In fact, when watching the full movie, the final ending will lead to the theme of returning to nature and pursuing freedom. But from my personal point of view, from the origin of the riot at the rear of the car, until the end of the human Eden at the end of the film, the middle, from the perspective of historical development, is not completely in line with the law of development, and the ending is somewhat Bring the meaning of these religious allegories. Therefore, the subject of this film, I personally think that it is not a science fiction reality film, but a work of magic realism.
A hypothesis, if the soldier’s gun at the rear of the car is a live ammunition gun, will this revolution still happen? Of course, history cannot be assumed. From the perspective of the initial cause of the riot, one of the main reasons why the masses at the rear of the car dared to riot is that the protagonist sees that there is no bullet in the gun of the soldier at the rear of the car, just a bluff. Furnishings. A conclusion can be drawn from this, that is, the means of maintaining power are often not downright bloody and violent suppression. It is often based on a deterrence that makes people afraid of impending violent suppression and choose to swallow their breath. But this kind of deterrence is not simply the only means of governance. Another means is to control food and water. Although this food may be just a disgusting existence like garbage, this kind of thing is enough to make the masses half-starved. State, when they are barely able to survive and are threatened by death, people often choose to stay alive. Of course, the living environment and regime rule on this train are special. First, it has no external interference; second, the boundaries between classes are very clear, and people at the bottom of society know almost nothing about people at the top.
A discussion, the power of the situation. The concept of group unconsciousness has been discussed in "The Crowd", and in the book "The Lucifer Effect", a practical case is used to elaborate the evil banality of mankind itself. People, under what circumstances will they eat people? A superficial conclusion is that people will choose to eat people when they do not have any other food and are already hungry to the point of dying. This superficial conclusion is based on the pressure of survival, combined with some historical facts, and there is a very consistent reason among them, that is: forced to do so. But let us first jump out of this reason and think about cannibal tribes. Cannibal tribes also eat people, but this is more based on a primitive religious belief. They may think that cannibals can gain greater vitality and power. . Different from survival pressure, this is another kind of situational pressure. Man is a very wonderful creature, always in the process of arguing between instinct, sensibility and reason. The formation of any human social group must be based on the combination of a certain instinct-satisfying foundation, a moral that can be recognized by emotions, and a law derived from reason. Then, for the phenomenon of cannibalism, we might as well establish it boldly. Any collapse of the above three aspects may lead to this phenomenon. When the first person does not receive any punishment after eating people, then this phenomenon will be rationalized, and then the generalization of this phenomenon, and the end of this phenomenon is also the first to stop eating. People are just like the old man at the back of the car in the movie. It can be seen that the beginning and end of the phenomenon of human cannibalism may only be due to personal behavior, that is, the first person to break through the restriction. This person, whether it is the first person to start cannibalism, or the first person Those who stop cannibalism, to some extent, have the power of a ruler. It can be seen from this that the saying that history belongs to the people is not comprehensive to a certain extent. History belongs to the people, but it is the political elites that change history.
A symbol. After breaking through a few carriages, the rebels faced the masked legion, the violent machine of the ruler. They both held axes and masked their faces at the same time. There is something intriguing about this setting. The masked axe legion is actually a symbol of a symbolic violent machine. Just like the army, this place is a place that obeys orders, obliterating individuality and obliterating differences. There is only one purpose, and that is to kill. Violent machines belong to the ruling class, but it’s strange to notice that most of the components of violent machines often come from the ruled class, so a strange point happened. In the process of rebellion and suppression, they are actually being ruled. The cannibalism between the class and the ruled class, if you can't reach the carriage of the final peak of power, then this is just a meaningless bloody game. From this, thinking about the definition of class and situational pressure, we might as well say that class is indeed based on material interests, but sometimes it can also be established by class identity. What class a person is in is often not because he was born here, but because he feels where he can gain a sense of identity. This is also determined by the deep-rooted group nature of people.
The first fable. This fable happened when the rebels entered the sushi compartment. They passed by the plant compartment and the aquarium compartment before. Here, the woman who exists as the spokesperson mentioned the concept of ecological balance for the first time. Ecological balance is a concept of nature. It is a circular concept. All living things and non-living things are members of the natural world, so in it, every living thing and non-living things are resources. The natural world is a world with limited resources, so there is the concept of ecological balance, a dynamic cycle. Here, each resource is also a member that consumes resources. On the other hand, the train itself is a very characteristic epitome of a world with limited resources. Combined with the statement of maintaining population stability put forward by the ruler at the end of the film in the ruling carriage, it is cruel, but in a practical sense, it is actually reasonable. Sexual. At the same time, human nature tends to succumb to the laws of nature at some point. This first fable is that man does not possess nature, but nature possesses mankind.
The second fable. This fable takes place in the classroom. It can be seen from the children's speech that human consciousness has been cultivated since childhood, and education often becomes an indoctrinating means of governance. The so-called grabbing from the baby is very reasonable. Teachers’ educational methods include praise, discrimination, and denial of the outside world. In the next scene, the bald head who handed out the eggs was kindly like a priest. Finally, the priest and the teacher all picked up their guns and started shooting. It can be seen that although civilization is a higher level of development, its roots are still barbaric. The charm of the film lies in this change of rhythm, from barbarism to civilization, from civilization to barbarism, a flash of thought, a moment, this sudden change is impressive.
The third fable is at the end of the film. After the explosion, the train was destroyed and humanity was destroyed. Only two children, a man and a woman, stepped out of the train and faced the pale world in the cold wind. The polar bear on the distant mountain told the audience that this world There are other lives. And boys and girls, just like Adam and Eve, greeted them with a new world of mankind, a cruel garden of Eden without God. On the train, it is repeatedly promoted that the train is the last pure land of mankind, and the ending of the film exactly denies this propaganda. The pure land appears on a snow-covered mountain, with two children, and a polar bear. But this form of Eden's existence is precisely anti-Eden, because it represents extreme scarcity, hardship, and a form born from breaking free from the restraint of the train and relying on human beings to seek a new world.
There are some interesting details in the film, including the character of the bald man, which symbolizes a kind of chaos and primitive evil. He does not represent any class, only himself, only violence and killing. And the violent tendencies inadvertently revealed by the little girl are intriguing. The truth about the communication between the ruler and the old man at the rear of the car is also worthy of consideration. In a word, the human world, as well as humanity itself, is an extremely large and profound tower. Here, everything that has been painstakingly constructed may collapse in an instant, and after breaking through the imprisonment, it may step into a new predicament. . How fragile and short a person’s life is, I think the moral of this film may be that the relationship between mankind and the world should never be man ruling the world, and the relationship between man and man should never be limited to man ruling man, but should be formed. A kind of cycle, based on rational control, forms a world of mutual restraint and interaction. This kind of world only exists in the idea now, and the future is unknown. And this unknowledge may be the real sci-fi meaning of this film.
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written on the night of April 7, 2014
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