Leaving aside the small logical issues, here are a few questions that made a deep impression after watching the movie:
1. Why does the old man want the septuplets to live like that instead of freezing?
If you, like ordinary parents, hope to be able to hide from the sky and let the children and their families live a normal life together, that's all. Is it really better for the old man to let the septuplets live so hard than to freeze them? After all, the frozen setting at that time was very attractive in my opinion. At that time, it was frozen and thawed when the population was reduced and the technology was more developed. If the septuplets were frozen at birth, there would be no so-called family bond. After all, the old man should not know the secret of freezing is burning to death. So for this question, I assume that the old man, as a person with high IQ, can clearly recognize the situation and the reluctance of his family.
2. Why did the eldest sister betray her sister?
If it was just from the point of pregnancy, it was difficult for me to accept it at first, but then I thought about it, maybe on the one hand, I want to be with my lover forever, on the other hand, I may need seven people to be the same, either all of them are pregnant or not at all. Well, there is at least one child who can be an only child. Although I think the main reason is that the eldest sister may feel that as the first child, this may be her life. Of course, this is only a forced explanation from logic, and it may actually be to restore the character design of next Monday.
3. There is another question. The male ticket has been nagging since watching the movie: Why did the old woman burn those children to death?
This question is not logically inexplicable, but it may be mainly for the purpose of the film.
First of all, from a logical point of view, has the freezing technology really been developed? uncertain. Secondly, does freezing a person until thawed really consume less resources than a person living in this world? maybe. Once again, the frozen people will not die, but will only increase. With the setting of a high probability of having multiple births, will they really have a chance to thaw in the future? The probability is very small.
Then we jump to the gist of the movie. When I read the movie reviews, I saw that many people said that they knew that it was a dystopian movie, and they knew that it must be burned to death. However, I really had no idea, so I was completely tempted by the setting of freezing at the beginning, and I didn’t think the protagonists were like this. What a good thing to live by others. So, if it's just frozen, maybe the so-called front and back in the movie will be reversed. The old man's family has become a setting to snatch other people's resources for personal love, while the old woman is a person who is willing to bear the bad criticism and try his best to save mankind for the sake of the overall situation.
Then, setting the result of burning to death is just adding some weights to the scales that measure the positive and negative sides of these characters. From the perspective of the old woman's balance, it was originally just an obvious choice in the social public consciousness of human private affairs and human survival, but now human rights and moral bottom lines have been added to human private affairs. Such a balance becomes difficult to measure. The film touches the audience's feelings from the perspective of multiple births. The deaths of sisters arouse empathy and anger, and the rebellion on the last Monday makes people feel the sadness of this system. It is easy to get human rights and morality higher than that. Humans continue this result.
But from the perspective of the old woman, is she really wrong? It's hard to say, out of her thirst for political power, she'll watch the multiples play and convince herself that she won't feel pain, and her last words are really thought-provoking, she's dead, the decree Cancelled, then what will human beings do in the future? The camera cuts to the crowd below, there is no camera, and every shot on the road in the film is full of people. If the old woman in the movie is already a person who seeks power with this policy, then she is indeed hateful enough, then if we jump out of the movie when we really encounter such a choice, how should we choose?
To me, what the film wants to say is that even in order to survive, the moral bottom line should not be given up, but if such a choice is really encountered, how will human beings choose, how difficult it is to judge human nature, I hope there will not be a day when a choice is required.
(This is the first time to write a movie review. Maybe I didn’t pay attention to some details when I watched it. If there are any mistakes, please help to point out~)
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