shrinking life shrinking life

Kristin 2022-04-21 09:02:20

The irreversible surgery allows you to shrink and live a free life. The original wealth of 150,000 US dollars will be 15 million US dollars after shrinking. This is a shortcut to solve all problems.

There is an inexorable contradiction between the increasing population and the limited resources of the earth. And downsizing brings a solution to this problem.

Because the male protagonist has nothing to worry about, coupled with the bank's refusal to apply for a loan, he and his wife, who are a little embarrassed in life, decide to undergo reduction surgery. But on the way to the operation, the male protagonist's wife withdrew halfway. Apart from the fear of shaving her hair and eyebrows, his wife still couldn't pass her own level, abandoned her husband cruelly, and separated her love very realistically. The hero is heartbroken.

The male protagonist who became smaller by himself started his life, and the 1,100-square-meter big house also entered the elevator room due to divorce and division of property. The reduced life is very fantastic and wonderful, except that there are no birds and insects, it is basically the same as reality, but it is precisely this that makes the male protagonist realize that this is not a real life, full of illusory flavor.

In the upstairs neighbor's endless party, the male protagonist met the female protagonist who came to clean. The female protagonist was the only one who survived the accident and lost her leg. But she was full of energy, helping the old man on the street, helping the wife who was penniless due to the unexpected death of her husband in surgery, until she died. Because the male protagonist is a doctor, there is an intertwining of fate.

The male protagonist and his neighbors went to the origin tribe. The group of people who became smaller first followed the group to see the sun, butterflies, and leaves outside the leisurely mirror. They were infected in this origin tribe, thinking that all these were God arranged that mankind is about to become extinct, and he also came here in compliance with God's will. Only by preserving the last fire of mankind can mankind continue to continue.

But in the end, he gave up, returned to reality, regained hope in life, and worked hard to live.

The technology of shrinking in this movie is more sci-fi, and it has the freshness of just shrinking. It is mixed with a mid-life crisis, losing patience with life and lacking enthusiasm. Under the infection of the heroine, I re-understand myself and go to life down-to-earth. , Hope is always ahead, and the meaning of life is existence.

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Downsizing quotes

  • Ngoc Lan Tran: Other night on boat, what kind of fuck you give me?

    Paul Safranek: What?

    Ngoc Lan Tran: What kind of fuck you give me?

    Paul Safranek: What kind? I don't...

    Ngoc Lan Tran: American people, eight kind of fuck. Love fuck, hate fuck, sex-only fuck, break-up fuck, make-up fuck, drunk fuck, buddy fuck, pity fuck.

  • [first lines]

    Dr. Andreas Jacobsen: [in Danish to technician who has rushed into his office] Yes, Jørgen?

    Dr. Jorgen Asbjørnsen: [in Norwegian] We have it... Andreas, we have it... It works!

    [the embrace]