This is a dystopian movie. The male protagonist comes to a vertical prison with a total of 333 floors. There is food on the platform. It will be passed from the 0th floor to the bottom every day. It is first come, first served, and those who have enough food can survive. Every month, the order of the floors will be disrupted. As long as you are alive, you may become an upper-class person and get food first. On the contrary, you may become a lower-class person, and there will be no leftovers left, but you can only mutilate each other or yourself. The male protagonist came here voluntarily to quit smoking, went through different floors, and finally died in prison. There was an experiment in the middle, leaving the information of Italian milk jelly to the people on the 0th floor. After suffering, persuasion and violence, the male protagonist sacrificed and the frozen milk also reached the 0th floor. The information was received, but the management was concerned about why there was a hair in frozen milk, not why there was frozen milk left, and did not pay any attention to the protests against the Hunger Games in prison.
The following perspectives may have been said by predecessors. For me, they are all the extremes of what they see, and they are suspected of picking up people's teeth. I still insist on writing them. For me, they are all new.
First, there is the focus on the Hunger Platform. What is the mechanism? There will be the most abundant food every day. The original intention of the manager can be seen from the mouth of a woman with 25 years of management experience. As long as the food is distributed on demand, the food can reach the bottom and everyone can survive. In fact, the food on the platform every day is the privilege of the people on the upper floors. They can eat what they want, and eat as much as they want. People on the lower floors can only eat the rest of the first floor. It's like a pyramid, the lower the level, the less food left, or even no food left. The people at the bottom, either killing each other or looking for short-sightedness, are the losers of the Hunger Games. Why are you out? Because they are assigned to less than ideal floors, the most ideal of course are floors with smaller numbers, which means more privileges and priorities. Who assigns floors? Managers of vertical management centers. On what basis? I don't know, according to the video, it's a completely random result.
Ironically, the detainees call this a prison, and the managers become the vertical management center. Most people come here because of crime, and only a very small number of people come here voluntarily. In fact, there are only two, one is the male lead, quite idealistic, like Don Quixote riding a thin horse and holding a spear, who wants to quit smoking; the other is a staff member who has served for 25 years. Here is a test of the value of your own work. Others are forced to come here.
What's even more ironic is that, as a prison management staff, I have worked for 25 years, and I don't know how many floors there are in the prison. At first, I told the male protagonist that it was 200 floors. When the male protagonist escorted the information to the bottom, I could see that there were as many as 333 floors. The number of floors is secret, and most people can't grasp it, even if you have a faithful belief.
In the rules, everyone who enters the prison can bring one item or pet, regardless of the type. There are those with knives, ropes, dogs, books, katana swords, and even those with inflatable swimming pools. The difference between people is really big.
At the end of each month, a certificate will be issued to the male protagonist. Therefore, the male protagonist thinks that this is a place for experience. After getting enough certificates, he will leave, and he will quit smoking. It is perfect. Obviously, no one else got the certificate, which is a lie.
The food on the platform can be enjoyed within the specified time, and the only rule is that it cannot be kept. It's a bit of communism, the eradication of private property. The food is kept, and the whole room is either hot or cold until you drop the food and put it back on the platform.
The types of food on the platform, and the production process, are no less than three Michelin stars. The first is the menu, which will be customized according to everyone's preferences, and will also take into account the taboos, which should take into account the dietary preferences of the most people. The male protagonist likes to eat Burgundy snails. When the male protagonist was moved to the 6th floor and the food was still abundant, he saw the snails. The ingredients are also very fresh, and the abundance of food in the kitchen is completely unimaginable that the lower class will starve to death. The chefs on the 0th floor have the ultimate pursuit of food cooking, professional team work, and strict control by the Administration, which is enough to ensure that the food produced is delicious.
There are two people on each floor. No matter which floor you are on, there will be an upper floor and a lower floor, but the white old man told the male protagonist that there are three types of people here, upper class people, lower class people, and falling people. I think everyone is lonely. The combination of two people solves the problem of loneliness, and the other is that there is no food to eat with companions. Lu Xun said in the diary of a madman that when he opened the history book, he saw the word cannibalism from the gaps in the words. Here too.
There is no basis for the flow of personnel between the upper and lower levels. It is relatively easy to imagine that the upper-class people and the lower-class people are the reflection of our real society, and there are great differences here. After a month, everyone will be rearranged, completely random. The people who were good on the floor the previous month may have a good meal. If they are beaten to the lower floor this month, they may starve to death or be eaten by their companions; last month People enslaved by starvation, dying, or surviving on raw meat may be three Michelin stars every day this month. Opportunities are equally distributed, and as long as they survive, everyone has the potential to become an upper-level person on the food chain. In the real class, factors such as property, education, work, etc. need to be considered. It is difficult to achieve a leap in class. The basis for determining class is reincarnation. The Hunger Platform has eliminated the class and returned to the most simple rules. The food chain decides everything.
Jailbreaks and jailbreaks do not exist. Germany even has laws to protect prisoners who escape prisons, and believes that escape is a normal human demand. Here, there is no way to escape, there are no windows, the height of six meters, the only channel is the platform channel for transporting food, its function is for the transportation of food, there are occasional hitchhikers, or people who jump from here people.
The rules are over, it's time to talk about the characters.
male lead. How addicted is a middle-aged man who wants to quit smoking? Before entering the prison, in a closed environment, in front of the lady, she was told that she could not smoke, and she still had to light one, and take a sip. In this sense, the male protagonist has not only succeeded in quitting smoking, but also will not relapse, because if he goes in, he does not come out.
He was the first to come in with a book. The things that other people bring are either for self-defense survival or to escape. He likes to eat snails, and is also regarded as a snail by the old man. Bai Wuyi is a scholar. The male protagonist brings his ideals and establishes a friendship with the old man through reading.
The change of the male protagonist is huge, there are four times before and after. For the first time, he refused to bow his head to eat leftovers. Every time the old man is very natural, he knelt in front of the platform and devoured it. On the higher floors, the old man even felt proud and grateful. The male protagonist knelt down to eat, succumbed to hunger, no longer thought that the food was leftovers by others, and adapted to accept the life of the prison. Starting to look like an old man.
The second transition was to descend to a relatively low floor, with no food at all, and was tied to the bed by Wu Hua Da. The male protagonist became a snail, and this time he was eaten. A blessing in disguise was rescued by an insane woman, who killed the old man with the old man's knife. If killing a roommate is revenge, the male protagonist is still normal. What's even more challenging is that eating the meat of the old roommate's roommate is dripping with blood and difficult to swallow. The scene was once very bloody. A true warrior, dare to face the dripping blood and face the bleak life. With the help of the mad woman, he swallowed the flesh of his companions, and this month, he survived. What followed was the condemnation from the conscience, no matter how hateful the old man was, he was just trying to survive, gouging out a few pieces of his flesh, and even avoiding his genitals, allowing the male protagonist to live. The male protagonist killed him after thinking about it, even eating meat indiscriminately, even more so than the old man, not only cold-blooded, but even more cold-blooded. The old man has become his nightmare, you have become me, in fact, you are more than me. This transformation is hunger that beats the will and breaks the spirit.
The third change is to be a roommate with a working woman in the administration. Was assigned to a good floor this time, and when the platform food arrived, it was mostly intact. Under the strategy of quota per person, the male protagonist began to think about the mechanism of the platform. The gentle advice given by the working woman day after day in the management bureau could not convince the people on the floor below at all, and the violent sanctions of the male protagonist had an effect on the contrary.
The fourth shift is to sue the entire platform mechanism, like the Authority, together with the black brothers. They left the Italian jelly, and used persuasion, violence, etc., to escort the jelly to the bottom, and also told the reality of a total of 333 layers. The male protagonist paid the price with his life, and the Administration also received the milk jelly. As a result, a group of chefs were scolded, and their performance may have been deducted.
Let's talk about other people. The old man said first, in accordance with the order of appearance. People in prison tend to advertise their innocence, such as the Shawshank redemption, I prefer to believe that the old man is kind. In the outside world, it is not easy for him to live. TV shopping can deceive his trust. He bought a sharpening stone and a quick knife successively. He is not a rich man, but looks more like a proletarian. Teach the male protagonist the rules of survival. When he was on the lower floor, because of his old love, he was hungry for seven days before touching the male protagonist without hurting his life. This is the reason why I believe that he is kind. Of course, you can also say that the old man killed people on the lower floors before, and starved for seven days to make the male protagonist clean up. Either way, but in the face of the cruelty of survival, I tend to believe that he is kind, not to mention that he is a vulnerable group. With the last month of his imprisonment left, he could regain his freedom, and the success was close to failure.
Crazy Asian girl. Her story is described as an insane mother who cannot find her son. Strangely, in such a prison, based on normal understanding, there should be many people who are insane. In the film, there is only this woman who is mentally ill, and this disorder is also covered up as the pain of losing a child. It can be known from the mouth of the working woman of the Administration that there are no children under the age of 16 here. In a confinement space, one's desires are amplified, and I presume rape, leading to insanity. In the face of survival, such a tragedy has also been weakened a lot.
Authority working woman. Terminal cancer patients, at the end of their lives, want to experience the work environment they created, and they are the only people who come to prison voluntarily. Beyond life and death, based on a more ideal food distribution concept, what kind of thinking has been shaped by 25 years of work philosophy? Thinking about the working mechanism of the entire platform, she is the first person in prison who thinks of other people, knows that other people are starving to death, and has an overall solution. She inspired the male protagonist and had a higher level of thinking. She, who worked in the system for 25 years, also died in the system. She is a kind of person who devoted herself to the revolution.
Black strong brothers. In such a prison society, the black brothers can still see the shadow of the law of survival of the weak. He has experienced the bottom layer and the middle layer, and this time he reached the sixth floor, which is the closest place for him to realize his dream of escape. The rope he carried was as thick as him. Although he had been to the bottom floor, he was still in good spirits and had a strong and powerful appearance. Don't think about it, he also had roommates on the bottom floor. He has faith, and he speaks lies, just to get out. Black brothers have endless energy. Escorting the milk jelly down to the bottom, if it weren't for the loss to the soldier with the samurai sword, the male protagonist probably wouldn't die.
Let's talk about the rhythm and style of the whole movie. The movie is very simple, the scene is single, the narrative is absurd, the scene is dark and bloody, and there is a horror scene at one time. This is enough to disgust a lot of people.
There are too many metaphors, the atmosphere of suffocation is too strong, and death is often accompanied, resulting in an extremely heavy theme, which is enough to screen out many audiences who are indifferent to it. This movie is destined to become a niche movie with dystopian themes. Dystopian themes have always been niche themes, right?
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