End of Movie - Killing Family

Rating: 7/10 (29 August 2008)

One commenter here wrote: "The Mist" is about the consequences of losing hope.
I didn't agree with all of his other remarks, but this one was dead-on.
At the point where the protagonist kills his family and friends (to save them from possibly suffering later by being eaten by monsters) there is no indication of clear and present danger, but there *is* a sense of impending despair.
In a way, this "loss of hope" concept is related to forums which require some sort of minimum comment length - to me, this necessity only encourages contributors (who make up a huge portion of IMDb's traffic) to become more verbose when brevity is all that is needed.
Hopefully, forums where individuals express opinions (thereby adding to the content that other individuals will read, thus enhancing the attractiveness of the site in question) won't be auto-monitored for post length, keywords, etc. without valid reason.