Formally, the two films are stories about the grassroots resisting oppression and becoming heroes at the bottom of the world society in the future, and the stories presented are all B-level, and the layout is not vast enough, which makes people feel that this setting is a waste of the cool story background. There is absolutely no limit to its potential for excavation and extension. However, under the amazing creativity of "time is money" and "give people hope if you want to despair", what is really moving is that it reveals the truth about the structure of the society in which we live, and the attitude toward this truth depends on it. It depends on the audience's level of perception of reality and class standpoint.
I was ignorant when I was a child, and the intellectual elites who were fed up by the dignitaries who had monopolized the voice were misled by the intellectual elite, and then scolded someone as a tyrant. "He"'s true ideal is to accomplish the human feat of "overthrowing class" to get rid of the law of historical cycles. Only in this way can there be a fair premise and foundation. How about you being a great writer, can you be aloof and be admired like a saint forever? Clear! What if you are a high-ranking official, can the father and son enjoy endless glory from generation to generation? Clear! Regardless of your status, you must be cleared to me. No one is allowed to have status or wealth. All must rely on their own work for fruit. No one can be born and always enjoy vested interests... But we once thought that rich first, then rich. It's good. People who get rich first will definitely try every means to consolidate their vested interests and build a high wall to form a class circle. The rich and the poor coexist relatively. Where there is no rich, the poor come from the poor and the rich where there is no poor. Everyone wants to go to a five-star hotel to eat the delicacies of the mountains and the sea. Enjoy, the second person in the shop will always be the second person in the shop. No matter how much money you earn, the upper class will use price and tax policies to make your income never keep up with the level of life that satisfies your ideal life, making you poor for generations. It will never be enough, because otherwise, who will serve the rich and powerful? The dignitaries must maintain a social state in which the untouchables always want the superstructure to ensure that they are "forever enjoying the good fortune, and the longevity is in harmony with the sky." In other words, this is the law of exploitation behind the social pyramid structure. Whether it is dictatorship or democracy, as long as society always maintains such a structure, regardless of whether the legal system is upheld or not, it will not change the fact that most people are oppressed, because all legal principles and institutional settings exist to maintain this structure without collapsing. If you mistakenly think it is fair, just because you feel that the rules of the game will be followed by everyone and feel fair, but you ignore that everyone comes to this world with different bargaining chips, and some people are born with it. At the top of the pyramid. Of course, it is worse than this: born in a country that does not even abide by the rules of the game and can cheat arbitrarily.
Therefore, these two films are both based on seeing through the truth of the social structure, and are committed to breaking the system as the theme, and therefore not only become exciting and good-looking commercial science fiction films, but also deep political metaphor films. In the "Time Planning Bureau", the gangster who constantly robs others' time in the "poor time zone" will never be arrested by the government, because their killing of untouchables will not affect the security of the rule of the "power time zone" in this world. Destroying the order of the entire society proves that the law only maintains the relationship between most people and a few people. It has nothing to do with fairness and justice. Therefore, people who grew up in the "poor time zone" can never enjoy a good life in the "power time zone". , Because their "time" is not enough to pay, but the powerful can enjoy endless time for generations through the established national exploitation system.
In "The Hunger Games", in order to prevent the untouchables from resisting oppression, the dignitaries cleverly learned the antonym of Jiang Wen's revolutionary technique in "Let the Bullets Fly"—the stabilization technique, which is not relying on pressure, but by channeling the flood to relieve the untouchables. The anger caused by injustice leads to other places and gives them hope to let the ruled people participate in a championship game that can change their fate. Let them feel that everyone has the opportunity to become a powerful member through personal efforts. Let them The emotions and energy of the people are consumed in meaningless cannibalism and mutual hatred, which makes the people fall into the eternal relationship of hostility and division, so that the powerful and powerful are safe, because the smart powerful and powerful know the channels for the people to vent, which is far more than force suppression. It is much more reliable, but the powerful are also afraid of being seen through, so when the two protagonists refuse to kill each other, they choose to support each other, blooming the dawn of overthrowing the system, giving birth to the budding of the people’s unity, and making the powerful feel unprecedented. Fear.
There is another interesting thing in common between the two films: breaking the system must be done by combining the inside with the outside. It's hard to fight internally, and it's also difficult to attack the tough outside. It is necessary for the people who are attacking the city to hit it off with those who are in the system but are "aesthetically fatigued" by the system. But in the end I still have to say that overthrowing class is a utopian dream. Just as you can’t get yourself three feet off the ground by holding your own hair, you want to expect the people to awaken, but you may only get the people out of their absence. The weak position in fairness and the outburst of anger against the strong, instead of awakening the negative understanding of the system itself, coupled with the selfishness of human nature, it is easy to fall into chaos and reincarnation. Imagine eradicating the roots of human nature. In addition to exterminating mankind, where is there a fundamental solution? Because of being in a class, unable to overthrow the class, someone's great ideal is doomed to fail. Just like the "The Matrix" of the year, the computer world is fully capable of destroying the savior Neo, but deliberately indulges him by giving him the opportunity to develop and grow to help his antivirus upgrade, because if the ruler of an empire is really smart enough, he will know his own Accumulated abuses cannot be eliminated by themselves, and external forces must be used. Perhaps the realization of equal strength and mutual restraint between the two classes is the closest thing to fairness.
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