This film should not be understood as a horror film

Laila 2022-03-24 08:01:03

If you really want to make a horror movie, the director can do much better than this, such as the rendering of the mysterious religion in the small town, the inexplicable death, the mysterious meaning of the number 436... and so on. Even the crappiest director can use an easy way to creep the audience out without having to come up with such a bland story as a horror movie.

This film contains a very deep truth. Solidarity, Steadfast, Equlibrium, Peace are repeatedly emphasized by the residents of the town in the film. In fact, philosophically speaking, equilibrium should be a universal law in the universe. In one aspect, there is more, and in the other, it is bound to decrease. The residents of this town have been artificially maintaining this equilibrium until Mr. Kady's escape disturbed him. But unfortunately, Mr.Kady died in a car accident on the way to escape. It suddenly gave me a chilling feeling. Do the natural laws of the universe govern people's behavior? Subjectively, is the free will ultimately unable to break the laws of the universe and obtain complete freedom? Or is the so-called free will ultimately just an illusion, a mistake people get from the theory of the dualism of material consciousness, which does not exist in the first place? So, in the end, people's wills are just some lifeless laws of nature in the universe, and no matter how freely people think they are in control of their actions, they can't escape the domination of this natural law in the end, or they are There is nothing "free".

The film's editors may have wanted to convey such a doubt. Horror is just one way of expressing this philosophical doubt. I have seen a lot of films that contain philosophical theories recently, and while causing psychological fear, in fact, this fear comes from doubts about the world in which we live, helplessness and difficulty with basic philosophical issues.

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  • Toy 2022-03-24 09:03:53

    Illustrated movie. It's obviously a dark subject, but it's not too weird, and I don't know why it feels stupid rather than scary.

  • Priscilla 2022-03-27 09:01:23

    The plot describes a quiet idyllic town with a population of only 436 people after a hundred years. A census taker is instructed to investigate why the town's population has remained unchanged for hundreds of years, and the process of investigation gradually leads to unknown doom...

Population 436 quotes

  • Steve Kady: [after they hang a female] Are you out of your minds? are you all out of your fucking minds?

  • Sheriff Jim Calcutt: People who leave end up dying... not by our hands but by god's