The+Mist

The film “The Mist” directed by Frank Darabount and also based on the novel by Stephen King has more behind it then just a mist with blood-thirsty creatures over taking a town. The movie is a very significant movie that not only entertains its audience but does have literary art behind it. The Mist reveals many details that pertain to our present day lives such as our government, and the struggle for all of us to work together as a whole.

In a nutshell the film “The Mist” is about a town being under attack by some mist with creatures lurking in it that are harmful. Suddenly townspeople start hurrying into a grocery store in fear of their own lives. They become trapped inside and in order to help fix the situation they all must work together. In America we all know that nobody ever wants to work together and accomplish the problem. Everyone is selfish in America and is only worried about them rather than the problem itself. This is symbolized in the film when a couple of the people are in the backroom of the store they let just a teenage boy go out into the mist to see what is going on. While he is doing that he gets taken away by the mist. This in return shows how the adults that put him up to it were so selfish to let just a teenage boy with a life ahead of him to do their dirty work. Also in the store there are many groups of people that seclude themselves from the rest of the people such as the military.

In the film, the military is shown throughout the whole film beginning to end. When they show the military they are usually in their own conversations and it seemed to me that they were very secret as to what they were discussing. This symbolized how we as Americans don’t always know what is going on with the government and just rely on them to be right. Well in fact we should always be wondering about the government for those reasons, so we don’t fall apart as a whole. Another symbol such as the time when the people from the grocery store were going to risk their lives to go over to the pharmacy, then encounter a military officer slowly dyeing and while he does he says something very important that I caught while watching the film. The officer said he was sorry which clearly indicates that the military had something to do with the tragedy. By the end of the story when he gets out of his car after killing the one he loved, all he sees is the military rescuing people and saved many lives. This represents that the military had a project that turned out to be a disaster. That is why in life we shouldn’t always rely on the government and or military being the explanation to our problems, because they government just always isn’t right, and we should be able to trust ourselves and live life the way we want to live it.

Another symbol I recognized in the movie was the two separate groups in the grocery store against each other. This shows the audience how two groups are against one another in bad situation. Why go against each other when this is the time you need to work together to accomplish what everyone wants resolved? This is like society today everybody wants to be on different sides because of what someone persuades them to do whether they have a clue on what is going on or not. This indicates how many American make stupid decision just to fit in with everyone else while at the same times its hurting to society overall. Another symbol in the movie, the most obvious is the actual mist. It represents the invasion of the backward terrorist emerging from their domain to strike America. The mist also represents the chaos in America during the morning of 9/11, when the people are in fear of their own lives by the mist attacking them.

In conclusion the film “The Mist” is a very spectacular movie with many significant details behind it other than a life threatening mist. Its details reveal symbols that relate to our society. I also concluded that there is more behind a movie than just the actual film in front of you, there is facts that deal with real life situations occurring right now, and that is what impressed me the most with this film.