Zombie movies, I believe many friends love to watch.
Thrilling and bloody, if you mix some humor elements, it is better to use it for dinner.
So, has anyone ever thought about what you would do if you really encountered a zombie one day?
Maybe everyone has a different answer in mind. But what is certain is that if this situation is really encountered, I believe that no one is not afraid. After all, watching zombie movies doesn't mean you really want to meet zombies...
However, in the high-energy reality show that I want to talk to you about today, the protagonist "really" encountered a zombie - "Darren Brown: The End times".
Mention the name Darren Brown, some of the friends may still be a little strange.
He is a well-known British magician and psychological researcher, with "special functions" like Professor X - mind reading and manipulation.
Needless to say, he looks a bit like Professor X
Last year I recommended another of his shows, Darren Brown: Push.
On that show, Darren Brown did an experiment on social subservience by setting up extreme scenarios that turned an ordinary person into a murderer in 72 minutes.
This time, he is ready to create a "zombie disaster" to convince a person with a character defect to believe it and eventually regain a new life.
Seriously, everyone has seen zombie movies, but who is bored enough to really believe that one day there will be a zombie virus?
But Darren Brown was so confident that he had a plan in place to start looking for the right players.
He has always liked to "put long-term fishing for big fish", and since the previous year, he has begun to openly recruit candidates, saying that he wants to make a program that cannot be publicly disclosed for the time being.
Because of its fame, more than 8,000 people participated in the recruitment at once.
Through a lot of screening, Darren Brown finally chose the 21-year-old boy Steven.
In his opinion, Steven is simply not too suitable for this experiment - nibbling on an old man, reaching out at home clothes, eating to open his mouth, living all day in a foggy day, and his biggest hobby is to go to the bar at night to buy drunk, and then be "picked up" by friends to go home.
To put it bluntly, Steven is an extremely self-centered person, who thinks that his family and friends should take their care for him, and he himself will not give the same love.
Moreover, he was also very lazy and irresponsible, and he never seriously did anything when he was so old.
Even his mother burst into tears in an interview, hoping that her son would "grow up."
In addition, Steven is also a very susceptible person, extremely hypnotic.
If Steven had an aggressive intent or had some accident during the experiment, Darren Brown would immediately hypnotize Steven and terminate the experiment.
Most importantly, Darren Brown's medical team tested him to make sure he had enough mental endurance to not be scared out of anything in the first place.
Darren Brown intends to "take away" everything Steven has by creating an "apocalyptic" scenario, allowing him to learn to cherish while recognizing his own potential abilities.
Like it was said in the movie "Follow" – you take these away and they know what they once had.
Of course, in order for the plan to go smoothly, Steven was told that he had lost the election.
And then Darren Brown started setting up the game—
With the assistance of steven's family, he installed 19 cameras into his home to observe his daily life.
After four weeks of secret filming, Darren Brown knew enough about Steven that he officially launched the program.
First, control Steven's access to outside information.
Darren Brown first asked Steven's brother to steal his phone while he was asleep.
Then he found a professional hacker, hacked into Steven's phone, implanted fake news into the major authoritative apps he frequented, and instilled in him the message that "a planet is about to hit Earth."
In addition, Steven's usual favorite radio DJ and news anchor were also "bought" by Darren Brown to talk about the end of the world on the show (this was specially recorded for Steven, only he could see).
Steven's family and friends also all cooperated with the acting, which made Steven think that "the end of the world" had become a common topic after dinner.
Over time, Steven naturally believed that sooner or later, a planet was going to hit Earth.
When the time was right, Darren Brown decided to conduct the experiment the day before Steven's birthday.
On this day, his brother will take him to the concert in the car.
Unbeknownst to the overjoyed Steven, the passengers in the car were all in the group, even Darren Brown...
When night fell, the car that had been driving normally on the way suddenly broke anchor, accompanied by some strange noises, and the atmosphere suddenly became tense.
The driver turned on the radio and "happened" to hear an emergency statement from the government – the government declared a level III emergency due to the imminent impact of the planet on Earth, asking the general public to pay attention to safety and evacuate in an orderly manner with the command of the police.
Before the words could be heard, meteorites immediately fell from the sky and smashed into the ground, causing several explosions.
It's a big deal
This series of operations made Steven nervous and drooling.
At the right moment, Darren Brown stepped forward with an arrow and hypnotized Steven with a big wave.
He took Steven to the hospital he had prepared long ago and left him lying on his hospital bed.
When Steven woke up, he was stunned by the scene in front of him, just like the scene at the beginning of "28 Days of Shock"—he was lying in a hospital bed wearing a hospital uniform and an oxygen mask, surrounded by no one, accompanied only by the sound of a ventilator.
On a table not far away was some moldy bread, suggesting that he had slept for a long time.
Steven was scared and confused, how could he be in the hospital? What the hell is going on?
Turning around, a TV news item answered his doubts — it turned out that the outside world had erupted with a zombie virus that had infected many people. The survivors had to shift their positions in order to protect themselves.
And he, who has been in a coma for two full weeks (in fact, only one night), is likely to have been abandoned.
Seeing this, it is as if you are in the scene of Steven in a disaster movie, and you have long been frightened and helpless.
Although everything in front of him was incredible, the strange environment of the empty people around him also made him unable to doubt whether it was true or false.
So, when he regained a little bit of courage, he immediately began to find a way to escape.
The next plot also follows a very standard doomsday zombie movie routine, steven not only faces the threat from the "zombie" when he escapes.
Dedicated group performers
He also encounters three other survivors (npcs) who will join him in surviving the apocalypse and guiding the plot.
One is a little black girl who has lost her mother, and she is responsible for inspiring Steven's compassion and desire for protection;
One is the tough uncle who is looking for his wife's whereabouts, and he will inspire Steven's leadership and determination;
There is also a cowardly, selfish and wasteful little bastard, the whole thing is a former steven.
His presence is just used to make Steven face up to his own shortcomings.
However, they only play a role in inducing, making choices at every critical moment, deciding how the story will end, or Steven himself.
In the end, can he pass the test of human nature and eventually become a responsible man?
Darren Brown: The End times was shot in 2012, but its content isn't outdated even now.
From the plot and setting point of view, it is a bit like the combination of "Truman's World" + "28 Days of Shock";
From the perspective of form and theme, it is a bit like the "Metamorphometer" of Mango Stage.
Of course, it is more expensive than Metamorphometer and more carefully produced.
The hospital scene alone involved 250 staff members and more than 1,000 hours to set it up, not to mention the many preparations That Darren Brown and the team had done in the early stages.
But the reason why it can score 8.3 points on Douban, in my opinion, is because of its tearful ending -
At the end of the experiment, helicopters come to the rescue, steven and the little have escaped, but the little girl is still trapped in the zombie horde.
Steven persuaded the to go back with him to save the little girl, but the other party refused.
Even rescuers said that if they saved the little girl, they would delay the time to save more people.
Finally, Steven hesitated for a few seconds, gritted his teeth, and desperately turned his head and ran in the direction of the little girl.
Because he had promised the girl that he would never leave her alone. Even if the helicopter is about to leave, what awaits him is most likely to be self-destructive, and he will make good on his promise.
Although there are tens of millions of people, I am going to die. A man who originally lived like a parasite became a hero at this moment.
It turns out that a selfish and lazy person can also burst out of the brilliance of human nature.
After that, Steven found the only electronic device he could use, recorded a "last word" for his family and friends, and apologized for his past behavior.
It can be said that from this moment on he really got a new life.
More fortunately, he thought that the imminent death would not really come. He really still had a chance to reopen his life.
Perhaps, from the perspective of a psychological experiment, Steven's before-and-after shift is a bit dramatic. But if you put yourself in the shoes of yourself, this change is not abrupt.
Because many people who live a muddy life are like this, their nature is not bad, but in a peaceful life, they gradually lose to the weaknesses of human nature such as laziness and selfishness.
But in fact, it's not too late for someone who can wake up in time and is willing to change.