lobster with loser, lost, blue blood endowed with aristocratic temperament, and has the ability to reproduce throughout his life.
This is a dystopian movie that is boring to the end, but the vast majority of the characters that appear here are not the little fresh meat in "The Hunger Games" or "Maze Runner" who are still being shaped, but a group of people who have long been brainwashed by the system. machine. But in such a movie with strong western culture, it reflects on a global topic, marriage system and celibacy.
In this extreme world created in the film, the two are opposites and not unified.
A civilized marriage system needs to be matched, and the social structure requires that adults must be in pairs, because with a partner, you will not be easily infarcted when you eat, and your sexual desire can be released in line with law and morality... In short, the combination of marriage will bring many benefits. Even if the relationship between husband and wife is strained, at least one child can act as a palliative (this is the biggest victim of an unhappy family).
Savage celibacy requires uniqueness, self-reliance, and mastery of survival skills on your own, abilities and traits that help you become an individual. Having individual consciousness and independent personality also ensures that each other will not violate each other's bottom line, everyone can control their own time, and can engage in and enjoy their hobbies without any scruples. On the contrary, any unnecessary affection and help to others will lead to dependence or laziness.
In a well-married urban civilized society, most single people even consider themselves "single dogs", but some special people still choose animals such as lobsters, parrots, and wolves to flaunt their uniqueness. The celibate who escape from the "temporary urban singles" in the wild mountains and forests are completely wild animals, and the celibate who are the prey will also rebel and slaughter the urban people to seek the only space for survival.
But the reality is that people of the same kind also have differences, and there is also a partial intersection between two people who do not match at all. Control in any form leads to repression, and in such a confrontation, having a marriage and family does not equal harmony, and even celibacy does not mean freedom.
If only the hypocritical mechanical marriage is the object of criticism and satire, then the film will only be reduced to mediocrity. In the film, the female leader among the celibates is also denied. When a woman tries to justify her feminism by not being close to men, she still feels inferior to being in this patriarchal society, a point I quote from Horney that I have repeated over and over again. In the same way, in order to prove her independence and freedom, she completely denied the good side of marriage, but she was unwilling to honestly face the huge stimulation brought by "showing love" to her.
Other important supporting roles, from the
lost person in the hotel,
this biscuit-loving lady does not even seek a mate for physical or spiritual pleasure, but seeks to mate for survival time, essentially she has no relationship with animals. Knowing the difference, the soul of a human has long since been lost, but it is still the instinct of fear of death that drives her to struggle in pain. For them, the meaning of finding a man is that she can only survive with a man, and she cannot live without a man. We can compare them to those who are eager to get married but do not understand the essence of marriage.
Timid and speech-impaired masturbators are
in hotels, and men are tied with one hand behind their backs so they can't comfortably take off their pants and jerk off (perhaps implying that it's hard to do anything with one hand). Such people have limited self-control and need to live in groups. However, due to their natural defects, they are still left behind, so they expect their friends to become the same animals as him, waiting for the collective "reincarnation". This kind of setting is very similar to the vagabonds at the bottom of the society. No one will care about their misfortunes and life or death. They spend their whole lives in meaningless lives, rarely feel happy, and face only the control and oppression of those in power.
Huntress
This is not an emotional hunter, but an indifferent anti-social killer. She will vent her dissatisfaction within the limits allowed by legal rules, whether it is a celibate outside the wilderness, or a poor single in a hotel, The constant killing made her wipe out all her emotions, so she found a territory of her own between the civilized society that needed "pretend love" and the playground of wild survival challenges. And this kind of person who brings a sense of danger to everyone will also not find a normal partner, and even if there is, they will not cooperate but kill each other in the end.
A self-sufficient burial
An independent girl with smooth blonde hair rejected her unkempt middle-aged courtship (male protagonist) on the day before the execution, and responded with a loud slap in the face of her nosebleed girlfriend's betrayal. Her hair is an image of her full self-esteem. She needs a person who is as arrogant and assertive as her to "accompany her". From this, it is clear that she does not reject marriage. What she does not want is not a life partner who is a husband, but only Unwilling to be forced to match and be wronged, she died for her belief in love.
The lame man and the nosebleed woman
are a couple who are trying to integrate into society and compromise with the current system. They reluctantly find or mistakenly believe that they have found the other half of a happy marriage. This is very similar to the people in our country in the 1960s and 1970s. Combined, I think that after living together for a long time, or having a child, it will eventually become a family, even if it is found that there are many inappropriate, but the concept of "family" has been deeply rooted in the bone, can not accept the embarrassment and hostility of being watched indifferently, Reluctantly maintain "happiness". They will stick to each other for a lifetime, but it is not a partnership worth advocating, but they are really one of the most common types of marriages, because they are easy to live in the system.
The hotel administrator and his wife
symbolize the marriage and family of the middle class in society. The husband and wife have a glamorous career and stable income. , who seem to trust each other and love each other are more selfish than anyone else. This kind of marriage based on relationship interests ignores the most important element in marriage - that is love.
The undercover waiter
is a non-mainstream hidden in the mainstream society. As a celibate, she has admiration for the hero who has the same independent consciousness. The huntress of the blood of the activists, also covered its retreat, and played the most important role in the final "revolution". However, a revolutionary fighter who made such a great contribution has become a victim of the female commander punishing the defector (the heroine), probably because he has the same feelings as the heroine in his bones, but the plot set the heroine can't die. This also fully shows that if the revolutionary pawn does not really understand the truth of the revolution, then his efforts are still meaningless.
After talking about a lot of supporting roles, let's finally take a look at the mental changes of the male and female protagonists.
The narration in the film is all from the heroine, and it is conveyed from the perspective of a person who listens to the story and passes it on. I can't tell what this setting means, but I feel that the heroine should still be a little emotional about the hero. The story, compared to shooting this indifferent story directly, it shows a slightly helpless warmth.
The male protagonist lives in loneliness abandoned by his wife at the beginning to seek common characteristics with others when the deadline is approaching. This is a process from being abandoned to disdain, from disdain to fear, and from fear to escape. Down to the level of secular emotion, it is a process of experiencing a failed marriage, to rejecting contact with the opposite sex, and then to the panic of loneliness and dying of old age. It's just that in the movie, that secular moral standard is elevated to a more terrible political system, people who don't get married will be judged, and marriage must have the rigid indicator of "matching". At least in all these elements about marriage, what is really missing is such a simple "love".
"Love" is simple and complex. For example, the word "love" has a broad meaning, and the word love has different understandings for everyone. The male protagonist who fled to the single jungle thought he could get rid of death under the marriage system, but unknowingly fell into another terrifying world. The single jungle rejects marriage, even close emotional relationships. The irony is that celibacy is someone who has no or no need for love? Instead, they may be more idealistic about the quality of love.
However, after all, idealized love has to return to reality, so there is an interaction between the hero and heroine. They begin to understand each other and find out whether they have something in common with each other. It’s like a couple who fell in love at first sight. During the process of communication, they shared entertainment and life together, found out their common living habits and rhythms, and explored common hobbies. They thought that this kind of company would definitely last for a long time. In fact, sometimes love is so simple that it only needs the state of mind and feeling when they are with each other. Its generation is very simple, but it is quite difficult to maintain it, and the power of love cannot necessarily be permanent. In the film, in order to maintain their relationship, the male and female protagonists return to society and start a new institutional life, and are guided by the morbid forced subconsciousness of "must find common ground". This itself is a collective view of marriage under the system, not their personal The awakening, even if they found each other because of their awakening, but in the end their understanding of love and freedom was short-sighted, and they were even persecuted to blindness in the end (of course, the ending left to the male protagonist is open-ended).
Let's talk about some of the artistic techniques in the movie, first of all, the hotel includes managers, waiters, stiff and mechanical facial expressions and performance activities, which is an absurd and indifferent dark comedy. The slow-motion massacres and escapes in the middle and back sections bring people not panic but numbness. The line dialogue between men and women is full of purpose of "seeking common ground" rather than gossip. Everything shows the depression under the extreme system and environment, without any beautiful vitality.
The intro was done with a set of long shots from the front passenger seat. There was no superfluous cumbersomeness, no tension, and straightforwardness. I couldn’t interpret the connotation, but looking back, it set a cold and indifferent tone for the whole film. As a human being, killing and deprivation carry no emotion, and as an animal, the donkey walks without any sign.
The violent scenes in the whole film are not bloody, they are more like cold violence. You can also feel the expression of emotions by direct venting of anger, but in the indifference, you can't read any feeling, can't figure out any reason, and think of real life. In a relationship, this kind of violence is often what hurts the other person in the relationship the most.
This inelastic state is what the film has always revealed, everything is under restraint, control, kidnapping, sustenance, and coercion. We say that morality cannot be kidnapped, and the same is true of the relationship between the sexes. Marriage should be an additive to a good relationship between the sexes. If forced into a form, it will become a shackle. The willingness to sacrifice part of one's private life for marriage is generally voluntary. What we are most afraid of hearing the language of the other half is "You can't do anything if you love me." A person with a healthy personality and character knows how to think and judge. If he really can't do it, he should make changes. It should also be ourselves, whether I compromise for him or choose to leave him. What we need is to be responsible for our own decisions, instead of pinning the hope of happiness on others and the system.
Our society has changed from a single system to multiple forms, and our philosophical outlook has changed from unicity to dualism to multi-dimensionality. Human social activities are becoming more and more abundant just like the species life in this world. Treating every attitude towards life is like Treat every kind of life the same. As far as marriage and celibacy are concerned, it does not exist, but since we humans have a family unit, marriage has become a symbol of family establishment. However, under the trend of open individuation that Western culture gradually leads, the consciousness of the individual is gradually being enlarged. Although we cannot say that this independence is necessarily a good thing (it also causes too much self-inflation). China, an ancient eastern country, is also facing new changes in social structure. In fact, the West also attaches great importance to the meaning of family, but can a person not be called home? Society should be inclusive for everyone, a single person, since he or she is not a potential robber, rape, murderer, he or she is not gay, they are free to live their own equally gorgeous private life, why do we To think of them as lone ghosts in society?
In the same way, if you are constantly being talked about because you are still single at this moment, and because of deliberate confrontation, you have closed your personal space and truly become a thorny celibacy, and it is not necessary. Still borrowing Honey’s idea, in fact, after a little bit of psychoanalysis, you can understand that confrontation with disgust is not really enjoying celibacy, and a free person who really enjoys celibacy is not happy when he encounters a good marriage. They will miss out on great opportunities because they enjoy it better than anyone else.
Back to the point at the beginning of the article. Similar people will also have differences, different people also have similarities, be friendly to each other and treat each other modestly, this rich and colorful world will produce flowing beauty, we enjoy tranquility, but do not enjoy lifeless fixation, to be fixed. , is the moment when we are happy and happy. Let these moments appear from time to time, companionship and solitude are essential, and the taste of life will not be boring.
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