Hungry Games

Leo 2022-03-18 09:01:04

The story takes place in a space that goes straight up and down. There are two people and two beds on each floor of 333 floors, a sink and a mirror, and a square hole in the middle of each floor. Here, the floors are counted down, and a well-prepared feast will be delivered from the 0th floor every day, and the first floor will stay for a while. After a hundred layers of food fell, there was not much left, and people had to start killing each other if they wanted to survive. Everyone can bring one thing when they come. Some people come here because they want to reduce their sentence and bring a knife. The male protagonist comes here because he wants to quit smoking and wants to finish reading Don Quixote, so he brings this book . Every month, people on each floor are taken to a new floor in their sleep, either high or low. Everyone has the experience of starvation, so whenever they are sent to the top, they will try their best to eat, so that there is not much food left for the lower class. The male protagonist wanted to send a "message" to the upper management, so he tried his best to protect a plate of pudding. As a result, the pudding was finally sent to the kitchen on the 0th floor intact, but when the chef on the 0th floor saw the pudding, he understood that it was sent back intact because there was a hair on the pudding.

Having lived in such a magical world for a few months recently, I felt like I was watching "Contagion", and I really wanted to watch this episode.

Two months ago, we were still on the 6th floor. Although the people below hundreds of floors lived a difficult life, our life at that time had no impact. Unlike movies, we care a lot about people in the lower classes, but we don’t consume too much, and we throw food down, worrying about their lives and deaths. A month ago we switched the number of floors, we switched to a few hundred floors, and there was not much food left here, and the situation was not optimistic. We have to keep an eye out for our roommates who are going crazy, while we are busy delivering messages to our compatriots above. No matter what kind of message it is, it is still misunderstood. Those who can obtain resources have bought all the resources, and would rather have the excess at home than distribute some to others. But this month is over, next month, next month, do you know where you will be?

No matter what the outcome is, I am willing to be that idealist, believing that there are many kind people in this world, and one day we will resolve misunderstandings and break classes. In the process, please don't be a crazy roommate, and don't bully people who are lower than you now. The Hunger Games can only be won if we all think of others and stay sane.

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Extended Reading
  • Marlen 2021-11-25 08:01:30

    Let's understand this platform as a social nation, which has its own system-the power to allocate resources from top to bottom. People are forced to enter this platform or voluntarily, and they have to survive under the established system. Some people carry weapons (violence), and some carry books (civilization). In the upper level where you can eat, there is naturally room for talking about civilization, while the lower level where you can’t fill your stomach is lucky enough to eat the leftovers of the upper level, while the bottom level can only be eaten by people. But under this kind of system (the food and clothing are not resolved), it is not feasible to use civilized means to reform. Self-discipline is against human nature, so we must start from the outside world and force changes. So the system is cold-blooded, but the people at the top may still have a trace of humanity. Sending the signal up and praying to touch the managers is actually just the last humble and weak resistance of the people at the bottom. The setting of the film is really wonderful. It shows nakedly that most people live like this under the system. Whether they are willing to be slaves or reformers, they can only hope for children (the next generation) in the end, and it may not be necessary. It is a cruel reality to succeed.

  • Ashleigh 2022-03-24 09:01:35

    Good philosophical hard core, Black Mirror and the like seem much weaker

The Platform quotes

  • [first lines]

    Goreng: [narrating] There are 3 kinds of people; the ones above, the ones below, and the ones who fall.

  • [repeated line]

    Trimagasi: Obviously.