In terms of form, both films are stories about the grassroots of the future world society resisting oppression and becoming heroes, and the stories presented are very B-level interesting, and the arrangement is not vast and deep enough, which will make people feel that this setting is super cool. The background of the story is wasted. , its potential for excavation and extension is absolutely limitless. However, under the amazing creativity of "time is money" and "give people hope if you want to despair", what is really moving is that it reveals the structural truth of our society, and the attitude towards this truth depends on It depends on the audience's cognitive level and class position on reality.
When I was a child, I was ignorant. I was misled by the intellectual elite raised by the dignitaries who monopolized the right to speak. I followed him by calling someone a tyrant. The real ideal of "his" is to complete the human feat of "overthrowing classes" to get rid of the laws of historical cycles, so that there is a fair premise and foundation. How about you being a great writer, can you be so high and mighty that you will always be admired like a saint? Clear! What if you are a high-ranking official, can you enjoy endless glory from generation to generation? Clear! No matter what status you have, you have to clear it to me. No one is allowed to have status or wealth. All have to rely on their own labor for the fruits. No one can be born and enjoy vested interests forever... But we once thought that the rich first brings the rich and the talented It's good, but those who get rich first will definitely try to use all means to consolidate their vested interests and build high walls to form a class circle. The rich and the poor are relative coexistence. There is no rich where the poor come from, and there is no poverty where the rich come from. Everyone wants to go to a five-star hotel to eat delicious mountain and sea delicacies. Enjoy, the second shopkeeper will always be the second shopkeeper. No matter how much money you earn, the upper class will use various policies on price and taxation so that your income will never catch up with your ideal living standard, and you will be poor from generation to generation. It will never be enough, because otherwise, who will serve the powerful and their descendants? The rich and powerful must maintain a social state in which the untouchables will always ask for the superstructure to ensure that they "enjoy the blessings of the immortals forever, and the longevity is equal to the sky". In other words, this is the law of exploitation behind the social pyramid structure. Whether it is dictatorship or democracy, as long as the society maintains such a structure, no matter whether the legal system is well established, it will not change the fact that most people are oppressed, because all legal principles and institutional settings exist to keep this structure from collapsing. If you mistakenly think that it is fair, just because you think the rules of the game will be followed by everyone and feel fair, but you ignore that everyone comes into this world with different chips, and some people are born with at the top of the pyramid. Of course, worse than this: born in a country where the rules of the game are not followed and cheating is possible.
Therefore, these two films are based on seeing the truth of the social structure and are committed to breaking the system as the theme. Therefore, they have become not only exciting and good-looking commercial sci-fi films, but also profound political metaphor films. In "Time Planning Bureau", the gangster who keeps robbing other people's time in the "poor time zone" will never be arrested by the government, because their killing of untouchables will not affect the "powerful time zone"'s rule over the world, and will not Destroying the order of the entire society proves that the law is only for maintaining the relationship between the majority of people and the minority, and has nothing to do with fairness and justice. People who grew up in the "poor time zone" can never go to the "powerful time zone" to enjoy a good life. , because their "time" is not enough to pay, while the powerful can enjoy endless time for generations through the established system of state exploitation.
In "The Hunger Games", in order to prevent the untouchables from resisting oppression, the powerful learned the opposite of the revolutionary technique used by Jiang Wen in "Let the Bullets Fly" - the stabilization technique, that is, not relying on strong pressure, but by dredging the untouchables. The anger over injustice is directed elsewhere, giving them hope, making the ruled in a game of fortune-changing championships, making them feel that everyone has a chance to become a part of the powerful through personal effort, and making them The emotions and energy of the people are consumed in meaningless cannibalism and mutual hatred, and the people are plunged into an eternal hostile and divided relationship, so that the elites can be safe, because the intelligent elites know that the outlet for the people is far better than the use of force. It is much more reliable, but the powerful are also afraid of being seen through, so when the two protagonists refuse to kill each other, but choose to support each other, the dawn of the overthrow of the system blooms, and the germination of the people's unity is born, which makes the powerful feel unprecedented. of fear.
The two films also have an interesting point in common: breaking the system must be done through a combination of the inside and the outside. It is difficult to be self-defeating internally, and it is also difficult to attack fortifications externally. Only those who are attacking the city and those who are in the system but are "aesthetically fatigued" of the system can hit it off, and great things can be accomplished. But in the end I still have to say that overthrowing the class is a utopian dream, just as it is impossible to keep yourself three feet off the ground by grabbing your hair, you want to expect the people to wake up, but in exchange, the people may only be out of the bad The anger that erupts against the powerful due to the weak position in fairness, rather than awakening a negative understanding of the system itself, coupled with the selfishness of human nature, it is easy to fall into chaos and reincarnation. Just think about eradicating the bad roots of human nature. Apart from exterminating human beings, where can there be a fundamental solution? Because of being in a class and unable to overthrow the class, someone's great ideal is doomed to fail. Just like in "The Matrix", the computer world is fully capable of destroying the savior Neo, but deliberately condone giving him the opportunity to develop and grow to help him upgrade his antivirus, because if the ruler of an empire is really smart enough, he will deeply understand his own Accumulated malpractices cannot be eliminated by oneself alone, and external forces must be used. Perhaps realizing the equal strength of the two classes and the mutual restraint is the closest to fairness.
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