I'm watching this movie right now and I just had to hit pause right after that scene with all those half dead people trapped in the cave, their looks, the contorted screams you can hear while they flee, everything about that scene is nightmarish. It *beep* me up so bad, I feel sick to my stomach, anyone else had that feeling ? Great movie so far. Also that kid is smart, he figured it out right away with his father was too busy exploring.
shareWhen I first saw the film in the cinema, I'd already read the book, so I knew what was coming. Actually, I thought that was one scene that might not have made it into the film.
shareAbsolutely horrified me. I read the book first and the scene in the book gave me the same feeling. The movie did a great job of recreating the scene in the book. I couldn't get it out of my mind for a long time. Scarier that a "fictional monster type" movie....because, it could happen in real life.
shareI am not sure how it's disturbing. I am eating pizza and watching it as we speak. People now a days are so soft. If you are hungry, you eat. If I were starving, I would eat people.
PS don't eat anything with fish sauce in it.
Maybe you're a sociopath.
shareMaybe he's just a survivalist.
Not saying that I condone cannibalism or anything, but a lot of the stuff in this movie felt a bit too mushy for the harsh context of the world. "Kill or be killed" might be an optimal strategy in fact.
There's a difference between survivalist and murderer.
Humanity did not survive by "Kill or be killed." It survived through working together. The opposite of kill or be killed.
Seize the moment, 'cause tomorrow you might be dead.
Humanity never faced a global cataclysm which would make all the essentials severely limited either. So, while for the most part the real-world civilizations did progress through cooperation, the world of this film doesn't necessarily have to follow these steps.
Also, as far as I can remember, the ancient societies had no issue with decimating and obliterating each other. The whole ethnoses had been destroyed in the past, which was giving their victors an economical/military boost to survive themselves. It's not a very familiar concept stateside, but you might be surprised how typical that was in the history of the modern Eurasia.
So I wouldn't be so one-sided saying that "kill or be killed" is a strategy devoid of viability.
Or maybe he's just another internet troll who's just writing that to evoke your reactions, cause guess what; that's the only human contact he's reduced his social life into (in short, sociopath).
Just putting it out there.
I knew it was coming as I also read the book, but it still horrified the hell out of me. If I were to visualize what true Hell and quite possibly the worst damn way to die would be, it would be that. Trapped in the dark with a bunch of crying strangers, probably lost your mind at that point, slowly being eaten alive by your fellow man, or eating yourself to stay alive? Yeeeeeeeeeah... I'd rather get hit by a freight train. Only fate that's a close second would be the corpse-like dude in the movie Se7en.
shareI think you nailed it. And add to the horror... you're in pitch dark all the time. No place for your mind to escape to. Just raw, unending horror.
shareI saw this movie with my brother in the theaters and he told me it was the worst movie he eve saw in his entire life. I kept trying to get him to see the artistic and storytelling metrics and he did not want to hear. It was too upsetting. I could not argue that point, but I tried to see past it.
shareThe scene disturbed me too, but I couldn't stop thinking of the logistics of it all. It seemed like such a bad idea to keep so many live humans down there. If you can't feed them, they starve, get sick, die and rot. Those with missing limbs can also become infected with gangrene. Since they were not tied up, the basement people could also have started eating each other to survive, or kill each others as a big "fuck you" to their captors (that's what I would have done).
Without electricity to freeze it, there's basically no way they could preserve the "meat" unless they had the means to make cans or jerky on a massive scale