The style of the whole movie is gloomy, and there is almost no sunlight. In such a scene, what you see is almost the truth that goes straight to the depths of the soul. The protagonist of the movie, named Glenn, is in a place called a prison pit. The prison pit goes straight up and down, like a patio. There are two people on the first floor. There is a floating platform that transports food from top to bottom along the middle of the patio once a day. During the short stay on the platform, people must eat as soon as possible and cannot keep food, otherwise they will die due to high or low temperature. But what makes people desperate is that the people on the upper floors have the right to eat first, while the people on the lower floors can only eat the rest. If the food on the platform is exhausted, the people on the lower floors will have no food to eat, or they will kill themselves. The inmates eat to save their lives, or they have to die. Because of this terrifying setting, all kinds of tragic events are staged every day at the bottomless bottom. This setting is also very similar to the social class ecology. People living at the top of society unscrupulously enjoy various resources, squandering them according to their own moods, without considering the needs and feelings of people living at the bottom of society. It is a very happy thing for people at the lower level to eat some leftovers, but at the same time, they will not care about the situation of people at the lower level, and they will do their best to divide up the resources they can get. , and those who do not enjoy resources can only slowly die in pity and helplessness.
But there is also a very interesting setting in the prison pit, that is, you can only stay in the first floor for a month. After a month, there will be anesthesia gas, and when you wake up, you will randomly go to other floors, you may go up or down. For example, the first time Glenn woke up, he was on the 48th floor, and he could still eat some leftovers, but the second time he reached the 171st floor, his cellmates were immediately revealed. Bind the Gülen to the bed and think of it as a snail, ready to cut meat to satisfy his hunger when he reaches the limit of his fast on day 8. Fortunately, on the 48th floor, I saw an Asian woman sitting on the platform looking down for her child, and Glenn tried to help her. It was this little bit of kindness in such a special environment that made this woman save him and kill Glenn's cellmate.
Another month passed, and Glenn was lucky enough to reach the 33rd floor and met the staff who interviewed him. Because of cancer, he voluntarily entered the prison pit. This woman wishful thinking hoped that the order of the prison pit could be carried out in a fair distribution method, and the people at the top would try to take care of the people at the bottom, but she ignored the ugliness of human nature. And having cancer may also be a metaphor for the woman's morbid thoughts. In the end, when the woman's dog was killed, she lost her spiritual support. When she was rotated to the 202nd floor, she had no hope at all and committed suicide. Trying to change the existing order with a rebellious attitude, the final result is death and the lights go out.
Glenn was lucky. This time he was on the 6th floor. The inmate was a black guy who believed in God. Full of hope for the future, in such an environment, thinking of escaping the prison pit. It is precisely because of this idea that he was persuaded by Glenn to ride the food platform all the way down to find a way out, and to change the eating order of the upper and lower layers through the first paragraph of violence, so that the people in the lower layers can survive. Hope, and the hope of reaching the bottom and finding out. However, the reality will always give those who try to change a slap in the face. The prison pit is not about 250 floors as they thought, but all the way to the 333rd floor. On the way down, they saw the Asian woman who was looking for the child killed, and they were both seriously injured because of the fight. In fact, coming here, people's heart has been extremely heavy. What is the reality like? Those who pursue dreams, no matter how hard you try, will eventually return to dust. The dream is always a beautiful dream that is out of reach. The reality is the shackles that cannot be avoided on the suit. It is painful, but it cannot break free. People who try to break the order and find a way out always end up getting hurt.
However, there is still hope in this world. On the 333rd floor, the stone platform finally stopped, and on the floor where it was least likely to survive, there was even a little Asian girl who survived. Perhaps, this little girl is the child that Asian women are looking for. Another strange thing is that the Italian cream cake they thought would send a message to the people on level 0 didn't raise or lower the temperature as the stone platform continued down. Do you want to show that the society has reached the bottom, and there is no warmth or warmth?
In the end, Glenn sat on the stone platform with the little girl and descended to the finish line. There are no floors here, only darkness and emptiness. Ge Lan's original cellmate reappeared. It must be an illusion. Ge Lan finally got off the stone platform and walked side by side with the old man into the darkness. The stone platform, with a signal to transmit information, flew to the 0th floor. At this time, the old man seems to have changed back to when he was on the 48th floor. There is no hatred and contradiction between the two, and they get along like friends. The old man has become more wise, as if he has seen through everything. The movie doesn't have an exact ending. Glenn stopped at the end, and whether he survived or not has not been explained, but I don't think he can go back to the past time and life. The little girl flew to the 0th floor and changed the situation of vertical food supply in the prison pit.
The whole film reveals the most fundamental appearance of people under the crisis of survival, selfishness, greed and cruelty. When they were in the upper class, the suffering of the lower class did not make them feel sorry for the unfortunate people who turned to the lower class. Instead, they thought that they had endured hardships, and in the face of an uncertain future, they squandered their rights even more, even if they ate their throats, and wasting food. When they were in the lower classes, starvation made them even more cruel, they would kill their inmates and survive by cannibalism. This is the naked competition ecology. In the vertical prison pit, different people appeared. Those at the top are ugly, greedy and selfish, and those at the bottom are cruel and unscrupulous. People who cannot adapt to the environment are desperate and commit suicide by jumping off the building. Some people have the right to choose, and rely on their only spiritual support to work hard for unrealistic goals without worrying about food and drink. Some people continue to try and struggle with the goal of escape. lost life. But after all, there is still hope. For example, Gu Lan, no matter how the environment changes, and the tortured life is unremarkable, he still has a little kindness in his heart, and that Asian woman knows how to repay her kindness.
The ugliness of human nature is fundamental, the goodwill in the world is small, but it exists after all.
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