Human beings are naturally adventurous. I’m sorry to say that I can’t agree with that. The reason is that just a few days ago a sunny noon, Sir downstairs to get take-out, obviously sunny, breezy, Sir can not help but shiver a shiver, a goose bumps. Even back to the office, both legs are still weak. Everything, only because a few minutes ago Sir “experienced” a –
A small-budget thriller, hard to become this year’s not small dark horse. sir after-effects to the present is not all gone. It’s not that I’m timid, there are many people with more obvious symptoms than Sir. “The company’s main business is to provide a wide range of products and services to its customers.
Even the poster can not look closely. At first glance, the yellow ground, blue sky, good scenery ah. A closer look. The great depth and sense of space, a person standing on top of a high tower. Look again, there is a person’s body hanging in mid-air, the ladder behind her, falling in seven pieces. Fortunately, she caught with one hand. Otherwise …… goose bumps have been half up? That’s where to where.
And surprised and cool, this piece is the absolute welfare of people afraid of heights. There is no process, the beginning with a variety of shots to suggest that the danger is there, but you do not know when it happens. This is a more horrifying setting than the complete unknown. It’s like waiting for death, far more painful and torturous than death itself.
A brief introduction to the story.
The two heroines, Becky and Hunter, are both unarmed climbing enthusiasts. Becky had a boyfriend, Dan, who was in love with her, but fell to his death during one of the three climbs. Becky, who watched her boyfriend fall to his death, is devastated until a full year later, Hunter comes to her and encourages her to face her fears. The two girls then decided to take on the challenge of the nation’s fourth tallest building, a long-abandoned TV tower B76. 610 meters high, taller than the two Eiffel Towers. The movie hangs on your heart throughout – before climbing the tower. Aging tower, deserted remote places, gnawed on live animals. Vultures, dogs …… are in crisis everywhere, and everywhere is a metaphor for danger. When climbing the tower, loose ladders and screws, wobbling around the tower. As well as the operation after climbing the tower, the same is also nerve-wracking. Becky’s friend, Hunter, had to take a 360-degree selfie after reaching the top. One-handed grasp along, the whole person hanging in the 600-meter height. Then, Becky also came to the same operation.
After the duo successfully climbed the tower, the old ladder suddenly all loose. 610 meters high, how to go down? Can not get down and how to save themselves? The real thrill begins. This is perhaps the real “fear” of people afraid of heights – not fear of heights, but fear of being high, losing control of the surrounding. How to survive? No food can work, no water can not. The bag with supplies fell on the tower’s beacon, but in the end I got it back. On the afternoon of the first day, someone showed up in this unpopulated area with a dog. Hope was coming? The two men shouted excitedly, but the bottom simply could not hear. And the dog, although the smell of people, the dog’s owner also finally saw the shoes thrown down from a high place. He, nevertheless, was gone. The first time hope failed. The most certain one, looking at the drone to arrive near the hotel was found, a truck came over …… ashes. After repeated disappointments of hope, is the double test of will and body.
610 meters high tower, the only consolation is the sidekick. After the ladder fell, at first, the two people were still able to burst into laughter after the horror. On the first day, the two men had fun in their misery. Shoot video, chat, find a way to make themselves comfortable and sit down. It was also this time that the two opened up to talk to each other. A fact that Becky had kept hidden for a long time surfaced: her long-time love Dan, in fact, cheated on her best friend Hunter. In the dark and in the light, both people seem to have a disagreement. Two close relationships but the heart of the people, can still maintain trust and help each other? I have to say, the film played the thriller to the heart – the betrayal of suspicion in a desperate situation is the finale variable. The death in the second half of the film, the murderer actually pointed to who? The film’s second half, who is the killer? Sir does not reveal.
Sir just more inclined, “falling” apparently do not want to become “for a man heroine mutual suspicion of the black hand” of the cheap film. In addition to the second female betrayal of the female lead. The movie has at least two more layers of more ironic “betrayal”. It wants to contain more thoughts and questions about people and the present. When Becky and Hunter set out, Hunter was nearly hit by a truck while making a short video on her phone – she is a video artist with 60,000 followers on social networks. Every time she updates her hunting content, it draws enthusiastic likes and followers. Including when she first entered the TV tower, she filmed a vulture gnawing on a wild dog and uploaded the footage, which soon got 300, 350 likes. But the first thing Hunter thought of when stuck at the top of the tower was that she had 60,000 followers on social networks and updated the network first. Becky jokingly teased: I think it’s time to accept the fact that it’s your 60,000 followers who don’t care about you.
In the age of traffic, the hunt is the most conspicuous front. It attracts clicks and attention. But it also covers up the real danger behind the front. No one knows how much danger lies behind Hunter’s content. But being rescued is not completely hopeless. On the first night, they spotted a car under the tower and two people walking around. An excited Becky and Hunter shouted, firing the beacon in their hands, finally getting attention. Noticing the signal the two men immediately came in their direction. It looked like they were about to be saved. But the two guys, looking at Becky’s little car, turned around and drove away without looking back.
More horrible than desperate times, is the selfish profit-seeking opportunists. More fierce than the beast, is the unpredictable fickle human nature. It is from here that Becky’s self-help has undergone a marked transformation. No longer hope in the outside world, but by themselves. And in a desperate situation, you can save you, only you.
Remember the vulture that gnawed on the living creature before? The bird. In the film appeared four or five times. In addition to eating the corpse above, it appears when Becky is climbing with her boyfriend; it hovers around the night Becky is trapped at the top of the tower; Becky has a nightmare and it rings around in her dreams. The bird foreshadows danger, associates with death, and is the symbolism of the unknowable. It is compared to the deadly silence of the tower. The pain and past that looms overhead, deep and difficult to see straight. Becky’s fall begins with the bird. Becky’s boyfriend, Dan, fell to his death while rock climbing. Becky was devastated, devastated, and no longer participated in this type of challenge. Even though her father has repeatedly given her guidance and good advice, she still can’t get out of her mind. Becky’s new life began with the bird.
In the previous conversation between Becky and Hunter, Hunter always mentions the survival of the strongest. But at that time, Becky was far from seriously appreciating this phrase. Because she had Hunter by her side, a strong man of extreme challenges. To what extent was Becky vulnerable? Climbing the tower, and even trapped at the top of the tower for help, are Hunter in control of the entire situation.
Even, this vulnerability later appeared a clever reversal: she climbed to the top of the tower, according to Hunter’s approach to charge the drone, follow Hunter’s instructions to fly the drone, but was hit by a car, ask Hunter about “American professional wrestling”, Hunter knows nothing but can answer. Why? Yes, Hunter has long been dead, everything is just a figment of Becky’s imagination.
When Becky came to her senses, her will was shaken and nearly broken. But there was no retreat. The idea of survival of the strongest, rekindled. This is Hunter taught her all the ways, the only unpracticed, but also the last way. You need energy, you must eat something, the strongest to survive, she did not hesitate to use herself as bait to attract the vultures. And then drink blood and bite flesh to replenish energy and create hope of survival. Note the look in her eyes, has long been not that timid and timid Becky. She completely killed the “bird” that had devoured her will. Out of the imagination that refused to accept reality. Accepting the death of his partner, accepting himself alone, accepting the survival of the strong. At the same time, accept the death of Dan. The bird, throughout the film, is the beginning of the pain, but also announced the end of the pain. It is the writing of Becky’s rebirth, but also the signal of the annihilation of the heart. As at the beginning, Hunter goes to invite Becky to climb the Tower: Listen, the only thing that could drive me more crazy right now than Dan’s urn covered with dust is that my best friend is stuck here with him
Becky got out of the vicious circle, the way Hunter expected her to. She’s not trapped in the past. And will live in the future.
Overall, “Falling Down” has few plot highlights. The best thing is the atmosphere. This is different from the conventional thriller genre, Sir would like to call it – “extreme thriller”. The new “blue ocean” in the thriller world.
610 meters high tower. Unlike other thrillers deliberately set a fright, this type often comes with scary properties. Because the challenge of the limit itself, is full of surprises. Have to admit that the audience “know that there is a tiger on the mountain, but to the tiger mountain” behind the behavior. It is some kind of human factor to actively masochism to get a sense of pleasure in the work, including dishes and also love to see the fear of heights Sir.
And the main characters of the above-mentioned films, although they eventually got rid of the danger and successfully returned, still paid a huge sacrifice and cost. But really, as the commentary says, “if you don’t do it, you won’t die”? Sir thinks not necessarily. The dismemberment and the huge impact suffered by the body and mind, is certainly the extreme sports give people a sense of excitement and achievement at the same time, to recover the cost. But if you only stop at this step. Sir feels that we may have really underestimated the reason and significance of extreme sports, and the reason why so many people ignore the danger and go back to the challenge. Yuzuru Hanyu, the biggest pursuit of his athletic career is to complete the 4A (Axel’s four-week jump). He even trained with the intention of “dying”. Every time my body fell heavily on the ice, it was like a death jump, I was training with the psychological preparation that I might have a concussion and die. Some people don’t understand, but Yuzuru Hanyu’s own answer is: you only live once, it’s the path you choose. Oscar best documentary feature film “unarmed rock climbing”, recorded the main man Alex Honnold to reach the “unarmed climbing chief rock” goal, pay the price of all kinds of.
Before and after more than 100 attempts, no rope protection, all by the physical struggle. Finally, on June 3, 2017, he successfully climbed the largest granite boulder in the United States, becoming the first person in the history of unarmed climbing on Chieftain’s Rock. What generations of rock climbers had never achieved, he did. Mention these people who do extreme sports. Always accompanied by a voice, a comment: too wild, too arrogant, too “death”. Sir thinks that this is the humility to life, to nature, to the world. Why are they doing it? Walking in the clouds” prototype, acrobat Philip Purdy in the 110-story high altitude attempt to walk the wire. He said, “If I die, how magnificent it will be, to die for practicing my passion.”
It is because of the knowledge that there is bound to be a “mountain” that cannot be climbed in front of you. Humans never give up looking up.
