The model constructed by "Hunger Platform" is very simple. In a prison pit where some people are for atonement and some people are willing to join, a feast containing the food that everyone in the prison pit loves to eat slowly from the top Descend, stopping at each floor. According to the manager, the food on the table is enough to feed everyone in the prison pit, and as long as the people at the top don’t splurge, the people at the bottom can fill their stomachs. However, the facts are not always satisfactory. The rotation system of prison pits allows people to seize the opportunity to gluttony when they are at the upper level, because they have fears and memories of hunger; The messy cups and plates, people can only choose to eat their roommates or kill others if they want to survive.
Rather than telling a structured Parasite-esque tale of social class, The Hunger Platform is a beautiful religious fable. Whether it’s facing the various forms of beings in prisons with unknown levels and purposes, or people who go their own way as the platform descends, the feast on the dining table becomes a mess. What it wants to express is not just the layers of social resources Less, more about how people can live and redeem themselves in this unexplained cage.
when don quixote was in prison
Unlike the first old fellow inmate he met in prison, the protagonist Glenn initially chose to enter the starvation platform, only to hear that he would have the opportunity to obtain a "certificate", by the way, to quit smoking in this closed environment. The obscure tome "Don Quixote, the Whimsical Gentleman" that has been unfinished. His fantasies about the prison pit are very simple, and even a little unclear. He thought it was a meditation practice, where he could make friends and read books in his free time. So when the guard asked him about his favorite dish, he chose to answer the tedious snail that was not enough to satisfy his hunger, and the only thing he chose to bring into the prison pit was the book.
The first experience was quite pleasant. After finding out the rules of the prison pit, Glenn really started to read, and even began to recite a section of "Don Quixote" to the inmates every day. And as he went down with his fellow inmates to a lower prison pit, where the inmates tied up Glenn and began to eat his meat due to lack of food, he finally gradually realized that this prison pit was not an ideal one. In the place of meditation, the old man told him the rules of the law of the jungle, not just words. As Glenn went up and down and met different people, his mood gradually dropped to the bottom. And intellectuals, or idealists, inevitably become a Quixotic martyr in such an environment. Glenn began to try to establish a system, using the power of language and the violence of black roommates, the two of them declined, barely ensuring a reasonable access to food, but did not know what to do when they fell to the bottom. At this time, the knight has become the first enlightened one among the ignorant people. Under the knight's fantasy, he saw that the hell is far deeper and deeper than the "manager" who is in charge of everything claimed. Facing the abyss, he is the same Helpless. The wise man they encountered during their descent was a character who was not mentioned in the context. He had no name and was in a wheelchair with limited mobility. For some reason, he was trapped here, but he was more like an oracle. The one who is, his responsibility is to instruct the person who is trying to save all the people in this world, and let that person become the messenger who can convey the message to the "God". Among the starvation platforms, there are black roommates who feel that it is most important to climb up and then change their minds to follow Glenn, an old man who just wants to survive by unscrupulous means, and an Asian woman who originally came in to find meaning to become Marilyn Monroe, and some The guards who are suffering from cancer voluntarily choose to enter the prison. From this perspective, what the prison pit represents is more like the layers of the earth wrapped in religion. From idealistic knight to messenger, this is the transformation of the naive Don Quixote after being thrown into the world.
cannibal old man
As the first cellmate Glenn met when he opened his eyes, the role of the old man actually represented ordinary people in the world. He walked into this prison pit because of a ridiculous crime. Although he could not be called a kind person, he was not a wicked person. When the old man walked into the prison, he chose to take a samurai sword with him. He had experienced high-level and low-level falls, but no matter where he was, he survived. The old man's philosophy of life is also very simple and resilient. Even when he first met Glenn, he had the leisure to listen to Glenn recite a passage of Don Quixote. But books can't change him. When the two are in the lower ranks, he knows that food will be in short supply, so he chooses to raise Glenn as a "snail" and eat human flesh in a way he considers decent. The old man is a very simple and complete person, his logic forms a closed loop, and he rarely complains when faced with the distribution of fate. He is more like an ordinary living being in this world, who accepts the rules in the face of the rules. Even if he has experienced cruel and even cruel living conditions, he does not bother to ask "why".
The samurai sword that the old man wears with him comes from a TV shopping advertisement. The advertisement mentioned that this sword is very sharp. Because the advertisement said so, he believed it like this, and even the source of the prison pit was not the same. Associated with this series of commercials. A samurai sword is something that ordinary people mistakenly think can protect themselves, such as power or wealth. Because the unspoken rules of society tell us that these things can protect us, the old man fell into the prison pit to get it, but still believes that the samurai sword is the only thing he needs, and in the end he also died in this, he carried it with him as if Beneath the treasured katana sword. As an ordinary, mediocre person, he went to hell for having something that he thought would make him feel safe, and in hell he would eat the weak for self-preservation, and finally died because of such a thing—the old man was at a relatively safe level Here, he can be regarded as a friendly inmate, and this is what a person will show in a mild daily life; and once he falls into the low-level where food is scarce, the old man will become a "devil" who slowly enjoys human flesh— Such ordinary people do not have great good or evil, but they live according to the rules, without thinking and never trying to change. And it was the existence of such mediocrity that made the messenger Glenn, an idealist with a hint of romance from the very beginning, really begin to look at the world with his eyes open.
Falling woman and climbing black man
The Asian woman descending from the platform and the black man holding the rope trying to climb up are the prison pits trying to break the rules, but they are two very different types of people. As a mysterious and wild symbol, the Asian woman sits back and forth on the platform alone, she chooses to descend again and again despite the danger, and there is also a legend that "she is looking for her own child" in the prison pit. People always want to find a gentle motive for a stubborn woman. The motive of "searching for children" puts a gentle veil on her willful and tough cruelty. What the masses need is an image of a mother to convince the surrounding people. The rationality of the existence of such a female image as a person and herself.
But the ultimate truth is that the Asian woman has no children. She voluntarily went into the prison pit because she wanted to be an Asian Marilyn Monroe. Monroe is an innocent, flamboyant, and voluptuous female figure, she is like a duck to water in the spotlight and Vanity Fair, the embodiment of desire and ambition. The same is true for the Asian woman who came to the prison pit, to maximize her willpower and become a powerful and captivating legendary figure. She has fallen layer by layer, making her become the dream and fantasy of countless people in this vertical prison pit, some people have bad thoughts about her, and some people can only explain all this to themselves with the legend of motherhood. So Glenn being with an Asian woman in a dream is also a simple temptation from the world that the messenger encountered on the way to convey the message to God. This kind of temptation is straightforward and naked, but it was because Glenn was attracted to women at this level that he sublimated and believed in the legends about the children of Asian women. Rather, form is emptiness, and only by being entangled with ordinary earthly desires can unenlightened idealists be gradually reborn as saints. The black man who has been trying to climb up is different. He represents people who have recognized God's own will, and who can change their status quo through some means and adaptations under God's will. When these paths fail, the black boy chooses to follow Glenn and send a message to the god he admires. Loyal and brave, he also quickly grasps what Glenn and the Wise are trying to accomplish, and then desperately protects the message of pâté along the way. What the little black brother depicts is a person in this world who is somewhat helpless about the real class, but is very religious and religious.
Choose the guard who enters the cage
As Glenn's second roommate, the role of the prison guard is undoubtedly the beginning of the entire film's religious orientation. If the previous characters and plots are still relatively obscure metaphors, when it comes to the female guard, the meaning of religious redemption is extremely exposed in her body. The female guard, as the guard of the prison pit, was also the one who recruited Glenn in. In the 25 years she worked here, she only heard about the rules of the Hunger Platform in general, and she never thought to find out, nor was she curious. After learning that she was suffering from cancer, the female guard voluntarily chose to enter the starvation platform. In addition to wanting to understand the place where she had worked almost her whole life, she also wanted to get along with herself again in this relatively closed environment.
Converting to religion after being terminally ill - what the female detainees represent may be those who have an understanding of religion or even some intersections, but do not have firm beliefs, and they often choose to devote themselves to the great changes in their lives. A religion in which one's feelings are pinned. When the female guard came to the prison pit, she chose to bring her own pet dog as her companion. Her choice also represented a type of person in this world. This type of person values the meaning of companionship and seeks simple warmth and affection. coupling. As a former guard of the prison pit, she even stubbornly adhered to the principle she believed in when she was still a guard: everyone only takes the food they need - and therefore, when she provides food for her pet dog, she will use Give up your share of food at the expense. And as a person who can't take care of herself and has a short life, after seeing that the rules of the prison pit cannot operate according to the idealized model, she has no intention to change the rules, but when she finds out that she has always believed that "there are only two prison pits" When the beautiful rules of "a hundred floors, enough food for everyone" and "no children in prison pits" were not true, the female guard's belief collapsed. She chose to enter the religious sanctuary for which she dedicated her life. It turned out not to be a perfect utopia, but a rotten and bloody prison pit. After she discovered this truth, the meaning of life was also lost.
A tribute to the futility of idealism
In the end, Glenn, who provided the theory, and the black brother who provided violent support descended layer by layer, and found that there were far more prison pits than the claimed two hundred floors. The platform stopped at the 333rd floor, and Glenn was in the hallucination. Saw an Asian woman's child. It was a timid girl who had been hungry for a long time, and the platform had descended to this level and there was no food left, except for the plate of Italian panna cotta that the message was about to be passed on. Glenn, the character closest to the saint, in At the last moment, despite the dissuasion of the black brother who insisted on the mission, he chose to eat Italian jelly to the child, and passed the imaginary child as a new message. After completing the mission, he walked into the eternal darkness alone.
Although the end of the story is not so grand, and the child is nothing but an illusion that Glenn saw when he lost consciousness before he died, this last step, replacing his ideals and beliefs with humanity and love, is the role of Glenn's messenger. A major shift from the simple idealist, the messenger, to the role of the saint in religion. In a hell that is far deeper and darker than expected, the saint gave up the purpose of falling and fighting for it, and returned to the truth of saving the suffering in sight. Facing the huge and heavy mission, and the little life in front of him that may be insignificant to this mission, the sage chose to redeem his life and himself.
God does not know
At the end of the story of "The Hunger Platform", the most shocking thing is that after the crystal clear, beautiful and fragile Italian jelly was sent to the top intact after blood and sacrifice, the managers were for this. I felt strange about the food that was not eaten, and finally analyzed it carefully, thinking that it was because a hair fell out of it and was disliked by people, so it was not eaten.
Managers at the zeroth layer operate this hunger platform under the instructions of "God" or "higher power". They believe that the arrangement of "God" must be right, and everything that "God" does must be There are reasons, there are reasons for suffering, and there are reasons for happiness. They believe in all of this, so they also believe that the purpose of this gluttonous feast is to let everyone enjoy the favorite dish that they registered when they entered here. They may be bishops, or priests, who work for the gods and are the messengers of the gods, but they can't see or choose not to see the message that they are trying to convey to the gods in the real hell.
And behind all of this, the gods knew nothing about the three hundred and thirty-three levels of hell.
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