A very in-depth movie is a movie that seems to be understandable at first, but it will continue to cause thinking afterward, and it may be revisited. Through the idea of "prison pit", the director explores complex issues such as class solidification, resource allocation, and human nature in real society.
The most iconic of these are the two communist-sounding solutions of "spontaneous solidarity" and "coercive distribution." The conclusions given by the director are very pessimistic. Obviously, human greed makes "spontaneous solidarity" only exist in a utopian society; and "coercive distribution", under the extreme intimidation of the upper class, may achieve an even distribution of resources and allow prisoners to survive. But what is not discussed in the film is the fairness of resource allocation and the degradation of production efficiency that we face in the real society and other issues.
In addition, the director tries to explore the problem of social class solidification through the bold idea of "random distribution of classes", but as history tells us, the overthrow of one tyranny is likely to be the beginning of the next tyranny.
In order to survive, prisoners often walk into jails with knives, not books and pets. Rational people are a minority after all, but it is the existence of these people that promotes the continuation and progress of human civilization.
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