Saturday, November 30, 2013

Mist (2007)



 At the beginning of this movie, people face new, strange creatures. They beat people to death and no one knows about their information. People are gathered in a big discount store to avoid them. They are afraid of strange creatures. They keep hunting people, and people don’t know how to defend themselves from those disgusting. The movie is fast-moving. In ten minutes, people hide to avoid the kind of monsters. People just wait for government’s help, and they fight for trivial reasons in the store.

 Critics called this movie as a B movie. Personally, I can’t understand their estimation. We can guess they just considered limited space -actually, during the most of running time, we just see people in the store-, or they felt that the plot is similar to those of other movies. They could think so, but if they do so, they missed some important parts of this movie. Then what are the parts?

   First, it is similar to others, but it also has a little difference from them. In most of Horror and Thriller movie, main characters are strong, calm, and they never give up hopes. It seems that this hero-David- is also strong and calm at first, but getting the end of the movie, this movie shows his another features. He was brave and active at first, but he couldn’t keep his precious someone in the end. From this plot, we can find it repetitive hardships could reduce people’s judgment.

   Second, the movie describes well mob psychology when in danger. In the store, they have all things to survive, but they continue division. Someone wants to go outside, and other one tried to propagate her pseudo-religion. Normal people also become mad. They start to believe the false religion, and try to kill each other as a sacrifice for monsters. We find that we can easily be cruel and violent when we meet unknown risk.

   Finally, the government comes to the village to help them. However, it is so late. People are already crazy, and they’ve fallen into despair. This situation is similar to real-world situation. Usually, our government very belatedly responds to many things.

In conclusion, this movie gives us several lessons, so I give it four points of five points.

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