Before watching this movie, all my understanding of the story was limited to the above. I thought that the movie would rely on gorgeous and spectacular visuals and a time-and-space story to compete with "The Grandmaster" in the Asian film industry, but I didn't want to. I'll end up completely occupied with political dystopian thinking, and I'll be unable to extricate myself for a long time.
The first 88 minutes of the movie is a great movie, but from the 88th minute it turns into a great story. In the first half, I saw how unyielding, rebellious, and revolting people were oppressed at the bottom. I saw the brutality and greed of the perpetrators, and I also saw the selfishness and brutality of human nature, but in the second half, I saw something deeper. From human nature to the seriousness and heaviness of politics. The so-called person in his position thinks about his position. Curtis is the representative of the market and the people, full of small-scale peasant thoughts. He is constantly resisting the injustice caused by the class. Nangong is a typical ideal intellectual. He stands between the grass-roots and the ruler. He is independent in both thinking and material. He discovers a third way from the sidelines. Although it is full of science, it lacks the most support. It is difficult to be accepted by both sides of the conflict; finally, in Wilford, he is the typical master of the overall situation, the ruler, the incumbent, in the small world of the train, in the independent ecology formed in 18 years, he must be careful to maintain his fingers That is, the balance is broken. For him, stability is more important than everything else, and this stability represents the survival of human beings as a species. He can neither be radical and biased towards Nangong, nor can he simply and rudely achieve the naive "absolute" that Curtis expects. equality".
Although it is very cruel and inhumane, as Das Kapital also admits, under the greatest objective contradiction of lack of resources, communism is absolutely impossible to achieve. We can only artificially formulate rules to delineate and protect the ownership of private property. As a result, classes are formed, and the social stability is maintained by the mutually restrictive relationship between the different levels of the pyramid. People at the back of the car don't want to eat garbage, but think about it, what if Curtis was in the front of the car? He still cares about the lives of the people in the back of the car, and is he willing to share his extremely limited resources with anyone? Although humanity has been wiped out, who can deny it at this moment?
At the end of the movie, the relationship built in 100 minutes was easily destroyed in just a few minutes. I have no denying that I completely fell for Wilford, a simple question. If he was really cold-blooded, why bother to distribute it to the rear of the car Protein chunks? Some would criticize Wilford for lacking the courage to go out, but put it in another perspective. How dare a ruler in his position open the door at the risk of genocide? Wilford has protected the last bloodline of mankind for 18 years. Although we finally got out of this cage, we have lost more than 99% of the population for this! Can you afford such a high price?
Regardless of the performance, the film is absolutely top-notch, and with such a doomsday fable full of political reflection, I really have no reason to deny it. Up to now, the profound, heavy, film still makes me unable to let go of it for a long time.
very exciting! Highly recommended, consider collecting.
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