Mist, Haze, Fog...Watch out for Humans Better.

Rating: 5/10 (10 December 2007)

What to say about "The Mist"? It pretty much overwhelmed me. Yes, for its truly oppressive finale and it's tension moments. With disaster movies like these the script is divided somewhat into: 1) Society is shown functioning 2) Abnormal events presented 3) Society analyzes the situation 4) Society panics 5) Chaos.
Well, I repeat the word "Society" because of one thing. At one point, after the mysterious mist proclaims the entire city, some people are cornered into a supermarket. And there Frank Darabont plays an intense, insightful drawing of the human group, that it's powerfully engaging and smartly written. The voices of reason, common thinking and Christianity are promptly adjusted to the characters, and as tension and problems start accumulating so does the strain between the survivors. Fear not only the monsters, but the enemy within your lair...
I didn't like of the film the painfully hostile image it gives to the Christian people. It's leader, or "vessel" in the movie is a crazy woman, fanatic that seduces the survivor gathering into her apocalyptic, biblical disoriented theories. Mass follows this leader that gives all final power to God without logical retribution, but pure devotion. The mass is powerful, and the few left on reasoning and cold logic. The mass convicted, tries to hunt the left ones and blame them for the disaster. Sounds familiar? Yes, Nazism. Maybe Im rushing. I am not Christian, but I entirely respect the religion and didn't want to be raised and convinced of a premature hate to the religion because of one annoying character and a good scripting.
Stephen King wrote the book in which this movie is based. His knowledge on terror and human fear is so vast, and his control over those reading and viewing his books/films make the experience reliable. The ending, well, it's devastating. I liked the movie not only buying the intense tension, but for it's crude report on human mind, chaos and society's guidance.