Produced in 1976, the disaster film Cassandra Bridge, co-produced by the British, Italian and Germans, was released in China as early as the early 1980s and has since been occasionally broadcast on television, so viewers are familiar with its story. This old film of more than 20 years ago has almost no computer technology used in today's Hollywood blockbusters, but it still makes the plot gripping, and the fearlessness in the face of the virus and the love for patients and the spirit of indoctrination that are conveyed from it are even more shocking, and the structure of the film seems to have become a classic model for disaster films, and has also influenced many later films.
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A terrorist infected with the CHEMICAL WARFARE virus of the US military escaped on the international train from Geneva to Germany, and due to the super spread of the virus, the entire passengers of the train were infected, and the authorities were helpless, in order to cover up the truth, the military decided to let the train pass through the bridge in disrepair and head to Eastern Europe, in order to blame the enemy countries. In order to prevent the further spread of the virus and the leakage of scandals, the authorities did not hesitate to send troops to close the train, cut off all contact with the outside world, even air contact, and shoot innocent passengers who fled. Fortunately for the misfortune that pure oxygen supplied in the fully enclosed carriages killed the airborne chemical weapons virus, but the cowardly and hypocritical authorities insisted that the train sail to the rival countries of Eastern Europe in order to destroy the evidence. At this moment, in front of the roaring train is the Cassandra Bridge, which is discolored by passengers.
Who are the main people on this train to the bridge of death?
The frustrated doctor and his star ex-wife, the vain rich woman and her fugitive boyfriend, as well as the black cop who tracks down the fugitive, and an old Eastern European political prisoner who has just been freed, is such a seemingly contradictory group that begins to save itself from the death train. But then they are not fighting a terrible virus, but a heavily armed army.
The closed train seems to have turned the world upside down, the righteous army has become an accomplice in the burial of innocent lives, and the god of death on the train is the government of the authorities with a straight face, and the small number of troublemakers have become the saviors of thousands of travelers.
When this small group of people was fighting for the fate of the whole car, most of the passengers who did not know the truth were either panicked or indifferent, making it difficult to save themselves, not to mention that the army escorting the train was already in a tight position, and could be armed at any time when ordered to suppress it. The critical moment to choose to live has come.
The Cassandra Bridge collapsed as expected, the train carriages fell like debris in the wind from a cliff hundreds of meters high, and a violent explosion occurred on the piers that hit the bottom of the cliff, raising smoke and flames, or falling directly into the water, stirring up a column of water that soared into the sky, which was very spectacular, no less than a war blockbuster. There were screams, ruptures, crashes, explosions, and only one carriage survived, preserving dozens of passengers for the rest of their lives, but there were fewer fugitives, political prisoners among them, just as the redemption of their souls allowed God to forgive the few lives that remained. The moment before the train went to the bridge, under the leadership of the doctor, everyone did their best to separate the last car, the police and the army fired to cover the fugitives to brake the train, the police were seriously injured, and the fugitive gave up the opportunity to jump out of the car to escape and climb the car to brake the train, unfortunately killed by the army, the old political prisoner in order to separate the train car, detonated the gas storage tank at the connection of the carriage, and died with himself. Others were saved.
Through this thrilling experience, through this test of life and death, and jointly helping and saving many people, the doctor and his ex-wife finally recounted the old good.
A closed carriage, a microcosm of human society. The empty rich woman and her lover, the drug trafficker disguised as a mountaineer, the Interpol disguised as a priest, the devout nun, the young man and woman in love, the pure little girl and the mother who loves her, the old flight attendant who is disciplined, the old Jew who secretly sells imitation watches....., this is the human society walking on the cross. Bridge is a bridge, and Crossing is not just a bridge or a cross, a cross. Here the director chose the meaning of this word, The Cassandra Crossing is not only a bridge, but also a cross of interests and forces, a cross that tortures conscience. What awaits some ugly decision-makers of the authorities will be the sanction of the law and the torture of conscience.
Cassandra Bridge leaves us with deep reflection, and it's clear that the classic isn't just about the storyline.