If given the opportunity to spy on their partner's every move in their absence, I don't think many people would turn it down. It can be said that this is a movie about the unexpected experiences of little people, or it can be said that it is a movie full of political metaphors.
1. I think everyone has an ideal partner—physically or psychologically. As for how similar an ideal partner is to an actual partner, it varies from person to person; Annoyed and even suspicious, and a real partner will one day make us aware of all kinds of deficiencies and faults.
It can be said that there are two mes in the film, the me who is monitoring and the me who is being monitored. I'm the one who's doing the surveillance, but the me who's being surveilled often goes off the rails -- riding a bike instead of riding the subway in a subway empire, and stalking the girl of my dreams instead of going to work when it's time for work. The surveillant's partner is a fish -- an ideal mate; and the surveillant has an unspeakably beautiful girlfriend with whom he lives.
The girlfriend of the person being watched loves him very much, but whenever she wants to have sex with him, he flees into the bathroom and becomes so obsessed with the girl of his dreams that his girlfriend can only masturbate in front of the TV every day.
The story begins with his bicycle being destroyed, and he can only choose to take the subway to work, but in the subway he accidentally finds his dream girl and stalks her, so a political metaphor kicks off.
2. The subway company controls everyone's travel through the subway, monitors everyone's home through the camera on the TV, and monitors everyone's mind through the micro-monitor in the shampoo. The people in the subway empire are extremely stupid, and they regularly watch the subway company's garbage show every night - and the subway company also uses this to satisfy its voyeuristic desire. This makes people shudder to think of "Nineteen Eighty-Four".
The surveilled is spooked into a fight, and he forms an alliance with the girl of his dreams to destroy the Metro Empire. He thought he was fighting for his freedom, but it was just a pawn in the hands of his dream girl. The man performing the surveillance finds him heading for destruction, reminding him that "survival" comes first. However, in the end, the person who executed the monitor died unexpectedly, and the person being monitored "successfully" destroyed the core of this subway empire. There would be no other voice in his mind speaking to him, and he didn't have to worry about being monitored after returning home. And the dream girl of the monitored person also successfully eliminated the opponent with the power of the monitored person and inherited the subway empire. The girl in the dream shows her true colors, and the ordinary monitored person can only return to his real partner, exhausted.
In the film, there are often two Asians in straight military uniforms around the boss of the subway empire, which naturally reminds people of the country on the other side of the Yalu River, or, the one on this side of the Yalu River. And what is the essential difference between every word and every action of the dream girl and this one doctrine that one doctrine? The common people represented by the monitored people threw themselves forward in various political slogans, and what they finally won was to overthrow the old political figures in exchange for new political leaders. When political slogans finally turn out to be lies, ordinary people...
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