This is a sci-fi movie with no sci-fi color at all. If you open this movie with a curious mind and want to have a glimpse of the charming figure of Dousen, you may be disappointed, because in addition to Dousen, in the film The frequent occurrence of wine pools and meat forests is rather uncomfortable for the senses.
JGBallard imagined a mini-society that could be all-encompassing and put it into a super skyscraper, which is clean, orderly, and decent, where all the necessities of life can be satisfied without leaving the building, for example, you can go to the 15th floor shopping in the supermarket, going to the swimming pool on the 20th floor, the squash court on the 25th floor and the gym on the 30th floor to exercise... But all of this was caused by frequent power outages and water cuts and other resources in the lower floors, and the long-suppressed lower-class residents protested , and the director of the documentary, Oscar Wilde, rushing into a closed swimming pool used by the wealthy with expelled children is a clarion call for the escalation of the conflict. As the chaos of hatred deepened day by day, the skyscraper finally became a rubbish-laden mess where all the unsightly, hidden in the dark, carefully veiled things were brought into plain sight, and the people. Under the chaos, all life is corroded by corruption, there is no hope, and the skyscrapers are turned into wild places day by day.
The protagonist of the film, Dr. Lang, as the middle layer of the top design architect Mr. Royle and the civilian representatives, originally tried to sew the great gap between the two, but he chose to hide when everything collapsed. He's a decently confused man himself, he'll tell Monroe about his illness in revenge for his mockery and humiliation, he'll get into a fight with a looter over a can of paint, and he'll have sex with a desperate friend's wife who's about to give birth ; but he would also staunchly refuse to perform a brain-slicing operation for Wilde, and shout that Wilde is the only normal person.
This work is difficult to define directly with science fiction movies, which may stem from JGBallard's unique understanding of science fiction, who has a medical academic background. Since he abandoned medicine and devoted himself to the creation of science fiction, the most popular in the field of science fiction. All of them are Asimov, Heinlein and Clark. Ballard believes that the above writers have not fully exploited the potential of science fiction. They only agree that outer space, like spaceships, aliens, etc., has an impact on science. The attitude is completely false and unreasonable. He believes that the "inner space" that depicts the way the inner world and the outer reality get along is really worthy of enthusiasm to describe.
"Thinking that science fiction should explore that realm, the realm where the mind hits the outside world, not just depicts fantasy. . . . So I started writing . Storm, "An Interview with JGBallard", Speculation, No. 21, February 1969, pp. 4--8. Interview recorded at Shepperton, 5 July 1968.)
Since then, he has constantly revised his understanding of "inner space",
"Inner space - I mean the created space you see in dreams, especially in surreal paintings, but it also exists in highly disorganized realities like war zones, plane crash sites , earthquake ruins, abandoned buildings, where the observer superimposes his own fears, dreams, phobias—inner spaces defined in this way, I think, appear to some extent in my later novels.” (Samuel Francis , "JG Ballard: A Few Brief Queries (Interview)", April 2005, published in The JG Ballard Book, The Terminal Press, 2013.)
"Skyscraper" represents Ballard's group-based creative direction: the modeling of small closed societies.
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