Dislike the label of so-called literary films. Disgusters use this label to spurn and condemn such films. Those who like it are complacent and become a highlander of aesthetics. It's just that the choice is different from personal pursuit. There are fewer business considerations and more accumulated thinking that can stand the test of time.
As for the film's nomination for the American Science Fiction Horror Film Awards, I really don't understand. Is science fiction misunderstood?
In fact, the film is a very strong European modernist literary temperament, Kafka-like, absurd structure setting is a universal, present-world survival dilemma-loneliness (why is it common? The film does not even reveal the name of the heroine, Perhaps it is a design with ulterior motives. A person without a name is obviously more universal. This is really a good thing for me, who habitually call movie characters by the nickname of the hero and the heroine or even myself). Therefore, why the hidden wall appeared, whether it was the self-enclosure of the depressed patient or some supernatural force, and what happened to the last man, none of these matter. (But in fact, the sense of substitution in the film is so strong that I don't feel any incomprehension about the heroine shooting and killing people. When that scene happened, I was panicked in front of the screen. The killing was almost inevitable.)
Animals and the stationary companions outside the wall also have their own metaphors, and it is not necessary to break the details and chew words. But we might as well spend more energy to focus on the subject.
The most shallow level is the inner monologue of the heroine that is always presented in the form of voice-overs, which expresses the inner tugging, suffering, relief and even the final peace of the heroine after being completely isolated from human society. Rather, the film interprets the possibility of whether the purity and loneliness of the independence of the legacy of the people who are plagued by urban life in modern society is really feasible. The result of the deduction is: if it is necessary, social people pursue relative loneliness rather than absolute loneliness.
Similarly, from another perspective, the film actually exaggerates the spiritual dilemma of modern people with a hidden wall-living as an island in the vast sea of people. The hidden wall is shrouded in everyone's tightly walled and airtight heart. The absurdity is that every lonely soul is eager to communicate and communicate (just as the heroine initially tried to find a way out), but at the same time it also sets up a golden barrier, so that the communication between the souls ends up in vain. There are thousands of people's hearts separated by a wall. Ever since, the heroine has given up her efforts from the very beginning to finally give up and no longer look for the omissions in the tight fit, which symbolizes a person's maturity after being furious, gradually letting go of her luxury and staying in her heart peacefully. On what day did the heroine begin to give up her heart? The film did not show it, but there is a picture in my heart, a heart finally extinguished, the last tears flowed out, the last mournful and futile struggle...
If the above thinking still remains in the framework of modernity for criticism and analysis, then a deeper level will jump out of modernity, which is the heroine's reflection on the progress of human society. The heroine has experienced a return to the original way of living, the so-called spirit of all things-human beings, sitting on an equal footing with other creatures. The hostess gradually "uses my brain to think about its ancient and eternal mind", the thing and I are forgotten, the nature and man are united, the clear boundary between the external object and the self becomes chaos and vanishes. The soul that used to pursue freedom forever and not far into the group has been defined by today's "we" (a state of symbiosis after man has merged into nature, and the essence is still nature) as poor and ridiculous, let alone the bloated human group itself.
In the end, it is not the most profound, but it is the most intensely subjective interpretation of my own-the discussion of existentialism. People are thrown into this world (the heroine is locked in a hidden wall), with many limitations that cannot be surpassed, but Sartre said that "existence precedes essence", which is intended to explain the definition and essence of each individual. It is determined through every self-choice of oneself, and is continuously "existing" by oneself. For example, writing, the meaning of a book is formed by writing word by word. In this sense, whether we or the heroine, we are all free, grasping our own essence and value. The heroine is framed by fate within such a wall (the wall is the restriction of the outside world), relying on her own constant choice and walking, she has stepped on a path, which is existentialist.
(Actually, since Sartre is involved, then the loneliness mentioned above can't be explained by "others are hell" hhh)
We have seen many social fables, telling absurd stories, and pungent criticism of society. Then this "The Hidden Wall" is a personal fable, showing a person's heart vividly. Is society still far away? You must know that an abstract society is made up of specific individuals.
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