Another dystopian movie

Elisha 2022-01-23 08:06:16

The Canadian film "Level 16" (2018), directed by Danishka Esterhazy (Danishka Esterhazy), starring Katie Douglas, Celina Martin, Sarah Canning Utopian political metaphor.

A group of girls have been tricked into Vestalis College, a boarding school since they were young. A closed building, without seeing the sun, the sky, the outside world, the outside world, and the time. Monitoring is everywhere. Practitioners are instilled in female virtues similar to the "three obediences and four virtues", and the first virtue is obedience. The teacher taught them that the outside air, sunlight, and moonlight are poisonous, and putting them here is to save them from the poisonous air. As long as they obey and observe various virtues, there will be good people to adopt them.

Every night, they ate the "vitamin" pills provided by the college one by one in front of the camera, and then they slept until dawn. In the meantime, the guard went in obscenely, and was carried to another room to let the buyer see the "goods" without knowing it.

Sophia, with a Chinese face, was the first to doubt this college. She managed not to take the "vitamin" pill, so she discovered the secret in the dark. She tried to persuade Vivienne, a white girl, not to take pills. The two discovered more secrets, so they managed to lead the students to escape...

The college has worked so hard to "train" and domesticate them, with the ultimate goal of selling their high-quality human skins at a price.

Every time they had a change, a student immediately reported it to the college.

The female teacher's Russian sentence здравствуйте pointed out the metaphor of this film. But in the end when the two were rescued, the one who rescued them even spoke Russian. The film stopped abruptly, leaving an endless aftertaste.

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Extended Reading
  • Nico 2022-04-23 07:04:27

    It is really. . Does a face need to be raised for 16 years? ? The price is too high. . . And what happened to the female villain who saw her face in the middle?

  • Jolie 2022-01-23 08:06:16

    Similar to "Don't Let Me Go", it all raises people and cuts off their bodies for sale. "Don't Let Me Go" is more negative, poignant, and profound. The ending is sad and creepy. The style of Level 16 is different, highlighting closed brainwashing, allowing girls to grow up ignorantly, and finally escape the evil breeding institutions.

Level 16 quotes

  • Sophia: [as Vivien hugs her] You came after me.

    Vivien: Of course I did. You're my friend.

    Sophia: Can you untie me?

    Vivien: Uh... sure.

    [tries, but it's too tight]

    Vivien: No, I think we have to cut it.

  • Vivien: [to the disbelieving group] This is not... a school. It isn't a prison, no. This is a farm. And they raise us here like sheep.

    Ava: Miss Brixil...

    Vivien: The sponsors do not want to adopt us. All they care about is our skin, and they will take you downstairs and skin you like an animal!

    Ava: You're lying!

    Sophia: Rita is dead! We found her body...

    [sobs:]

    Sophia: they took her face!

    one of the girls: They killed her? Are they gonna kill us too?