First of all, this article is not interested in talking about the metaphor of class struggle, and film critics all over the Internet are talking about this point of view. It's like a homework for a primary school student trained in a political class.
Then, don’t talk about the setting, because if you don’t accept the hypothesis of drama, will you enter the theater to see the drama or the theater’s house? All fictions have conflicts with real conditions. If this problem bothers you, you will not be able to appreciate any works with fictional premises. You will always fall into the stubborn emotion of ""I think you lie to me, I just don't believe"". This is a meaningless viewing angle.
It is important to understand the conflict itself behind the person. This conflict is shown, is it meaningful and interesting? Or there are some new discoveries. From this perspective, this movie did it. Faced with such an organization, the upper and lower levels cannot communicate. Everyone clearly has one dish, but after the 30th floor, they can’t eat it. Do you continue to support this situation, or change?
Class metaphor is a simple appearance, and some key details in the expression need to be considered.
For example, why escort ice cream and little girls? Why resist instead of thinking about how to eat?
Suppose that the people who built this vertical self-management center (the official name of the prison in the movie) did it out of good intentions. All staff who maintain its operation are also dedicated to good. Provide everyone with a dish, and everyone can find their own food. So, this system is ok. The only thing this system needs is for each of you to manage yourself well. This is called the "self-management vertical center" in the movie, and the meaning is to improve everyone's self-management ability. This is the original intention of the designers of the Hunger Platform. Assuming that the detainees have fully communicated the basic settings, the problem is not big. Because after sufficient communication, everyone can know that every dish on the elevator platform has its own, and no one has to grab it. If someone robs it, it will be finished.
However, it is impossible for everyone to know all the information. Facing the present, a society with increasingly chaotic information. Everyone will be as described in this movie. Human rationality is based on a full understanding of the world, but information is chaotic. How can incomplete information be rational?
Everyone lives in a self-compartment, enjoying more and more accurate personalized push, only interacting with people they recognize, and constantly blocking people with different opinions. Then they are full of contradictions with people who are different from themselves, hating the upper class, and humiliating and despising the next class.
Even if the material is sufficient, still living in the unknown of fear. It's like today's social networks rarely talk about real opinions. Once they talk about conflicting opinions, they will protect themselves. Then analyze the class position of the other side. We are all using one language, but we rarely hear each other. Talking and chatting will make you angry, just like the ao3 that appeared a few days ago, it is not talking about the problem at all, it is just killing each other. Just like this movie. When people have different opinions on the content, they will quarrel. Instead of caring about what the other party is going to say.
Therefore, the development trend of the speech environment is: either there is no conflict of views, or as long as there is a conflict, the one who does it first can live, because whoever reports the first can kill the other party. Or think of a way to prove that the other party has other extreme remarks.
Think about it again, if this content is a game, the game shouldn't be endlessly alive. That is the purpose of Happy Farm. There should be two ways to clear customs, either up or down. The first thing you think about is definitely how to get to the top. But the lift rises when you are in a coma. And the speed is so fast that it crushes the internal organs and cannot move upwards. Therefore, how to go to the lower floor alive, sinking to the bottom and staying alive is the only option.
Seeking up and down, there is no other direction. Therefore, how to let the staff know the absurdity of this system is the correct answer. How to disrupt the operation of the system from within is the only way to stop the coma. Otherwise, no matter how many people are killed, they may be arranged at the bottom. What about the newcomers.
This system loses its meaning and eventually collapses is the intention of this movie. All movies present conflicts, not conflicting answers. The so-called answer is the audience's own perspective.
This hint is also given in the movie. So escort ice cream. Letting an ice cream that no one cares about makes the chef question his own meaning. What about when no one cares about all the food? At least the chef will collapse. It is like the fear of a pornographic appraiser discovering that one day there will be no more pornographic pictures in the world. He will doubt whether he is still alive in reality.
Asking everyone behind the vertical elevator to question the meaninglessness of this machine is the key to clearing customs. So this movie is not talking about how you can survive on battle royale in a difficult environment. It's not about competition between players. What I'm talking about is what to do when you face such a fucking system that can't communicate. Don't kill yourself under the control of your fearless desire to survive. The absurdity of each person taking the lead in killing each other in order to live is the only problem.
I listened to a few friends talking about this movie, and the goal was to enter the building with heavy machine guns and fishing nets. I wondered, do you just want to let a few people die in this place? So why not just kill now? In this movie, how to survive is not important at all. Because no matter how you live, you are eating leftovers and maggots on corpses. The creator is asking and answering. Just like we laughed at Don Quixote, thinking about whether we live real and rational, is it necessary for human beings to continue to repeat fear so absurdly?
Therefore, killing more people will not let people live at all, except for escorting ice cream and taunting managers. Keeping the little girl alive is the ultimate way to finally collapse the meaning of this vertical hell. Speaking of now, you will also find that this is no longer a simple chicken-eating movie.
I read a lot of thoughts about the Hunger Platform. Either repeat the plot again, or think about the class struggle, or bring it into it and enjoy the thrill of Battle Royale. Most thinking is focused on specific solutions to this extreme situation. There is a habit of solving problems, like a student working hard to get points.
The problem lies here, is it the problem itself to go to the exam to compete? So how do you stop the absurd exam from continuing. This is not a movie about asking you to provide answers.
How did thinking about the problem start? Thinking about the present, we live in an environment where the material production capacity is stronger and the Internet is more and more developed, but why are we more and more afraid of each other?
We also need more and more chicken and zombie movies to comfort our fears.
wx: liaoliaopian
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