The cloak of science fiction, revealing real social problems

Denis 2022-04-22 07:01:31

Through the cloak of science fiction, the film seems to be discussing two common and lingering problems in the United States: the weakness of the middle class and the immigration problem...
In order to alleviate the increasing scarcity of the earth's resources and the rapid population reproduction, Jorgen, Ender The two Dr. Rias have developed a bioreduction technique, which can reduce living organisms, including humans, at a ratio of 2744:1. For example, a person of 1.8 meters can be reduced to 12.9 centimeters, and the resources occupied by the reduced person are naturally large. Reduction... Jorgen practiced the reduction surgery with 36 first volunteers, and met the public at the academic exhibition conference... As soon as the technology was announced, it immediately caused a global sensation... But the reduction surgery was irreversible. That is, once it shrinks, it will never recover...
Ten years later, when the technology matures, developers see the business opportunities of shrinking technology, and develop a miniature community paradise for people to live and enjoy. In this shrinking paradise, 1 dollar can buy 1,000 dollars of things, which has attracted the fancy and praise of many middle-class people with limited income... Of course, it has also attracted great interest from the protagonist of the film Paul Safranek...
Paul originally He graduated from a serious medical school and even worked as an intern in a good hospital. However, because his mother was seriously ill at the time, Paul had to give up his career ideal of becoming a doctor and work as a rehabilitation doctor in a factory in order to take care of his mother at home...
After the death of his mother , Paul is still living in the old house left by his mother because his life is hard-pressed; his life with his wife seems to be loving, but the two face all kinds of dissatisfaction in life; his wife's greatest wish is to buy a big house. Going to see the house with Paul, but his financial constraints caused Paul to often get up at night after his wife fell asleep, and go to the study alone to sort out the bills...
When Paul and his wife's application for a house loan was rejected by the bank, the two decided to After accepting the reduction surgery and moving into the "shrinking people's paradise", the only 125,000 deposits of the two will be equivalent to a huge sum of 125 million in Lilliput, which will achieve their life goals from another way...
However, Paul's wife The infidelity completely shattered Paul's dream. When the two of them performed reduction surgery alone, his wife retreated, and after Paul's successful reduction, he called him to break up and divorce... Paul completely collapsed...
In "Shrunk Man's Paradise", Paul was a boring operator and tried to build a new family with a single mother...
The United States is a country of immigrants, and the lingering immigration problem is also in the new era of shrinking people. Still unavoidable... Shrinking people from developing countries often use their shrunken bodies to hide in commodity boxes and smuggle to the United States... The Immigration Bureau caught these smuggled people who were smuggled and had to place them outside the "shrinking people's paradise" The slums of the slum... The other heroine of this film, Chen Yulan, is one of them...
Chen Yulan is a Vietnamese. Because the government built a dam to force the relocation of the village where Chen Yulan was located, Chen Yulan and her family protested because of demonstrations. Her family was arrested and imprisoned. In prison, Chen Yulan was fined by the government to undergo reduction surgery to become a villain... When smuggling to the United States, due to the poor ventilation of the TV box, most of the people in the box died, only Chen Yulan survived, but her lower limb was festering and was amputated...
Paul Duchamp's neighbor is a wealthy man who pursues instant pleasures and lives extravagantly on weekdays... At Duchamp's party, Paul established another free-spirited captain Conrad, who often travels across oceans by express delivery... After the party, Paul I accidentally met the girl who came to work as a cleaner. It was the Vietnamese girl Chen Yulan mentioned many times in the news...
Paul saw that although Chen Yulan was physically disabled, but full of love, he often took the leftover meals from the wealthy employer's home and provided it to the orphans and widows in the slums. The old and disabled... Chen Yulan's love gradually changed Paul's life values...
One day, Duchamp and Conrad invited their good neighbor Paul to travel abroad to Norway together, and visit the Norwegian colony of small people together; Chen Yulan was informed and asked to go with him , because she had received a letter from Jorgen, the developer of the reduction technique, begging her to come to the colony...
So, the four traveled to Norway and met the Jorgen couple... Jorgen told them that the Norwegian colony was implementing A plan to deal with the impending ecological crisis of the earth, the global warming, the methane flooding the atmosphere, and the disappearance of Homo sapiens; the colony dug a tunnel, and built a shelter deep underground, the outer layer is protected by nickel layer, which contains artificial sunlight, flora and fauna, and air that simulates the atmosphere of the earth...
Paul was excited about this plan and was very happy to stay underground with Qiaogan; but Chen Yulan refused to stay because there are still many widows, widows, old and disabled in the slums of the United States waiting for her to take care of... As a result... As a result... Paul was moved by Chen Yulan's love and ran away. out of the tunnel...

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  • 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]