It cannot be simply regarded as a critical system.
The element of dystopia is not high. What is more obvious is the criticism and irony of extreme red tape and bureaucracy. Many people are talking about this, but what I see in its core is more of a Greek-style personal tragedy.
1 Frequent dream scenes show that the protagonist is a person who is addicted to dreams and delusions, and he is tired of coping with family relationships, lack of professionalism, and even saying that he has no hopes, desires, and dreams, all showing his world-weariness.
2 It seems that the protagonist who has no interest in everything, only follows the rules, and the reason for being driven is the dream girl seen in reality. On the other hand, Tuttle, an electrical engineer who does not follow the rules, also resonates with the heroic self in his dream, and he begins to doubt the correctness of the procedures and systems.
3 The heroine originally did not show any awareness of confronting order, but just wanted to get back a sense of justice for her neighbors. There is a misunderstanding here, but it is also because of the hero's heroic romantic delusion to save the American style, which makes him use his identity and hard to break through the level. On the other hand, he thought that the heroine was caught and became anxious, he began to completely ignore the work procedures and external social pressure, and was rejected by everyone around him. He accidentally damaged the pipeline system in a retaliatory vent (you need to know how much this will give Related citizens have brought unnecessary troubles and losses.)
4 In the end, he took the risk of forging a death certificate in order to be able to elope with the heroine and return to the countryside, which eventually led to his arrest and murder of the heroine. The big part of this is also his own responsibility. Especially after he brought the heroine back to his mother’s house, he did not explain and discuss with the heroine, so he let her hide it and solve it by himself, which completely reflected a kind of male chauvinism delusion tendency. Of course, after he succeeded, this kind of The delusion was met for a short time, and then there was a pure black tragic ending.
5 Under the desperate blow of knowing the heroine's death and inability to change everything, he also lost the only reason to live in reality, unable to face this bleak reality, and he was trapped in dreams and delusions and could no longer wake up. (In a sense, I think of Hideaki Anno’s EVA ten years later...)
In other words, if there is no wrong intervention by the protagonist, or a more idealized and truly heroic protagonist, the heroine is entirely possible to be saved. Even if caught, she will not necessarily make the judgment of a terrorist or an accomplice. It is the protagonist’s. Interference makes things worse, and this is the root of the reality and tragedy he is least willing to face.
In fact, when a friend was killed, and he blew up the entire building after he escaped, he probably guessed it was a dream, because that means that the protagonist has developed from a world-weary person to an anti-social person, as long as he is a person who maintains the social system. , There is no innocent person, there can be no guilt as a killer, even if there are many innocent ordinary people such as cleaners... But the whole story makes people feel that he has not yet reached this point, just the germination of anti-social thoughts, but If he really escaped and saw the fact that the heroine died tragically, the situation would be hard to tell...
Finally, the unsatisfactory point of this story is the bombing that was laid at the beginning and the tuttle disappeared at the end, which seemed a bit loose (I still think that the thing he installed in the heating system of the protagonist’s home will cause Explosive device, but it turns out that what the central service station does is more destructive...)
But thinking about it this way may be more tragic. The protagonist is just one of the innocent souls who are unable to adapt to this cold age and is destroyed, and the "terrorists" or "revolutionary forces" who are really trying to change the times have not even appeared. The protagonist is just a hapless little person. (Recalling what Mr. Lu Xun said, those who are not revolutionary may be regarded as counter-revolutionary and killed in revolution, or those who are regarded as revolutionary and killed in counter-revolutionary...)
So this movie is actually about a small person's beautiful yearning for a simple life being ruthlessly destroyed by a mechanized society that is too complex and indifferent. Since the little man cannot fight the times, he will only become a loser who "cannot adapt to the society and was eliminated".
The surface of this tragedy is a satire of absurd reality, but behind it is full of powerlessness towards reality and personal fate.
New Discovery: The Echoing Relationship between Wonderful Fantasy and A Chinese Ghost Story
Ghost Story used to look when he felt background set the entire world view is very surreal, it is a conventional costume drama with extreme chaos is different today is this critic woke point, which refers to "render woman with flowing veil "The beauty of the Lord" was not originally used from the Ghost Story. Suddenly, I found that the two works still have many echoes: for example, Ning Caichen is the same as the civil servant in this work. The capable little person, who seems at a loss in such an unbearable era and reality for normal people, escapes into the world of fantasy dreams, a big adventure around love encounters and the identity of the heroine, and the one who helps the hero is also the uncle and the hero, Yan Chixia It is also similar to the image of Datuk in Wonderland...
This magical movie now feels even more magical!
In terms of time, A Chinese Ghost Story is two years later than the original one, and the possibility of being affected is very high. If there are other echoes, please add it!
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