The film's photographic composition and soundtrack are very good. Although it is a thriller with a poor story, there are many loopholes in the character's action logic, but the conceptual theme is really awesome. I feel that this film is an allegory to the situation of women in a society dominated by men.
The following is a retelling of the plot.
In a closed "school", the principal buys girls who are not loved by their parents in society since they were young, and divides them into different classes according to their age groups and imprisoned them on different floors. The female instructor brainwashed them since they were young. The outside air is poisonous and cannot breathe. It cannot be contaminated with the sun, moon, etc., or it will be unclean. They are imprisoned in the classroom, and their daily life is to go to class to review the "seven beauties and seven evils" ("seven beauties" have obedience, cleanliness, patience, humility, chastity, sweetness, humility, and the seven evils have curiosity, anger, sentimentality, sloppy, lazy, etc.) ; Do housework; eat; take "vitamins" (hypnotics or narcotics) to prevent disease and maintain health, cleanse yourself and keep clean, sleep for nearly 20 hours a day under the effect of "vitamins", and no longer have a clear mind when awake. Slowly lose the ability to think. At the same time, it can also save the cost of guards for the school. 4 classes of different age groups can live on one floor. When a girl of one age group wakes up to move, the girls in other classes are in "sleeping"; there is also a "once a week" Movie Day", but it’s always the same movie. When their behavior is not in line with the teaching, the instructor will ask them to reiterate that the first virtue is obedience and the second virtue is not to be angry. If the girls follow the guidance of the instructor, they will grow up healthy and clean from a young age to 16 years old, until they are selected by wealthy families to "adopt." If a girl has "unclean" (do not complete a certain behavior according to regulations, get sick, angry, hysterical) behavior, the alarm will be reminded, and she will be taken to the basement by security to torture.
In the film when the protagonists were 9 years old, the protagonist Vivienne helped Sophia with poor eyesight find the medicine bottle that fell to the ground. In a few seconds, she missed the ongoing cleaning activity before going to bed and became an instructor. When Vivian was captured, Vivian asked Sophia for help and explained the reason to the instructor. Sophia did not stand up because of fear, so Vivian was taken to the basement by the instructor to torture her because of fear. Vivienne, who was taken to the basement, had gone through inhuman torture, but she did not disappear like the other girls. It is guessed that it was because of Vivienne’s beautiful face. The principal and instructors let Vivienne go. By placing her in other classes, Vivian became more alert and strong due to this experience. At the same time, Sauvia felt sorry for Vivian, and was always ashamed.
In the year when the protagonists are 16 years old, which is the year when they will be selected by wealthy clients to take their faces away, Vivienne and Sofia meet again in the same class. Vivienne is afraid that Sophia will report her unclean experience to Instructor, and because Sophia didn’t take "vitamins" when she was thirteen years old, she accidentally discovered that vitamins turned out to be a kind of medicine that kept them from falling asleep, and because she didn’t take vitamins, she didn’t take it every day until the real sleepiness came. Falling asleep, in the imprisoned room for countless nights, she found that the security guard had molested the sleeping girl. She also heard from her hearing that there were other girls from different classes on the same floor, and knew that there would be 16-year-old girls who would be rich." Take away", she just thought it was definitely not a good thing, but she had never walked out of this prison room. She didn't know that these girls were chosen by the rich for face transplantation and disappeared since then. She took this secret that only she knew, and lived in more anxiety and fear every day until she was sixteen. When she saw the girl Vivian who had helped her, she urgently needed to tell the secret to appeal to Vivian, and find a companion who escaped here together. Under Sophia's notification, Vivian began to try to spit out the "vitamins". One night he was taken to the office for rich clients to choose. It was the first time that she knew that this was not an adoption but a sale. So the two of them discussed seeking a plan to leave here, Sophia only wanted the two of them to escape here, and Vivian wanted to flee out with all the girls.
In an event, Vivienne was locked in a confinement room by the instructor because she did not listen to the instructor. Sophia once again saw the security guard molesting the sleeping girl that night. She injured the security guard and was taken because of uncleanness. Went to torture in the basement. Vivian, who came out of the confinement room, found the security access card that Sophia had left her in the bed splint. Vivienne took this access card to rescue Sophia who was locked up and tortured in the basement, and found that Rita, who had been bought by a rich couple, was dead, only her face was cut. So she firmed up her idea of saving all the girls here, and found a rescue plan. She introduced female instructors into the infirmary (the principal is a doctor), injected the instructors with the anesthetic they are often injected, and tied up the instructors. Together with Sophia, they held the instructors’ access cards and used them in the name of the instructors. The truth told all the girls, took them out of the cell, and finally waited until the police rescued them.
There are too many logical loopholes in this story, so I will not point out them one by one. I will only talk about a few interesting points, that is, the situation of women in this male-dominated society that the film intends to reflect.
The first is that the school imprisoned these girls in order to sell the girls’ faces to elderly wealthy couples and transplant them to the women of the couples, so that the wives will be radiant and the husbands will be happy, and when they choose the girls, they are both husband and wife. Together. When the couple chose between Vivienne and another beautiful girl, Lita, the husband became obsessed with Vivienne’s beauty and caused his wife’s dissatisfaction, so he chose another girl, Lita. Here, the wife as a woman wants to satisfy her husband by changing a younger face. At the same time, the wife is worried that the girl her husband chooses is too beautiful, and the husband may like that girl instead of herself in the future. This is men oppressing women and treating women's looks as commodities. It is also a conspiracy between women and men in order to obtain certain resources.
The second is that as the principal of this school, he is also a face transplant doctor and businessman. His own female partner trainer (wife or lover is not specified) also satisfies the doctor through face transplantation. Here she is not only the doctor’s accomplice, helping the doctor to teach the girl’s brainwashing and "seven beauties and seven evils", but also a "victim" of a face transplant operation. She conspired with the doctor and seized another girl’s Face to meet the doctor’s needs, and at the same time she lost her face.
The third is that Vivienne, as a prisoner and teacher, was "unclean" taken to the basement to tortured at the age of nine, guessing that because of his shocking appearance, Tianren was forgiven by the principal as a doctor. The doctor felt that Vivienne was shocked by the beauty of heaven and human beings as the best work she had nurtured in more than ten years, and wanted to sell it at the best price. In the final escape plan, Vivienne was praised by the doctor for her beauty and approached the doctor step by step. The doctor gave Vivienne several "unclean" behaviors several times, not only for her in the brainwashing movie shown. Added a paragraph about the stars she wanted to see, and in the end Vivian threatened the doctor to let her and Sophia escape from the run through a disfigurement. The doctor couldn't bear to ruin it and really let them go.
The fourth is that the girls who were brainwashed also showed the selfish, jealous, and ugly side of human nature. Girls get the "top card" qualifications by being obedient to please the instructor and reporting their peers to get the "adoption" of the best family. Of course, through the two characters Vivian and Sophia, the film colleagues also showed the good side of women, such as kindness, strength, trust, and compassion.
Finally, I want to say that the "seven beauties and seven evils" promoted by this "school" is a bit of the "three observances and four virtues" in ancient Chinese society. I suspect that the creators of this movie are familiar with our culture and found inspiration from us. of. Of course, in modern society, the resurgence of "female ethics" classes, Yang Yongxin's online school, Mi Meng and the like, as well as the widespread patriarchy problem in society, is it not a new kind of "seven beauties and seven evils".
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