1. Re-watching Matteo Garrone's Gomorra (2008) and reality show (Reality, 2012) because of the kennel horror, until now I realized that it was the work of the same director. These three films It can be regarded as a critique of the three levels of society, the first is the terrible structure of the dark layer of society, the second is the flashy face of the upper class of society, and the third is the blindness and ignorance of the middle class of society.
2. Figure 1 is the top-view shot of the story for the first time, in four-fifths of the movie, that is, God's perspective. Italy is a Catholic country, but this point is not visible in the movie. When human beings in modern society break free from the commandments of God, when religion retreats, the theory of evolution proposes that after that, in Western culture, it means that people retreat to the state of animal competition, survival and instinctual venting. So the recurring phrase in the story is: this is a war. The way to survive is the law of the jungle, which is the worldview shaped by the movie. Therefore, the first scene of the film is murder, which clearly presents the most basic and deepest life and death worries and troubles of living beings.
3. Although the four stories have no intersection, they are equivalent to four variants of one story; therefore, when the fragments of the four stories are intertwined and edited together, there is no sense of separation or confusion, and the film becomes a whole. Presenting the main axis of the story: the powerful confrontation between individuality and collectiveness.
4. The unbreakable structure of contemporary society presented by the film, from high-ranking officials to merchants and pawns, is all deployed on an unshakable food chain.
5. After the city-state was established, Aristotle said, man is a political animal, and man cannot break away from the social structure that has been formed. After the formation of society, structure is a very important part. Especially, after the establishment of the mechanical view of the universe, man is a screw tightly tied to a big instrument, and there is no personality, individuality, independence and freedom to speak of. In the story, one discovers how the individual is deprived: deprivation of interpersonal choices, propensity to work, emotional bonding, and finally, deprivation of thought, and a prohibition on asking any questions. The four stories lead to such a tragic ending. When man wants to break away from his belonging but deprives him of his structure and community, the consequence is death, if not death, or exile, panic and panic, which is equivalent to death. With this ending, the film makes the whole society reflect on the respect for individuality.
6. There is an interesting and dangerous scene in the movie. When a copycat designer decides to betray his employer and privately teach at a trade rival's factory to earn extra salary, his short-sightedness is "still a heart of brilliance". . I am reminded of a story from Zhuangzi's Escape. Zhuangzi, Happy Travel:
The people of Song Dynasty were good at taking the medicine that does not go away. If you hear about it, please buy it for a hundred gold. Gathering the clan and conspiring, he said, "I have been a nephew in my entire life, but I only have a few pieces of gold. Today, I have a hundred pieces of gold in my skill. Please go with me." The more difficult it is, the King of Wu will make him general. Winter and the Yue people in the water battle, defeated the Yue people, split the ground and sealed it. It is one thing to be able to do it without a tortoise hand; or to seal it, or not to be free from squatting, then the difference is the use of it.
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