This kind of "secret room torture" genre film was first set by the Japanese violent aesthetics master Fukasaku Shinji with the movie "Battle Royale".
There is bound to be blood and tears in the way the conflict is presented in such films. But their common foothold is human nature and society.
From the crux of Japanese society and the total failure of adults, Fukasaku Shinji made the power controllers in the superstructure hope to stimulate the "wolf nature" of the next generation of young people in a brutal way, so as not to let them repeat the mistakes of the previous generation and become collapsed. lost generation.
So they threw a group of students on the island, and the last survivors could leave.
A few years ago, Hollywood took this as a blueprint to shoot the worldwide sensational "The Hunger Games" series, proving once again that this type of film has a market and something that can be tapped.
Today, the fat brother is going to recommend a small and ingenious film of the same type, "Bell Labs"!
The film is written by James Gunn, the screenwriter of "Guardians of the Galaxy". He uses the white-collar work field as the framework and uses American thinking to give the massacre in the Chamber of Secrets a new viewing element.
"Bell Labs" eschews complex society, but tries its best to create a complex and changeable human nature Shura field.
The film takes place in a remote workplace, and there are 80 staff members in the entire building, all of whom are proud to have access to this work called Bell Labs.
The uneasy factor was planted at the beginning of the film. The security personnel were all replaced overnight, and they were all mysterious and full of hostility.
The staff didn't mind too much and still focused on their work.
The offices are still immersed in a friendly atmosphere, whether they are work partners, friends, or even secret lovers.
How heartless in the front, how cruel in the back.
Under pressure, under the control of survival instincts, the mask of civilization fades.
A broadcast half-jokingly announced that most of the 80 people in the building today would die in the near future. The first task is to kill two of the 80 people.
If this task is not achieved, there will be a greater crisis.
Everyone thought it was a prank.
While people were still joking with each other, the doors and windows of the building were quickly covered with thickened iron plates. The entire building was closed.
Even more frightening is that two employees were shot in the head without warning!
Fear instantly took over the employees' bodies.
Everyone is beginning to be in danger, and the ugly side of human nature is gradually swallowing up the goodwill of thousands of years of civilization. The broadcast broadcasts again that 30 corpses will appear within the specified time. If the mission is not fulfilled, 60 people will be headshot!
All employees were implanted with chips in the back of their heads when they were hired. They were told that it was to lock the location of the employees and ensure everyone’s safety. In fact, there were micro explosives inside, and everything was premeditated.
The remaining 78 people started a trapped beast fight. People were divided into various types because of their different personalities and lives.
There are cowards, they are destined to be the meat of the strong.
There are those who escape, they can escape the first day of the first year, but they cannot escape the fifteenth.
If there are tough ones, they must become the masters of the overall situation at the expense of human nature.
There are good people, they will give priority to others, and they will be tested because of the selfishness of human nature.
The film has two very bold designs. The symbolism is full of meaning.
The boss of the employee has a military background, so he naturally became a leader, but unfortunately power is always an excuse for selfish desires.
He is maliciously controlled, and the power makes him a tyrannical dictator! He took control of the weapons and began to classify groups:
in order to reach the goal of 30 people, he actually screened out those who had no children, or those who were too old to be shot!
Finally, after a long time, there were still a few people left. At this time, the ugly face of power began to appear. He elected employees who fought desperately against this tyrannical dictatorship. Get ready to shoot!
At this time, the first bloody climax of the whole film was staged! With the familiar and tender melody "California Dreaming", the massacre-style shooting begins!
There was chaos, employees fled and gun-wielding men became bullies of power in violent forms.
Killings are being staged in public, the strong prey on the weak, and civilization and the law can no longer hold back the stirrings of violence.
But after some massacres, the target of 30 people was still not reached.
The second bloody climax of the whole film was staged frantically in a slightly mocking way. Under the stirring melody of Tchaikovsky's "Piano Concerto No. 1", everyone was constantly getting headshots!
In these few minutes of life and death, no one knows whether they will be headshot or not, and everyone can only obey the arrangement of fate and the manipulation choices of those who monitor them.
The classical symphony was used as the background music during the killing, which was decided to pay homage to "Battle Royale".
Violence and humanity's chrysanthemum and knife-style entanglement is definitely the most ruthless irony of civilization.
The blood level of "Bell Labs" easily reaches the limit level. The blood splashing around after the headshot, the brutality of the axe killing, and the human catharsis of smashing the skull with a blunt weapon all make this film's violent scenes with a little comedy Insane ingredients.
This may be a mockery of human nature and social civilization.
In the end, though, the director and screenwriter handled the climactic ending with kindness and hope.
Among the 80 people, the weak will surely die, the tyrants will also suffer because of their loneliness, and those who are cruel will surely provoke resistance. In the end, only the strong but at the same time kind people will be freed.
In order to retain a positive and controlling thought, the director chose a righteous character as the ending, but at the same time he kept a warning to the society.
As one of the routines of genre films, it is a common practice to leave a foreshadowing at the end.
The camera is pulled away, and one screen after another appears. It turns out that the protagonist's company is not the only venue for the killing, and the whole world is going on an office battle royale.
This is a metaphor for society, and at the same time, it alludes to human nature.
The world is full of Asura fields, and everyone is in a dangerous situation of standing in front of the abyss. Whether spirituality and civilization are antidote or fig leaf, only time may tell.
"Bell Labs" avoids the important and chooses to make a big fuss about human nature and stop at the shallow end of sociological issues. This is both a regret and an advantage.
After all, pleasure is the first good medicine to activate the mind!
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