I saw this film at a small movie viewing event. When I saw the movie introduction, I briefly understood the outline of the story, because it was a black and white silent film, so I was afraid that I could not understand it.
The biggest feeling after watching the movie is a kind of contradiction and a lot of confusion. The whole movie finally shows a story about a tower of Babel, a story that cannot be understood between the brain and the skillful hand and needs a coordinator .But what I saw in the whole movie is not like this. It always feels like a glorified rhetoric, Fredson is not a brain, and the workers are not skilled.
At the beginning of the film, the workers' group is a group of people who live underground and are dominated by high-speed machines. They are a group of people who have no freedom and have a hard life. But in the second half of the film, it is these poor people who are incited to show Blind, foolish destruction, while resisting, also destroying the world in which they live. At this time, they became the party with power (though this power was not used in a good direction) and Fredson became Become a passive, the city he built is destroyed, it is not a good thing for everyone, everyone becomes a victim. At the end of the movie, the connection between the brain and the hand appears, will it be coordinated in the future? Qiaoshou understands what the brain wants to do, so he is willing to work for the brain? What about oppression and inequality itself? When watching the movie, it gave me a strong elitism. But it seems that this elite has no assessment and selection, you are born into the working class, or the ruling class.
The biggest doubts about the movie are mainly the above. Of course, there are also very clever things in the movie. The depiction of the entire scene of the city, even today, seems to be exquisite and imaginative. The metaphor of religion is relatively strong, but here I also There is a question, Maria said, the coordinator will appear. The workers asked, when will the coordinator appear? The coordinator appears at the end of the film, then in life, where is the coordinator for everyone? We go to believe in the doomsday , to believe that the coordinator will appear, to endure all the suffering in this day-to-day anticipation until we are gone. We, our next generation are like this, but this day will never come, is it just a This is a whole self-deception. If we accept all these difficulties and realize that there is no coordinator, it is such despair, but our strong will still supports us to go on, this is true courage.
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