If you are a minority in the group

Graciela 2022-01-17 08:01:17

In all fairness, Equals' concept does not have too many bonus points in terms of novelty: future science fiction, emotional closure, individuals different from the mainstream, repressed love, Romeo Juliet's emotional miss, escape, and resistance. But I have to say that the director is indeed a person with ideas, or just a little divergent thinking of myself.
At first glance, the biggest feeling should be the picture and composition. The concise and concise picture is simply a visual feast of Virgo's cleanliness. Photography is very good at dealing with white and green. The sense of light, shadow and lines are also brought into full play. The indifferent uniform style, under the suppression of the rigid to the extreme rules, is also a temptation to the extreme provocation.

The lead actor is really eye-catching, the heroine is hard-hearted with a confused attraction, and the male lead is also in a thousand mountains and rivers. On the train screen at the end of the movie, facing Nicholas Holt’s wicked and handsome laugh, he involuntarily presses the screenshot button with his fingers. In addition, I have to say that the male protagonist is the best I've seen wearing long trousers. Looking man. Overall, it is a seductive drama.

As for the ideological nature, everyone must have different thinking angles, such as repression and resistance, desire and release, system and personality...
In a group, you are a different person, what would you do? Many people choose to be a Hider. This is normal. People tend to seek advantages and avoid disadvantages. Surviving with a closed relationship is perhaps the safest and also in line with the maximization of interests. For example, choosing a popular but disliked major, choosing an affordable spouse, and wearing an unobtrusive and compliant dress are all the collective expectations of us. When we do this, we will naturally receive positive feedback from the collective. Perhaps it is a stable income, a peaceful and abundant family, and the comfort hidden in the crowd, but we are not addicted and unreal, and cannot relieve our deep desires. The itching and depression caused. This is a compromise and exchange made by individuals as a minority in the collective for blessing and protection.
SOS (self-initiation disorder), a miraculous disease. What is "symptom" is different from most. I think of Cao Xueqin's falsehood when it is true and false. The difference in the group always makes people unable to feel safe. In the film, SOS patients are suffering from their own differences at the beginning, to accept their own differences, fall in love with their own differences, and even later refuse to change their own differences. Isn't this a process in which a person accepts himself? Think about it, you may be the slowest child in the class, you may be the one who likes five-nut mooncakes the most, you may be LGBT, or you may be the fattest/darkest/shortest/flatest/ Which is the shortest (oh my god, I'm talking about some magical horses~), in many cases you may become the "most different one". In order to identify with the collective, must we abandon the reason why we are different? Is this unsolvable? A collective that can be more diverse and tolerant can naturally accommodate diverse and more creative individuals.

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Extended Reading
  • Janiya 2022-03-22 09:02:38

    This setting is clearly a plagiarism of "Tear Doomsday". The fans who scored high scores are basically fans.

  • Angela 2022-03-22 09:02:38

    In the whole film, the lighting, photography and soundtracking skills refer to the all-round and high-level creation of the coldness of utopia, and the two protagonists have no words but the turbulent performance tension is heartbreaking every minute. Reminds me of the line of #大 Expectation#: What is beauty? A destoryer. What is happiness? Deception. What is love? Death.

Equals quotes

  • Silas: [propped up on his arm in bed with Nia] I never could have imagined what love felt like. It's... strange... like a tornado going around and...

    Nia: Yeah

    [laughs shyly, then turns serious]

    Nia: That's why I was scared of it at first.

    Silas: [nods several times]

    Nia: It's about giving. Like, I want you to take everything. I don't even know what it is but I want you to take it from me.

    Silas: I just wanna-

    [amusedly]

    Silas: I wanna run.

    [Nia laughs, Silas smiles]

    Silas: I mean like you and I, both of us, just run...

    [closes his eyes]

    Silas: ... as fast as we can, outside, just take off.

    [opens his eyes]

    Silas: It's so weird; I'm like... I keep thinking about... Ever since we were kids, it's been drilled to us that our purpose is to explore the universe, you know? Outer space is where we'll find the answers to why we're here and where we come from. It's like everyone's... searching for these answers eight hundred million miles away and the truth is the answers are right in front of us.

    [looks into Nia's eyes intensely]

    Silas: I know why I'm here.

    Nia: Me too.

  • Employee: [about jumper] I hope they find someone to cover his work.