The opening of the story, showing the end result, Lang gets the few men in the entire building.
The designer of this building, Mr. Royle, is an architect. The utopian apartment blocks he created are filled with people at all stages. Neat and orderly. The male protagonist has just moved into a new home and lives on the 25th floor, which is the higher floor of this building. The facilities in the building are very complete. The 15th floor is a supermarket, the 20th floor is squash, and the 30th floor is a gym and spa. People ready to go out to work came to the neat and orderly parking lot.
The designer is a professional modernist. His home is very beautifully designed. The roof on the top floor is a garden with a good ecosystem, with sheep and a white horse that his wife likes. The design of the entire building area is to build 5 buildings around the lake, like an open hand, and the high-rise people seem to be standing on the knuckles of the hand. He feels that the current social environment is not what he likes, so he wants to change it through this design concept. On each floor there are people who correspond to their social status. People with high social status live on the upper floors. He thinks this design is very reasonable, but in practice, he has found some problems. People on higher floors are accustomed to The person who embedded himself in a commanding height to look down on the people below. He feels that some of them are initial problems, and these problems will disappear over time. But the people living in the building don't think so. People in the lower floors have their own problems in life every day. They are forbidden to enjoy the services of certain floors, and they pay the same management fees as those at the upper floors, but they cannot get the same services. The high-level people look down at the middle-level and low-level people with arrogance, and feel that some good resources should be enjoyed by themselves, and the low-level people should not complain. At the beginning, people on the upper and lower floors can still have a common activity area and swimming pool, but the neighbors who live on the 25th floor will feel very disgusted, and they hate some of the children's behavior. The development of some of the latter events has prompted the intensification of contradictions. The conflicting points of conflict of interest shown in the film allude to some very real problems in the real society.
Example: Long's student Monroe. Mr. Royle invited Long to play squash with him and invited him to a party of high-level people hosted by her wife so he could get a better understanding of the building. Lang comes to the party, he sees his student Monroe again, Monroe expresses ridicule and disdain for him, because Lang lives on the floor below him and doesn't understand the rules of their party, Monroe follows everyone in a frenzy Come laugh. Long remembers Monroe's arrogance and decides to play tricks on him, telling him there was something wrong with the test results and a disease in his head to discipline him. After Lang and Monroe entered the office, they arrogantly told Lang that I lived downstairs in Royal to show their noble status.
The design of the building is also very special. The design of the upper floors is inclined upward, which means that the balconies facing the sun are stepped. Residents on the upper floor can see part of the balcony of the users on the next floor, but users on the next floor cannot see the upper floor, which better shows the superiority and status of the users on the upper floor.
When Lang just moved into this apartment, everything was so neat and orderly, and the parking lot was neatly parked, but when the power outage, Monroe's suicide, and subsequent water cuts, garbage jams, and a series of problems caused After the big conflict, the parking lot turned into garbage trucks, the vehicles parked crookedly, the garbage all over the floor, and the traces of ice cream deliberately thrown by the children, which obviously caused a contrast. In other words, it didn't work. Relatively high-level people always put themselves at the highest point, and feel that they are born noble and must occupy all good resources. The way high-level people suppress low-level people is to do all kinds of patty.
Wilde is a man from front to back, eager to climb to a higher level, initially pursuing Charlotte, who lives on the 26th floor. After being rejected, he flirted with other women at parties, and his pregnant wife saw what her husband was doing but didn't stop it. She was disappointed in such a life, and lived a hard life every day. After the power outage on the lower floors, Wilde and the users on the lower floors were complaining to the administrators about the power outage, hoping it would be resolved. The administrator said that it was because the low-level tenants consumed the fee too much. Wilde asked the administrator why we were treated like this. The administrator said that you can't stand on a moral high point without paying the property fee for a few months. During the power outage, the girl was harassed by high-level people, and the administrator ignored it. This is like the people at the lower levels of society now, who desire without appeal, and the helplessness of reality can only cause them to unite against each other. Wilde organized a group of children to recapture the bath that had been occupied by the high-level people, and Wilde also took the opportunity to kill Jane's dog in protest against the high-level people.
After the events progressed step by step, everyone started to get out of control, and Wilde decided to record the situation of the building and make a whole documentary to fulfill his dream. Mr. Royle's rights were siphoned off and he became the nominal building holder, the swimming pool became a gathering place, and Long became anxious and irritable. Royle desperately revised the building's blueprint. On the 15th floor, people were fighting for the last bit of resources, and Lang punched his neighbors for his bucket of paint. The cashier girl spoke French calmly because of the original French book. All the people are like crazy, as if only a few people are normal.
The police finally showed up, but left calmly after Mr. Royle said nothing had happened.
After Wilde found out Toby's identity and found Charlotte and raped her, it was like a man with inferiority satisfied all his vanity, and he finally got to the heights he had never reached. It turned out that all the heights he thought were false. He let Charlotte serve him and eat food like a servant. Everything was just to satisfy his vanity and self-esteem.
Lang once painted a square in the house the same color as the sky outside, and now he painted his home white, which he thinks is the color he likes. But everything that happens outside is so dark.
The men kill each other and there is not much left, the building is taken over by the women, Wilde kills Royle, Royle's wife and several other women, in Toby's kaleidoscope's perspective killing Wilde.
In the end, everything calmed down. No matter where they lived, all the men were placed in the swimming pool. The women lived on the upper floors. Lang was roasting the dog legs that once belonged to the highest floors.
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