There are two clues in the film, one is obvious, that is, Scissor Girl's abuse and harm to the heroine in order to seize the baby, and the other clue is obscure, which is the riots in the French region. If the two are combined and analyzed, the main thrust is obvious. In France, there have been frequent riots and shootings in recent years (of course not as many as in the United States). The main reason is social injustice, the widening gap between the rich and the poor, and the lack of social fairness and justice, which has caused people to become more dissatisfied with the society and the government. But the screenwriter did not directly express this social problem from a macro perspective, but reflected it through an incident in which a perverted woman took a pregnant woman by caesarean section. In the second half of the film, when the heroine is about to kill the Scissor Woman with a javelin, the camera switches to the opening scene. It turns out that the Scissor Woman is also a pregnant woman. In the collision with the heroine, her baby was not saved. The next sentence of the heroine is the key. She said: But the police told me that there were no other survivors. This sentence is very intriguing. In fact, the Scissor Girl also survived, but her fetus died. If the relevant government departments can be fair enough in the determination of accident liability and compensation plans, perhaps the following tragedies will not happen, but obviously there is no. The police may be partial to the heroine in handling the accident, which caused the Scissor Girl to feel that she had been treated unfairly. After she was unable to vent her resentment for a long time, she vented her resentment to the heroine, and the subsequent crazy killings took place. From the film, Scissor Girl is extremely distorted when killing, cruel but quite relaxed, even with a slight smile on the face, you can see how deep the hatred in her heart is. And this kind of hatred reflected in the entire society is a regional riot, the anger of the entire society.
Why is it speculated that the Scissor Girl suffered unfair treatment? There are not many characters in the whole film, but they are basically divided into three classes: the heroine's family, her mother, her boss (newspaper editor) and the neighbors in her community mentioned in the talk belong to the middle class of France; the rogue female nurse , The Scissor Girl and the people in the riots (including the detained gangster) are the middle and lower class or marginal class in France; all the police represent the government-based public political power class and public authority. The hooligan nurse said that the people in the hospital are all rubbish, and the heroine replied: idiot. If in China, even if she despised her in her heart, she would at best laugh it off, but our heroine made no secret of her contempt for nurses, which shows that people of different classes hate each other. The indifference between people can be seen everywhere. The community where the heroine is located is very deserted even on Christmas. When you encounter the scissor girl harassment, your neighbors can't save you, so you can only call the police. In the film, the police basically only do two things: joking with each other and suppressing mass disturbances, and a lively government tool to resolve mass dissatisfaction with violence. Every time the police rushed to the heroine’s house, they were sent to death every time, showing the weakness and incompetence of the police role in French society. Not only could they not protect the safety of people’s lives and property, they also took their own lives in, which once again explained the French public power. It’s in vain, the people’s distrust of the government and the lack of social fairness and justice. In summary, the cause of the whole incident should be the vent of hatred caused by social injustice, otherwise the other explanations are too mysterious. Religious mysticism has certain elements in it, but it exists as a satirical effect. Psychoanalysis is not very suitable for this movie, because not all movies are experimental, and there is not much enlightenment in psychoanalysis.
Since the Enlightenment, France has been advocating rationality, advocating freedom, equality, and fraternity. But in this movie, there is only the opposite of the above-mentioned virtues. The indifference between people and the weak and incompetent government all reflect the deformity and morbidity of today's French society. But people can't do anything about this morbid state, just like the title: Being in it. This incurable medicine has penetrated into the bone marrow, and everyone in this society has been infected with the poison, and just like the unborn baby, it is impossible to know the various bloody violence and killings that have occurred in reality. People compete for, protect, persecute, but can do nothing, because its destiny is no longer in their own hands: born in a chaotic, cruel society, it is destined to be unhappy in its life. All of these are manifestations of the despair of people in reality.
There are indeed some religious metaphors in the film, such as the scissor girl holding a baby like a Virgin at the end of the film, but these religious metaphors are a kind of irony. In France, a civilized country that pretends to be rational, free, equal, and fraternity, darkness, injustice, division, and anger are everywhere, but under the "guidance" of Christian ethics, "fairness and justice" has been achieved: The Scissors finally got My own compensation, a bloody newborn, although at the cost of a dozen lives and his own face (and a black cat). The film uses this primitive, savage, and cruel, fair way to contrast the unfairness of French society and even the entire capitalist society.
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