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A common problem with most humans:
Most ignore what has not happened and often think it is unfounded.
According to the "broken window effect" that occurred at the scene of many real incidents, once the order collapsed due to a moment of panic, the equality, love, morality and rules that were theoretically built on the society will also follow. The earth fell apart.
In the past few days, the stampede in Itaewon, South Korea, continues to ferment, and the number of victims continues to rise, and most of them are young people in their twenties. Some media reported that this was the public disaster with the largest number of casualties in South Korea since the sinking of the "Sewol" passenger ship in 2014.
Yes, I would like to define it as a "public" disaster, which corresponds to a natural disaster. The elements of order, equality, and morality contained in the word "public" can be said to have all fallen into a state of panic and an instinctive desire to survive in this incident.
In the video circulating on the Internet, we can see that when people realize the danger of crowding, they directly climb telephone poles and billboards, hoping to escape, and some people just stand at a high place and take pictures of the dense ants. crowd.
But such people are only a few after all, and more of them are roaring like threatened beasts:
"Push! Push!" , rather than dying of trampling, it is better to say that he died in the "return to nature" of human nature.
In this incident, everyone is a victim, and everyone is a perpetrator.
However, unfortunately, we can't look forward to the arrival of a savior like we watch a movie, but simply understand the phrase "people are social animals that conform to the crowd".
But the surging crowds and crazy roars in the video are so real, it reminds me of " Travel to Busan " which was popular in China six years ago. ", quite a bit of a fearless heroic spirit.
Then for the tragedy of Itaewon , this time there are no heroes, only a crowd of people who survive like the zombie frenzy in "Train to Busan", but unlike this movie, there are no zombies in the tragedy, all are The essence of human nature...
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A thought between good and evil
As we all know, most Korean movies focus on human nature and social issues. It's just that there are few that can be thought-provoking while being hilarious. Some are slightly lacking in thinking about instinctive reactions while shocking creativity.
But if these problems are all reproduced, you will find that they can happen in almost any country, anywhere. This is also the preciousness of Korean filmmakers who dare to go deep and explore the art of film boldly.
The same is true for "Train to Busan". Ordinary people only like to watch the corpse tide like "Zombie World War", but good explorers can see the real society from the incident focus of this seemingly disaster horror film. and true humanity.
is like the hero Shi Yu, the audience watched him go from an egoist in the opening scene, gradually following the fleeing crowd and the corpse in hot pursuit, to a person who finally sacrificed his life, when he jumped the following When driving, the personality has been sublimated, and the soul has also been redeemed.
The interesting thing is that if time and space are replaced synchronously, it can also lead to some unprovoked reverie:
Is there a person like Shi Yu in the group to survive in Taiyuan in the night?
usually has a decent job and dresses well, but just accidentally broke into an endless hell because of an unintentional pleasure-seeking? And in this hell, maybe the good thoughts in my heart can only flash by the tide of people (corpses), and finally have to become one of the witnesses who are near death?
However, Shi Yu in the movie clearly told his daughter Xiu'an that "you don't need to take care of others, you just need to survive yourself."
However, the reason why the film can be fascinating is that the director introduces heroes who are worthy of admiration and must be admired by mortals, such as Shang Hua, a wrestler who also protects his wife and others in "Train to Busan" from beginning to end. At that time, Ma Dongxi is not yet a "forced man". He has a strong body and a chivalrous enthusiasm that is usually submissive and comes forward when it is critical.
I always think that he is the key figure in the final transformation of the male protagonist Shi Yu. This transformation is not only everyone's unanimous desire for life, but also the instinctive maintenance of goodness.
So when Shi Yu was rescued by Shang Hua at Daejeon Station, he went from indifference to taking the initiative to rescue people, and even hesitant to cross four carriages to save people...
's life, whether it's someone else's or his own daughter's, is in his heart It has gradually become something that must be cherished.
This clever use of plot twists to complete the transformation of the character's character and attitude towards things has obvious benefits:
It can better illustrate the stress response and instinctive attitude of human nature when faced with sudden disasters.
One thought becomes a Buddha, one thought becomes a devil.
As for the corpse tide in the car and outside the window?
is just a "tool man" who completes the "separation of good and evil" of characters.
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The huge contrast between reality
is also deeply portrayed in "Train to Busan" as well as Jin Zhiwu. Like Shi Yu, his appearance is a typical professional old fritter. , his reaction can be said to be the most real, even representing the majority of people in and outside the movie:
greedy for life and fear of death, stepping on people to survive. There is such a plot in the
movie:
When Shi Yu and others rushed out of the encirclement and came to the carriages of the other survivors, the people in the carriage refused to open the door for fear of being infected by zombies, and even told them to leave at the end. However, the funny thing is that it was also indifference that killed them in the end-
The old man in the car saw this group of people who were like panicked beasts, and her eyes were connected with the audience's mind:
At this moment, the people in the car and the car What is the difference between a corpse outside?
are all choosing people.
So she stood up quietly, walked to the corpse full of hideous faces and opened the door, the words in her heart at that moment made us understand the despair of the old man:
"Live this life, and finally die with this group of people. , really... well, just destroy it like this."
In the movie, Executive Kim killed many people, either indirectly or directly, such as Sang-hwa, baseball players and Jin-hee, flight attendants and conductors,Gradually, you will find that his hesitating time for pulling people's backs has shortened, and his technique has become more and more skilled, but in the end the movie gives him the ending:
Want to go home? No, you don't want to. You just want to die.
In fact, the movie has long told us how to unite with each other, how to be kind to others, how to love and help each other, but the movie is just a movie after all, even in an hour and a half, we see a lot of good and evil transformation, even if we see how good people redeem Without the soul, how can the wicked cut themselves off from the world.
But it's just a movie after all.
In fact, when there is conflict between the individual and the collective, the emergence of the so-called "hero" is just a beautiful vision for mediocre beings. The real situation of
is still the same as the people fleeing and trapped in Itaewon in the video:
is crazy, ignorant, confused, cowardly and... bravely fighting only for himself.
Although I believe that almost every educated person, ancient and modern, all over the world, knows one truth:
A collective is safe as a whole when everyone is safe in it.
Just like the disaster in "Train to Busan", which was deliberately set in a confined space such as a train, the director made such a setting appear more real through the subtle reactions of everyone in this small space when faced with a crisis.
At the same time, it can also show a wonderful story in a very short space.
It's a pity that the brilliance of humanity in the
movie obviously didn't shine through the events in Itaewon.
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The hero's infinite dream
The Itaewon incident was a real tragedy.
"Train to Busan" is the imagination and extravagance of film people when they call for heroes countless times.
Compared with the unreal zombies in the film, what makes people more creepy is the hostility and distrust that people have already carved into their bones.
It's just that these little minds pretend to be polite to each other when the disaster does not happen. When the disaster strikes suddenly, we can deeply realize:
It turns out that human beings have always been so eager to actively integrate and try to get rid of a contradictory creature.
Of course, fortunately, the warm ending of the movie left us with a thought:
After some struggle and parting, when the child walks to the rescuer, the hope of life is still there, you are still there, and I am still there.
The world is still there.
This is also the greatest viewing value of the movie "Train to Busan" for me:
It is precisely through continuous self-examination and elimination of drawbacks that we can always remind every lonely person living in a dull, boring and boring life ——
The reason why people are human, after all, is that compared with animals, we should have morality and order, etc. These are the main reasons why they eventually become the most dazzling creatures in the world in the long evolution.
