At the beginning, there is a scene of survival at the end of the day, followed by a series of flash-up episodes in the building, unstable power supply and mutual dissatisfaction and hostility between high and low-level users, and the smell of gunpowder gradually becomes stronger.
The continuous differentiation and stripping of classes, violent conflicts over a bucket of paint, tore off the cloak of civilization at once, revealing naked and unpainted barbarism.
Living in a high-rise requires a certain behavior—submission, restraint, and maybe a little bit of madness. And this kind of mental state is not limited to living in high-rise buildings, but also applies to the human social environment.
The decline of the dimension of civilization and the strong visual shock have brought thinking: Beneath the glossy appearance is the most primitive desire of human beings-animals. The desire for control, sexuality, dominance, voyeurism, and in this edifice, there are constantly born children who are separated from their fathers and raised by their mothers. , they don't even know who the father is. This is not reality, but more than reality.
This is the second time I've watched this film, the first time I didn't have a good impression, and the second time was still the same. This time, I watched the movie after reading the novel. I came with many questions and received some new touches. The film has a lot of artistic processing, but it seems that it has not grasped the real core, and the core of this novel is that human beings do not know how to cherish the present, do not know how to be grateful, and do not know everything that is beautiful, and human beings do not deserve to have the future. Many stream-of-consciousness films have not been inherited, but have created a new batch of stream-of-consciousness scenes, which can't be said to fit, but are just a poor presentation, which can be regarded as loyal to the original work.
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