The film itself, I think, is actually a "confrontation". The shooting at the beginning and at the end are all confrontations between soldiers or police and those who hold the slogan "Down with Freedom". And the stories, including the scene of the priest and the nurse, the scene of the disappearance of the little girl, and the scene of the poet with a gun, made me understand why there is such a "confrontation". In that society, what they think of as "freedom" is freedom in their moral values, and they focus on the form of freedom (such as praying for the father, finding procedures, the judgment process), while ignoring the content of freedom (such as priests debauchery, the little girl was actually around, those who were killed by the poet, etc.). Everyone is "showing" and then using their ideas to eliminate those who oppose it. They reconstruct morality, behavior, and truth in their own minds, and they embrace, enjoy, and preserve it all. To put it bluntly, what they have created is a society of desires, but they have "normalized" and "rationalized" it.
As for the absurd elements such as ostriches, chickens, hallucinations, corpse phone calls, etc., I understand it as a very clever part of the film. From the beginning, I noticed a kind of self-denial of the French, or internal negation (such as the difference between English and French word meanings). , the eradication of religions, the taboo of architectural styles, etc.), and these absurd images are the reaction of internal negation, causing their spiritual emptiness and disorder, etc. I think this is also the so-called "free society" they created. Carry the criticism.
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