At first, I was misled by the title of the film, thinking that this was a story that happened on a yacht, but later I realized how wrong it was. "Victoria No. 1" is actually a building that the heroine always wanted to buy. The title is a little scary, midnight, dark and cramped corridors, erratic phantoms, and numbers on the elevator constantly beating, whether it is the picture, lighting, or soundtrack, it all creates a terrifying and blurred atmosphere. In the monitoring room on the ground floor of the building, an elderly security guard was sitting on a chair and drowsy, unaware that his death was approaching. The door opened, and a black figure flashed in. The black figure quietly approached the old man, and slowly pulled a white one. The collar was put on the old man's neck, the collar suddenly tightened, the old man woke up suddenly from the dream, fell to the ground, the collar tightened more and more, the pupils of the old man opened wider and the veins burst out on his forehead, In the constant struggle and tumbling, the old man knocked over the tool box, picked up a paper cutter, and tried to cut off the collar that was tightly tied around his neck. , the desperate old man finally fell into madness, increasing the weight on his hands, and the thick blood continued to spurt...
After the bloody and violent title, the story officially begins. The heroine Zheng Chang lives in an ordinary family in Hong Kong. Her grandfather is a retired seaman, her father is a construction site worker, her mother is a housewife, and she has a younger brother. The family lives in a small room. The cold and simple life is full of disputes and small pleasures. Achang uses a long silk thread to connect two cups to make a simple telephone. little boy takes the call of beauty. She often prayed to the supreme god in the dark: "Virgin Mary, I hope the window of my house can see the sea, so that grandpa doesn't have to go downstairs to see the sea every day. But she doesn't want to be demolished, because then she will not be able to see the sea. I can't play with Zhanmei anymore. The young girl is full of contradictions. The world will not develop according to our expectations. The Zhanmei family was forced to move out due to the forced demolition. The girl walked along the corridor to the familiar window. When people went to the building, the eyes were desolate. Water snakes were swimming in the gaps of the iron gates. Outside the windows were banners with the words "Rogues demolished, the sky is angry and people complain, where is the conscience?" Half a microphone. Childhood dreams, even the simplest, are often fragmented and vulnerable in the face of harsh reality.
After graduating from high school, Ah Chang decided to give up her studies to support her family. She has never forgotten her childhood dream, hoping to have a room of her own with a view of the sea from the window of the room. For this dream, she worked hard and made money desperately. During the day, she was a neat-looking and sweet-sounding connection lady in the office building. She was selling the company's wealth management business to the microphone over and over again. She was constantly rejected, reprimanded, and even abused. Complaining, because I have a dream, I can always regain my strength after drinking a sip of water, and continue to persevere towards the goal with a smile. In Hong Kong, where there is less land and more people, a 6 million-foot unit sells for 7 million Hong Kong dollars, and some sea-view houses are as high as 30,000 Hong Kong dollars per square foot. The average monthly income of Hong Kong citizens is only 10,100 Hong Kong dollars, and citizens with lower than average monthly income account for 24% of the total population. Although the dream is out of reach, Achang is still reluctant to give up. She and her colleagues sell customer information to earn extra money, work part-time as a salesperson in a small store, and save money desperately, but still can't keep up with the crazy pace of the property market, her boyfriend is stingy, and her father Sudden seriously ill, on the early morning ferry, Achang ate the dessert overnight and looked at the Victoria No. 1 on the other side of the river. The distance within reach was like a mirage in the desert. During one of her father's illnesses, Achang ignored her ruthlessly and finally managed to get a huge amount of insurance. When she was about to go to the sales office to sign a contract with a smile that she had saved for many years, the owner temporarily changed her mind and prepared to increase the house price. , the long-term backlog of dissatisfaction and resentment finally broke out and became the last straw that broke the camel's back. The smiling connection lady in the office building appeared in front of Victoria One with a murderous look, turning a beautiful sea-view apartment into a hell on earth.
The first deceased was the security guard on the ground floor of the building, who was suffocated by an elastic band around his neck; the second was a Filipino maid, who had a screwdriver inserted into his skull from the back of his head; the third was a pregnant woman, a potbellied woman who was running away He stumbled to the ground, then was bound, wrapped in a plastic bag, and suffocated to death. The fourth is the pregnant woman's ardent husband, who was seriously injured in the fight with her grandmother, and finally hit the iron window sill heavily, cutting her throat; the next five young men and women are having sex parties, snorting ecstasy pills , the music was played loudly, A Chang was in ambush outside the door, pierced the abdomen of A man, and his intestines flowed all over the place; B man was inserted into the throat with a glass; Kneeling in front of the toilet, she smashed her head, and a bed board was inserted into B's mouth. When she attacked Achang, she was stopped by two police officers who came to patrol. In the chaos, the three of them perished together. The perfect reason: drug dealers eat black, police and bandits fight each other and die together.
The film vividly shows one murder scene after another. It is said that at the shooting site, some workers were frightened and fainted by those realistic props and murder scenes. In addition to being a selling point of the film, I think the director's main intention was to It shows the distortion of human nature in a crazy society, and allows the audience to witness through the big screen how a little girl who was originally innocent and kind, who was reluctant to say a single swear word, turned into a bloody, murderous executioner.
At the end of the story, Achang finally got her wish and moved into the new house. She leaned against the window and looked at the seascape outside the window thoughtfully. This is a metaphor. Maybe the whole story is just Achang's imagination. , those violent and bloody pictures are just a subconscious outburst of the heroine. Or maybe this is a kind of irony from the director. The dream is not as beautiful as we imagined. At the expense of family affection, the new house in exchange for a near-death life is so small that there is no room for a bed or a wardrobe.
The story of "Victoria 1" reminds me of last year's hit "Dwelling", which also tells the story of the property market, with different perspectives for women and men. Liuliu adopts the emotional route that women are good at, and tells the bitterness of ordinary citizens struggling to buy a house through the emotional entanglement between characters, delicate inner activities, and vivid daily details. Fatty Peng is a typical male perspective, using violent and bloody pictures, exaggerated, with black humor to describe the distortion of human nature caused by the huge profits in the property market. Different visions, but at the end of the film are invariably marked with tragic marks. This is the need of art, but it may not be the end of life. In fact, it is not the property market that makes people crazy, but the greedy and insatiable desires in human nature.
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