The meaning of the movie "Exodus" (2021)

 The film "Exodus" (2021) is fiction, with elements of drama. The plot is banal. A catastrophe has occurred in the world. The ecology is disturbed. Of course, crime began, the fall of moral foundations and everything else connected with it. On the other hand, the basis of human existence is not violated. There is electricity, the houses are warm. People have at least some job. So you can still live somehow. But in one of the few surviving cities, a totalitarian system was established.

No one can just leave the city. There are observers for everyone. Everything is visible. There is no privacy secret. The people are subordinate to the city government. And then one person comes across a cassette, from which he learns that there is a better life. You just need to find some kind of door that leads to a better world. But how do you get there? The door is in a certain place. Now, the main thing is to find her. The world of the protagonist is changing. Now his existence is subordinated to the search for the door.

To understand the movie Exodus (2021), you need to remember the classics. This is The Door in the Wall by H. Wells. It is dedicated to the hero's search for a door to a parallel world where he was happy. At the age of five, while playing, he suddenly saw a white wall and a green door in it. Having opened it, the boy found himself in the Garden of Eden. Beautiful animals wandered around, birds sang, green trees grew. And then the boy saw a woman of dazzling beauty.

She spoke affectionately to the boy and showed him the book. The boy opened it. There were drawings inside. These were pictures of his life. They walked until the moment when the boy opened the door. The boy wanted the woman to open the sheets that contain the events after the guy entered the door. But the woman flatly refused to open these pages. The boy began to persuade her to turn the pages of the book. And then he saw himself on a familiar street. He was alone and very much saddened by something. Suddenly the boy found himself on the street of the city all alone.

What happened ? It turned out that there was no garden with a door. Years passed and the boy grew up. He played various games with children. At the age of 10 -12 he played a game where he had to get to school from an unfamiliar place. Again he saw a white wall and a green door. But he had to go to school and he did not enter it. At the age of 17, he, already a young man, entered the university. And passing in the cab again I saw a white wall and a green door. He could have stopped the cab and got out, but he didn’t, because he could be late for the exams. It would be the collapse of his life and career. A careerist in his forties, he walked past a white wall with a green door. But he did not open it again. And then more years passed.

And now he, a middle-aged man with a high position in society, is found in a deep ditch, dead. It turns out that the workers surrounded the construction site with a wall, but left a door in it for themselves. An elderly man opened it and fell into a trench. Of course, from such a height, flying down, he died. And the writer H.G. Wells asks the reader a question about whether this person got what he wanted. And what was revealed to him?

The end of the story is quite awful. Is it possible that a boy at the age of 5 ended up in the afterlife? Who was the woman who met him there? Maybe it was Destiny. Some science fiction writers portray her as a woman with a book of Fate. There will be drawings depicting a person's life until his death or meeting with her. But why did an innocent boy at the age of five meet Destiny? After all, he had a whole life ahead of him.

This time there is no answer to the question, as well as to why he dreamed of that door. Maybe it was because he was not happy with his life. Everything went on with him. Career and everything else. He tried not to disappoint the family. But this is the real slave of society, trying to be like everyone else. To be a cog in the system, or else suddenly your career will be stopped.

The hero of the movie "Exodus" is much more constrained by the framework of society than a man of the 19th century. After all, we are talking about the world of the future, with perfect total control. His search for a door to a better world is far more dramatic than that of a 19th century man. The totalitarian world suppresses all will and consciousness of the individual. Perhaps, only by opening the door to another reality, you can find peace and happiness. But is there this door. Is it worth giving up what this world gives before looking for a better one? Maybe there are other ways to improve your life than looking for something ghostly? That's what Exodus is about.