The perspective of the whole film presented to the audience, as well as the perspective of the protagonist, is behind a potential "universal justice" value. The decay of buildings and the corruption of cities are undoubtedly very critical from such a perspective.
We can see the city as a crumbling, hopeless building. It starts to collapse from the foundation, all order has been tampered with, used, "normal" is almost non-existent here, it is on the verge of its own collapse.
However, for the privileged class who sing and dance in the hotel, and for the grass-roots people who are struggling to survive in rotten buildings, this kind of "corruption" is also a kind of "order".
From breaking into the dining room to breaking into the house, the movie makes us feel like the hero has "broke into people's lives" again and again, intentionally or unintentionally.
If the protagonist didn't want to pass the exam and went up to learn the knowledge of architecture, he would not have found out that the building was about to collapse; if the protagonist didn't manage to report to the government, he would not have exposed such a big incident; if the two officials had a little "conscience" Like other officials, if you don't check carefully, you won't confirm that something is wrong with the building. In a word, if you don't take it seriously, it will be fine.
The male protagonist in the film is like a thankless tragic hero, but for the people who live "deal" in this rotten city, he may be just like the mob who beat him said, " From the morning, things started to mess up everyone's life."
Where there is rot, there is a law of survival for where there is rot. After all, the individual cannot exist without the environment. For this small environment, the male protagonist is undoubtedly an outlier. We can also say that because of the appearance of this alien, there is a "dangerous building that is about to collapse". why? Does it mean that the dangerous building would not exist without him? Yes, to a certain extent, at least not a big deal. The people in the building themselves don't take their own lives seriously, and the people outside the building don't care about them. The building collapsed, it doesn't matter. It's just a matter of time to find two scapegoats. The lower class lives a dog-like life, and the upper class always bears the risk of accidents. It's their way of life, it's the way this city exists.
However, in the will conveyed by the film, it is not used to seeing them, that is, seeing a terminally ill body, but there is nothing to do. Really, nothing can be done.
Fortunately, there are recognized values of "justice" outside of this "world", and all beings in the movie can still see the Shen Wei in that building through our eyes. If this world is the whole world, I am afraid this kind of "criticism" will become, very rare. . .
However, this is what we are bound to face. There is no external discourse system to draw upon. At this time, human self-criticism is the real criticism...
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