In Apocalypse? Harem tablets? Resident Evil in anime - Gakuen Apocalypse - Anime 7 Stars" We promised everyone that we would push a few final films, and this issue recommended a classic - "The Mist".
The painter David Drayton and his youngest son Billy live in a pleasant town in Maine, just after a storm, the town that has been baptized by heavy rain should have regained its refreshing mud and grass atmosphere, but the thick black fog suddenly drifting against the wind in the distance made David faintly have an ominous feeling...
Mist has always been a film that I think is very classic, and the discussion of many elements such as human nature, religion, and fate is really three points. Since the subject is only asking about the ending, let's talk about the ending together. Personally, I feel that the most essential thing about this film is in this ending.
First of all, you have to know that this film is a tragedy. What is a tragedy? It is to crush the most beautiful things to show you, and the stronger the contrast, the more shocking the tragedy will be.
So what is beautiful? In the ending of this film, the protagonist should have been a hero.
There are two things that are more terrifying than death if they are strong enough, one is the fear of the unknown, and the other is the deep despair of being able to watch the terrible fate come and being powerless.
In the empty car, such a tight space as thin as a cicada's wing, listening to the heart-rending howls of the monsters outside. At this time, it is a very torturous thing to live and face the fear of the unknown and death. You've seen the deaths of his companions, you've seen the ferocious and bloodthirsty of the monsters, you've seen the generally terrifying torture and undignified death of those massacres, so you'll understand that a bullet is a gift and a relief. In the game of mortality, people will prefer to die a little decent, and all they want is the word pain. The problem is that there is so little bullet, so there is a person who is doomed to not get decent, not to get pleasure, and must face the ferocity of the monster in countless corpses. He may be filled with worm eggs, burned by strong acid, torn to pieces, or nothing may happen, but the fate of only one person to face the unknown and despair, to wait for the flesh of the mermaid, will be more terrible than death.
So, being shot is a relief. Surviving in Purgatory to meet the death given by the monsters is torture.
However, there must be such a person.
Who's coming? On the bus, there were women and children, old and weak, and children. The protagonist grits his teeth and I come.
It was a very tragic decision. He had to face a thousand ways to die, each of which was as frightening as Ling Chi. But he did not yet know when this death would be inflicted on him. He also had to kill the man he had protected for a long time, the man who trusted him the most and was willing to follow him, the man who had faced the threat of religion with him unwaveringly. He also wanted to kill his own son with his own hands, and he was desperate to protect his son from beginning to end. Although he understood that these bullets were relief, he couldn't get his hands on it, and what he desperately wanted to protect was not these people, but in the end...
But he had to do it. You listen to his cries after the gunshots, how heart-wrenching. He knew it was relief, but he was in pain.
You say that he is not afraid, and you see him crying like a gambler when he knows that there are no bullets and shoots at himself, and you will understand that his heart is broken to the point of despair and fear. This is the inevitability of the only one who survives, and he bears it.
He gave him the last mercy he could give, and then a man faced the ultimate fate.
What a hero. How great.
What is a tragedy? It's about crushing the most beautiful things for you to see. The greater the contrast, the more shocking the tragedy.
So, how to knead it? Let a monster rush out of the fog and press the protagonist to the ground and rub it? You will sympathize, but not shock.
Let the protagonist hang a person to send everyone safely evacuated their heroic sacrifice? You'll sigh, but it's not shocking enough. That's why I think the Busan trip and the fog look like it, but it's a little bit less interesting.
Tragedy, kneading thoroughly, making beauty fragmented, is desperate enough, tragic enough.
The screenwriter is really good. Aren't you a hero? Crushing a hero is not flesh torturing you and making you kill. Instead, let all your deeds be compassionate and turn them into sins. The hero turns into a demon and a murderer in an instant, this contrast stab is not exciting?
So you see, the fog clears. The wailing of the monsters was due to the clearing of the troops. It turned out that none of them needed to die, and if they insisted on it for two minutes.
But...
Where there are so many ifs, the protagonist originally made a saint-like flesh-cutting and eagle-like compassion, and ended up becoming the culprit who killed his closest relatives and teammates. He was supposed to face the torment of purgatory alone, but he was inexplicably "saved." This salvation is actually the real gate of hell.
You listen to the protagonist's final hysterical wail, can you feel the despair that is suppressed to the extreme and then bursts out?
The tank drove past like this.
Maybe staying in the house will really be rescued.
It turned out that all the rational deeds he had done had actually pushed his dear relatives into the abyss.
He was the noblest hero and did the greatest deeds.
But in an instant, the fog cleared
He became the devil and the murderer, and his kindness became the butcher's knife.
That wail, maybe in his life, he couldn't get out of this fog in his heart.
Mourning is greater than death.
Shocked, not?
Why is this film so designed? Why didn't the truth, the good, the good, the good begin and end? I'm sorry, although the pre-film structure is indeed religious and human. But at the end, his pattern is not small, he is talking about fate.
Western culture has always had a paranoia about fate. King Oedipus, Othello, King Lear. You will find that at the heart of western classic tragedy is the sense of fate that cannot be done. In the vast universe of life, is there a pair of hands manipulating everything? Is science really the only explanation in this world? People have developed a quest for wisdom in the world of understanding the world architecture, so philosophy has emerged. For thousands of years, people have evolved in their understanding of the world, and philosophy has evolved, and religion has given rise to religion, to science. But the fear of the unknown and the despair of uncontrollable fate are still passed down from generation to generation and are deeply imprinted in their culture. If you insist on asking me what Shakespeare's tragedies are really about, it is actually difficult for me to explain, you may as well understand that this is an outpouring of Western culture. In this era, it is really an honor to see such a shocking and desperate film that frames the sense of fatalism.
Pushing the second dimension sideways, pushing the film from the connotation, feelings, plot, brain holes and character portrayal and other aspects to give recommended evaluation, full of 10 stars, giving "The Mist" the following rating:
The Mist – 9 stars