Speaking of the main characters in the film, the male protagonist is an aquatic humanoid creature. Anyway, I don't see how handsome it is, but who made him the male protagonist, and also magically moved the female protagonist's heart. And the heroine Eliza is a dumb girl who looks somewhat restrained and gentle, working as a cleaner in the laboratory. In addition, there is a self-proclaimed hunger artist Igils, who is also a homosexual; Strickland, the head of a government laboratory, has a brutal personality; and Zelda, a colleague of black cleaners, cares meticulously With Eliza.
This is a group of lonely creatures. The male protagonist is a guinea pig facing the destiny of being dismissed; while the female protagonist has no entertainment or friends, and uses masturbation to relieve herself; the artist was fired because of a scandal, and his career was unsuccessful, and he lived with a group of cats. Together; Zelda is always nagging and complaining about her incompetent and troublesome husband. These people's lives are very small, and they belong to relatively disadvantaged groups such as aliens, dumb, gay, and black. They united and fought against the symbolic vicious power and won victory. The theme of the story is the lonely person. In this unfair society, try to break the barriers of species, gender, race, and disadvantaged groups, and find love and warmth.
Undoubtedly, these characters are undoubtedly very representative for the theme of expression. They are simply labels for certain types of people in society, but in terms of the shaping of the characters in the film, these people are just a label. No matter, they are more like a symbol, and forgot to be the basis of a person. I feel that none of the characters in the film are full enough to really impress me. Let’s just talk about the male protagonist. I won’t mention the value of his face, and his character has not been highlighted at all. Could it be that the reason why he can deeply attract the female protagonist is because the female protagonist is too lonely? It's all because the love between the host and the host came so fast, like a tornado. After eating a few eggs together, they started to take a bath with a mandarin duck. A person-high water was placed in the bathroom, which caused the cinema downstairs to leak.
It can be seen that there are still many dark elements in the film, including bloody violence, sexual desire, and ugliness of human nature. The film is presented in a relatively straightforward way, so it is easy to give people a deliberate feeling, not only lacks depth, but also greatly destroys the beauty, just like Strickland and his wife’s bed scene, the heroine’s nonsensical masturbation, To be honest, I personally feel that it is a bit disgusting.
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