After the dreamy choice, the male protagonist starts life in the hotel, the same shoes, shirts, pants, and he will choose a partner from a fixed group of people. People who can become partners must have one thing in common, or common hobbies, or common occupations, or common physical defects. If they can be successfully paired within 45 days, the living environment will be greatly improved. Hotels will also open some of the original restricted areas, but this is not the end, they are still under supervision.
So under the pressure of survival, some people feel uneasy, just like the middle-aged women who came from the same group as the male protagonist, she began to chat up any possible person frequently and tirelessly, and finally jumped off the building in extreme panic, but she jumped off the building. Not relieved, she moaned for a long time before dying.
Some people achieve their goals by hiding themselves, like Ben intentionally hurting his nose to cater to a woman with intermittent nosebleeds, creating a so-called common ground that doesn't exist. In his opinion, instead of turning into a dog or running around in the forest, it is better to bleed every now and then.
There are also people who are firm and unyielding in their hearts, just like a girl with beautiful blonde hair who refused the pursuit of the male protagonist, watched a movie alone on the last day, and calmly turned into a mane with pale golden mane pony.
The male protagonist finally chose an indifferent woman, a woman who lived by hunting singles fleeing in the forest, and caught a deadline that could add a day. In order to get close to this woman, the male protagonist had to be ruthless. He pretended to despise life and death, and even kicked the little girl he adopted. It was easier for him to pretend to be ruthless than to pretend to be affectionate.
Facts have proved that it is not easy to pretend to be ruthless. The male protagonist keeps suppressing himself until the woman kills his dog—that is, his brother, his only relative. Forest.
The forest is a world for single people, but the rules here are not inferior to hotels. One of them is to maintain absolute singleness, and no contact between men and women is allowed, otherwise they will be tortured. They can only dance alone, even wearing headphones, during the festivities.
However, fate played tricks, but the male protagonist found someone who had something in common with him at this time, and even had feelings for her. The common denominator was short-sightedness. The male protagonist wore frame glasses, while the woman wore contact lenses. Because they were afraid of being discovered, they invented With a set of communication gestures, you can understand each other's intentions with one look and one movement.
There is nothing more difficult to overcome in life than the three words "can't ask for", which is also a disguise of oneself. I succeeded, but I failed. Maybe this is a question of life for the male protagonist, so he sneaked into Ben's yacht in the single person's counter-offensive plan, and debunked the fact that Ben pretended to have a nosebleed in front of women and children. The woman gave him A slap in the face. It turns out that no one does not know, including children, everyone is trying their best to maintain the appearance of harmony.
The family under this combination is like a broken porcelain cup in the hand.
The male protagonist's love affair was finally discovered by the leader. Perhaps it is extremely difficult to hide love and dislike. During an outing, the leader designed to blind the woman's eyes, but for the male protagonist, it is even more frightening that he will never be found again. a common denominator with each other.
I can't help thinking that in such a story, the common ground between the two people is myopia. Why? What are the feelings for? Is it easier to meet, it is easier to separate, and love is shallower, and there are fewer reasons? What role do we play in love, myopia? Or blind?
Or is the commonality really that important? Do you have to find someone who is exactly like you, or do you want to be with someone who is completely different from you? The shared world is important, but sometimes the moving thing about falling in love is his uncertainty. It is precisely this uncertainty that makes you anxious when you get it, and misses when you can't catch it.
At the end of the story, the male protagonist took revenge on the single leader, fled the forest with the woman, and came to the city. The woman gave him a spoon, and he resolutely decided to find their last common ground - also becoming a blind man. The male protagonist hesitated for a long time in front of the mirror, but finally did not start, and the story ended like this.
Love itself does not allow a trace of hesitation, hesitation is not love, it will not return to the past.
The male protagonist is unstoppable. His pursuit of common ground is based on insecurity, but it is not strong enough to self-mutilate a limb. Maybe one person in a relationship is blind, but if both are blind, I'm afraid it won't work.
If he can't be blind, he is still psychologically single.
The point that initially attracted me to this story was the setting, and then it was also the setting that confused me.
At first, he satirized people who were addicted to feelings, and later satirized single people. Even if they escaped, it would be difficult to keep them safe. Marriage, family, and social concepts are all ironic. Perhaps because the sense of security comes from oneself, only the mind is free. You are a truly free person.
Otherwise, like the movie poster, even having a partner is just embracing an empty shadow.
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