A scaled-down version of the Siege

Beau 2022-04-21 09:02:20

When we were kids, we all fantasized about being a little kid, going on adventures in Shuke Beta’s tanks and planes, or traveling the world like Nils Riding a Goose. I also envy Sun Wukong's shrinking, and teach the goblins and ghosts a lesson. When I grow up, these whimsical impulses gradually fade away, and what follows is indeed a midlife crisis. This film is dedicated to these greasy uncles with conflicting hearts. A scientist's experiment has succeeded in a worldwide problem - shrinking human beings, euphemistically, it is a political dispute issue such as reducing carbon emissions. satisfy. The male protagonist is a person who is dissatisfied with the status quo in reality. In the end, after being abandoned by his wife and shrinking alone, his psychological satisfaction has not been realized, and it is more of another kind of pain ~ loneliness.

By chance, he met a cynical wealthy neighbor, a dissident who ran away from a dictatorship, a founder of shrinkage... These various characters who looked like stars to him, ended up with him There was an incomprehensible fate, and gradually, he recognized his own value and returned to his self.

The reduced life and reality are like a siege, trapping the confused male protagonist, and also trapping us uncles, but he gradually affects the male protagonist through some events. Samsung's evaluation may be based on the lack of persuasiveness of the event. It’s boring, and the plot isn’t as grand and magnificent, but the reduced world is very similar to reality, one-to-one correspondence, you can see race issues, immigration issues, religious belief issues, social class issues, welfare issues, etc.

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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]