The film tells the story of a single sinful world. Singles, whether due to divorce, death of a spouse, or old age, must be sent to a group hotel to begin a 45-day match. During this period, you can use hunting loners to add days to yourself, but if the time of the end comes, you must become the kind of animal you predestined.
At the beginning, it was a cold tone, as the male protagonist was separated because of the difference in wearing glasses habits with his previous spouse, and was sent to a terrible hotel to start. There are no vague options here, from gay and straight choices to shoe sizing, everyone has to dictate a pattern. Plus the uniforms provided by the hotel. The characteristics of each person are attenuated to a minimum. But at the same time, the standard by which people are paired here is the so-called common ground.
The male protagonist's friend, a lame man, the reason his parents were together at the beginning was because they were good at math, and the reason for breaking up was because someone with better math joined. He and his previous spouse both have leg problems, and he originally came to the hotel to find a woman with leg problems. It's a pity that he only saw sprained people, so he could only finally choose to deliberately get himself a nosebleed, and then held hands with another woman with a nosebleed.
The male protagonist was chosen in the hotel, and the other party could ask him to do everything he could, but he could not find the common ground between himself and the other party. The woman finally chose to jump off the building in order not to become an animal. And the girl he wanted to choose, just because he suspected that all men would bald, he insisted on turning into an animal in the end.
In the end, the male protagonist chose to disguise the common ground like a friend. He found a cold-blooded woman and disguised his feelings. But the camouflage was eventually discovered. He could only escape and became a loner.
But the world of the lonely is the same. Not single guilty. If the loners engage in any mutual affection, they will be severely punished.
The male protagonist finally found a similarly short-sighted woman here. The two also fell in love. (He gave up his suspicion of another non-myopic man who might have had feelings for this woman because of this commonality.)
It's a pity that their leader couldn't allow this, and took the heroine for myopia surgery, but the result was that the heroine became blind. The male protagonist begins to find new commonalities every day, from blueberries to German, but in vain.
In the end, he fled with the heroine and had to face the problem of blinding himself and creating common ground. But how will it all end?
In the film, the leader of the loner is a person who does not believe in feelings. She leads her men to test and destroy the paired couples several times. For example, hotel waitresses became their undercover agents because they couldn't bear to live with male waiters. And the two hotel owners, who can be called soulmates, are also in crisis and can shoot each other. On the contrary, it is the male protagonist's friend who pretends to have a nosebleed and can endure this ending in order not to become an animal.
But the leader of the loner, in order to go home to visit his parents, has to choose a man from his subordinates and pretend to be his match in order to conceal his identity. (It's like renting a boyfriend and girlfriend during the New Year's Eve)
In fact, the male lead and the female lead may not be in love, but they are shortsighted. After all, before the male protagonist appeared, the female protagonist also made an appointment for myopia surgery. At that time, she should be yearning for other people who are not myopic. In the end, it doesn't matter whether the operation is blind or no longer myopia. The important thing is that they have no reason to match. That's why the male protagonist has the crazy idea of trying to make himself blind. As for whether to implement it, it doesn't matter.
The film is full of scary little details. For example, when visiting a shopping mall, anyone who is alone will be questioned by the police, and if they are found to be single, they will be sent to a hotel. For example, the owner of the hotel said that many people who were not successfully paired chose to become dogs, making the world full of dogs (single dogs).
The oppression of this world does not lie in the strange little theater of the hotel every day, telling you that it is good to have a talent. It is the ability to choose that is forcibly dominated, no matter what.
Some countries have already started paying taxes on singles. Perhaps the materialization of this story is not far away.
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