People pursue stability, and their dream is to have a house and a car, and not worry about food and drink. If you are given a house for free, daily needs are provided for free, as long as you help raise a child, will you agree? The Irish suspense film "Ecological Box", which was recently screened, simulates a free and stable life, let's see what kind of experience it will be.
The film begins with a story in a bird's nest, and I thought that "Animal World" was staggered. I saw a cuckoo egg mixed in the bird's nest of the brown-headed crow. After the cuckoo chicks broke their shells, they used the power of milking. Push the baby brown-headed crows out of the nest, whether they have broken shells or not, and fall to their death under a tree. Even though the cruel little cuckoo grows to be full of wings and the size of two brown-headed crows, the cuckoo mother still feeds him, regardless of whether it is her own child or not, as if raising children is just part of her survival habit. One, no matter who is feeding, the biological gene prompts her to complete the feeding behavior.
Why does the movie have to put this first paragraph? With this question in mind, let's take a look at what kind of story the movie "Ecological Box" tells.
The male protagonist Tom is played by the familiar Jesse Eisenberg, yes, the little white face in "Zombieland". His daughter, Jerry, is a kindergarten teacher and a funny gardener. Tom and Jerry are in love with each other. The parents are satisfied and everything is in place, just a wedding room. The young couple came to a sales office to see the house. Martin, the salesman, seemed to have an uncontrollable joy when he saw them. Soon he persuaded the young couple to see the house.
The two of them sang and danced all the way, followed Martin's car through cities and villages, and came to the "Yongde" community in the remote suburbs. The sign at the door said: You are home now! Yongde will give you a textured and eternal home! People have become accustomed to the bragging of real estate advertisements, what an eternal home, cut~!
Entering the community, all the houses are the same as the models seen in the sales office, and the young couple can't sing songs. A strange atmosphere is floating around. Tom looked at Martin's face with a smile that could not close his mouth. Said to Jerry: Let's hurry up and withdraw after reading it. Jerry agrees.
Martin took them to see room 9. The house has two bedrooms and one living room. In addition to the master bedroom, a boy's room has been prepared. Men's and women's pajamas, complete facilities, considerate at home, you can check in without carrying a bag.
The two of them felt okay, and they were about to learn more about the delivery date, when Martin disappeared with the car and the others. The two felt even more bizarre, pulled over, and drove away. When he left, Jerry happily said "bye bye", but he ran lap after lap, stunned that he couldn't let go of this community, and every time he returned to room 9 as if he was obsessed. Tom complained that Jerry didn't recognize his way and let me come. So Tom drove around again and again, and returned to room 9. Tom and Jerry drove until dark, until the car ran out of gas, and just stopped at the door of room 9. There's no signal on the phone either, what a hell. Jerry shouted a few times, and there was an echo coming back. It felt like he was in a huge enclosed space, and the feeling of the box came out a little.
No way, the two had no choice but to go back to the room to rest. Since he insisted on giving us a suite for free, although he was a little angry, he reluctantly accepted it first. The two took out the wine and strawberries prepared for them. They tasted nothing when they ate it, and there was no sound around them when they slept at night. It was a good place to sleep peacefully.
Early the next morning, the two found a ladder and climbed up to the roof. It was okay if they didn’t look at it, but they were dumbfounded (liao): they were surrounded by rows of houses that looked like a hair, and they couldn’t see the edge at all, except for them. No one else, no annoying neighbors, no water meter checks, and no one to show you that his house is more beautiful. Tom came up with an idea: walk in a straight line towards the sun, turn over whatever you encounter, and maybe you can get out.
So the two walked and walked, until September 9th, there was no spirits in other places, and there was no end. The two went from dawn to dusk, to doubting life, to forgetting who they were, and still did not go out. Finally, they met a house with lights on, and the two rushed over excitedly, never so much wanting to meet a neighbor, or just a living person. It turned out that it was still room 9, the eternal home, the eternal room 9. What does that really mean? ! (With an expression of flipping the table (╯‵□′)╯︵┻━┻)
At the same time, Tom and Jerry also found a large box of food and daily necessities at the door of the house. This real estate developer was so considerate, knowing that the couple was tired and hungry after a long day's absence, they immediately sent free food and vegetables. A free lunch has finally fallen from the sky, are you happy Sao Nian? Tom was also very happy, tore off a piece of the cardboard box, set fire to the house, and went to your eternal home! !
The two who were sitting on the side of the road watching the burning house were probably too tired, and slept until dawn. When I woke up, I found that not only the house was still there, but there was also an extra box, and there was a baby in the box! That's right, a living baby boy. On the lid of the box was written: Raising a child leads to release.
The truth is revealed! It turned out that they were given free food, free drinks and free housing, so that they could help raise their children? ! This echoes the clip at the beginning of the film, when the mother cuckoo raised the cuckoo baby who squeezed out the cuckoo baby. Are Tom and Jerry willing to be the same as Mother Crow, no matter who the baby is, and raise him as good parents?
Awesome, this real estate developer not only gave away the house and all the necessities of life, but also gave away a child! The young couple were also overjoyed. In order to thank the real estate developer, they wrote a big word "help" on the roof.
Three months later, the baby has grown into a seven- or eight-year-old boy, saving a lot of feeding troubles! The little boy is also very clever, and his imitation ability is superb. Not only did he quickly learn to raise the middle finger with Tom and Jerry, but he could also imitate their quarrel like the original sound. The young couple was used to such weird things, and scolded "weird little bastard", turned over and continued to sleep.
To add to the realism, this little monster, like a normal child, will use piercing screams to express food, protest, etc.
The young couple got something for nothing all day long, and felt a little uneasy in their hearts. They sat at the door with a pickaxe and waited for a pickaxe to smash the head of the property that delivered the boxes to the door. It is a pity that the property is also very low-key, and has always worked silently and never showed up.
Tom puffed the last cigarette butt while Jerry went in to pour his coffee. Tom flicked his finished cigarette butt onto the little monster. The naughty cigarette butt bounced in a 360-degree backflip and fell onto the grass. The surrounding grass was completely burned away, revealing the ground.
There is another village in the darkness of willows and flowers, and there is no way out. I can't go to heaven, but I can always escape. The two quickly took out their shovels and dug, and found that the soil was also made of strange materials, and even the soil in this perverted ecological box was fake. But Tom was reluctant to give up, digging soil, at least he had something to do. Look, you who get something for nothing will always miss the passion of labor.
The two would occasionally hide in a car that was out of gas, and there was only a little smell of the real world left in the car. One day, the two suddenly found that there was still electricity in the car, and when the music was on, the two enjoyed themselves. The little monster saw it and joined in, but he didn't expect the little bunny to trip over Tom. Tom knocked his head on the curb and the music stopped. Tom was very angry and picked up the little monster and threw it to the ground. Jerry, who didn't know what to do, thought Tom was crazy, left Tom, and cared about the little monster, but the little monster laughed weirdly, stood up and then jumped up silently.
As the little monster more and more disgusting imitations and screams, Jerry blindly favored him again, as if he had taken the role of mother, Tom was pushed out of their circle, like a cuckoo out of the cuckoo baby bird's nest.
The couple became more and more distant. Tom had to indulge in digging. One day, he suddenly found a strange noise at the bottom of the pit, which gave him a glimmer of hope. Excited to continue digging down, actually dug up a body in a bag.
The little monster got up in the middle of the night to watch TV. There were only abstract black and white patterns on the TV. People looked confused, and the monster watched with great interest. Piece infers that this is one of the channels through which the little monster communicates with the property. Jerry can't get his remote control, just like any parent can't get a kid's remote.
In the morning, the little monster screamed and urged Jerry to give him breakfast. Tom was really angry. He picked up the screaming little monster and locked him in the car, thinking that the little monster would be suffocated to death. Collect corpses. At this point, Jerry had already treated the little monster as a child. After struggling, he took the car key and released the little monster.
In the end, Jerry became a crow's mother. She ate breakfast with her child, and lay on the grass together to see the clouds, each one a hairy. Everything was disgustingly perfect, and Jerry roared in rage, like a female social animal. Doing housework and taking care of children is like a woman's vocation. Over time, opening a book is like reading a book from heaven, turning on the TV and not knowing what to say, gradually losing understanding, and gradually losing the ability to act and think.
Outcast Tom kept digging holes, very hard, very tired, with no end in sight, meaningless, just to have something to do. I worked outside like a pig until late all day, and I didn't go home to sleep, so I just slept in the hole. The same is very much like a male social animal.
The little monster disappeared that day. Jerry looked around and found that he was standing in front of the house holding a book. The book, like the TV, should be the communication channel between the property and the little monster. Jerry began to use her preschool skills, tricking the little monster, and asking him to imitate the people who gave him books and met him. I saw the little monster bow its back and make a terrible sound. At the same time, it opened its mouth wide, and several large bubbles bulged around its neck, as if it was about to transform into a toad monster. Jerry is horrified and the "HELP" on the roof is changed to "FUCK YOU".
In a blink of an eye, the little monster grew into a big monster, and Tom was getting weaker and weaker due to exhaustion.
Jerry stalks the big monster and nearly loses himself. When they came back, Tom was dying, and he was locked out by the big monster. The two had to spend the night in the car, and Tom was dying. Jerry begs the big monster for help, but the big monster ignores it, saying: Maybe it's time to release him.
So, the big monster went out again and came back with a box. Jerry thought it was emergency medicine or something, but when he opened it, it turned out to be a body bag! It turned out that the release the big monster said was death. When you die, you're free, there's nothing wrong with that. Recalling that the monster once tripped Tom, and didn't care about his life or death, he calmly put Tom in a body bag and threw it into the hole he dug himself. Just like the cuckoo that squeezed the baby crow out of the nest at the beginning of the film, the monster is the cruel cuckoo.
Jerry couldn't take it anymore. He took a pick and slammed the monster in the head. The injured monster crawls around like a cockroach. Jerry followed and got in, and saw the same little boy as the monster when he was a child, the housewife who was crying in despair, the man and woman who had sex, and the man who couldn't stand suicide. It was no different from their previous life. Everyone is here . In this eternal home are eternal walking dead.
Jerry fell out of the terrifying depths, and had lost half his life in despair. The monster put her alive in a body bag, and before zipping it up, Jerry asked the monster, what is a mother? The monster replied: One who has prepared her son for the world. After raising the child, she can die. Then the monster threw Jerry into the pit and buried him alive. We can also imagine this ecological box as a large incubator, but replace the machine inside the box with the nutrients necessary for the baby to survive and grow, and replace it with a pair of flesh-and-blood men and women.
After the monster cleaned the house and was ready to welcome the next couple, he drove out of the community and came to the sales office. He pinned the former Martin's name tag to his clothes, put the old Martin in a body bag and folded it. Get up and put it in the drawer. Taking over the job of the previous Martin called "Settlement", with a stiff smile on his face, he is ready to welcome the next couple who are looking at the house, and sell them a quality eternal home and an eternal and stable life.
The movie ends here. Now I ask you again, to give you all the security you want, do you still dare to ask for it?
The real estate is named "yonder", which translates as "Yongde". Why does it feel like a Chinese real estate? Is this film meant to satirize the life of Chinese people?
This can't help but make people think that there are indeed a considerable number of Chinese parents born in the 60s and 70s. Living a stable life, living and working in peace and contentment, and long-term flow are their ultimate life goals, and they also hope that their children will do the same. Obedient children will inevitably accept and repeat their parents' lives according to their parents' wishes.
But the film is a high-concept film after all. It is done so extreme and explicit, just to give people who have lost themselves an inspiration: I hope this film can remind us that pain makes people truly grow into human beings, which is exactly what happens in life. Uncertainty, some storms, some ups and downs, and some differences make life colorful.
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