishness and ugly face are exposed one by one. First, Juno killed the first creature with an ice axe, and then, under the control of high tension, accidentally killed his companion Beth. Whether for the sake of the overall situation or out of selfishness, Juno cruelly abandoned his companions, causing Beth to become food in the belly of the creature. After the remaining five girls were separated, Becca and Sam desperately hoped that Juno's loud cries would draw the creature away as much as possible, hoping only for their own survival, not their safety at all. In order to retaliate against Juno, Beth told Sarah that he had an affair with Sarah's husband when he was dying, and reminded Sarah not to believe Juno. After discovering that friendship crumbles along with the collapse of the mountain, Sarah discovers that cruelty is the only way to survive, be it her past friends or the creatures of the cave. After the companions died one after another, Sarah attacked them unprepared, slashed Juno's leg with an axe, and left it to the hungry creatures as revenge for her and as a way of life for herself.
Sometimes, it is the human heart that is more ferocious and terrifying than the ethereal ghosts and ferocious animals. Intrigue and intrigue, it is easy to hide your spear, but it is difficult to guard against my hidden arrows. The bold reveal of human selfishness in The Assault is more chilling than the story itself. This makes people have to ask themselves a question: Is such a soul the true self inhabiting the body?
At the end of the film, Sarah stepped on the bones and finally saw the sun and climbed out of the cave. However, escaping is fake, the sun is fake, only the constant whistling in the ears proves that only the bones under the feet are real.
Rather than saying that "Assault" is a decision, it is better to say that it is a due punishment for human selfishness.
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