Heaven is overcrowded, and hell has no way out.
More than two hundred vicious death row inmates were abandoned by God on an isolated island. Here, some people are greedy, betrayal and betrayal in exchange for food; some people know the inherent evil of human nature, and exchange living in isolation for a moment of freedom; some people want to become rulers, and some people are eliminated by the laws of nature and turned into food for famine.
In the future society, where the death penalty is abolished, criminals continue to increase, and prison space plummets, a government decided to release 206 death row inmates to the Ice Devil Island for a humane exile experiment.
Ice Devil Island, with only barren sand and roaring waves, is covered in snow and ice all year round. Satellite monitoring is provided here in real time, there are no heavy guards, away from legal constraints, and death row inmates have absolute freedom. The military left them enough supplies to tell them they could take a boat to a distant communication buoy for help, or to request supplies.
After the military explained the rules of the game, it hurriedly withdrew, leaving a group of death row inmates who were eager to move.
Ivan stood to the sidelines, watching the changes. He was a pilot with a high education, and only because his wife and children died in an air crash, he killed six crew members in one fell swoop, which made him a death row prisoner. Compared with other savage and rude inmates, his normality seems very out of place.
After the military ships disappeared to sea level, everyone went up together, competing for the key to open the handcuffs, they shoved each other, they fought each other, a group led by Ali, took the lead in seizing the weapons, took control of the situation, they forced everyone to hand over the keys, the materials were limited, in order to maximize the utilization of resources, the accomplices suggested that Ali kill all the people who were not in the gang.
When the crowd listened, instead of sitting and waiting for death, it was better to fight to the death, Ivan took the lead in picking up the stone and smashing it at Ali, and the others followed suit, outnumbered, ali and his gang were quickly smashed to death.
Three prisoners tried to escape by boat, and to prevent whistle-blowing, they smashed a distress buoy in the distance. But the sea was stormy and the reef was overgrown, and the boat was quickly overturned by the wind and waves, and the three were eventually swallowed up by the sea.
On the island, although Ali and his gang died, new gangs and orders were soon established, and a big man named Monkey took control of the island's supplies, and they distributed supplies and dormitories, which seemed to be harmonious.
But Ivan understood that the situation was only temporary, without the constraints of law and morality, human nature would be completely out of control, gray beaches and roaring waves, and he could see no hope.
Ivan packed himself enough food and left the crowd, and he shuttled through the island, which was surrounded by sea and overgrown with weeds, and there was only one way to leave. Ivan took out the photo of his wife and children to remember, which was the pure land that still existed in his heart, and the only comfort for him to live in the world.
After the vicissitudes of life and death and escape, the tired Ivan slept with the photo, but the roof leaked in the overnight rain, ivan woke up in a rush of noise, and found that the food he had brought out had been eaten by the rats on the island.
Life had to go on, and Ivan found a shallow cave to live in, and after eating the food he brought out, he caught seabirds to eat. Far from the struggle of human nature, he lived a relatively comfortable life in isolation.
On this day, he suddenly heard a voice calling him, it turned out to be the young prisoner named Nikolai, who told Ivan that the day after he left, the rats had eaten all the food on the island. Nikolai, like the salt grains he had brought, spiced up Ivan's pale life.
Two people abandoned by God, in a place where heaven and hell are turned away, depending on each other, Nikolai is bent on going to hell, he finds a good place for himself, and when the island is built, he jumps off the reef. Nikolai, with his rich medical practice and unique philosophical theories, believed that he was born to work for the devil.
Under the influence of Nikolai, Ivan wants to see his wife and children, and Nikolai tells Ivan to get out of here alive and then bury them with them, so that they can see each other after death.
The wind and clouds change, the cold season on the island is caught off guard, the two can't catch the seabirds, and they are about to lose their food sources, and in the process of searching for fish, Ivan finds a broken glider, maybe he can fix it, and then take him out of here.
Winter came faster than fixing the plane, and in the temperatures of minus fifty degrees Celsius, the fire became a problem, and ivan advised them to return to the camp, but nikolai, who was already dying, did not want to leave here, preferring to choose the way of death himself rather than go back to food.
It turned out that under the shortage of supplies, the monkey led the prisoners to a primitive game of the weak and the strong, and those who ran slowly had to be eaten as food.
Nikolai suggested that they go back and steal the coal nuggets for warmth, and the two of them hit it off, and they came to the coal pile, and when they saw the charcoal fire lit on the side, the two of them roasted up, coveting a moment of warmth, but they were discovered by the monkey gang, and they were escorted to the monkey.
Without military constraints, the monkeys acted like the king of the island, setting rules for prisoners and enjoying the island's best resources. To punish Ivan and Nikolai for their defection, the monkeys force them to participate in a game of death.
The whistle sounded, the prisoners rushed to the dormitory, Ivan refused to cooperate, Nikolai forced Ivan to escape, Su occasionally ran into the dormitory, but for the sake of the rules, they kicked out a companion and sacrificed to the monkey.
Their companions are killed, everyone is distraught, and no one wants to be the next to die, so they decide to fix the distress buoy and protest by refusing to participate in the death game. When the whistle sounded the next day, sure enough, no one ran anymore.
Ivan convinces the monkey to fix the buoy, he finds a plane, fixes it and takes them away, the conditions are tempting enough, the monkey agrees to Ivan.
The next day, Ivan and his companions came to the buoy by boat to repair it, but the buoy was badly damaged and could not be repaired, and they returned without success, and it was a dead end. Ivan and his companions discussed going back to take the opportunity to get rid of the monkeys and restore order on the island.
Back on the island, Ivan lied that they had repaired the buoy, the food would soon arrive, the monkey did not see the icon that should be there, suspected ivan lying, and saw that he was going to kill them, and his companion took the opportunity to pull out a dagger and kill the monkey, and the accomplice who hated the monkey's cruel practice also saw the time to defect and killed the monkey's minions.
Order was restored on the island, they released the others in the camp, and publicly announced that the monkeys were dead, that no more killing each other was allowed on the island, and that there had been cannibalism.
Nikolai made a distress signal with the corpse, but no one paid any attention. Maybe there is no such thing as satellite surveillance. Everything is a lie made up to suppress the crowd.
A brief period of peace was restored on the island, and Ivan and his companions found the plane, dismantled it, and brought it back to the camp, determined to fix it, and the plane became a new hope for the prisoners.
With new hopes, time flies, they are all safe and well, and when it comes to the military's new shipment of supplies, Ivan cheats on gasoline under the pretext of generating electricity, and when they ask Ivan how many people are left, Ivan is more certain that surveillance will be a cover, and he tells the military that there are 87 people left, many of whom are still sick.
After the military left, they built a shed with abundant supplies and began repairing the aircraft. With gasoline powered, the propeller quickly spun. Everything is ready, only the cabin is owed, and when the cabin is built, they can leave together.
But before the plan was implemented, there was a change of heart, the military sent a group of American prisoners, the leader of the boss who refused Ivan's overtures, but also sneaked up on him from behind, the two sides immediately launched a fierce melee, no guns and ammunition, only cold weapons and flesh and bones collided in the fight, like primitive animals survival slaughter, the island finally lost control.
The disparity in numbers between the two sides, Ivan and his gang suffered heavy casualties, and it was at this time that the military finally discovered the change, they overestimated human nature, but also underestimated the animal nature driven by the desire to survive, in order to cover up the failure of the experiment, they carried out indiscriminate strafing.
In the rain of bullets and bullets, one corpse after another fell, and the smoke billowed out, like hell on earth.
When the military left, Ivan and his party were left with only four people, and they pushed the plane out of the hangar and prepared to escape from the purgatory. Nikolai resolutely left, he did not like the human world, only longed for hell, only this time, he plucked up enough courage to jump down.
Ivan took two companions, the propeller sliding rapidly, and they took off smoothly from the sea. Nikolai looked at the plane, jumped off the reef, and completed his leap of faith.
Just then, the military found them, and the bullets fired killed the two companions, and Ivan adjusted the angle of flight, took the corpses of his companions, and flew towards the sunlight piercing the haze.
"Escape from the Ice Devil Island" is also called "NewLands", is a 2008 Russian film and television work, whether it is isolated or compromised to the rabble, the whole film is full of Russian philosophical thinking, sex is good or sex is evil is also the debate of human beings from beginning to end, what is the difference between the government that uses people to do experiments, and the death row inmates slaughtering the same kind in order to survive. The film is tightly paced, full of violent, religious and dark elements, no blood is seen but there is a smell of blood everywhere, delicate metaphors and cold weapon battles with Russian national characteristics, bringing the audience a shocking shock.