Beginning in the 1950s, Hollywood began to produce a large number of genre films based on the large-scale disasters caused by nature, animals, or fantasy alien creatures to human society, with horror, panic, tragic plots and catastrophic landscapes as the main viewing effects, and by the 1970s, such disaster films began to prevail.
A large part of the disaster film can be classified as a science fiction film genre, which shows a negative escapism, that is, to help the audience hide from the real world of repressed thoughts, nervousness, and insecurity into the exciting montage world, and experience a fantasy adventure that they cannot experience in a lifetime. And when they come out of the cinema and return to reality, they will find out how happy they are in the ordinary life of the real world.
I think that's what disaster movies bring to the audience---- contrast the joy.
The Walking Dead is an American disaster television series directed by Adam Davidson and starring Cliff Curtis, Kim Deakins, Frank Dylan, Alicia Dinan Kelly, and others. Adapted from the comic strip The Walking Dead. Many people say that this is a horror film, but I think it should be classified as a disaster film, and the mysterious virus caused the global crisis of the "walking dead", which is no longer the word "horror" can describe.
The film begins with a bit of suspense, some abandoned church in Los Angeles, a group of addicts gathered to party, the young addict Nick woke up and found that there was no one around him, the female companion Glo was missing, accompanied by strange background music, Nick began to look for Glo in this gloomy dark church, all the way to stop and go, to a corner to find a man who had died, his death was unbearable, the wound on the neck area seemed to have been bitten by a large beast, Nick was frightened, and when he fled in a panic, Unexpectedly encountering a zombie-like Glo, lying on the ground, a male corpse's face has been half bitten by Glo, Lolo showed two rows of White Sensen's teeth, with a hungry look at him, Nick was frightened to run wildly, fled to the road without taking a good breath, and was hit by a car on all fours.
The injured Nick was taken to the hospital, where he woke up to find chaos, many patients unusually biting the doctors and nurses, and he found a chance to change out of his hospital uniform and escape from the hospital. Walking down the street, he found himself in church taking drugs these days, as if something incredible had happened to an infectious disease. Everyone was running away in horror.
Unknown infectious diseases spread rapidly among people, in just a few days Los Angeles fell into chaos, schools were closed everywhere, the virus crisis in Los Angeles swept the entire city, Nick's stepfather went out to look for his ex-wife and son, on the way due to traffic jams, witnessed a process of ordinary people transforming into walking dead, the sick people will quickly resurrect after death, but wake up unlike humans, they can still walk wildly after being shot several times, attack pedestrians at will, until they are hit in the head by the police before falling to the ground. Frightened citizens lose their minds and trample on each other, the explosion spread quickly, a family of three fled into a barbershop when the block was out of control, and the owner's family temporarily took shelter.
As night falls, Los Angeles is covered in passive chaos, many neighborhoods have blackouts, Los Angeles has shed the cloak of civilization, smashing and looting can be seen everywhere, selfishness and greed are exposed in the night, many lawbreakers take advantage of the government's self-care, go out to the streets to do wrong, set off a criminal carnival feast, and the ugliest side of human nature can be nakedly displayed. The thin roller shutters of the barbershop may be invaded by outlaws at any time, everyone gathers together to panic, the stepfather finds that the air in the shop is gradually heating up, which is a sign of imminent fire, everyone does not think much, rushed out of the barbershop, and rushed along the riotous block. In the process of escaping, the owner's wife was smashed by the mob's broken advertising stand and injured her ankles, and with the support of her companions, she climbed onto a pickup truck and escaped from the riot zone by car. The night is dark, the neighborhoods along the way are blackened, and the lights symbolizing civilization are gradually disappearing, replaced by an oppressive and desperate darkness
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At the same time, daughter Alyssa found that there was a female neighbor outside the house who was torn apart by the corpse mutant, it was an old Asian woman, she had taken care of her free of charge when her mother was not at home, she wanted to rush out to rescue the female neighbor, but was blocked by the mother Maddie standing at the door, the helpless shouts of the female neighbor came from outside the door, the mother Maddie was worried that the daughter could not resist the walking dead, and could only choose to listen to the screams of the female neighbor gradually disappeared.
The stepfather led the shopkeeper's family of three to escape back to the house, surprised to see the neighbor Pete in the living room nibbling on his pet dog, he pounced on the stepfather after being frightened, the shopkeeper took the shotgun from Nick's hand in time, fired two shots in a row, and said to the stunned stepfather: "He is no longer human" The stepdaughter Alyssa's cry for help was heard in the courtyard, and the unsurprising female neighbor also changed. Seeing that the neighbors had turned into walking corpses, everyone discussed fleeing to safety together. The next day, the Travis family set off in two cars, preparing to leave the city for refuge, and when they went out, they were surprised to see several armored vehicles and a group of heavily armed soldiers entering the neighborhood, the family abandoned the escape plan, and the soldiers appeared, bringing a ray of hope to the fallen neighborhood.
On the 7th day of the fall of Los Angeles, the government sent a large number of troops, selected 12 uninfected neighborhoods, fenced them with barbed wire, and began to isolate, and the army was only stationed in the bayonet of the quarantine area to maintain the stability of the community. Everything seems to return to calm, as if these fences can isolate the dangers, the area within a few miles seems to be safe, the inside and outside the fence are two different worlds, the people are not satisfied with the life in the quarantine area, after the military moved in, all families can not use the telephone, the power supply at a fixed time every day, and the moment retreat from the civilized world to the barbaric era. Curious about the world outside the iron fence, Chris accidentally recorded the reflected light in the residential area outside the iron fence, feeling that there were living people outside the quarantine area, and that the outside of the quarantine area had not been "cleared" as advertised by the army.
Stepmother Maddy was surprised to see the footage from the DV machine, and she also became suspicious of the isolated soldiers. When she was waiting for no one, she violated the military regulations, sneaked out of the safety zone, and entered the world outside the iron fence, and the scene along the road was shocking, and from time to time she could see corpses of different degrees of decomposition, just like garbage on the street. As the night turned dark, the military began to take the temperature of the residents, planning to take away a group of wounded residents, and the owner's wife was on the list, including Nick, who was addicted to drugs. It all came so suddenly that the military told Nick's family that people with high body temperatures or who had been sick had been quarantined by the army's temporary hospital, and that the owner had planned to accompany his wife to the hospital for treatment, but was told by the military that only those who met the criteria could go to the isolation store for treatment. It was getting late at night, the military was gone, and everyone was worried about it, watching in horror as the military vehicles carrying the residents of the isolated area drove off into the distance.
Nick was locked up in a military isolation hospital made of barbed wire and in a depressed mood. Here he met a well-dressed, talkative black man. After the owner's wife was taken away by the military, the owner's daughter Leah shouted at the military quarantine card point to express her dissatisfaction and protested that the military had taken her mother. Andrew, a soldier and Leah's temporary boyfriend, loses his mind after his wife has been arrested, finds an opportunity to kidnap Andrew under house arrest, and tortures him to reveal the location of the military isolation hospital. Maddie discovers what the shopkeeper is doing, and since her son Nick is also in the hands of the military, she does not intervene to stop the shopkeeper from torturing Andrew, and Leah acquiesces to her father's illegal behavior because she is eager to save her mother.
In the military temporary hospital, many wounded were lying in the hall, nurses were skillfully sewing the wound of one wounded, nurses were only left six because of the attack of infected people, each had to stand alone, the wounded were still coming, outside the hospital was a sentry of soldiers with guns and ammunition, and all the staff were overloaded.
The people in the safety zone are temporarily away from the virus infection, and their lives are safe, but they feel like birds trapped in a birdcage, losing their freedom (yes, we just want to be free, don't care if there is a virus or a walking corpse outside), they do not feel safe under the protection of the army, they feel that the future is very confused, and the protagonists' children behave in a very special way, that is, they smash the homes of neighbors who have long fled the city.
The people of the quarantine zone want both safety and freedom – in this chaotic world of the walking dead.
Andrew finally confessed under the torture of the shopkeeper, telling them that the army had a "cobalt blue plan" that was a plan for the retreat of the Los Angeles army, which did not include civilians, but only to withdraw the army. Because the walking dead outside were out of control, only the army could withdraw, and the planned implementation time was at dawn the next day.
When asked about the residents outside the exclusion zone, Andrew told everyone that at the time of the outbreak of the unknown infectious disease, the military found more than two thousand residents hiding from the walking dead in a gymnasium, but some of them were mutated and all the people were infected, but the army was short of ammunition, so it could only choose to block the gate of the stadium and let two thousand walking corpses roam in the stadium without being destroyed. The shopkeeper went out to the gymnasium according to the soldier's confession, and sure enough, he found a full gymnasium full of walking corpses, and looking at these walking corpses who wanted to break through the door, he came up with a "good idea"
Yes, several Americans who love "freedom" and "love their families" choose to lead the dead into the military hospital for their "freedom" and "family reunion", and then take advantage of the chaos to enter the hospital to "rescue" their families. In fact, their families did receive medical treatment in the hospital. But they just felt that the military's segregating citizens was hindering their "freedom." As for whether the walking dead will hurt other soldiers and patients, I'm sorry, I didn't think about it at all.
"We only care about our own freedom and our families"
Open the gates that trap the two thousand walking corpses and lead all the walking corpses to the checkpoint of the military isolation hospital. Although the soldiers guarding the military isolation hospital shot at the walking corpses rushing into the checkpoint from high, the walking corpses were densely packed like a tide, blending with the black night, looking boundless, and they easily broke through the fence and effortlessly devoured the soldiers.
The walking dead broke through the gates of the military hospital, and the surviving soldiers were too busy to take care of themselves and fled with the patients in the quarantine area, and the shopkeeper and his party entered the military base parking lot from the other side while the walking corpses chased the soldiers and patients. Soon, the walking dead were looking around for the living in Kizai, and like a flood that broke the embankment, the military, although it had weapons, could not resist the mechanical bite of the walking dead. The base was in chaos, and the chaotic sound of gunfire was engulfed by the roar of the walking dead, like hell.
The black man leads Nick out of the iron cage, ignoring the other people in the iron cage calling for help, and Nick struggles through the room where the walking corpses are constantly being carried, and is chased by a group of walking corpses at the end of a corridor, at a critical moment, Nick's family arrives and successfully opens the door at the end. The group did not care to close the door, and fled back to the parking lot in fear. The military base has completely fallen, the sun is setting, the coast is dusk, the city is filled with gun smoke, the civilized world established by mankind is falling, and the surviving people are riding pickup trucks, enjoying the happiness of "escaping from death", without looking back at other civilians who died for their "freedom" and "family".
This is the American "freedom", just their own "freedom" regardless of whether others are dead or alive.
In recent years, the popular "zombie" films, "zombies" are only "activity background", mainly about human nature in the chaotic world.
Some time ago, when the epidemic in the United States was high, there were people marching in the streets to demand "freedom", which is not surprising to me. For them, the law gives them the "right to freedom", and the heroism they advocate makes them "not afraid of death", but they never consider whether others will be afraid of death, and whether others will be infected with the virus that he participates in. I don't mean to say much about the systems of other countries, each has its own way of living, but what I don't want is the "collision" caused by "American freedom" and "Chinese freedom" in a specific force majeure environment in the future.
We should avoid the arrival of such "force majeure".
We want to watch disaster movies, not only because we want to be entertained, but also because we really have fear in our hearts. Even in today's highly technologically advanced world, we are still difficult to compete with natural disasters such as volcanic eruptions, earthquakes and tsunamis, tornadoes, and mudslides. Of course, the greater fear stems from the regurgitation of humanity's destruction of nature — infectious diseases. Whether it is "zombies" or "infectious diseases", this film that takes human error and crime as the cause of disaster, in recent years, such films have become the main body of disaster films, making us realize that human beings continue to destroy the environment without restraint in real life, and the scenes in movies may no longer be an art form, but will really appear in front of human beings.