In Dr. Who, the fact that a large number of global bees disappeared and died was spoofed. It was said that bees came from an alien planet. They disappeared because they returned to their own planet, and they cleverly contacted Agatha, the queen of detective novels. stand up. And this movie also leads the theme from the fact that a large number of bees disappeared and died around the world:
the symbiotic balance between man and nature.
Although horror is the genre, it is actually a science fiction. It's not the environmental preaching film that most people think of. This is a style that M. Night Shyamalan really wants to form, telling all kinds of stories under the hood of horror films, just like "The Village" is actually a dystopian story.
The first thing that reminds people of the movie The Happening is Hideyuki Kikuchi's novel "A Wind Named Amnesia" (A Wind Named Amnesia), which had an OVA animation in 1993. The story roughly says that a gust of wind blows. After all, everyone lost their memory, and civilization collapsed.
An episode of "Part 4 The End of the Whole Mess" (Part 4 The End of the Whole Mess) in the adaptation of Stephen King's drama "Nightmares and Dreamscapes" also has a similar idea, changing humanity in the story. Is set to be a virus, a certain protein that causes mutations, this kind of thing naturally exists in water in a certain area, this kind of protein or virus can make people calm, the protagonist thinks that it can bring peace to the earth, so It has spread all over the world, but I don’t want it to have a fatal side effect, causing all mankind to suffer from Alzheimer’s disease (called the most romantic disease in history)... This can also be said to be another form. It’s the end of the world.
The mechanism of nature is very wonderful, many of which are beyond our understanding.
For example, the great plague in the Middle Ages in Europe, if it really destroyed the entire civilization as described in "The Age of Rice and Salt", would the plague be a more mysterious veil for mankind? Woolen cloth?
And if SARS has not been cured, it will break out intermittently like sweat fever in the 15th and 16th centuries in the UK, and it will reappear in the next few years. What do you think?
Their appearance is just a coincidence, an accident? Or is it a result of natural selection?
Most people should have heard of the mass extinctions in the evolution of life on Earth in natural science classes, right? The most recent was the extinction of dinosaurs... What if this was the result of natural selection?
At this time, perhaps we should introduce the Gaia theory, not to say that the earth can really be a conscious life form, but at the most basic level it is an excellent orderly system. For example, we compare it to a computer. , When the computer is not happy, it feels that you should format the hard drive.
Although the movie itself (the story) is not very good, its conception can arouse enough thought.
EE Cummings said: "Life is not a stage, and death is not an episode." Perhaps it can be replaced with this statement: "Civilization is not a stage, and ignorance is not an episode."
Just like that saying: "Be happy when you live. Some, because you will die a long time after you die." Everything in this eternal time, even if it is glorious for a short time, is actually just a shudder in the sea, and may pass away with the wind at any time.
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