However, I don't care if there are lobsters in the movie (blind). It's just a hard shell and gimmick for the film, what you get is the meat inside.
Therefore, we don't need to go too deep into those lines that seem to contain a lot of philosophy and meaning of life, how literary and artistic performances and hypocrisy, "don't listen to what they say, just pay attention to what they are doing", so that you can get the truth .
So, here's what I understand to be a lobster feast.
Why choose lobster, some people say that it is the hard appearance and the noble temperament of blue blood - it is pure nonsense. When you eat lobster you feel like you are facing a noble knight in armor? I think the reason why I chose lobster is to reflect the background of the protagonist from the side - a city tramp would not think of lobster.
The protagonist is an architectural designer, and his income should belong to the middle class and above, but there is a sense of humor in the world setting: no matter what class, social status, if you return to singleness, you will be locked in a concentration camp (hotel). Li Laogai (daytime labor camp - listening to various lectures on the dangers of being single, night labor camp - catching freedom runners back to deduct the sentence). If you don't find a matching partner within 45 days, you will be expelled from the "human status" according to the law, and you will enter the "beast realm" and reincarnate again - I strongly doubt that this is a Buddhist popular film~
Here we can see how the change of the three views will cause the film. Influence: Judging a person's legal existence value, whether he is single or not; the first article of the good citizen certificate checked by the police patrolling the street asks whether you have a partner; the state machine can destroy you humanely because you insist on being single, and "transform" into a Animals - this is what really kills you! When singleness and life are at stake, he becomes a top priority - some choose to obey and make do, some choose to run away and resist. (Judging from the number of free runners in the film, the rebels are not large enough, they belong to the initial stage - but the revolution is never a dinner party, it is never full of literature and art as you imagine, it is always bloody). Some things, only when you break them down and show you will you realize the importance of it - that's what this film wants to talk about - the meaning of what those people call a dystopian film.
So the rebellious ethnic groups who escaped the general physical constraints of society must be the "happy and happy people who drink and eat meat" in Liangshan Poli? Unfortunately, this is not the case in the film, it just goes from one extreme to the other - intimacy between people is not allowed, absolute "independence" is required, and you need to dig a hole in advance before you die, so as not to trouble others. - Details: Not only between men and women, men and men, women and women, men and men who used to be women, women and women who used to be men... ~
The biggest commonality between these two worlds is only one: the indifference of human nature.
The two opposing camps in this play also have the Infernal Affairs play: the female leader of the free runners, who has set up an undercover agent to work as a waitress in the hotel - that is, to help the male protagonist rub and rub his organs every day to check the reaction ability (how much is this hotel? Xing, the service is really good), the one who finally helped the male protagonist escape to Liangshan - but the undercover is very miserable - in the later "blind" scene, the female leader used her as a meat shield to protect the rabbit who loves to eat. Mori girl slashed, and no one cared whether she died or not.
Like Song Jiang, who just arrived in Liangshan, the female leader has the problem of how to deal with her family. So there was a scene where 4 people went to the city to visit relatives. The female leader found a husband for herself, and also found the male protagonist and Mori girl to visit her parents as employees of her company. Judging from the female leader's family and educational background, this leader should have been very queen-like since she was a child - it can be seen from the fact that the two elders respect her independent behavior. This kind of queen temperament should be the flower of independence and self-cultivation cultivated by the two elders since childhood, but unfortunately it bears the fruit of willful violence and indifference. Due to the closeness of the family and social background, there should be a sense of identity between the female leader and the male lead, which is commonly known as the grouping of things and people being divided into groups. Therefore, when he found out that the Mori girl and the male protagonist decided to elope, he blinded the Mori girl without hesitation, but it was just a ritual that let the male protagonist experience the feeling of digging his own grave and lying on his own. The female leader is absolutely not stingy with bloody and violent means. Don't think that she uses an empty gun to test the relationship between the hotel manager and the husband and wife. (Under any circumstances, you must use an empty gun. Otherwise, what if the person with the gun freaks out and shoots you a shot? Bug: You should use a clip pistol instead of a revolver, thinking that the revolver can directly see whether it is loaded or not. .)
Who is the male lead? The existence of the male protagonist is to serve as our projection - an idealized existence who does not want to find someone to match with, does not want to fall in love because of sympathy, and creates illusions and deceives himself for the sake of matching. Clearly, 45 days is not enough to find the ideal partner, thus threatening survival. ——The lesser of two evils, so with a little guilt (the death of the biscuit girl), pretending to achieve a cold commonality and successfully pairing with the cold girl - However, the cold girl did not believe him, and put him to various tests, It finally broke out in the "Kicking the Dead Dog" incident - the cold woman was going to report the male protagonist and let him "suddenly die" and directly turn into an animal. The male protagonist can only resist (in fact, there is a period of inner struggle, otherwise he will not break out at the door of the office), save his life, escape, and defect to Liangshan. So is his subjective willingness to fall for the grass? Obviously not, just a stopgap measure. This expression, visible on the movie poster - waiting for an empty seat - hugs an invisible partner.
The pictures of forest life in the movie are very beautiful, and the various strange animals that appear in it add to the sense of fairy tale picture. But if you think about it carefully, you will feel very dark and cold - those animals that should not appear (flamingos that appear in the tundra forest, etc.) The right unfortunate ones became. The blond woman who was proud of her hair later turned into a long-haired pony grazing in the scene where the male protagonist and the Mori girl were making out. Let's not talk more about the little animals that turn into rabbits or something and are served as snacks. Thinking about it this way, the chances of turning into a lobster and being thrown into the sea and being caught and eaten are still very small, and it seems to be a good choice.
So, here comes the biggest point of contention - the film's open ending. In the end, did the male protagonist choose to blind his eyes and live a happy and dark life with the forest girl?
My personal opinion is, no. He chose to escape - and never came back.
Then why take her out of the forest and put the female leader in the pit? —He thought he could do it, but he couldn't. He can't do anything to others, and he can't do anything to himself. ——In fact, it is the same from the perspective of the Mori girl - she questioned the female leader: Why did you blind me instead of him? --human nature.
After Mori was blind, the male protagonist asked a lot of questions, such as blood type, etc., trying to find "common ground" to convince himself that she was the other half he needed to take away, but failed. And so a stupid idea came out of the urge - what we have in common can be "blind together". ——However, as a rational male protagonist, he should think more about how to live with a person who can’t tell the difference between kiwi and tennis.
I once thought that the male protagonist actually wanted to take Mori to the hospital and give her one of his eyeballs so that everyone could see it.
However, the director and I think differently, he wants to express the selfish and dark side of human nature.
From the moment they enter the restaurant, the background picture is extremely realistic with the cars passing by (did you forget this is the future setting?) to feel where things are going.
Of course, you imagined that they were blind and lived a good life together, which is also a good ending - but do you think two bloody holes and bloodstains on the chest would look good on the picture? Will it pull the film directly into the horror genre?
So this ending, which says nothing, is excellent - just not very comfortable.
So, in the end, I only saw two things I wanted to express: one is dissatisfaction and escape from any restraining system (to put it nicely, the pursuit of freedom), but the weakness of human nature determines how society develops.
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