It's a love story and a very socially ironic one. The peach-colored apartment is a field full of eroticism and morality, and it is also a place full of power and money transactions, and a place of right and wrong outside of fairness. Billy Wilder is a critical director, in Witness for the Prosecution he satirizes the justice that the law upholds. In "Upside Down Ace" he exposed the despicableness of human nature and the absurdity of news communication. In this film, Wilder uses a story full of comedy elements to criticize and expose society and human nature mercilessly.
Baxter, an office worker who goes in and out of the cold office building all day, does a busy and boring work in the Nuoda office with densely packed desks and employees. He took the initiative to work overtime and looked diligent and hard-working, but it was actually because he couldn't go home, because he was single and lent his apartment to his colleagues who had an affair with his lover, and the benefit he got was that his colleagues would replace him in front of the leader. He said good things, helped him get a promotion and raise his salary, and reached the pinnacle of his life. The film spends a lot of space showing him alone downstairs in his apartment waiting for his colleagues to end the fight, then hiding in the dark to watch his colleagues and his lover leave, and finally returning to his apartment alone. Sometimes he even received a temporary phone call from a colleague while he was sleeping, asking him to vacate the apartment. He was in a dilemma and resolutely agreed when he heard his colleague said that he would help him get a promotion.......Bacchus The role of Te is alluding to many real-life professionals who, for the sake of their career prospects, status, wealth, and power, amend their bottom lines and principles again and again, and condone the injustice and moral collapse in front of them. Said "smart". This makes me think of Hannah Arendt's "The Evil of Banality".
The biggest humorous element in the film comes from Baxter's neighbors. He regards all the different women who come in and out of Baxter's apartment as Baxter's female companions. Baxter, who is lonely and embarrassed, becomes every night in his eyes. Sheng Ge, a playboy with powerful kidneys... Billy Wilder rescued Baxter from "the banality of evil" with love, albeit a bumpy one. The elevator girl Fran, who haunted him, let go of his pigeons because he was having an affair with Baxter's superior, and the address was Baxter's apartment. Fran lost his broken vanity mirror in the apartment, Baxter returned the mirror to the leader, and Baxter recognized the mirror Fran was using when dressing up in front of Baxter, so he found The relationship between his sweetheart and his leader was completely desperate. Then Fran committed suicide by taking drugs in the apartment due to emotional problems. Baxter and the doctor's neighbor rescued her, but the leader maintained an evasive attitude. Baxter took good care of the frail Fran, and the leader transferred him to work (promotion) as a thank you, and Baxter finally got his wish. But when the leader asked to borrow his apartment again, he refused, because he saw Fran who committed suicide for love, and he knew Fran was hurt in this relationship. So he refused, and "interestedly" gave up his job, and planned to move out of the apartment and start over. At this time, he really got rid of the "banality evil". And after Fran learned of Baxter's departure, she also left the leadership and came to Baxter's apartment. The lovers are married, and those who escape the "banality of evil" deserve the best reward.
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