In the world constructed by the movie, people have to live in pairs, singles are sent to a hotel to form a couple, winners return to the city, and losers are turned into would-be animals. In the hotel, their daily mission is to hunt the celibate - a rebel group where no one can survive without anyone else. The male protagonist is like a "normal person" who has broken into this world. He enters the hotel and learns from everyone trying to find a partner, but he pays the price of his brother's life. He escapes from the hotel and tries to join the single person organization, but happens to be Love at first sight there; escape from the woods, he wants to go back to the city, he is exhausted and wants to live in peace with someone, a blind woman who has been described as withered, the price to pay is his eyes, hesitant On the occasion, the movie ends here, and the last scene falls on the heroine, who is not blind.
In the world of lovers, people must have similarities. People have to live together, travel together, form a family, and report and resolve conflicts that arise. In a world of celibacy, intimacy is strictly forbidden, people dance alone, forage alone, and even dig their own graves.
Saying that the male lead is "normal" doesn't mean that the other characters are "abnormal", neurotic, cold-blooded, or perverted. For example, the leader of the celibate organization obviously likes the male protagonist. For example, the family formed by nosebleeds is disappointed and fearful when they know the truth. Another example is that the little girl is angry when her ordinary life is broken. There are fanatics in the two camps. Believers, there are also more people who reluctantly accept the rules and survive. They know their reluctance and unhappiness, they are duplicitous, and they become fans of the rules. The male protagonist is like a stumbled intruder. When he sees his brother's body, he chooses to run away between enduring the day and night confrontation with the hated person and fleeing; when he sees the girl he loves, he is enduring the never-ending underground love and love. Escape chose to escape. In the end, he had nowhere to go, and the lover who was subtly influenced by the singles gave him another multiple-choice question, a pair of eyes and me, he took her out, the long time and the indifference of the heroine consumed his enthusiasm After that, he hesitated, before the knife went into his eyes.
No choice is made at the end, and we don't know whether he will blind himself and compromise with the city, return to the woods with the rebels, or run away again. Or, become a lobster and be freed.
The rules set at the beginning of the movie seem to define people. If you don't, if you don't, then you can't be a human being. At the end of the movie, it tells us that being any kind of animal is more like a human being than living in this world. people.
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