New Folk Art Review| Man and Nature in epidemics: Re-watching "The Zone of Terror"

　　This special spring, when the new generation of bloggers on the Internet fancy recommended the "Infectious Disease" in the United States (2011) and the "Flu" in South Korea (2013), the childhood "nightmare" of our generation of only children was awakened again. The American film "Horror Zone", which was filmed in 1995, landed in China's theaters in the spring of the following year. "World Cinema" compiled a foreign media evaluation of it at the time, "a rare medical horror film in the history of American cinema, as a large-scale film of this genre, it may be the first" Cloud Cloud. Compared to the simple plot synopsis and serious compilation of articles, the most memorable thing is the terrifying African monkey. I remember posting a poster of this movie in the circle of friends that day, and within a few minutes, my peers left messages: Childhood Shadows...

　　The film opens with a 3-minute long shot that concisely and powerfully reveals to the audience the difference between the P1 and P4 laboratories, while taking into account the role of introducing the hero and heroine in the play. It's nothing less than a crest, well-organized, simple and elegant. The real story unfolds from the highest-level laboratories: heavily armed researchers rambling about homework, like a metaphor, in the face of natural attacks—viruses that, like animals imprisoned in other labs, seem to be in full control. Really?

　　Catastrophe shatters human imagination – the film quotes Nobel Laureate Dr. Joshua Lundberg: "The greatest threat to human domination of the planet is the virus." "This virus is not only an objective virus in the literal sense, but also a virus that spreads in human nature. And the director used such a disaster film to sketch such a disaster scene of natural disasters and man-made disasters.

　　In the film, the indigenous village chief of the African epidemic area relays the words of a rare priest in the village who has not been sick to the male protagonist who came to the rescue, "Because of the indiscriminate cutting of trees, this is God's punishment." In "Geography and World Hegemony", the British author closely linked the German nationality to the forest, and it is inevitable that he will bow his head.

　　This is a natural disaster, and such a tragic terminal illness was born in the natural environment. According to the compiled article at the time, the film was based on real cases and was based on the Ebola virus. "The Zone of Terror" is like a visual paper, which makes a sub-analysis of the director's "disaster": in addition to natural disasters, this disaster comes from human beings themselves.

　　In terms of the spread of the virus, the side line of the film shows the whole process of the spread of infectious diseases as rigorously as the scientific and educational film: the virus is originally on the host, and it is thousands of miles away from the civilized world of human beings. Because of human beings, they have been brought into civilized society step by step by cars, boats, and airplanes. Through scratches, the first case of infection was caused, and then the virus mutated in the new host, which was exacerbated by aircraft, cinemas, hospitals, saliva and air.

　　And the virus that spreads in human nature, the director is more diverse: greed — stealing monkeys from the primeval forest to make more money; lust — the rapid spread of the virus. The gluttonous monkeys in pet stores are also infected with this virus – both a foreshadowing of the script structure and a mockery of gluttony. And the catastrophe expands, and the director attributes it to official arrogance and laziness—the general in the film, led by a European-American chief, contempt for life, and the sophistication and bureaucratic delay that comes with the Sub-Commander of African Descent. And the horrors that come with it – isolation at home, centralized quarantine, lockdown of epidemic areas...

　　After watching the film, it is inevitable to think of Engels's "The Role of Labor in the Transformation from Ape to Man", revealing the essential difference between humans and animals: through labor, human beings let the outside world serve themselves.

　　It is true that human beings have changed the relationship between man and nature through labor: in 2018, for the first time in The Chinese laboratory, cloning technology was used to bring "Zhongzhong" and "Huahua" into the world - human beings came from nature and gradually moved to the position of "Creator", whether this opened Pandora's box or created a new way of getting along with nature is still unknown. At the end of 2019, in the midst of the dazzling ocean of information, there was an exciting news: the academic ethics committee of Chinese Min University was established – the topic of man and nature as a community of life should not be examined only in disaster. in Ma Shengnan