The Mist is a metaphor

Rating: 10/10 (26 July 2008)

When I see the Mist coming over the city, in the movie, I cannot help thinking about the mist that surrounded people close to WTC when it collapsed in that awful day in November 2001. From that mist too monsters, desperation and hopelessness have spread all over America and, fed by lies and fear, they haunted and preyed upon humans all over the globe, luring them into accepting any promise of salvation that could give them hope of safety. Since then how many innocent lives have been sacrificed to appease the Moloch our leaders have made us believe in? how much have we surrendered of our freedom and our rights into the hands of others we thought might give us some solace and guidance in dark times? and how terribly we have been deceived! The Mist has not been lifted yet, and it does not hover over only one country, over America only, it enshrouds us all and it bids us enter it and see for ourselves and take our chances rather than believing in the messiah next door. When all lights go out the only hope we have is to try to illuminate the path with the light of our reason and our humanity, which pays no regard to borders or countries.