The birth story of the seventh floor and a half is a fairy tale. It sounds like platform nine and three quarters in the Harry Potter world, but behind the "warm heart" is actually lower rents, lower commissions, Lower living space, lower human dignity.
Craig's words to the orangutan at the beginning seem to set the tone for the whole film. Consciousness is a curse on people, "I think, I feel, I suffer". What is it that makes people human? Human gender body? A person's reputation? Human dominance?
A clever puppet master will be one with the puppet, but no matter how lifelike the puppet is, people still admire the skills of the puppet master. The thoughts that get into the human body are different. No matter how many thoughts there are in a person's body, when dealing with people, there is only one subject by default. A person's freedom can be regarded as one's own independent thinking, but the existence of others will make the self no longer free. Markovic has always wanted to pursue freedom, but unexpectedly he has just escaped from the wolf's mouth and is like a tiger's den. On the contrary, the control of the other, the domination of the consciousness of the other, is the hidden desire and madness of everyone.
A recurring mirror is the establishment and loss of identity. The puppet is mindless, it breaks the mirror which means it does not need consciousness, it can still be operated by the puppet master. And people need the guidance of a mirror to recognize themselves, but the crux of the problem is, even if you look in the mirror to confirm your body, who can guarantee that there is no subconscious peeping and watching behind your consciousness?
Chimpanzees also have flashback memories, and chimpanzees also have psychological trauma. When the self-proud consciousness of man also exists on non-human things, what should be the uniqueness that God bestows on human beings?
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