Recently, the Spanish movie "El hoyo" has been swiped all over the Internet. Especially in the context of the spread of the new crown epidemic and the century-old disaster for mankind, watching this movie will definitely trigger us to think more deeply about human nature and life.
This article attempts to analyze the ten questions in the film and share them with movie friends.
-1- Game rules about prison pits
The prison pit is over 333 floors. The child is on the 333rd floor, but the elevator is still going down, so it should be greater than the 333rd floor. If the 333rd floor is the last floor, it should be full of corpses, or various items, but it is not seen in the film. However, from the plot that Glenn silently recorded the elevator stop time on the 171st floor and estimated the total about 250 floors, although the time of "no living people do not need to stop" is not considered, it is estimated that the 333th floor is close to the total number of floors.
There are 2 people on each floor, with water, bed, light, simple toilet (no toilet paper?), and each person is allowed to bring any item (knife, gun, bathtub, wheelchair, rope, book, money, yoke) Lili...). Prison pit managers do not interfere with the behavior of prisoners, they can bathe, rape, kill, commit suicide, eat people...
Food is provided once a day, transported down from the first floor by a platform elevator. Stay on each layer for a few minutes, after the first layer is eaten, the second layer is eaten, and so on. No food is allowed on each floor, otherwise it will freeze to death or heat to death. The total amount of food at one time should only be enough for 100 floors, but because the upper class will waste or eat too much, basically there is no food left after the 50th floor.
Each prison floor is 6 meters high and is connected by a hollow elevator passage. Criminals can choose to sit on the dining table to the floor below themselves. It should not be allowed to take the elevator up (otherwise everyone can take the elevator and go up to the 0th floor after the end, or at least the people on the last floor on the first day can come up). But the prison pit doesn't interfere with your climbing up. The black man in the play has been helped by the upper class to climb up through the rope.
Who was put in the prison pit? This can be concluded from the words of the prison administrator. Except for the protagonist Glenn and herself, basically no one is actively imprisoned. They are all people who have committed capital crimes or may be imprisoned in a mental hospital. When Glenn and the black people go down, you can still see wise men, rich men, actors, all of them are wicked, ferocious and brutal villains in short. But why the child is locked in is a mystery? Because whether there is a child itself is still controversial.
The number of layers in the prison pit is randomly changed every month, and the criminals are stunned by releasing anesthetic gas, and then the number of layers is changed. The dead will be replaced by the new. In principle, as long as the inmate does not die, the inmate will not be replaced.
The term of imprisonment is not fixed, ranging from six months to two years, but there seems to be no mention of anyone being released from prison. Under this kind of inhuman torture, it is estimated that the managers will not give the criminals a chance to get out of prison, or that no one can survive to get out of prison. At least no one who is alive is detained for an extended period. Challenge the rules.
The manager basically does not interfere with the operation of the prison pit, and only makes rules, provides food, rotates every month, and releases people when they are due (not sure if anyone has gone out?). The chefs and some management staff who provided food on the 0th floor should be aware of the general operation of the prison pit, such as the management woman who later entered the prison on her own and the chef who placed food on the elevator platform in the camera.
-2- How long can a person survive without food?
There is basically no leftover food below the 50th floor of the prison pit. But there is fresh water in the prison pit. In theory, with only fresh water, humans can survive for 7 days. In the film, Glenn said that he could last until the end of the month, but he is estimated to be weak and close to death in the end.
The criminals in the film are all wearing single clothes at the temperature, and the corpse is estimated to rot, grow bacteria, and produce toxins in a few hours, so even if there is a corpse, it can only last for 3-5 days. Therefore, the old katana sword in the film said "Treating Glenn as a living snail", cutting only a few pieces of meat every day to keep Glenn alive while supplying food is quite the plan.
I just don't know if Glenn can last a long time and make a fresh meat snail when the wound is infected.
-3- How many floors have the Asian women been to?
Asian women basically get off the elevator half of the time every month, and this time is also carefully designed. At this time, the 100th floor and below should be basically safe, because it has been starved for half a month, and most people are starved to death or exhausted. Even if there are inmates' corpses, they are decomposed and can only maintain the most basic life.
Glenn had seen her come down four times in four months, 48 floors, 171 floors, 33 floors, and finally the floor of death. The highest has been to the 33rd floor, and the furthest second time has continued down from the 171st floor. There should be little risk below the 171st floor, and there are enough corpses on the lower floor for her to live. So there is a high probability that Asian women can go to the last floor. Have you been to the bottom, have you seen your son? If you see them, they should be in the same room. So I didn't see it in the end. There are two possibilities. One is that she was trapped between 171 and 330 and was killed next month. The other is that the Asian woman is mentally ill, and there is no such boy at all.
-4- Does the little boy exist?
This question follows the previous one. If the little boy exists, he can't stay on the last floor all the time. He must have been to other floors a few months ago, so he must have been seen, and the environment in the prison pit is estimated to have died long ago; the management girl should also Can't lie, so there's a good chance the little boy doesn't exist at all.
Unless the little boy is an exception to the prison pit, and is placed at the bottom by the administrator. So it's very likely that the little boy is Glenn's hallucination. At this point, many movie fans think that the cream cake appeared in the kitchen in the middle of the film, that is, the cream cake guarded by Glenn and the black people, which is a denial of the little boy eating the cake, and an echo of the little boy's non-existence.
-5- Hair in Cream Cake
The image of the cream cake appearing on level 0 is another mystery. This episode can be understood as a common kitchen mistake, where the chef confronts the chef about the hair in the cream cake.
But as a little boy, it is more reasonable to echo the hallucinations of Glenn before he died. After all, it is impossible for the director to arbitrarily arrange such a meaningless plot.
-6- What is the mentality of the manager?
The bottom of the prison pit has always been a dining table elevator with no food. It actually returned an intact cream cake. It has not attracted the attention of the top management, which only shows the numbness and ruthlessness of the top management. Maybe he had no purpose in setting up this prison pit, nor was he looking for the answer to self-management. He just looked down on everything in the world like a god. When human beings thought, he didn't even laugh.
For the cooks on the 0th floor, the staff who clean the dishes, clean up the bodies, and change the floors, they at least know the operation mechanism of some prison pits.
The film does not tell us the answer, perhaps this is the darkest part of human nature, it has nothing to do with oneself, and is indifferent.
-7-Why doesn't the 1st floor climb out
The black man on the 6th floor tried to convince the people on the 5th floor to help him climb out. I believe that people above the 5th floor must have heard this message. Although the people on the 5th floor humiliated and rejected the black people, why did the people on the 1st floor not respond?
They are the closest and most likely to escape the prison pit. Besides, no matter which level you change to after a month, it will be an unbearable hell. Why didn't he try to climb to level 0? Or at least help the black people on the 6th floor to try to climb the 0th floor?
Is this a bug in this movie?
As a person at the top, he is still suffering from the prison pit. His motivation to resist and survive is the strongest, so why is he indifferent? Not even trying to incite the lower classes to flee and resist?
Could he have become a warm-water frog enjoying a feast, just looking at himself better than others. Waiting in numbness for the last boiling water to boil, returning to the dark hell at the end of the month?
-8- Is there an ideal solution
Female prison guards have been trying to convince each floor to prepare the same amount of food for the next floor, hoping to find an ideal solution. After all, the upper floor eats less, and theoretically all 200 floors can survive. But criminals at each level only take into account their own interests, squandering the food they get, and will not consider the next level at all.
Glenn threatened that the next tier would smear every grain of rice with feces, and the next tier reluctantly agreed to eat only its own portion and leave a prescribed portion for the next tier. This mechanism seems to be effective, but in the end, because the floor is far beyond the estimate, under the condition of absolute shortage of resources, everyone has been unable to consciously maintain the ideal solution in order to survive.
Glenn and Negro descend as the elevator tries to violently threaten each floor with only their own share of food, but ultimately fail and ultimately die due to the lack of absolute resources and the presence of more violence.
-9- Why not communicate in words?
Since voice can't travel very far, why hasn't anyone tried text communication. In view of the fact that there are Glenn and wise men in the pit, and there are elevators that pass food up and down, everyone is at risk of starvation. For things that cannot be communicated with words, you can write a plan for everyone to vote on.
Moreover, the people below the 50th floor are all proletarians, without any food, they can only kill each other and eventually die. They are most motivated to help the lower-level personnel to climb up and form a unified action plan with the lower-level personnel. Just like in a class revolution, it is generally the middle class who lead the revolution, using words and ideas to unite the most helpless people at the bottom to overthrow violent rule.
-10- Can you go up with the elevator?
At the end of the film, the little boy took the elevator from the 333rd floor to the 0th floor. But this should also be the biggest bug in the rules.
According to the rules, someone will be randomly assigned to the last layer every month, and he will find that there is no next layer under him. When there is no food left and can only starve to death or eat people, he will definitely take the table elevator and try to ascend to the 0th floor.
Or on the last day of the month, people on the first floor or a few floors above are at risk of returning to hell, and someone will definitely take the elevator to the bottom, and then try to climb to the 0th floor. After all, there were no worries at that time. Below 100 floors or starved to death or unable to resist, gathering dozens of people to fight for their lives to attack the 0 floor may be the best operation.
Unfortunately, in the end no one tried it.
After watching the film, there is no blood, disgust and cruelty as imagined, but more thinking about today's human society and human nature.
At present, the new crown epidemic is spreading all over the world, and there are no eggs under the nest. All human beings, regardless of country, region, race, or age, must face this terrifying "prison pit". The virus has no mercy, it is the "prison pit" manager who does not blink and heart, and looks at the struggles and fights of our little human beings with a cold eye.
Complaining, blaming, blaming, and fear are useless in the face of ever-increasing numbers of diagnoses and deaths.
All of us human beings are locked into the same "prison pit", with the same scarcity of resources, limited time, poor communication, and lack of trust. Only when we completely abandon the illusion that "the new crown virus may take the initiative to let us go", abandon the distrust of "different social systems, different beliefs and cultures", and work together and fight together to quickly find a more rational, more effective, and more systematic global Only with a unified approach to dealing with the new coronavirus can we defeat this common enemy of mankind and survive the greatest disaster in the century-old history of mankind.
Tagore said:
"Tigers don't eat tigers, only people use people to fatten themselves."
"Viruses don't eat viruses, only people feed them with people."
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