This is a very "Black Mirror" movie, where single guilt is pushed to the extreme. All single people are sent to a hotel. Here they have 45 days to pair up with other singles, and once the time limit has passed, the unsuccessful ones must be surgically turned into an animal (the animal species can be chosen, which is also a British joke). The hotel also took great pains to promote the pairing. Various matching banquets, as well as stage performances and other ideological education work "popular with the masses", to express how bad it is to be single and how wonderful it is to have the other half of the world.
All the interpersonal interactions are deliberately false and blunt by the director. From the moment the protagonist checks into the hotel, all his communication with hotel staff and other travelers, even the background music, has an extreme clumsiness, rigidity and unnaturalness. The thought work done by the hotel, the stage performance, and the audience's reaction, are robotic. Even if two people want to be paired, it is often based on a "common point" that is blunt, such as nose bleeding, such as being indifferent and cruel to people and things. acceptance. When true love also needs to be coerced by external force, it will inevitably lead to the inability to have true love at all. Although such a performance is exaggerated, it is undoubtedly a satire of the hypocrisy and incompetence of interpersonal social relationships in modern society, and people are increasingly unable to get along with each other.
When the 45-day limit is approaching, if you can't find the object and don't want to become an animal, there are usually two ways out. One is to flee to the woods, and the other is to hunt down fugitives in the woods to earn extra days. The resistance organization in the woods, at first glance single and reasonable, is full of freedom. Especially the secret parties in the woods, where everyone listens to their own music with headphones on and dances in a silence surrounded by all kinds of single dogs who have turned into camels, pigs, donkeys, or even weirder animals. , it's really a strange mood. Unexpectedly, there is another extreme in the forest. You must be single, and the lover will die. Of course, just as forcing a pairing can't produce true love, abstinence can't prevent true love. Feelings are so wonderful, the more they are born, the less they can come out, and the more they are imprisoned, the more exciting they are. No wonder there are so many cheating people, in fact, there is no shortage of exciting enjoyment.
Seeing this, we may feel that what the director wants to express is his contempt for freedom and oppression. However, when the protagonist needs to gouge out the eyes of the true feelings under this double confinement, it may not stand the so-called test. Gouging out the eyes is indeed an exaggerated challenge, but it undoubtedly poured cold water on the so-called true love invincible. The director seems to have no trust in love at all, so he should have been deeply hurt. In reality, there are also many people who are smart enough to do this kind of test. Whether your mother falls into the water or finds someone to seduce you, the result is that they are asking for nothing. She (he) do not understand that feelings are not used to test, but to endure.
But this movie with a big brain hole brings us a simple truth that is worth using: feelings are not black and white, only freedom is its healthy soil; sincerity is precious, but don’t think about testing it all day long , if you are wary and malicious towards it, it will only give you the ugliest face.
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