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This week is a very unfriendly week for single dogs.
Not only have to face the "Tanabata Love" crit from the army of couples!
We also have to face the "cheap" crit of "brick houses" from all walks of life! !
"Maternity Fund" - If you don't have two births, you will be deducted.
"Dink tax" - do not have to deduct money.
"Reduce the age of marriage" - girls should have three children before the age of 30.
Although some official media have also stood up recently to speak out, saying that "the fertility fund is simply ridiculous."
But for our unmarried and unmarried young people, the blood tank after being critically hit cannot be eased by a single criticism! !
Anyway, after Xiaoying and I read the news these days, I was so depressed that I couldn't eat the Tanabata double set meal.
When I think of these people with the titles of "Doctor" and "Professor", they can say the same thing as the aunt next door to your house.
As a single dog, I was really shivering.
If being single, unmarried, and DINK really become a sin and need to be punished, what would such a world be like?
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The Lobster
People who want to order takeout when they see the name can go out.
Because this isn't really a food movie!
The star-studded cast is not here to teach you how to cook.
But to deduce the nightmare that many people are most afraid of - being single is guilty .
The background of the story is a fictional near-future society, the human beings of that world, and the object package distribution.
Whether you are an orphan or divorced, as long as you are currently single, you will be sent to a suburban hotel .
In the hotel, there is room and board, and there are social dances every day, in order to match up all kinds of single men and women of all ages.
If you can't find a friend, don't be in a hurry.
Because in this world, only those who are successfully matched are eligible to live in the city.
If you can't find an object within 45 days, you will be turned into an animal.
Some single dogs have really become dogs , such as the male protagonist and his brother.
The male protagonist originally had a partner, but unfortunately his wife divorced him, so he was also taken to the hotel.
When asked what animal he wanted to become in the future, the male protagonist chose lobster .
The reason is that it is a bit of a middle schooler, but it was even praised.
Single dogs express strong discomfort!
And in a hotel full of singles, finding a partner isn't easy.
Because everyone dresses the same according to the regulations , it is impossible to choose just by looking at them.
What's even more bizarre is that the condition for successful pairing is not "I love you, you love me", but "two people must have something in common" .
For example, the male protagonist likes a girl with beautiful hair, but unfortunately the girl doesn't like his hair.
Then, no more...
In order to increase the enthusiasm of everyone to find a partner, the hotel also likes to hold "matching success celebration ceremony" and "find a partner brainwashing conference" .
The former is to congratulate the successful pairing of male and female guests and stimulate the remaining single dogs.
The latter is to put on a variety of drama sketches on stage to show how necessary it is to have a partner.
You can see that single dogs are easy to choke to death when they eat. If you have a companion, they can help you!
There are also single dogs who are easily raped when they go out. If you have a company, you will not be bullied by bad people!
They will also tie the right hand of the newcomer, unable to untie it when eating, sleeping, or taking a bath.
Just to emphasize that a partner is a right-handed existence! A person without an object is incomplete!
Of course, finding an object is not the same as making an object .
During this time, the hotel staff will stimulate your physical desires without making you really cool.
If you panic and solve it yourself, the hotel will punish you with a toaster.
Psychophysiological double pressure, so ruthless, harder than going to jail.
Of course, the people in the hotel also have their moments.
Their free-spirited activity is to hunt escaped celibates in the forest .
Don't worry, it's not a real gun, the bullets inside are all anesthesia needles.
Each celibate caught adds another day to the hotel stay.
The male protagonist has neither the ability to flirt with girls, nor the ability to arrest people, and he can't stand the rigid rules of the hotel, so he ran away after a struggle.
He fled to the forest and was found by the rebel group.
It's a pity that this rebel group is another hell than the "compulsory match" hotel - "single to death" .
The rule here is absolutely no dating .
Want to flirt? There is a blood kiss punishment, the specific operation is to cut your lips first, and then force you to kiss.
Want to shoot? There is a penalty of blood exchange, emmmm, you can make up for the operation yourself.
The most sour part of the story is that no matter where he is , the male protagonist has to come back.
In the place of forced pairing, he can't find a partner and wants to be single.
Where single to death, he fell in love with someone who wanted to marry.
You say this is not a work!
As for whether he turned into a lobster in the end, Xiaoying will not spoil it, everyone will see it for themselves.
The director of the film, Yorgos Lanthimos, is very interesting.
He likes to use deliberately blunt lines and cold mechanical erotic images to create an absurd tone that is detached from reality.
The absurdity in "The Lobster" is not pure black humor , but also a metaphorical mapping worth pondering and thinking about .
The dystopian world in the movie is a black-and-white extreme society.
You can choose to be single or married, but you cannot choose to love or not to marry.
You can choose any sexual orientation, but not bisexual.
You can choose any shoe size, but not half a size.
Everyone who stays in the hotel takes off not only their own clothes, but also their own personality and rights.
In this world where "pairing is justice", people who are alone are questioned by the police when they walk on the road.
But there is no love in human emotions.
A necessary condition for marriage is to have something in common.
The "love" that the male protagonist later sprouted in the forest started because he found the common ground of "both of us are shortsighted".
Although their stereotyped thinking seems absurd to us.
But think about many couples now, because of "three different views" and "different hobbies", they will break up and quarrel or something.
Isn't it also a deliberate pursuit of "common ground"?
In the film, someone deliberately bruises himself in order to successfully pair with a nosebleed girl.
This kind of behavior of disguising, changing, and even hurting oneself for the sake of "love" also exists in large numbers in reality?
Ironically, in order to maintain the marriage relationship, the world will also assign you children.
It's just as ridiculous as playing a house.
In the past, Xiaoying always felt that the world of "people turned into ghosts" was scary, because it was an unknowable gray dimension.
But now, I feel that this world of "people not like people" is even more terrifying.
For example, this "Lobster" that turns people into animals, " The Handmaid's Tale" that turns people into reproductive tools , and "Fahrenheit 451 " that turns people into walking bookcases ...
These absurd stories may have existed in history, or may exist in the future, but they are not necessarily irrelevant to the present.
On the contrary, it is easy to create a sense of substitution.
History, in fact, just like fashion, walking around is a circle.
After all, the drivers are us humans. Although we stand at the top of the food chain, we are really not tall animals.
Back to the movie, what Xiaoying wants to discuss is:
We go to great lengths to disguise ourselves as pandering to others in order to escape the fear of being alone.
Are lonely people really that shameful?
Being single is not abusive.
Some people really enjoy the single life of watching movies and eating alone, not to mention how cool it is.
What is the real abuse?
It is to regard love, marriage, and childbirth as the criteria for a fulfilling life.
Just like this "maternity fund", many young people don't actually hate having children, what we hate is this kind of mandatory advice .
Some things are cool when you want to do them.
But if you don't care about the situation and force me, then I'm not happy!
Being human is really hard.
In everyone's life, there are many ways to lose freedom.
Boarding school, growing up and working, entering the society, getting married and having children…
For some people, it may be a lifelong pursuit, but for others, it is a cage for losing freedom.
A for honey, B for arsenic, very natural reason.
But isn't the difference between humans and animals that humans can choose?
"Whether you get married, have children or not, it's none of your business!"
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