Depression, darkness, suffocation, and no hope in sight, a cage called a "prison pit" traps everyone who comes in. They think they will get through it, but they don't know that it is difficult to live here.
On the suspended slate, there are people who are half-kneeling with broken food, and people who don't know their life and death are lying there.
Looking up, it was a dark ceiling with a rectangular hole left in the middle. Looking down, it was like an abyss. mouth.
This is the Spanish film "The Hunger Platform". As soon as the movie was released, it attracted many netizens to check in. The theme of the movie was novel, and the metaphor behind it made people feel chills.
In this cage, redemption is a beautiful expectation, but it is difficult to achieve, and everyone who enters the "prison pit" is doomed.
The setting of the prison pit in the movie is a pit-like floor, with a hollow in the middle, so that the food table can go up and down, and two people live on each floor, and they rotate once a month. As for which floor you can change to, it depends on your luck whether you can continue. Living is full of uncertainty.
The food in the "prison pit" is provided by the management. Every day, the table starts to descend from the 0th floor, and the meal time is limited to a few minutes. The food cannot be kept privately, and what kind of food you can eat depends on your floor.
The front of the floor means you don't have to worry about food, and the back of the floor means you have to eat the rest of the food on the upper floor, even if you don't have to.
Humanity is revealed when the power class is tied to food and life.
Classes and Resources
There are three kinds of people in this world, the upper class, the lower class, and the fallen.
At the beginning of the movie, this sentence is slowly typed on the screen. It seems abrupt, but it is the core of the whole movie. Falling down means death. The decision of the lower class rests in the hands of the upper class. If you want to survive, you can only hope that you are an upper class and have food to eat, but no one knows which floor you will be on.
Glenn woke up in the prison pit on the 48th floor, with ignorance, looked at the people on the next floor, and shouted, "Can the people below hear?"
An old man named Tremags said with a see-through attitude: "Don't yell at them, because they are low-class people."
Glenn raised his head to shout at him again, but the old man spoke up and stopped him by saying, "The people above won't pay attention to you because they are the upper class."
A few simple conversations explained the situation of the "prison pit", where only people at the same level can communicate, and people from the upper and lower classes are naturally unable to talk peacefully due to their different levels and unequal status.
But even people in the same class, if the class is lower, and eating food becomes a problem, then people in the same class will become competitors, and it is bound to fight to the death.
Soft-hearted, uncomfortable, and kind are all useless here, only survival is the most important thing.
No, it turned out that the two of them were good friends on the 48th floor. Glenn and Tremagus, who were chatting to pass the time, became rivals in seconds. But when the floor was changed, Glenn just woke up in a daze, but found that he couldn't move, like a food was tied to the bed, the old man stared at the bed and said, "The 171st floor is not a good floor, hunger drives people crazy, this kind of In this case, either eat people or be eaten.”
Cruel isn't it? It's really cruel, but for the people on this floor, the food arranged by the management has basically gone to the 171st floor. How can people survive this month?
Eat everything you can.
The old man has been from the lower class, he knows what life is like in the lower class.
The two are trapped at the bottom and have no food. No matter how good the relationship between the two people is, how long can they last?
In the end, it will only be suspicion and precaution, not knowing when the other party will attack him.
People of the same class, when their internal self-needs can be satisfied, they can join forces to fight against the outside world, but if the interests are favored, who can give up the interests that may belong to them, not to mention, it is their own life.
For those who have endured hardship and rose to the upper class, will they be soft-hearted towards the lower class?
No, people are kind and kind only when they live in a happy and bad environment. People in an unfortunate environment will only become extreme and take revenge on others to calm their pain. People who change classes like old men, after they go from the bottom to the top, not only will not cherish food, but will waste food, as long as they can eat enough.
There is such a detail in the movie. On the 48th floor, the old man drank a little wine. When the dining table descended, he smashed the bottle of wine at the dining table and spit.
Glenn asked, "Why are you doing this?"
The old man said confidently: "No matter what, they will eat it."
When the level of stratum is linked to the amount of resources, no matter what you have insisted on before, you will change in order to survive, and the dark side of human nature will be exposed.
Awareness brought by competition for resources
Before you come in, it doesn't matter who you are and what you insist on, because after staying for a long time, you will change your principles.
Glenn, the old man, and the former prison keeper's female roommate, they represent three different types of people.
In "The Hunger Platform", the director did not use too many pictures to describe what other people brought into prison, but explained to the three Glenn.
Glenn was bringing the book Don Quixote, and he came in not to make any mistake, but to quit smoking and read.
The old man should have brought in a samurai sword. He was imprisoned for an accidental murder. This sword gave him a sense of security in the "prison pit".
A woman from the former management who was terminally ill and wanted to come in to atone for her sins, the only thing she brought was a dog.
Here, the books, knives, and dogs they choose symbolize their pursuit.
Books are often used by us as spiritual food and spiritual sustenance, and Glenn is an ideal semi-realist. He pays attention to ideals, has his own ideas and persistence, but also compromises in reality and loses his own principles.
Knives represent violent injuries. The old man chooses to bring a knife into the prison pit. It can be understood that he is a person full of violence, but it is more appropriate to understand that he is a realist. He is full of precautions and loves to make things happen At worst, a real person who has experienced a blow.
The dog represents warmth and companionship. The former manager brought the dog in, proving that she is an idealist who is only willing to accept imaginary rules and refuses to accept the blow of reality.
In a harmless environment, everyone can stick to their own principles, but in the "prison pit", everyone has to make changes because of class issues. Glenn, who pursues spiritual satisfaction, has to accept the reality in such an environment.
At first, the food platform came down, and the old man quickly ran to the dining table, kneeling on the ground to eat the food. Glenn looked at the food scraps calmly and didn't want to eat them. In the end, he chose a whole apple to keep, but when the dining table was lowered, the temperature in the room rose. Death or heat death, he can only throw the apple down.
One day, two days, three days can be endured, but after a long time, no one can bear it. Glenn also gave up his persistence and began to eat the scraps left by others.
At the beginning, we looked at the old man from Glenn's perspective and thought he was a cruel bad guy, but we forgot that he was just reality. People from the bottom naturally knew that if they wanted to survive, they had to be more cruel than anyone else. To survive, it is also human nature to start with others in order to survive.
But the former manager lived too ideally. When she was in the class where she could eat enough, she would advise the lower class, you eat according to the amount I put, and these foods can go to the bottom.
But in this kind of environment, rational persuasion doesn't work, and no one will listen. Only by suppressing violence with violence and making the lower class fear you will they be willing to obey.
Glenn used threats to let the lower class eat their arranged share. It seemed that the lower class accepted it, but it was not voluntary, but forced.
When the floor was rotated again, the former manager committed suicide because she could not stand the gap because she was changed to the lower level.
The existence of "prison pit" cannot tolerate idealism. It only has cruel survival laws. When class is linked to life, everyone must be forced to make changes.
Some people will change themselves, some people want to change the class system, and some people just want to get out of it, but everyone is also struggling in the class system, calling for help, and wanting to pass information to the higher-ups across the class. It's difficult, it's too difficult!
Hard-to-break hierarchy
We have all heard the term stratification. In other words, the flow between different strata is blocked, the rich get richer, the poor get poorer, and the polarization becomes more and more obvious.
In the movie "The Hunger Platform", because the floors are different, the food that everyone can get is different. The more floors, the less food, and the less chance of survival.
When Glenn moved up again to the sixth floor with a black roommate, he decided to change the prison system in an effort to keep everyone alive.
He understands that ordinary persuasion is useless, so he threatens the lower class with violence to ensure that food reaches the lower class so that everyone will not starve to death.
The idea is good, but unrealistic. Because he can't persuade the upper class to agree to his plan, he can only manage the lower class, but for the lower class, this is a rule made by the upper class.
The black man wanted to escape and climbed to the 5th floor with a rope, but when he was about to climb up, the people on the 5th floor excreted on his face, causing him to fall on the 6th floor.
So Glenn and the black people decided to distribute food to the lower classes and pass on a message to the management, but all they could do was threaten others with weapons. They stood at the food table, swiping everyone near the platform, and only allowed those on the back floor to eat the amount of food he allocated. Before, some people starved to death, some people were killed, and Glenn's appearance made some people temporarily not be Starved to death, but also killed some people.
Glenn's intentions were good, but he forgot that there were management outside the "prison pit", and they didn't know the real situation here.
They used an intact cheese to pass the message to the upper layers, what was the result?
When the head chef sees the cheese being delivered, he gets angry that no one eats the cheese, and when he inspects it, he finds a hair. Glenn thinks they will notice the situation in the "prison pit", but the head chef thinks they are protesting that the food is not clean.
Glenn thought he was doing it for the good of others, but he forgot that he was only using his power to threaten others' obedience and damage the interests of others.
Nietzsche once wrote in The Beyond Good and Evil, "If you fight too long with a dragon, you become a dragon yourself: you have stared into the abyss for a long time, and the abyss will stare back."
When people always compete with the dark abyss, then the abyss will also entangle you. Just like, Glenn has been in the "prison pit" for a long time, and his way of thinking has also been affected, forgetting that the rules of the "prison pit" are separate from the rules of the outside world.
The "prison pit" in "The Hunger Platform" is a small real society, but the director amplifies its cruelty and makes the conditions more harsh, but in reality, we are not people trapped in cages.
In reality, we may not have the 333 grades in the "prison pit", but they are also divided into 369 grades. Some people try their best and can't catch up with others' starting point, some people work hard all their lives but just barely make a living, and some people are born in Rome to be envied by others.
Maybe we are just an ordinary person after all our lives, but even so, we have to bite the bullet and move forward, because once we stop, not only will our current situation be worrying, but we will be looked down upon and wantonly trampled on our dignity.
To go forward, to climb up, you have to go, and you have to go.
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