The Mist 4K 2007

You don't like fog? I do. Especially summer ones, warm, damp, with dewdrops hanging gracefully on the branches....

The movie starts out nice and foggy. The landscape is gothic, the setting is pleasant, even the falling trees are not frightening. In the artist's studio there is a poster from Carpenter's classic movie 'The Thing' (look closely - in the corner on the left). In short, the ordinary life of ordinary Americans.

But already at the tenth minute of the movie an old man appears, yelling: "Something from the fog dragged John Lee away!". And that's it - from that moment you sit in a terrible tension during the whole session. And it's not the monsters lurking in the fog that scare you, but human actions. I especially feel sorry for the military guy. Quite in the style of my favorite "Green Mile".

The role of Marsha Gay Harden succeeded to the fullest. Like in "Mysterious River", the whole movie makes the viewer want to kick this lady's ass.

I don't know why some viewers giggled at the final scene and then left the theater with smiles on their lips. I left in a daze and thought for a long time that my habit of not bringing good ideas to the end can cost a lot. I remembered the woman in the truck (pay attention to this moment) - a cameo, but how much silent reproach is in it....

I read King's book, and perhaps it's a rare case when the ending of the movie is more interesting than the source material. It doesn't even matter whether you like King and Darabont or not. What's more important is whether you are able to fully immerse yourself in the story offered by the director, or whether you prefer to watch something simpler, with a lot of corpses and monsters.

And I will still walk in the fogs, imagining myself a hedgehog from the cartoon. I should be afraid of myself and people, not of otherworldly danger.