How much space is needed?

Ona 2021-10-20 17:23:14

The United States is vast and sparsely populated. Americans like to drive big cars and live in big houses.
For many Americans, a house that is too small to accommodate can be regarded as a large room in the eyes of the average Chinese. If you encounter a difficult household like Zhang Damin, it is a luxury house.

The movie "PANIC ROOM" took place in a three-story house in Manhattan, USA. In addition to the jaw-dropping space, the house also has a garden, an indoor elevator and an emergency shelter.
In order to provoke her cheating husband, Judy Foster deliberately chose this mansion and lived alone with her daughter. However, he was robbed on the first night of staying. The mother and daughter and three gangsters fought wits in the huge house. Yong finally escaped safely.

Except for the opening and closing two or three minutes, the rest of the film unfolds in this huge house. As the real estate agent said at the beginning, in a densely populated and rich area like Manhattan, if you want to own A house with both a courtyard and cats and dogs is not easy. It is even more a pipe dream for the general working people in the United States. The only kind gangster in the film, although he has struggled for a lifetime, However, due to bad luck, he had to use his construction skills to pry open the safe that he built and was hidden in the refuge room, and get a huge sum of money to buy a big house for his children. However, it was finally unsuccessful.
Ending, Judy Fu

Stranger ’s sentence clarified the main point of the film "Do we need all that space?" Do we need so much space? The same kind of thriller film "When a Stranger Calls" brings a big house and a big space to Human insecurity is magnified.
A female college student was canceled by her parents due to high mobile phone costs and had to make money by being a child sitter. The story happened on the night she was a babysitter. The parents of the child she was going to take care of was out that night, and only she and another housekeeper stayed in the huge house. Although the house has an advanced security system and the lights in each room are also sensitive, she still feels anxious because of the huge space and numerous rooms. At the same time, she kept receiving calls from strangers. The most alarming thing was that the strangers knew everything about her in the house. She tried every means to get rid of the harassment of strangers, but to no avail. Later, with the help of the police, she found that strangers had been in the room and the housekeeper had been killed. She was trapped in a huge house with nowhere to escape...

Undergraduates, one room, living eight people, each with only a single bed.
For graduate students, there are four people in one room, each with an extra desk, a bookshelf and a small wardrobe.
For doctoral students, one room, two people, the configuration is the same as that of graduate students.
How much space does a person need?

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Panic Room quotes

  • Sarah: What is it?

    Meg: It's bad!

  • Stephen Altman: Meg, why are we doing this?

    Meg: Because that's what its going to come to.