We are not monsters.

Zion 2022-01-15 08:03:06

The plot of "Frontier" reminds me of "X-Men", "X-Men" cleverly integrates the concepts of racial discrimination, marginalized people, egalitarianism and other concepts into a commercial blockbuster, making people aware of the so-called "abnormal" Groups are actually no different from other people.

However, "Frontier" discusses this aspect more cleverly, with a wide open mind, guessing at the beginning and unable to guess the ending.

Tina is a customs officer with an extraordinary sense of smell. With her nose, she can smell whether there are illegal items in people's luggage.

She glanced at the other person and knew that the other person had brought 3 or 4 liters of wine;

As soon as she moved her nose, she knew that the other party was carrying a USB flash drive containing child pornography videos, which was called a "walking security machine."

Finally one day, she met a person called Wall, and Wall told her that neither of them belonged to humans, but another creature: the mountain monster.

What's even more amazing is that when Tina and Wall are engaged, we find that their sexual characteristics and appearance are opposite.

From the outside, Tina is female, but her sexual characteristics are male. Wall is the opposite of Tina. From the outside, he is male, but he is the one who can ovulate, get pregnant, and give birth.

Yes, women and men are both sexes, just like the front and back of a coin. What is the difference between women and men? How can there be any distinction between high and low?

I am reminded of the spoof video "Sneak Shooting Male Durban" produced by Boomman, which can be called satire MAX.

"Lecturer" keeps on saying: "Men don't dress too fashionable, they will recruit vixens", "Simple, honestly can marry a good wife" "Men who stand peeing have the least male virtues"...

This is the irony of the saying that "women should dress conservatively, otherwise they will seduce men" and "you were raped because you didn't wear less clothes."

The "male Durban student" said that he paid his salary, did not smoke, and did not drink, but his wife ran away with others. In the end, he came to the conclusion that "I must have not done well enough."

This is also a counterattack to "Your husband cheated, it must be because you were not good enough to him".

The French film "The Jackie of the Daughter Country" is even more ironic. The People's Republic of Bougainvillea in the film is a feminist society. All those in power are women. Women are responsible for work and management of the country. Men need to wear a veil and stay at home to take care of their children. .

Men have extremely low status and have no human rights at all. They will be harassed, molested, and even raped.

If you don’t marry at the age of 20, you are an old man, and if you don’t marry at the age of 25, you are an older leftover man.

"Male Durban", "The Jackie of the Daughter Country", and "Border" all reverse the gender of men and women, telling the truth that everyone knows but can't do in the most absurd way.

Tina has a female appearance, but she has male organs; Wall has a male appearance, but he will conceive and have children.

This shows that there is no difference between men and women other than whether they can have children, and it is the same if they are changed into a male to have children.

The sexual characteristics of Tina and Wall can also be extended to psychological characteristics. Some women are strong women and some men are very feminine. This is not a problem at all.

Many schools in Japan have formulated new regulations for school uniforms. Girls can wear trousers and boys can also wear skirts.

In this issue of the live-action show "What Would You Do", a boy was bullied by his classmates and scolded as a sissy.

After witnessing it, a 15-year-old girl shot back at the perpetrator very domineeringly: "Then I am a man, do you want to call me dad?" He severely attacked the straight man with cancer.

Many people have stereotypes about men and women, thinking that men must be masculine and women must be gentle. In fact, each has its own personality characteristics.

Just as Tina said that she was flawed, Wall said: You have no flaws.

Tina said that she was disabled, and Wall said: You are perfect.

Tina has a deformed appearance, has been bullied, insulted, and ridiculed since she was a child. She is a freak in people's eyes, but in fact all of this is just human prejudice.

After all, she is a mountain monster, why should we use human aesthetics to define her?

The ideas of "Frontier" and "X-Men" are the same. Humans discriminate against mutants/mountains. In fact, mutants/mountains are not inferior.

In "X-Men", humans want to kill the mutants, but every time Professor X leads the mutants to save mankind.

The same is true of "Frontier". Humans kill mountain monsters, but it is Tina who helps humans solve crimes time and time again with her sensitive sense of smell.

"Mountain monsters" are also replaced by blacks, Jews, and other marginalized groups. Blacks are natural athletes. Jews have higher IQs than ordinary people. How can they be worse than others?

"Frontier" tells a story similar to the ugly duckling turning into a swan. Tina is inferior, lonely, and helpless, but Wall tells her: if you are different from others, it is because you are better than them.

If everyone understands you, how ordinary you have to be.

People always think that the one who is the same as him is normal, and the one who is different from him is a freak, a strange kind.

White people discriminate against black people, healthy people discriminate against disabled people, healthy people discriminate against patients... The party is divided against each other and fiercely fired.

No one is inferior to anyone, and the recognized shortcomings of you may also turn into advantages.

Just as people thought Einstein was stupid when he was a child, it was just ordinary people who couldn't keep up with his thinking.

Just like "Rain Man", don't you think Raymond (played by Dustin Hoffman) is autistic, in fact, he has an amazing memory.

British artist Stephen Wiltshire suffered from autism since he was a child, but he has an extraordinary talent for drawing architecture. He can memorize all the scenery of 18 square kilometers of London in 15 minutes and paint it on the canvas in 5 days. It is called the "human body camera".

Many children with seemingly intellectual disabilities actually have outstanding talents in mathematics, fine arts, and music.

The mental retardation in your eyes may also be a child prodigy from another perspective.

Tina's appearance can also be extended to race, skin color, class, gender...

600 years ago, people sold black slaves;

500 years ago, people enslaved and slaughtered Indians;

100 years ago, people slaughtered Jews...

History is always surprisingly similar, except that black slaves, Indians, and Jews have become women, LGBT people, and patients.

The phenomenon of discarding female babies, discriminating against LGBT people, and discriminating against patients still occurs. To this day, there are still many places where boys are preferred, and many companies still do not hire patients or disabled people.

Just as Tina thought her body was defective, but that was only relative to other people, relative to the mountain monster, she couldn't be more normal.

She once felt inferior because she couldn't have children, and finally found out that she belonged to a male among the mountain monsters.

It's like someone feels confused because they like the same sex, but who stipulates that people must like the opposite sex?

We cannot define what is "normal" and what is "abnormal".

The marginal crowd is not a monster, nor is it inferior. They should not be discriminated against, and they need no sympathy.

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Border quotes

  • Vore: Humans are parasites that use everything on earth for their own amusement.Even their own offspring. The entire human race is a disease, I'm telling you.

  • [last lines]

    Tina: I don't see the point of evil.

    Vore: So you want to be human?

    Tina: I don't want to hurt anyone. Is it human to think that way?