Spanish movies just don't disappoint, especially suspense-oriented. This time, I also played with a high concept, talking about a vertical prison. The upper tier is eaten and the lower tier is eaten, and the more you go to the back, the less you can eat. It is like a vertical idea of "The Panic Fang", and "Snowpiercer" emphasizes the stratum horizontally. Quite the same thing.
Although there are suspense and various restrictive scenes such as eating meat, the overall logic is not as rigorous as a sci-fi film, nor is it a story like a battle royale. It is still a work like a political metaphor, which is shaped by success. The image of the protagonist, the revolutionary, is completed, and you can understand the meaning.
For a commercial film like this, of course, I would prefer that you don’t have to work so hard, so the protagonist brought a copy of “Don Quixote” as soon as he came up, and the image should not be too clear.
The protagonist has been taught and hurt by the old man from the initial childhood. After eating human flesh, he began to despair and suffer. However, as he continued to encounter people, he continued to find a way to break this predicament, which required the unity of people. It is necessary to suppress the upper class so that the lower class has food to eat. This process is as difficult as political reform.
Of course, the metaphor is also extraordinarily clear. There is no reconciliation between classes. The resources of the upper class are wasted to the limit, and it is unexpected that the lower class cannot eat human hair and can only survive cruelly.
Compared with "The Invisible Man", after all, to be a fable, the whole thought process of the protagonist is extraordinarily clear, from immaturity to awakening. There is an interpretation at the end that this "revolution" should be hopeless, and maybe the little girl represents hope again. It's a lot like "Pi," where you see the world you believe in.
Do you feel hopeful or hopeless? I think so...
I found another short film "The Next Floor" similar to this idea. The short film is relatively simple and very good, and "The Hunger Platform" belongs to more than 100 minutes and provides a good solution. The Spanish suspense film is a cow.
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