
"But in ancient Greece. It was a practice of philosophers, to keep a human skull on their desk. The idea was this: Only with a constant awareness of our impending death, can we appreciate our lives fully. " This was said in a horror movie I just watched few minutes ago - Catacomb(地下墓穴), where below the city of lights exists a world of darkness.

The movie was about a yong girl, Victoria (Shannyn Sossamon) went to Paris as she was invited by her sister, Carolyn(Pink) . They went to one of the underground rave party. The party was held underground in the city of Paris, where Parisian believes dead bodies were buried and had rested for centuries.
Carolyn's friends were the host of the party and they were actually trying to help Victoria to get across for being fright, cherish her life and get away from drug.
She was told a story by saying that, when the Cult of the Black Virgin began inverting the rites of Catholicism, painting the statue of Mary in black and praying to Satan. When those people who claimed to have given birth to the Antichrist, no sane person took them seriously, but they did. They take a child, the product of incest and rape, raised on raw meat.They never allowed him to see the light of day, taught him that he was a destroyer of men, dressed him in a grusome goat-skull mask. When the child grown up, he became very evil, violent and cruel.
It was believe the boy is still living underneath the city. When Victoria and her sister were lost in the place and could not find the way back to the party, a man with goat-mask was trying to kill them. Carolyn was killed and Victoria believe that he was trying to kill her too.She was afraid. She ran and tried to get away from him. At the end, she thought she has killed him. But when she thought everything is over, her sister suddenly appeared in front of her and told her that it was just a joke by her sister and friends. They were trying to make her realize how she should appreciate her life when she experienced the fear of death. However, when her sister found that the person Victoria has really killed was actually one of their friend... (what happened later, I would say: watch it yourself!) Haha! But the ending of the movie is so unexpected. Just like what Victoria said in the early part, everyone I met were dead in 48 hours. Interested to know what happened?
I could not find the sypnosis of the movie online, hopefully I did not get it wrong here about the movie.
Yes, I do agree that when we are constant awareness of our impending death, we will appreciate our lives fully. But somehow they have forgotten that when a person is struggling from the death, he or she may not be sane because of the fear built in them. Sometimes, they will just do anything to make them survive. Just like those victims in the movie, "Saw", remember?
Do not challenge a human limit when death is playing a role. In that minute, human could just return to be like an animal with no thinking and the only thing remains in their mind is to survive. Nothing will be taking into consideration except fighting for foods or start killing.
Well, it's late now and it's time to go to bed. Hopefully can have a good rest after watching horror movie. Lucky I don't have work tomorrow, if not I will become Panda again! But still have to wake up early to go for facial with my friend. Quickly go to sleep now! Good night and sweet dream! (^_^)