begins with the theme of "Shark Attack", but the theme of the content is not just "Sharks". "Paris Abyss" touches on environmental issues and political satire. It is a rare masterpiece on Netflix. It looks a bit like " don't look up ", but it is still a competent "shark movie".
I was having fun at home during the Dragon Boat Festival. First I watched an old movie "47: The Shark Unleashed". Although the special effects were poor and the tension was slightly lacking, I still enjoyed watching it. Then I opened Netflix and found that it had been released recently. "Paris Abyss" is in the background's recommendation list. It is also a shark movie. I can't help but watch it...
"Paris Abyss" is not a simple "shark movie"
This movie is very interesting. The beginning The theme is "Shark Attack", but the theme of the content is not just "Sharks". "Paris Abyss" touches on environmental issues and political satire. It is a rare masterpiece of Netflix (netflix is always regarded as Think it specializes in bad movies).
In fact, while watching this film, I had the feeling of watching "Don't Look Up" co-starring Oscar-winning actor Leonardo DiCaprio and Jennifer Lawrence. Both movies are satirical The typical style of the bureaucracy that "doesn't want to solve things, but just wants to kick each other's balls" makes the final direction of "Paris Abyss" like "Don't Look Up", turning it into a comprehensive human disaster.
Garbage
Warning of environmental damage
At the beginning of the movie, we saw the heroine Sophia and her diving team observing the sharks they marked in a sea area floating with various man-made garbage. For an audience living on the earth For humans in the world, the sea full of garbage seems to be more shocking than the shark itself. Ironically, when the heroine was dragged all the way into the abyss by the shark, it was the human fishing net that tied her calves tightly. , "Paris Abyss" throws out two clear themes at the beginning: "trash" and "shark".
Environmental protection
The choice of the defenders
What’s interesting is that the movie naturally leads the story to the “environmental protection” issue after the subtitles appear, because the heroine, whose husband and team were killed and injured, works invisibly in the aquarium, paying attention to sharks and environmental protection. The responsibility has shifted to the younger generation. A group of college students have infinitely beautiful ideals. Naturally, they also have empathy for the shark tracked by Sophia in the opening film. This seawater fish may be at risk of suffocation in the Seine-et-Marne river. Young people Environmentalists who are willing to risk diving must help guide this lost shark before the marine police hunts it down...
I think the film has reached this point, which is another clever irony. We can completely imagine today's generation. Some people will fight for the right of animals to survive. In fact, many recent "animal disaster movies" deliberately emphasize the right of different creatures to survive. Like the "animal activists" who rescued the dinosaurs on the isolated island in "Jurassic World 2".
However, should this kind of “animal rescue” really extend to “all living things”? Whether it is "Jurassic World 2" or "Paris Abyss", dinosaurs or giant sharks, these two creatures have deviated from the evolutionary trajectory they should have in the real environment, and have long been considered "alien" species. , is it really worth being saved? Let’s put it another way! Is saving this creature more important than humanity itself?
Back to the plot of "Paris Abyss", in order to "save the sharks", young environmentalists cut off the tracking signal, directly exposing the underwater exploration police to danger. This practice sacrifices our race to fight for the right of all living things to survive. , is it really worthy of being praised? And in the end, when the young same-sex couple saw a small shark in the catacombs and "thought they understood animals" touched it and were bitten by the shark, was this really the result that these environmentalists wanted to achieve?
In addition to environmental issues, "Paris Abyss" also points out how the "willfulness of ignorant decision-makers" can lead to devastating outcomes.
Officials
The willful decisions of ignorant people
Before we start talking about officials who do not want to cancel the "first Paris triathlon" because of sharks, we must first talk about the environmental issues of young people. In fact, whether it is local units or the younger generation, , the biggest problem of both of them in "Paris Abyss" is: disrespect for professionalism.
In this film, the scenes in which the young environmental group "turns off the tracker to save the shark" and "the underground tomb wants to guide the shark by itself" are all "reckless decisions made before obtaining complete information." Sophia constantly A word of caution to young girls: stay out of this. The most intuitive reason behind
is that she is a marine scientist herself and is well aware of all the "usual and unusual" behaviors of the shark they are tracking. The marine police are also professional divers, and they definitely know when to stop and ask for support, but they are disrupted by young people who are only enthusiastic but lack experience and professionalism.
In the same way, policymakers also arbitrarily believed that the benefits brought by the triathlon were far greater than the invisible potential threats, and decided to act expediently, allowing the disaster level to evolve from a few casualties to a comprehensive disaster.
The result of sharks
being forced to evolve
Finally, of course, the story returns to the real protagonist of the film - the shark. The first half of "The Paris Abyss" uses excerpts from Darwin's "survival of the fittest" to emphasize that it is definitely not the strongest species that survives, but the "fittest".
Despite this, the film's deliberate emphasis on "the ever-increasing shark" seems to be contrary to the above excerpt, but it has already secretly implied that the shark in the Seine-et-Marne river does not survive because of its huge size, but "adapts to fresh water" and The two major characteristics of "parthenogenesis" make it about to become the new overlord.
The second half of "Paris Abyss" has amplified the pattern into an environmental disaster movie. However, the audience can also think about a hidden line: Why a shark?
Although this is a shark movie, it is not surprising to have a shark as the protagonist, but "Why Shark" seems to be a deliberate arrangement by the director to "echo back and forth". In the end, the shark's dominance is not only "survival of the fittest", but also "survival of the fittest". Considering that this species existed on the earth long before humans, and eventually after the collapse of human buildings, this forced mutation due to man-made pollution allowed sharks to surpass humans and evolve into the most suitable survivors to dominate the earth.
Conclusion: "Paris Abyss" is a movie that is very satisfying when you watch sharks feasting.
"Paris Abyss" is a very enjoyable movie. Although it is a disaster movie, there are not too many unnecessary splashes of blood, severed limbs, The churning red sea water is still within the acceptable range of the general public. It is not difficult to see that this film strives to "can be watched by as many people as possible". If "Paris Abyss" only wants to be a popcorn B-level movie, everything can be changed. It's a bit more bad, but the director stopped there and instead poured more ideas into environmental and political satire.
Therefore, this film looks a bit like "Don't Look Up", but it is still a competent "shark movie", and its high number of casualties makes humans here more like an all-you-can-eat buffet for sharks. , this kind of indiscriminate killing made the loyal marine policemen die unjustly, but also caused the self-righteous young people to be thrown away and bitten. "Paris Abyss" also immediately threw out an open ending, allowing mankind to face a Environmental impact - "extinction", this is an overly rough summary given by this film, but it is very satisfying to see our stupidity and ignorance as human beings in the play.
