Many years ago, the unknown boy said to Henry Fonda: Find a lot of people, and then die. This is cool; but just make a small modification: go to an era with a lot of people, and then die. This will become a bit disgusting. Please find the reason for the disgust in [Green Food]. Every dystopian movie
of you who can’t afford Chinese cabbage
outlines a fucking world, the following is the world of [Green Food]:
overpopulation, basically, if you are lucky enough to share a house with others, it’s best to choose The door opens inward, otherwise you may not be able to get out, because on the stairs in front of your house, every step is full of people sleeping, even the handrails are full of people, and this is simply a waste of space, they You should learn to sleep standing up;
resources are scarce, and you come home from work every day (if you can still find a job). The happiest thing is to take a shower with the sweat left on the towel the day before, and usually you can Fortunately, take a hot shower and prepare enough "bath water" for tomorrow. Because the weather is too hot, you can't even blow on the electric fan, let alone the air conditioner, unless you want to try using a bicycle-style artificial generator to drive it. That stuff.
But there are finally two troublesome things in this world that you don't need to worry about. The first is the problem of cooking and cleaning the dishes, and the second is the problem of picking up girls. First of all, the problem of eating is solved by "green food" companies, which distribute free biscuits every day. Except for the rich, this is the only source of food for the people of the world. In order to increase the fun of eating, the company also takes great pains to provide you with a variety of flavors and colors: black biscuits, yellow biscuits, green biscuits... The problem of picking up girls will be solved by the rich. By the side of the rich, when you are here, there is basically nothing left. Don’t think there is any unfairness in this way. Existence is the reason. Just imagine that you have to prepare at least 20 sweet words about overpopulation and excess sweat to increase your personal charm and interest. Biscuit jokes, what a brainstorming thing.
However, the male protagonist in [Green Food], an ordinary New York City policeman, has no way to live peacefully on these two things. When investigating a murder case, he found that he was in the resources for everyone The "green food" company that provides convenience in a depleted life actually uses waste oil in the production process. Wait, this is a story set in 2022, so here we have to make a small correction: this company actually uses dead people as food ingredients. If this company wants to advertise, the selfish one can say something like this: Come and eat the "green food" made with your dead neighbor, or you will be eaten by your neighbor. The selfless dedication type is: every time you eat a green biscuit, you are dedicating two or two thighs to the global food industry. Mankind has finally completed this purification: from eating nature industrially, eating artificial nature industrially, and eating human being industrialized. In other words, the process of human social development is a process of continuously lowering the bottom line.
Of course, just like no hot pot restaurant will launch "ditch oil pot bottom", "cannibalism" is still regarded as highly confidential by the green food company and the government at the time. They claim that these biscuits are made of sea water and soybeans. Therefore, the society As a whole, the bottom line has indeed been lowered, but as individuals, they are eating people every day without knowing it. Therefore, it cannot be said arbitrarily that everyone’s bottom line has also been lowered. The only certainty is that people are more and more. The easier it is to be deceived, and this is what matters. The green food company allows everyone to eat people, not because it convinces everyone that it is a matter of course, but because it uses a flexibly philosophy: "Different essences may have the same form." The food processing industry allows The world we live in has such characteristics: whether it is delicious fresh shrimp, corn, flour, or disgusting mold, feces, or melamine, they can all appear in the same shape. This is also the premise on which the main sci-fi settings of [Green Food] can be established. Human beings have become accustomed to a homogeneous life, and society has embarked on a path of formalization. The scammers only need to grasp two points: first, the raw materials on the product packaging should never be clearly written, and the only things that need to be clear on the packaging are things that have nothing to do with the product; second, don’t just deceive one or a few people, but Deceive the whole society. For scammers, the "benefits" of this is that when the New York policeman played by Charles Heston shouted "The green cookie is a person", the crowd onlookers would only say: Look, another conspiracy theorist .
You who can't meet girls
In addition to the cannibal gimmick, another interesting setting in [Green Food] is the "Property Girl", which is actually the current senior call girl. However, in the future society in the movie, there are only two women: senior application Call girls and non-senior call girls. This is definitely a discriminatory setting. At least it shows that this fictitious future is absolutely patriarchal. Speaking of which, Harry Harrison's original book "Make a Place!" Make some room! "("Make Room! Make Room!") is necessary to debut. This book is the basis of the movie, but in a sense, [Green Food] is completely against the original, the highlight of the movie is "cannibalism." And "Property Girl", in fact, have little to do with the original work. In addition, the original work is not only non-male, but has a little feminist meaning, especially on the issue of sex. It is said that Harrison was not only deprived of the right to interfere in script creation, but even when talking about the right to adapt the novel, he did not know that the buyer was MGM. This is normal now. If you are determined to upset the original author, you can simply lock him out of the door from the beginning.
The role of Charles Heston, in the investigation of the murder of the rich man, incidentally wiped out the important property of the rich man: apples, green onions, wine, soap. When he first came to the scene of the crime, he was the "property girl" of the rich man. His enthusiasm was not obvious. Later, he came here again and wanted to sleep with the girl. He said to her, "Go to bed." He seemed worried that this was not cold enough. Heston first visited the bedroom and touched the house. The luxury goods in it, drinking and drinking, talking about the death of a rich man, enjoying the furry sofa, in short, it is like using a large number of parallel sentences to erase all the emotional meaning of going to bed, specifically emphasizing sex. In the future, it is also a kind of luxury. Heston is here to enjoy luxury. Later, Heston planned to leave. The girl wanted him to stay for a while. She felt scared when she said she was alone. Heston replied, "I can't help you, miss." The English name is Furniture. In the end, he had to wait for the girl to have hot water here to take a bath before Heston agreed to stay, "God, I haven't had a hot bath in a long time." Of course, let go of the man who is more and more obvious in comparison with the original. Right tendency, this matter can be understood from another angle, that is, the movie uses a metaphor: how terrible is this world of material shortage? The attractiveness of bath water to men has already surpassed that of beautiful women who succumb to their arms.
However, [Green Food] is a typical Hollywood movie after all. Its hero will never be an absolutely rational character of Gao Daquan. Moreover, heroes can have various weaknesses, but they must never disrespect women, so the movie arranges again. A meeting between Heston and the fortune girl. This meeting was because Heston was worried about her. It was a sublimation of the relationship between the two parties. Although, in this movie, the hero’s love issue played a part in the movie. , Is lower than the average level, but this time it can’t be compared with the average level. The world setting of [Green Food] has eliminated the traditional relationship between men and women. Therefore, Heston’s worries about property girls are nothing in his society. Different from a major conceptual breakthrough.
In our culture, men and women can love each other freely, which is the advancement of free will. On the other hand, in the world of [green food], people's free will is partially deprived. Although the movie does not explain why women in that world have such a status, it should be related to overpopulation and shortage of materials. It can be assumed that overpopulation may affect people's concept of fertility to some extent, and thus affect women. The status of motherhood in society; in addition, the survival problem plagues human beings. In traditional concepts, men are considered more realistic and women are considered to like to pursue some romantic sentiments. Then in such a dystopian world, men are undoubtedly become Master of social life. Therefore, we can finally come to this conclusion: shortage of materials will affect people's free will. This is not a new point of view, nor at the time, nor is it something in science fiction alone. Hitler, for example, proved it in reality.
You who want to be fresh but can't
Of course, whether cannibalism or beauties, it is Hollywood’s means to increase the movie’s viewing points. The theme of [Green Food] is to miss the good old days and call on everyone to do a good job of environmental protection. Don’t wait until things are irreversible, you can only choose Before accepting euthanasia, look at nature in the video, just like the old roommate of the male protagonist in the film, surrounded by images of flowers, blue sky, and ocean. It just so happens that there is a Rain Mood website recently, which provides the sound of rain for everyone to listen to, which is very creative. Just think about it the other way around. Now when we push open the windows in the city, all we hear is the roar of cars, watching the acid rain outside the window, and the more real nature. Instead, we have to listen through digital technology, and some even cost a lot of money. You can only hear it for a dollar, which is no different from eating your own meat and paying for it. It is said that all the ambitious and fantastic ideas in science fiction have slowly been realized in reality. In fact, the sad ideas in science fiction now seem to be realized more thoroughly and overwhelmingly.
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