THIS is honestly the best way to understand Bryan’s entire story.
People keep asking why the protagonist doesn’t get the usual Resident Evil protagonist treatment why he gets infected so early, why there’s no miraculous cure at the end, why his story ends with him becoming the very thing he spent the movie running from.
But what if that’s literally the point?
Bryan doesn’t feel written like Leon or Claire. He feels like the guy whose story you would discover halfway through playing a Resident Evil game. You find a damaged recording in some abandoned room, press play, and suddenly you’re listening to an ordinary person explain how everything went wrong.
You never meet them.
You never save them.
You only get their final moments.
And Bryan’s entire story fits that structure perfectly. He gets infected early, keeps moving because he has something he needs to deliver, records a message for the woman he loves, and spends the rest of the movie desperately trying to hold onto himself while his body is slowly becoming something else.
The insane part is that we’re basically watching the document instead of finding it.
That voice recording feels especially important because it gives Bryan a life outside the outbreak. He wasn’t just “the courier.” He had a girlfriend. He was going to become a father. He had plans. He had a life waiting for him outside Raccoon City.
And then Raccoon City turned him into another piece of evidence.
That’s why I don’t think Bryan surviving would necessarily make his story better. His tragedy is that he was never supposed to become the hero who defeats the outbreak.
He was the story you find after the hero has already moved on.
Leon gets to leave Raccoon City and become a legend.
Bryan becomes the recording Leon finds.
And honestly, that might be one of the most Resident Evil things this movie could’ve done.
It might seem weird that Bryan doesn’t get cured after being infected when he’s the protagonist of Zach Cregger’s Resident Evil movie, and it’s because he’s an NPC character.
It’s obvious that Bryan the courier is a character we would read about in a document while playing Resident Evil. Everything about him lines up with a tragic final note: he gets infected early, even leaves a voice recording for his girlfriend. This tape is something Leon or Claire would come across while running around Raccoon City, and this movie is the story being that document. He might have brought Umbrella scientists the ingredients for a cure, but there was never a chance of him getting it.
The movie doesn’t exist to tell the story of one of Resident Evil’s classic characters, it exists to tell the story of how a monster is created.
#ResidentEvil
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#bloodymary AU residentevil , mpreg
Simon and Grace went through these crazy things while going to the hospital. Simon protected Grace with all his life before she missed each other. And Grace gave birth to their child. Brian was born at that time.
#phm#ironlung#residentevil
Y eventualmente caí al Bloodymary y pues aún me ven aquí con esas obsesiones y con ningún tipo de disgusto, jamás me aleje del fandomy aun conservo amigas hasta hoy (debo admitir que prefiero conocerlas personalmente que solo quedarme de manera virtual sino siento que no es real)
Creo que descubri como tener una hiperfijacion hacia algún fandom, ser feliz con eso y NO morir en el intento... Básicamente es no estar tanto en las redes, a mi me funciona, tengo esta hiperfijacion hacia Hannibal, Marvel, YOI, Arcane y ahora último PHM +++