Movies are nothing more than an advanced game; there is one category of movies where inversion is the main key word.
Since there is a reversal, it must occur in the relationship of binary opposition; and in all the two sides of binary opposition, there must be one party in the strong position and the other party in the weak position. The fixed pattern that the strong is higher than the weak constitutes the existing basic order of our society and becomes the inner essence of most stable and unstable phenomena in the existing society. But this pattern is not meant to be, or fixed in perpetuity, and therefore, is subject to change. For example, in the antagonistic relationship between adults and children, adults are in a strong position, children are in a weak position, and adults suppress children; after 30 years, children become adults, adults become old people, and the strong and the weak are reversed. However, the vast majority of the relationship between the two parties is extremely stable over a long period of time, and the possibility of reversal is very small, or even impossible. This impossibility becomes possible in the movie.
Planet of the Apes shows the inversion of the human-animal opposition. Humans consider themselves to be the primates of all things, the highest among animals, and have the right to dominate all other creatures in the world. (Actually, some people believe that they also have the right to dominate other people of the same kind.) Therefore, they hunt, abuse, and abuse at will. , do experiments, and think that animals have no emotions, do not know how to think, and are extremely ugly. In the movie, the protagonist and his companions boarded an unfamiliar planet in a spaceship. At this time, thousands of years have passed since their departure. Due to some preservation technology, they are still the same age. On this planet, they found that human beings are in the status of animals, and a group of apes dominates human beings. After accompanying the protagonist through a series of encounters in animal situations - it can be said that the protagonist suffered everything on behalf of the entire human being - we, the audience, are more shocked than watching any public welfare film about orangutans. This is where the inversion strategy works.
"Do you just need love? " shows the inversion of the heterosexual-gay opposition. We live in a world in which homosexuality is considered abnormal, an anomaly, where the mild ones are looked at with incomprehension or hostility, and the serious ones are corrected or excluded. In this set of discourses of binary opposition systems, only one can be right, and only one can be normal. If you follow the positive thinking and try to express the distress of homosexuals and the anti-homosexual behavior of heterosexuals, the impact effect will be limited after all. This movie goes the opposite way. In a world where only homosexuality is normal, every child is raised by two mothers or two fathers, and every child grows up to be sexual only to the same person interest; while a girl discovered her own difference, she felt that what she really liked was boys, and finally chose to commit suicide under the torture of all kinds of bullying by homosexuals. Story mode is pretty old-fashioned, isn't it, but absolutely innovative at the same time.
"Thousand Machines Change 2 Huadu War" is a man-woman inversion. The inversion shown in this film is just a gimmick, without any feminist ideas, some, just a perverted woman whose heart is broken by a man, which will only make men and women disgusted. Meaningless. neglect.
The White Godfather is a white-black inversion. Sorry I couldn't find the source for this film. Judging from the introduction, it should be that the discrimination and suppression of whites against blacks in reality are in turn added to whites.
It is different from "Playing the House", where children envy adults, follow their example, and eventually become adults, and this type of film does not intend to turn the world upside down as a beautiful ideal and ultimate goal, on the contrary, it reverses the existing The real purpose of order is to better improve and maintain the existing order. So inversion is just a strategy here. What these films all want to say is that no one is at fault, no one should be absolutely dominant, and the key to avoiding tragedy is not repression, but tolerance and love. (Except for "Huadu War" of course.)
"Planet of the Apes" is a great movie, which not only shows the upside-down world, but also uses it as a vision for the future of mankind, rising to a deeper exploration of dystopia ; And the other movies above are just constructing a space out of thin air; without that great ending, "Planet of the Apes" is just a wonderful imagination that takes place in a different dimension. The shocking ending feels real, and because of the real, it creates a sense of fear; the irony is thus doubled.
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