(3.3)#CIMS201# 4.5绝佳剧本是那种天才般的好点子用一个无主的战壕和一颗跳雷就完成了小到人际交往、大到战争与人类社会的多重隐喻和反讽前半段是舞台剧式的精彩调度以辛辣的讽刺语调展示一种个人/政体层面的权力交换、武力威慑和妥协政治;而后半段UN、媒体的介入更是让隐喻朝着无数方向发展(各种细节设计满分)语言(交流)的无能、(媒体)叙事的欺骗…无数元素宿命一般地裹挟着迷失在权力中心的主角直至惊愕的悲剧结尾:最可怕的是集体的沉默(“a trench is a trench; they’re all the same”)、甚至一种无意识的防御机制下对眼前苦难的遗忘与忽视而最后一个长镜则是要逼迫观者看向、真正看向这片被抛弃的土地
4.5; Never before have I seen a zombie film with so many layers. The symbolic meaning of the infection is announced from the very beginning through footage and words to be 'rage', and the violence induced by it henceforward becomes the centre of the film's criticism. But what adds to the film's complexity is the fact that the protagonist is empowered only by rage to fight for those he loves and defeat the purposeless soldiers, who by contrast fight for nothing but themselves. The film thus indicates a place for violence in humanity and hints that violence is not inherently the abject. It also draws a comparison between two archetypes of fatherhood: permissive & autocratic