The biggest gimmick of the movie is also the beautiful body of Dousen, which can attract a large number of fans and younger brothers to see the beauty. The movie uses a good script. Utopia is a permanent motif. From ancient times to the present, various sages have imagined or even created a utopian society. The opposite rebellious theme of dystopia must also have something to write about.
In the movie, as a brain doctor, Dousen lives in the utopian society of a skyscraper. It is isolated from the world but has everything in it. The hardware and software required for social operation are complete, and the same social contradictions also appear in this building.
The designer of the skyscraper, Royal, wants to establish a new social order. In addition to the one he lives in, there are four more buildings under construction. He wants to control the world but never pays attention to the needs of the people at the bottom. The splendor of the high-rise building reveals that under this layer of shiny fur is the carrion full of flies and insects on the bottom layer. The imbalance between the ground floor and the upper floors has made the building unsupportable. Women are only reproductive tools in this building, while the middle and upper floors believe that women should clamp their legs and have fewer children. Royal planned his thoughts on the roof of the building and occasionally found a high-level party with his wife to hold a party. The people at the bottom were fortunately working hard and even their basic living needs could not be guaranteed. The backlog of resentment erupted collectively after a major power outage, and the order was out of control, allowing violence and sexual desire to be completely vented. Blood, sex, and organs are placed naked on the table, and the corpses are thrown freely for the pleasure of violence. Without noble virtues, civilization has fallen into boundless darkness, and only primitive desires remain. Everyone's behavior is disgusting and powerless to the order. When the order is broken, the moral shame and honor are abandoned, only to snatch resources to survive.
The brain doctor played by Higgins tries to maintain his image at first, then hangs out with the courtesan Charlotte and tries to climb up close to Royal. After getting to know Wilder, he thinks that he is more interesting than a high-level figure. Finally, under the humiliation of Royal's old literary wife, her own goddess Charlotte was humiliated by Wilder and Royal and finally had a nervous breakdown. Until the end, Royal insisted on his own philosophy of governing the world, and was still confident that he could handle everything.
In the whole film, only Charlotte and Royal's illegitimate child holds a kaleidoscope and looks at the ugliness and primitiveness of others. He is a genius child who looks down on all beings like a god.
In the end, everything turned into chaos, and Hitherto was roasting a dog's legs and smoking a cigarette on the rooftop. Utopia completely collapsed.
There are many characters in the movie with complicated relationships, there is no very clear plot structure, and there is too little exploration of human nature and the world outside the building. Although the main actor Shik Sen is good at acting, he is limited to himself. He is not a chameleon-type actor. Surprise show. Movies have good skeletons but only empty skeletons, just to let us in the real world feel the coolness after the order is broken, and there is nothing more to dig.
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