Suppose an impossible scenario:
There is one night a year when all crimes are exempted and you can do whatever you want.
Think about it, is there still a little excitement?
But once you start, are you really ready?
Come, please close your eyes when it gets dark
Human Eradication Plan 5: Infinite Slaughter
The Forever Purge
Unexpectedly, this series can shoot the fifth part, and there was a web drama the year before.
Each one was criticized (all about 6 points on Douban).
But it is always impossible to stop a group of die-hard fans from chasing down.
From the first part in 2013 to the present, the series has no cass and no name director, and it is a piece of the sky in the mainstream popcorn.
In 5 years, 3 sequels were released, and the box office went up one by one, with a total cost of 35 million, earning nearly $450 million at the box office.
And each one is basically around the same absurd setting - purge.
A night where you can kill people without breaking the law.
One can completely release the anger in their hearts in any form.
As can be seen from the prequel, in the United States in 2017, after the new ruling party NFFA took office, in order to eliminate the low-end population and control the prosperity and stability of American society, they approved an absurd bill:
One night a year, firearms below level 4 are allowed to be used without restriction;
Public services such as firefighting, medical care, and police services in the United States will be suspended.
All actions of all people are allowed.
In the first few films, we have seen how crazy the evil of human nature can be without order and moral constraints.
Slash, burn, strafe.
Killing relatives, slaughtering friends, revenge.
On that night, the atrocities were no longer condemned.
Instead, it is "washing one's soul," "obeying the obligations of the state," and "contributing to the country."
In the end, he said that he was a "reasonable person".
In this "All Thanos" America, you will be horrified to find out
It turns out that when it comes to killing and venting anger, human brain holes are so big.
Not only the characters, but also the audience followed the plot to let go of the shackles of thinking and feel the chaos and shock of a killing.
The audience satisfies the vision and allows themselves to lose their psychological burden.
Combined with the end of the previous canon.
The successful left-wing president announced the abolition of the night of purges.
As soon as the news came out, it caused dissatisfaction among NFFA believers.
A large-scale rebellion is gaining momentum.
The film came to an abrupt end.
Filming has now begun on the fifth film.
Apparently, the Purge Night Abolition failed.
And not only did the abolition fail, but the night of the purge intensified.
Like the previous films, the narrator of this one part falls into a family
The employer is a "white-rooted" American, and the employees are a group of Mexicans.
Class, race, boundaries are already there.
Tucker, the head of the old Beautiful family, is a little xenophobic in his bones.
When I see the workers at home, I usually don't have a good look.
When his sister recommended him to a reliable Mexican worker, he immediately stopped, "I don't want anyone in the family to speak foreign languages." ”
If one side is hostile, the other side will naturally get it.
As the night of the purge approached, although the workers were paid doubled, in their eyes it was just a kind of "sugar-coated shell" for better exploitation later.
This dark tide is raging against each other, and on the eve of the night of the cleansing, it is like an arrow on the string, on the verge of being fired.
As in the past, the alarm sounded and the purge began.
The gates were drawn, the rich hid in fortified houses, and the poor took refuge in groups and died on the streets
This is not the first time, everyone has experience.
But when it comes to life and death, it is still inevitable to worry about it.
The strange thing is that in the past, the cleaning night that must be catty and occupy a large part of the movie seems to come more plainly in this part, and the protagonist group spends it safely.
When I got up the next day, everyone who hid was safe.
Outside the house.
The wreckage of a severed arm, the remains of a wreckage house, and the stains of blood.
A familiar mess.
The survivors are about to start over in the rubble.
According to the previous films, the plot development is basically over here.
After all, please open your eyes at dawn, purge night ends.
But what's different about this one is that the story has only just begun here.
Just as everyone was returning to the streets to resume their daily lives, the mob began to wait for an opportunity again.
What used to be a massacre of one night a year has now become.
As long as you want, day or night, every day is a cleansing day.
Hatred of the rich, hatred of race, far-right, and even some personal grievances can be grounds for purges.
In the movie, the employee who is usually bullied turns into a master.
The employer's family was arrested, tied up, and the pistol was broken.
After the first one was shot, it was about to be shot when the next one was about to be executed.
At stake.
Unexpectedly, the other 2 Mexican brothers came to the rescue.
Although this kind of righteousness is a bit unexpected, it is actually not strange in this series.
Whenever life hangs on the line, there are always unexpected people who come out to renew the life of the protagonist group (otherwise how will the story continue).
Seeing that the crisis has been lifted.
But the rebellion of a small family is also a projection of the rebellion of the whole big society.
With so many sequels down, the United States, which has been trying to achieve demographic checks and balances through massacres, began to face backlash.
The irony of the film is that due to the chaos in the United States.
Neighboring Mexico and Canada had to open their borders to receive U.S. "refugees."
It used to be people from other countries who smuggled themselves to the United States for help.
Now, in turn, it turns out that the Americans have become "refugees" and need to be turned to by other countries for help.
The next task of the whole movie is very clear
In the next 6 hours, he fled to Mexico, a border closer to him.
The whole city fell into darkness.
It was so dark that the picture of the characters could not be seen clearly, as if it drowned every individual who tried to "go deep into the tiger's den".
And the only way to light up the darkness is the fire of the explosion.
This long shot of Alfonso Cuarón's "Son of Mankind" has a more continuous emotional flow.
The follow-up shooting that keeps up with the pace of the characters also makes the picture present a more documentary sense.
Coincidentally, both films are about a disordered world in which humans kill each other.
The two films echo each other on the mirror.
It seems to see the ambition of the newly found director Gute (one of the directors of the "Snow Train" version) to get closer to the master Alfonso Cuarón.
△ The classic long shot of "Son of Man"
But it's different from the downright despair of "Son of Man."
The Human Eradication Project always has some hopeful reversals.
For example, the protagonist group is captured by a mob.
The other side threw out a dilemma of choosing one or the other:
U.S. employers either kill Mexican employees or die themselves.
This is also a deduction of the "bullying" law of the jungle.
This is a great opportunity for dramatic conflict and character shaping.
The hesitation, cowardice, or animalistic nature of the characters are all places where you can write a big book.
But the director chose the most lazy way.
Resort to coincidence, let the hero pass by the rescue field, and waste the problem that could have been dug deeper.
That's the biggest problem with the series
Literary drama is really too chicken.
Deliberately thinking about a piece of literary drama in a martial arts drama highlights the depth, but in fact disrupts the narrative compactness.
Down to 5, the values are all the same
The change of the general environment should start from the small self, and through the reconciliation of a small group of people, we should argue and appeal to the whole society to be reconciled.
Very well-intentioned.
This dystopian disaster film has a little more political correctness.
And the way a group of people reconcile is nothing more than to solve the common enemy together, to help each other, to influence each other.
In case of indecision, seek foreign assistance.
When in danger, good people save each other.
Too easy to guess, but also too suspenseful.
After 5 seasons, there is really nothing new.
The double lack of depth and coolness ended up with 6.1 points.
Although its score is not satisfactory.
But Sir still felt that this B-grade film had its value.
Because it is a cautionary parable in the current torn American society.
See how this mob defines themselves
We are the true patriots of America
Our job is to maintain the freedom and cleanliness of this land
We will no longer tolerate rape and plundering of the United States by foreigners
We will find you and clear you
America will be great again
How grandiose, how loud.
I want to package myself as a fighter, define all people who are not in line with my own standards, and get rid of them.
So they chose to burn and plunder.
Viewers across the screen know that they are nothing more than a bunch of hypocrites who satisfy their selfish desires in the name of "loving America."
Whenever I am questioned by others, their words are nothing more than that the state has asked me to do this, and everything I do is for the sake of the country.
This statement seems to give these people an unquestionable legitimacy.
Ironically.
This so-called group of believers is actually a knife that has been used.
Just like the old father of the old American family in the movie expressed
They're just using you.
Discarding it when you run out is your final fate.
People are enemies of each other, and everyone feels that violence can be used to grab the greatest benefit.
But in the end, it became a fierce cockroach in the bowl of the big character.
It's just red-eyed people who can't see so far.
They only saw the hateful kind of people on the other side.
As a horror film, you could say that "The Human Eradication Project" has always been mediocre.
But it can be fired to this day.
How does its horror come from the movie?
The picture in this article comes from the network
Editorial Assistant: Kafka by the Sea