The story structure is similar to that of "Battle Royale". Nine people with different occupations and identities are held hostage into a sealed building. The building has basic living utensils (beds, toilets, dining tables, wine cabinets, etc.). At the same time, these nine Individuals are told that only one person will make it out alive, and that winner will be rewarded with five million.
The nine people who seemed to be chosen at random were actually typical characters carefully arranged by the director. Among them, the priest represents the faith, the police represent the state violence agency, the black gangster and the female gangster represent those who rebel against social rules, the tennis star and the costume designer represent the hippie hypocritical upper class, and the composer symbolizes the higher education. But insidious and scheming, while dancer Leah is the embodiment of purity and kindness.
This is a cruel game. At the beginning of the story, we seem to see hope. Under the leadership of the police, people try to find an exit to escape from this terrifying place. At the same time, they are called by the priest to pray before meals. Although people are disturbed, there is a small friction. It also began to appear, but under the control of the police and the inspiration of the priest, the whole situation seemed stable and harmonious. But this situation only appeared for a while. After repeated efforts were unsuccessful, the wine cabinet was opened, and people started a brief period of anesthesia with music and alcohol, and obtained temporary satisfaction in the anesthesia. This seems so desperate but real. In real life, aren't we temporarily anesthetizing ourselves in the fear of death? But it's different in the way of alcohol, art, money, power, etc. Isn't it the same in essence?
Despair is escaping, and behind the seemingly indulgent and indulgent scene lies the tragedy that is about to begin. The composer secretly smashes the wine bottle to prepare the broken glass that can kill, and the black gangster accidentally kills the composer's wife, and the trust among the desperate people begins to collapse. Although the police temporarily confine the black gangster to prevent him from hurting or being hurt by others, the social relationship built by the police and the priest is about to collapse and fall apart.
The police died at the mercy of the priest. The priest opened the room where the black man was locked up privately. The angry and impulsive black man rushed out of the room and beat the police officer with a steel pipe without reason. The policeman who controlled the situation by force (the gun in the policeman's hand) died, and he handed over the gun that symbolized power to the priest. However, the composer who was familiar with the laws of society had seen the crisis of the out of control situation and quietly walked back to his own. Room.
The priest tried to control the situation, but the words of kindness and fraternity could not hide the nature of people's hearts. The sadness and helplessness of priests are also the helplessness of faith in modern society. The thin veil of friendship, warmth and kindness cannot hide the suspicion in people's hearts at all. and greed, not to mention using it to control people and restrict their behavior. Without the police, the stable society collapsed. Under the helpless eyes of the priest, people scrambled for food and did not trust anyone. The sinister composer had begun to kill one target after another. Only the kind-hearted Leah followed the priest.
The ending is so sad, people are killing each other, the priest is completely out of control, and finally has to start using guns to protect himself in the chaos. The sinister composer has almost won the final victory, but pure Leah wakes up and kills the composer in the fight and wins the game.
This is an adult fable. It briefly outlines the sadness and tragedy of social life, and describes that the essence of a stable society should be controlled by violent institutions, because human nature is fickle and dark, and belief is just a thin layer to cover up the ugly. Yarn, without the restraint of violence on human beings, human nature will reveal its darkness, and society will lose control. At the same time, it expresses the sadness of life. The controller in the dark (in the play, the game planner who hides behind the camera) has made us unable to resist. We have no choice but to choose to anesthetize ourselves and have to Killing others or being killed by others in brutal combat. This is the original sin of mankind, such a sharp and profound sadness. The story reveals despair, despair of fate, despair of life, despair of human nature, they pervade every plot of the story, and the audience silently and helplessly accepts this fact.
Leah's victory is just the last glimmer of the film. Everyone knows that this is just a simple wish. There is no law that the god of fate will always favor simple and kind people. In fact, in my understanding of social life, many young people who have just entered the society are always hurt because of their pure kindness. After each setback, they have to choose to mature and be as cunning and insidious as other adults. , Sleek, become a social person, and begin to enter the game of mutual conflict. Just like none of us can guarantee whether the pure Leah will still be as pure and kind as before after winning the game, whether she will still believe in the power of law and faith. There's no guarantee that she won't change and become an insidious character in the next game.
After watching the film, in addition to despair and helplessness, I may also think about a question, that is, what would we do if we were in it? On these issues, I have always held no hope for the Chinese people. The intrigue in state-owned enterprises and government agencies is already chilling, and in such despair, it is not long before they begin to suspect and kill each other. Young people becoming cunning and tactful is called "social adjustment". And the police in China can sometimes be almost equated with bandits, and the priest who symbolizes faith should be replaced by a dang?
This is the tragedy of human existence and the tragedy of human society. Although the narrative of the film is thin, we still feel despair and cold, and we can still feel our own insignificance and complete helplessness. Human beings are like a group of ants, looking for anesthesia in the great despair, killing each other in the anxiety of survival, destroying the violent institutions that regulate and suppress human beings, tearing off the veil of the tenderness of the beliefs, and walking into the end of death together.
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