Before the start of the film, the director of the Budapest Metro solemnly told the audience that everything in the film is fictional, and the real Budapest Metro is not like this. He specifically mentioned that many people advised him not to agree to give the director the venue for the film, but he didn't think so because the director told him it was a movie about "good and evil".
The weird scene at the beginning and the constant hints of blood made me think it was a thriller. I couldn't help laughing when I watched it, and I understood why I made a statement earlier: The image of this subway is too bad. The lights are on but it always feels dark, random crowds, countless ticket evaders, as for those ticket inspectors, it is even more blind, which definitely damages Budapest's tourism (laughs). It is indeed a fictional world, not even a real world, but a symbolic one. The protagonist B is a ticket inspector. He stays underground day after day and never goes up. When he is tired at night, he lies down and sleeps in the station. When he wakes up, he starts to work. There is no hope in life. A considerable amount of space is used to describe the living beings in the life of the ticket inspector, the ridiculous meeting, the pairs of gloomy or empty eyes, some people make this work very sacred, some people take this work as a vent; it seems to have a sense of joy (full of many Comedy scenes), but also bitter, the ticket inspectors who are not respected, the passengers who are not respected, everything is very indifferent, and there are some hidden surges in it, some people can't bear it and start to erupt, so Chaos. There is a "game" among the ticket inspectors, a race in the tracks before the last subway arrives to see who can climb to the platform of the next station before the train arrives. It is more cruel than Russian roulette, the first of B. A gamble, winning the leader of the hostile group, willing to play such a game, I am afraid I don't care about life. Speaking of the horror at the beginning, there have been people "suicide" in the subway, and the supervisor asked the ticket inspectors to "stop" it. In fact, there was a mysterious person who appeared and pushed the person down before entering the station. This person never showed his face. The person is everyone, including the shadow in my audience's heart.
Regarding B, he was originally an architect, but suddenly he lost faith in his previous life, and he was reduced to the subway, but he did not completely lose some kind of desire. His twist is a girl dressed as TEDDY BEAR, the daughter of a driver he knows well, who shines like a beam of light in the gloomy subway, and then B has a smile on his face. There is an inference that B is the pusher, or that the pusher symbolizes his dark side. The evidence is that the pusher is strangely not captured in the surveillance video, only the tracking B, after B meets the girl He has also been to the pusher's lair under a similar hallucination-in a deep cave, does it mean that B has begun to touch his true heart? Sweet and dark intertwined. After a sudden subway makeup party at the end, B and the pusher had a "race" on the track. The whizzing train swallowed the pusher. B, who climbed up the platform, looked up at his beloved girl, dressed as an angel. , with two wings on their bodies, the two of them held hands, and stood on the elevator leading to the ground. At this time, you can notice that the elevator that usually goes up and down twice is now fully up. I think it is very clear what is fictional in the movie by now. The subway station is a purgatory, there are angels (girls), there are demons (pushers), people who are trapped in this purgatory, they may fall into the abyss (push off the platform), they may ascend to heaven (go up and go without The elevator back), "The Brothers Karamazov" said: The human heart is a battlefield, so good and evil are also fighting in the hearts of everyone in this subway.
There is still a lot to say about this movie, Miffa said it all, and some details can only be understood by those who have seen it (for example, the appearance of the girl is revealed step by step with the change of B's mentality, and begins to wrap Only show the face, then show the arms, and finally restore the original face), in fact, there are many interpretations of the movie, and they all make sense. It is said that if they are Hungarians, they may see more. It's one of the advantages of this movie. Surreal and reality are evenly wrapped together, and as the director's first feature film, it deserves applause. In addition, the film's photography and music are very good, high-level, to praise.
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