This is a surrealistic film, all the plots in the film take place in a 40-story skyscraper (apartment). Skyscrapers symbolize society and are the epitome of society. The height of the building's floor symbolizes the social class. The limited electricity in the building symbolizes the limited resources of society. And social contradictions arise from the competition for limited resources among people of different classes. The level of the floor symbolizes the level of social class.
Doctor Ryan is a new resident, living in the middle part of the building, and Loy's mistress, Charlotte, lives upstairs. Lowy is the designer of the building, he lives on the 40th floor, and the roof above the 40th floor is his private garden and design studio. He has a wife and four mistresses.
TV photographer Wilde also lives on the middle floor of the building. His wife Helen once gave birth to two children for him, and Helen is now pregnant again, but is pregnant with Lowy's child.
Ryan had an affair with Lowe over playing squash. In the conversation with Roy, he learned that the skyscraper is a social experiment of Roy, and the purpose of the experiment is to hope to integrate class, which is his ambition and his ambition. Lane doubted this from the very beginning. After thousands of years of civilization, human beings have always been in an infinite cycle of: class equality → establishment of political power → overthrow of political power → class equality. This social law brought about by human behavior seems to be more than natural. The rules are also objective. Fusion class? easier said than done!
Lane was a realist, and he remained neutral throughout. But Wilde is not. From the portrait of Che Guevara hanging on the wall of his home at the beginning, we can see that he is a fighter who pursues freedom, longs for equality, and is a firm reformer. (Che Guevara is a former leader of the Cuban revolution, and he has fought for the liberation of the Cuban people throughout his life, democracy, equality, and spiritual freedom.)
Lowy, who is at the top, is an idealist, he designed such a social experiment for his ideal, but he only ideally designed a prototype. What will happen to the prototype in social reality, he himself Also unclear. The skyscraper was a failure in the end, as he finally concluded: 'The design of the skyscraper didn't miss anything, it was just that he put too much in it'. In fact, it's not that he put too many things in it, but the society itself composed of people is complicated. He can design and build buildings, and he can formulate rules. But by the time the building was full, the form had changed, beyond his control.
On the other hand, the failure of the skyscraper has given the bottom-level residents an opportunity to enter a new life. After the turmoil, residents at the bottom have more opportunities to move up. Skyscrapers may become the new paradigm of architecture of the future, Lowy said. It was a communist society, but could he really come?
Finally, we can see that this is actually a political movie. Surrealism is only its manifestation. It is unrealistic and doomed to fail to express the idealistic pursuit of the political dictator's individual through the absurd elements of surrealism. Because there are still a large number of people with lofty ideals who pursue freedom and equality like Wilde and Che Guevara in the society.
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