Chapter 1,701 The most desperate thing is that there was hope
Although it seemed that many moviegoers were relieved to see that the male protagonist was about to be rescued.
But these people are not ordinary viewers. For this reason, they frowned when they saw this scene. Why?
Because if he is rescued, it seems that the movie will not be amazing, at most it will just be a more unique idea.
"Paul, three minutes, just hold on for three minutes! It will be over soon!" Dan's voice came from the phone.
"Thank you, thank you!" Paul Lin kept thanking him, and he was also a little excited.
"I have to hang up!" At this time, he saw his wife's number on the caller ID of his mobile phone and said immediately.
"No, wait, Paul!" Dan said hurriedly on the phone.
But at this time, when he saw his wife's call, how could he listen to it? He immediately hung up the phone and then answered his wife's call.
"Linda, Linda!"
"Paul, is it you? Is it you?" On the other end of the phone, my wife also said very excitedly.
"Oh my God, Paul, what did they do to you? Are you okay?" she asked again.
"I'm fine!" The camera switched back and forth between Paul Lin and the sand leaking from the coffin.
The sand is leaking faster and faster.
"I just watched the news and I forgot my phone at home!"
"They know where I am and are looking for me!"
"Really?" Linda cried with joy.
"It'll be okay!" he comforted, which was not what he was thinking at this time.
"They're coming, they're on their way, nothing will happen to them!" he repeated.
Linda on the other end of the phone thanked God excitedly.
"I'm so afraid of losing you! I love you so much!"
"No, I love you very much! I'm sorry, I shouldn't have come here, I should have listened to you, I'm sorry!" Paul Lin kept apologizing.
"Honey, I don't care, I just want you to go home, go home!"
"I will go home, I will go home!"
"You promise!"
"I promise!"
Suddenly he saw another call from Dan on his mobile phone and thought it was them arriving.
After talking to my wife, they came and then answered Dan's call.
"Dan?"
"It's me, Paul, he brought us here!" The sound of them digging could even be heard on the phone.
"Hurry up, it's almost full!" At this time, the sand had almost filled the entire coffin.
"Paul, hold on, we're on top of you!"
"No, it's almost done, right?"
"Almost there, we're right above you!"
"Hurry up, I can't hear you clearly!"
The sand here is almost covering Paul's body!
"Hurry up and dig!" Dan's voice came from the other end of the phone.
"I can't hear you clearly. Where are you?"
"I'm almost digging you!"
"Hurry up and dig, we see the coffin! Hold on! Open it quickly!"
"Let's go faster, go faster!"
"Quick, quick, get out of the way!"
The coffin panels are already being pried open over there.
"Oh my God!" Suddenly the voice on the other end of the phone stopped and Dan exclaimed.
"What's wrong?" Paul asked.
"I'm so sorry, Paul!" Dan said apologetically.
"What's wrong?" Paul still doesn't know what happened?
"It's Mark White! This place of burial is Mark White's place! I'm sorry, I'm sorry!"
The sand gradually covered Paul's body until the last ray of light was completely buried by the sand.
After all, he still couldn't be rescued!
And this dramatic scene left the audience stunned!
It can be said that this reversal was something that no one expected, let alone Mark White! You know, this person was one of the hostages that Dan said was rescued!
But why was the place where he was buried alive discovered?
But it’s not important anymore!
At least it doesn't matter at this moment!
In the darkness, Dan's voice came: "I'm sorry, Paul, I'm really sorry!"
The movie is over!
The auditorium was quiet for a short while, and then burst into roaring applause!
For Mu Qingqing, she finally breathed a sigh of relief at this moment. In order to make this movie a success, she definitely made no less efforts than Li Bin.
"I knew he would definitely not survive in the end, but I didn't expect that he would feel complete despair after experiencing immense hope."
"This ending is really despairing and absolutely fatal!"
"Who said it wasn't? I thought the movie was going to fall into a cliché, but I didn't expect it would end like this! I didn't expect it at all!"
"That Mark White, wasn't he rescued? How could he still be buried alive?"
"It's very simple, because this is basically a lie to him!"
"It's a white lie, right?"
"Who knows, so it's too dramatic!"
"Awesome, this ending! Even more amazing than "127 Hours"!"
"They are two different types, right?"
For a while, everyone in the screening room started discussing.
Similarly, many film critics are already writing and preparing to go back and craft a good film review.
"Buried Alive" may not be that amazing for a great director like Li Yi, but for a new director, it is already amazing enough to produce such an effect.
Soon, a long-form film review by a film critic was released.
Online film critic Ou Jing came out on top: “I am honored to receive an invitation to attend the first screening of Buried Alive!
Generally speaking, when writing a plot synopsis, it probably goes like this: Have you ever thought about what if one day you wake up in the dark and find yourself in a coffin buried deep in the ground, with only a lighter, a pencil, a mobile phone, and a
With a knife, a flashlight that doesn’t work and a few glow sticks, what are you going to do...
Those who love puzzle games must have their minds working quickly. They will analyze the properties of the props themselves, guess that they should be used in unexpected places to obtain new props, and try to guess whether the game designers will
There are loopholes and flaws. Can you find the loopholes to seek real victory and achieve a good ending?
This chapter is not over, please click on the next page to continue reading! These are all correct, and many good thrillers stick to the emphasis on taste while turning into an IQ game between the producer and the audience. In fact, there are probably not many.
No one really cares about the so-called world view and attitude towards life of the villain in it. What everyone is keen on is the level of gore and reserved space in the level.
Just like when I first saw the introduction of "Buried Alive", I would naturally say, "It's a pity that this person didn't have the opportunity to learn from Bai Mei!"
Of course, this does not mean that fans will treat human life as nothing from now on. The basis of blood and saliva is that it is just a setting.
"Buried Alive" worked hard to get rid of the setting. Although these props were indeed used one after another in the end, on the one hand, the director tried his best to prevent you from paying attention to them, and on the other hand, some props were originally designed for a simple purpose.
intended to be placed in a coffin.
It’s not difficult to talk about the movie itself. From a creative point of view, it has quite unique features and selling points, and its execution is not bad either.
Although it is said to be low-cost, it is not easy to shoot. The single-scene movie itself is an idea that countless people have thought about again and again. If you push it to the extreme, it will gradually reach this point. From a viewing point of view, the movie does not have this extremely narrow concept.
The claustrophobic space of the film is monotonous, the camera positions are changed appropriately with the reasonable presence of the light source, and then the limited sound is used to create a sense of oppression. To put it bluntly, the proportion of certain methods and techniques in the film genre is reduced, and more is left to
Actor performances and script.
In fact, writing a script for one person to act is not as difficult as imagined. Many stage plays are limited in terms of spatial relationship. A good actor can perform a one-man show and the audience will not be bored for two hours. Of course, he must maintain
Dramatic tension is another matter.
But as long as you have a mobile phone, you can have dialogue, and if there is dialogue, the drama is always there. The protagonist did a really good job in this regard and provided pressure. But in fact, most of the time, it is not clear whether this person is
he.
Because the information is concentrated, the script strives to pay attention to many details. For example, when the male protagonist just woke up, he was too excited and his consciousness may not have fully recovered, so he was unable to clearly express his situation. After making several phone calls,
After that, we were able to sort out the effective information and deliver it as quickly as possible.
On the whole, these details can always affect the emotions of the viewers. But there are other details that must be discarded because of the principle of the story, such as the problem of air, such as the problem of snakes. I believe that after the movie is screened, some people must go home to get it.
The lighter burned for a long time, trying to prove that according to the one-to-one time in the film, it is impossible for the lighter to stay lit for that long.
This is not a game in the first place. The robbers carried out all this clumsily and plannedly. They casually changed their words from 5 million to 1 million. They killed the female hostages as soon as they were told. They also knew how to use the Internet to upload videos. This was not the first time they had done this.
This incident will definitely not be the last time. As long as they still look at these foreigners who enter their country with hatred, this kind of fear may come.
Let’s talk about the process of self-rescue, which can be said to be a slow suffocation process.
The huge difference from "127 Hours" is that the male protagonist in "127 Hours" is a mountaineering enthusiast, and to be honest, in terms of despair, it is far from comparable to the male protagonist in "Buried Alive".
One can at least see the sun, see the crows, see the sky!
But the other one has nothing!
In "Buried Alive", the male protagonist does not have any abilities beyond ordinary people. He cannot resist the constant fear, so he always makes useless agitation.
Rationally, I try to rely on that system, those mechanisms, those various people sitting behind the computer. Some people are completely mechanical, and even though some officials show various humane attitudes, they can still only be in their position.
From that standpoint, they say what they should say and don't do what they don't do. After the recording, the director of the CRT Human Resources Department said softly "Sorry", and the hostage rescue team members also said "Sorry". This seemed to be the right thing to do.
They spoke from their hearts.
Emotionally, he kept calling his family, but never received any comfort.
Of course, you can also interpret the totality of fear according to the meaning of conspiracy theories, and see that in the lighthouse country, a country that claims to be the first in human rights, the rigid system and industrialized functional status make an operator who is facing the death threat of others ask repeatedly:
Which branch of the Bureau of Investigation should I contact?
Of course, you can also interpret it symbolically. It doesn’t matter whether the coffin really exists or not. This is how modern people live in a claustrophobic space. The way to communicate with people relies more on communication tools, and it seems that communication is all that is needed.
Tools. The indifference beneath these interpersonal relationships seems to be another kind of real burial alive.
Of course, if we regard it as a movie, we can just say that it is awesome or not, but the movie will leave some assumptions, and some assumptions cannot be considered in detail. In fact, the ending is not the most important thing, it only shows that
The director's attitude, and the first 90 minutes of this movie, have removed all warmth.
Going back to film creativity itself, a one-man show is undoubtedly very challenging. It tests the screenwriter, because it is very difficult for you to create drama when you are alone; it tests the director, because when you are alone, it is difficult for you to create a sense of drama.
; It tests actors. We often talk about "rival play" and "Biao play". How can one person perform so fast and so hard?! From this point of view, "Buried Alive" is a great one-man show. It has
It is suspenseful and thrilling, and full of gripping drama, making people worried about the fate of the male protagonist until the very last moment.
The plot of "Buried Alive" is full of suspense, and at the same time has a somewhat "ridiculous" feeling, because the male protagonist himself finds it incredible. The male protagonist traveled thousands of miles overseas to make a fortune. What kind of spirit is this?
This is the internationalist spirit of making a living.
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! However, I was caught and buried alive in a closed space where I could only lie down. It was actually just a coffin. It was pitiful. I originally wanted to make a fortune, but instead I was buried alive.
Kidnapping requires money. In fact, ordinary terrorists and kidnappers themselves are cowardly. They cannot kidnap those wealthy people with capital, and can only take advantage of small people to get lucky.
The dramatic experience of the male protagonist in the film is actually quite similar to that of the protagonist in "127 Hours", but he is even more unlucky, because the main character is fighting against the sky, and he has to fight against people. The feature of this film is that in a small
In his coffin, through his mobile phone, he is connected to the world and society. Social factors are reflected from a small coffin, including terrorism, bureaucracy, sincere family affection, indifferent humanity, the harshness and moving parts of the world.
It all lies in this.
If it is really just a character, it would be difficult to make a movie. Therefore, "127 Hours" needs to use the interaction between the protagonist and two female tourists before the incident to express his character, and use hallucinations to make him and not around him
The interactions between people create drama!
"Buried Alive" uses telephones and online videos in a very modern way, which reflects that under the advanced communication technology of modern society, people have really reached the level of being connected to the world at any time. However, it is also in this context.
Under this situation, the tragedy becomes more prominent. Interconnection with the world is just a formality. The nature of the relationship between people has not changed as a result, and it is not necessarily beautiful.
So, we saw and heard who the protagonist was facing on the phone? They were angry kidnappers who showed no mercy and just treated the protagonist as a prop, letting him do whatever they wanted;
It's the indifferent company management. When something happens to an employee, the first thing they do is to dig out the terms in the contract, and they can't wait to use the exemption clause to clear themselves from the matter. Your accident has nothing to do with me. I'm deeply sorry. Goodbye;
He is a civil servant under a bureaucratic capitalist institution. The staff have a very good attitude and patience, and they even comfort the protagonist from time to time. However, the problem is that they are not helpful in life and death, and their standardized processing procedures and language themselves make people feel hopeless.
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The small coffin still reveals the various aspects of society. Here, the mobile phone does not reflect the gospel that modern technology has brought to society, but it more truly reflects how the various shortcomings of human society have penetrated into every corner.
The reversal at the end of the film is full of black humor. The ending left me feeling speechless, but it also made the protagonist's struggle seem not meaningless. At least, he tried hard and let his family hear the last words.
When the mistake leads to the birth of another victim, the whereabouts of the victim are revealed and sustained. There is always a glimmer of hope. As for the outcome, it depends on the sky and the earth."
