Let's talk about the so-called "consumerism" first. The premise of "consumerism" must be rich in consumer goods, but I can't see the rich supply in the film. From the four aspects of clothing, food, housing, and transportation: 1. The clothes here only serve as warmth and shame protection and identification (common people wear gray clothes, they are too lazy to wear yellow clothes as cleaners, and the host dominates the fate of ordinary people. People can have individual clothing, which is like the clothing grade recognition in ancient China-yellow clothing is noble clothing, green clothing is worn by the inferior people, if you use green fabrics to make clothing, the lining is yellow, which will be considered by people. Inverted the role of the ethical order of high and low), there is no clothing that can satisfy people's love of beauty (not counting the personal electronic image). 2. There is only one automatic food sales machine, only French fries, apples and drinks, no French snails, spaghetti, Indian curry, Japanese sushi... 3. People live in similar floor-to-ceiling display compartments, without separate Various architectural styles, Gothic, Baroque, Byzantine... There is only a three-dimensional rectangular space with no taste at all. 4. I didn’t see any transportation facilities and tools at all. Of course, the bicycle (people’s only occupation?) is not counted...
Observe carefully from these four aspects again, the rationed clothing for identification, the rationed residence, the monotonous food, A two-point and one-line lifestyle from bicycles to residences (using the method of cutting magnetic lines to generate electricity and pedaling bicycles? As for how clothes and other items are produced, I don’t know, but it can be speculated that there is a big machine behind it that takes care of everything)... There is no trace of commercialization, let alone consumerism. Even toothpaste does not have such brand choices as Black Girl, Colgate, and Crest (Hey! This is a British TV series!). The points are exchanged for the machine. In any case, this is a good deal for the remnant society! As for the forced consumption that directly violates personal freedom, there is no free choice. Who dares to force people to consume? Which businessman dares to do these things in the free market? The guy who wrote the script directly blamed this kind of bad behavior on the development of technology and commerce, which is simply ridiculous!
Tusang said it well: Why do we have to coin a new term "consumerism" to criticize it? Is it because you can't understand property rights and profits, or you can't understand propaganda and competition, and you can't understand whether people buy the melons of Wang Po or not their own? This is only the people who coined the term know. In short, they hate the pursuit of pleasure and hate that those who chase pleasure are punished by the market economy (although they call their pleasures to find the ideal of life), and they simply pretend to jump out of the world and poop. This kind of cowardly gives humanity, this kind of cowardly profundity, especially for those who are still in the second level of intellectual level and want to discard the kindness to advertise that they like mature waste.
The unanimous praise of this kind of film reflects the nostalgia of the public. People always think that people living in the country are simple and kind, and people in the city are more inclined to intrigue. That's because in the backward areas where bartering is frequent, people are in frequent contact, can connect with each other, and can directly see the payment of other people's labor, so they appear warm. In a city that uses currency transactions, you can easily exchange your own seconds for many people's minutes-an invisible hand connects people of different colors, races, and borders. There is no need to know who has paid for him, and it is impossible to know completely, so he appears indifferent. Because I don’t like the “inhumanity” of commercialization, I ignore my ignorance of economy and technology (does science and commercialization drive human civilization need to be doubted?), and stubbornly portrays the future world as a dark and cramped reaction. Utopia (an ideal society on the opposite side, in which people with emptiness are overwhelmed by material, morally depraved, hierarchical systems are rampant, and eventually dying out), a wild call to rural life by the way ( Humanity is at least eight thousand nine hundred and sixty-four years behind the level of science and technology!) It is a habitual trick of many small and refreshing pursuits of "spiritual cultivation." What country life is, in my eyes (rational optimists), it is a self-sufficient poverty life. If freedom can be guaranteed, our times will get better and better.
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