In "The Hunger Platform," follow the moment the protagonist opens his eyes, like "Maze Runner," not knowing where you are or what everyone's background is. This feeling is very much like every afternoon waking up from sleep, and more like every moment of thinking about life and the universe carefully.
Unlike "The Hunger Games", "The Hunger Platform" does not kill people by confrontation, but kills people by eating other people's food.
In "The Next Layer", the diet of human beings has been concentrated. Humans have developed diet into a culture. It seems to use knives and forks and pay attention to taste, but behind it is still cruel hunting, which is no different from animals that we judge as "lower". What is even more terrifying is that human beings have endless greed.
"The Hunger Platform" has a richer setting, similar to "Snowpiercer". Although they are both human beings and in the same place, they are divided into levels, or classes. The classes of "The Hunger Platform" will be exchanged within a certain range, thus revealing the darkness of human nature even more cruelly - even if they are both oppressed, they still oppress each other in the oppressed.
The background sound of dong dong dong, just like the reminder sound in "Jumanji", keeps hitting your heart, letting you know that you must enter this specific situation and abide by the rules of the "game" before it is possible Escape for life.
I have always had a special feeling for dystopian movies. Although its setting seems to be far from reality, I always want to be immersed in it, so illusory and so real. The reason for this, I am afraid, lies in the deeper part of the film, which has a strong sense of similarity with reality.
The male protagonist who just arrived in prison is reluctant to eat the scraps of the upper floors, and thinks about "how to get up". But it was only through the old man who lived with him that it was possible to go up and down again, and it was up to the Administration to decide who was on which floor. This random assignment is like fate. However, if the fate of life is determined by God, then is the Authority God? Aren't they all human?
The old man is a person who obeys the rules. He has been to too many floors, seen too much human nature, and knows that many things cannot be changed. All he can do is to eat the meal in front of him. ". Whoever is on which floor will accept which floor and live according to the rules of that floor.
The male protagonist always wants to argue, or say, talk. The old man said, "Talking makes me tired." Whether in prison or in reality, those who understand don't need to say more, and those who don't understand don't need to say more. Does the male protagonist remember a sentence he asked during the interview: "Is silence part of the interview?" In extreme circumstances, perhaps silence is self-preservation.
People are really afraid of comparison. The male protagonist inadvertently mentioned that he had a certificate when he was released from prison. Obviously, the most critical question at this moment was how to eat the next meal, but the old man began to think, "Why does he have a certificate and I don't?" Obviously it is the same Accept suffering.
The old man said to the male protagonist the night before, "I like you because you are a kind person." The next day, because he reached the lower level, he tied up the male protagonist in advance and prepared to eat his flesh and blood. What an irony. In the face of survival, there is nothing to like or dislike. "Eat meat and drink blood", isn't that what humans are all about? Only this time it was more brutal.
But even so, the old man still persisted. He believes that eating others, or being eaten, is the rule at the bottom of the prison. He was eating the male protagonist very "civilized", but the male protagonist murdered him "inhumanly". And this is actually what the male protagonist feels, and he is changing little by little.
If the man saves the woman once, the woman will definitely save him later. This is also human nature. Here, it may have nothing to do with goodwill, just a rule of conduct.
When you're hungry, you can't read, just like when you're hungry, you can't be persuaded, you can only be subdued. The male protagonist can't live without eating the old man's meat, but the first bite he eats is fed to him by the woman after chewing it like a mother. It's a learning and an adaptation.
The male protagonist accepts part of the reality, but still has his own thoughts. The old man does not change, but someone will always change. Living with the interviewer is a critical period for the male protagonist's psychological changes. The interviewer was too firm, too powerful, she wanted to assign, and she insisted on persuading. Indeed, if everyone ate what they needed, perhaps there would be no problem. After all, you have to change floors repeatedly, considering others, but also for yourself. It's just people, so greedy, so wasteful, so distrustful of others, so concerned about the moment.
The male protagonist has passed the initial stage and understands that communication is meaningless. Therefore, he chose another "persuasion" method, punishment - warning the lower-level people to do as the interviewer said, otherwise they will shit on the meal. This is a kind of management thinking, it is to issue instructions, and it is a clear distinction between rewards and punishments.
But if you think about it, for the Administration, aren't these people living in prisons also receiving orders? If you don't live according to the rules of the prison, you can't even eat food wrapped in feces, and you can only starve to death. "The people above won't listen to us, because we can't shit up." The people below listen to them, not because they think they're right, but because they can't.
When the interviewer found out that the prison had more than 200 floors, he committed suicide. The destruction of values is more deadly than cancer. And another key message that she had been firm before - "there are no children under the age of 16", is there or not? There is no in-depth discussion on this point. If there is, for her, it will undoubtedly be another destruction.
It seems normal to commit suicide in the lower floors. But why do some people commit suicide when they reach the upper floors? The male protagonist's later black roommate explained the problem very well. I thought I could get close to the top, I thought I could break free from all this, but when I got to the top, I found that it was impossible. Although you can eat as much as you want, it is not eternal, and more importantly, when you have enough food and clothing, you want to be free. Why do people live? Pursue what is not yet satisfied. If the goal cannot be achieved, then you don't want to eat it, and there is no meaning of existence.
In this way, living in a place like this seems to be better than having enough to eat. Because when there is not enough to eat, there is expectation, looking forward to being full, even if it is hard, you can still live. People always have to "for" something, the old man works hard to survive, the woman works hard for the "child", the black man works hard to "go up", and the male protagonist works hard to change.
Previously, the male protagonist went to prison to quit smoking. Why is it so difficult to quit smoking, maybe that is his sustenance in the external world. He couldn't read, he just wanted to smoke all the time. In prison, I can't smoke anymore, and I finally read a book. The content of the book, coupled with the real dilemma, kept stirring, and finally began to form a new pursuit.
The interviewer believes that people can achieve "spontaneous unity", but in fact, "change is never spontaneous", change is forced. Just like the male protagonist persuaded the black man to break the prison mechanism with him, to go down is to come up again. When the old man wanted to eat the male protagonist, the male protagonist said to him, "You are responsible, not the people above." The old man said that he was forced. People like to say they are being forced. At the moment, the male protagonist is also being forced to make changes.
The process of going down, see everything in the world. The people who used to take a bath together can snatch a piece of watermelon in an instant, like an animal. The interviewer can do without food, but her dog can't, the owner is saving people, but it eats, does it look like someone in a prison?
When someone sows discord, saying that black people are "white slaves", black people choose the side of the male protagonist. Seeing that wise old man, understand why black people can choose so. He has met such a "teacher", who has reason, faith, and persistence.
The old man approves of their behavior, but expects them to be polite. It's just that not everyone is as wise as this old man. For more people, they have to be subdued before they can be persuaded, which is the same as punishment measures.
The reminder of the elderly is very important. Even if they did, how would anyone know? The old man said it well, "the Administration has no conscience" and should pass the information to them. And information is a symbol, a symbol that represents that people can control themselves. They chose custard.
Negroes take care of jelly like they take care of their own lives. In the most difficult moments, I still remind myself: hold on. But the milk jelly turned into a belief, the belief that the old man gave him, and the belief that he survived at the moment. Saying "Porridge is the message" countless times is like a religious creed.
On the last floor, saw the child. Can I give milk jelly to children? Is it to save one person, or to break the mechanism and save everyone? You can have it at the same time. It is better information to give the milk jelly to the child and let the child live. Information is a symbol, not a definite thing.
The woman died, and they came down, as if they were taking over the woman's mission to redeem the child and themselves. They are like gods. Or, that girl, is God.
The black man died, and the male protagonist collapsed. Those who were born and died together, and those who strengthened their beliefs together, are no longer by their side. Much like changing roommates again and again, no roommate can stay with you forever. Much like everyone's life, no one can accompany you all the way.
"You are not the message." "I am the messenger." "No messenger is needed." The male protagonist is dead. In the end, what matters is the result, and you are just the process.
Everyone in the huge world, in the long river of time, is just a drop in the ocean, seems important, and so dispensable. No one is necessary, all are just completing their mission step by step.
The old man is the one who guides him, no matter good or bad, no matter life or death, from the beginning to the end. The later male protagonist actually understood a lot of what the old man said, so the old man always appeared in his hallucinations. That's not the old man, it's the process of changing the male protagonist's mind.
It doesn't matter whether the child is real or the hero's fantasy before he dies. If the child is real, it doesn't matter whether he is sent to the Authority or not. Because the deepest part of this film actually contains problems that no one can think clearly.
Life is a constant repetition, just like the people in prison are eating repeatedly every day. If you find hopeless people, you don't have to worry about eating. In the film, I didn't see a person who walked out of the prison, maybe there are people who did, but we didn't see it. Just like in life, there are people who discover the true meaning of life, but we can't see it.
Good works are all saying something similar, something that is difficult to explain. I feel like I don't need to watch too many movies lately. I used to think there were a lot of movies to watch.
But what can you do without watching a movie? It seems that no matter what, you have to do something that seems meaningful but meaningless, such as eating.
Let's eat, let's watch a movie. Even if some meals are not very tasty, even if some movies are nothing to watch.
How does the table move in the film? Not in line with mechanics. "The Next Layer" fell down because of eating too much. As in "Spirited Away", "It's all because you hold it that the flower falls."
I hope all this is the male lead's dream, just like when he said he wanted to eat snails during the interview, and the old man said to him "you are my snail", and there were really snails in the later meals.
He will wake up, like Inception. When I woke up "completely", I quit smoking and I could read in meditation, because my thoughts changed from the bottom of my heart.
The so-called "vertical self-management center", the entire prison is like a person, and people also need to manage themselves, otherwise there will be chaos in the body.
"If a great man has bad habits, his vices are also great.
If a rich man is not generous, he is just a miserly beggar.
Rich people only have wealth, not happiness.
To know how to spend money, and not to spend too much, to know how to reasonably arrange expenses. "
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