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This is a movie set in the premise that there is no because there is only so. Without explaining why, there is a principle in the future society: being single is guilty! Any loner, whether divorced or widowed, has only two options: one is to enter the hotel for a 45-day matching brainwashing treatment. (During the treatment process, the treatment time can be extended by hunting loner rebels.) If the pairing is successful, you can return to the city to continue your life. If you fail, you will be transformed into some kind of animal you want to be, and will be forever isolated in civilization. outside the world. (The setting of this plot feels a bit like reincarnation in some Eastern cultures. If you complete your cultivation in this life, you can enter the blissful world. If you fail, you will be sent to the next reincarnation to continue to suffer.) The second option for Loners is Do not abide by the rules of this so-called civilization, rise up and join the loner rebels. Their principle is: Long live the single! They show that they are separate from their rulers by being absolutely single and strictly forbidding love. The ruler and the rebel army are completely opposites, and the purpose is to defeat the other party so that the other party can abide by its own rules. The only sad thing is that the rules are also set for the relationship between the sexes, but there is no mention of "love" in either party. The education of rulers is that singles may encounter various dangers and die; the education of rebels is that each individual is an independent existence, and there is no need or need to "dance". Not helping the injured team members and listening to electronic music with headphones and dancing solo is their "independence".
I think the most thoughtful point of the film is that the law of the jungle of survival of the fittest without temperature is applied in the intimate relationship. Under such dystopian social rules, the pursuit of non-differential obedience and conformity is more, so there can only be opposition between rulers and rebels, rather than integration. The director probably wanted to express his dissatisfaction with some of the status quo in reality through two extremes of opposition... The most tender moment in the whole film is when the hero and heroine fall in love with their own headphones and listen to synchronized music and dance together. screen. This is probably the ultimate goal pursued in sexual relationships or intimacy: both independence and integration.
Let's take a look at the portrayal of each character. Under the original social rules of "single guilty", the actor's choice of divorce is destined to be rebellious, or he wants to pursue true love from the heart. But he still compromised with reality during the hotel's brainwashing treatment. And even if he compromised, he still turned on a hard mode, he gave up the nagging woman who pursued him, and found the most difficult cold-blooded killer. In order to find common ground with the short-haired girl, he began to show his cold-blooded side, but he finally broke out after seeing his brother who turned into a dog was tortured to death, until he returned to his true nature after meeting true love in the rebels. Although the director gave an open-ended ending, I think a believer in "intrinsic goodness" like me still believes that the male protagonist will choose true love...
In addition to the main character, there are also a few interesting supporting characters to talk about. One is the cold-blooded loner hunter. Although it is cold-blooded, I prefer to interpret her massacre as an extension of the matchmaking time. She is also looking for a partner who is just as cold-blooded as herself, so she is still testing until the match is successful. male protagonist. She's not looking for a partner for herself, just complete loyalty to the rules. The other is that nagging suicide. She's pathetic, she doesn't have the courage to challenge the rules, she's worried that she can't prolong the time by hunting, so she chooses to kill herself. But she was weak and not so decisive, so she gave up jumping from the fourth floor and chose to jump from the first floor instead. There is no death, only the wailing of pain and the unchangeable fate of being transformed into animals are left in the end. There is also the only minor in the film. After the male two succeeded in a fake match, the hotel assigned them a daughter to play the role, hoping to use the role of the child to consolidate or deepen the relationship of the successful pair, thereby increasing the success rate. When the male protagonist exposed the fraudulent behavior of the male second, the little girl was very excited to pick up the knife and hand it to her mother, asking her to eliminate the "destroyer" of the marriage. At that time, the little girl's eyes showed absolute hatred for the "destroyer" of marriage. It can be seen that even a young age will be deeply brainwashed by those absurd social rules. (I especially like the characters in the movie who have mature children who are completely different from their own age. I always feel that they can amplify some emotions in the adult world. In "The Sixth Sense" and "Interview with the Vampire" There is also.) There
is no conclusion whether the lonely person is shameful or not, but the movie gives us a positive answer: most loners choose to become dogs...
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