At the beginning, I was curious all the way, but I could still watch it at that time. Later, I found that everything was so absurd, and it was difficult to get tired when it was difficult to resonate emotionally. Later, I slowly accepted the absurdity and could read it again. Everything that is absurd in the film, if the subject is replaced by one thing, it will work completely in reality. For example, Ben Miao forced herself to have a nosebleed to match a woman with frequent nosebleeds. In real life, people will also make some sacrifices and do things they don't like to achieve a certain purpose. For example, a couple may not have the same preference for TV shows or movies they want to watch, but in order to watch TV together on the couch and go to the cinema together (if a couple goes to the cinema and then watch them separately) different movies, that would be very strange), they will also find a compromise solution, compromise a little for each other, this kind of thing is called tolerance in real life, it is normal and even positive in emotions . In reality, there are also complex match standards between people, whether they accept it or not. If you like meat so much that you can't live without it, then finding a vegan as your partner won't be a very comfortable thing. Movies abstract the complex standards of life into some relatively superficial iconic things, simple and crude.
In the world outside the woods, single people must die, and in the woods world, lovers must die. These two rules seem extreme and absurd, but now it seems normal homosexuality, in a certain century hundreds of years ago Some places were also subjected to the same extreme treatment. So the whole movie has a strong sense of irony, and the most ironic thing is that at the end, I even felt that the standard they chose when they matched was not so absurd, even if it was too far from reality, but I Willing to accept the rationality of such a society.
In the end, the love between the male protagonist and another woman finally makes people feel ordinary love, and I believe that there is desire-driven and pure love between them, but this movie is set like that, they are in, Belonging to that society, thinking in that way, so in the end I couldn't escape the fate of match. Just like at the beginning, when the male protagonist's ex-wife left him, he asked his ex-wife if her new love was wearing glasses, whether they were wearing glasses or contact lenses. It can be seen from this that the male protagonist and his ex-wife are together because of the match standard of myopia. When he broke up with his ex-wife, he asked his ex-wife like this, which is probably similar to when people ask their cheating partner, "Does he/she love you? Is he/she treating you?" ?" such a question. Later, after he was with the woman in the woods, after she became blind, the male protagonist also asked her many daily questions, such as do you like xx, also in search of match points. Probably this is the absurdization and abstraction of the couple's running-in in reality. In short, the more you think about it, the more you can appreciate the reality of the film. But still look tired.
/*Some people say that the ending is an open ending. When I watched it, I also wondered if the heroine was not blind at all. Some people also say that this is a test that the leader ordered the female protagonist to secretly ask the male protagonist to do. Even if there are many possibilities, there are conspiracy theories or interesting things in it, or maybe even this series of things can pull out a similar one. The new movie of the film, I am not interested in it either*/
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