"Human, Space, Time and People" is a classic play of Director Kim Ki-duk in South Korea who is good at shocking picture narrative in 2018, which is divided into four dimensions of "human world", "space", "time", and "people", and fundamentally analyzes the traces of human evolution.
The whole process is painful, but at the same time it also sows the seeds of hope in it, and for the purpose of human continuity, even if it is deviant and appalling unscrupulous, it is still necessary to be chosen to follow the path.
This is the ultimate selfishness of human beings, and it is also an unshirkable responsibility. In a word, the state presented by the four dimensions in reality is: "fallen human world", "lost space", "continuous time", and "endless life", through the following plot summary, outline the evolution of human civilization.
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The director uses a warship transformed cruise ship as a metaphor for the human world, and there are all kinds of people on board, politicians, second-generation officials, hooligans, dust girls, honeymoon couples, couples, etc.
Everyone paid the same fee to board the ship, which personally believed to be a metaphor for the primitive equality of mankind; but after the captain gave different differential treatment to politicians, there began to be a class division.
In the case of the rogue willing to serve as a politician eagle dog, the combination of political and black relations makes the ruling power more powerful, and ambition and desire are also unfolded.
Politicians have taken a fancy to the wives of people in their honeymoon, and in order to cater to the wishes of the people, the hooligans forcibly abducted their wives as the object of tribute, not only allowing themselves to have animalistic desires, but also forcibly violating the wives of politicians and officials, and the husband who served as a humanistic scholar was also killed by the hooligans.
Along with the scene of the whole ship's wine pond meat forest, under the gradual degradation of morality, the order of the human world also began to disintegrate, and it was headed for a depraved dilemma.
From the chapter "On Earth", we see the original sin of human greed, whether from the leadership class to the common people's class, as soon as they have obtained some power that can drive others, they begin to indulge their own hidden desires, as a kind of lyrical liberation, but also to satisfy the power delusions that the individual desires for.
This desire for power, especially in the process of xingai, or because of this, when hoping to express the ultimate of human domination mentality, the director always has to use xing as a material.
Sex, how mysterious, is the origin of the fall of mankind, but it is also an indispensable key element of sustainable survival. The characteristics of duality make it sinful and sacred, like the poisonous apple in the Garden of Eden, without the sin of stealing the forbidden fruit in the first place, mankind would not have the glory of endless life.
Despite the formation of the class system, the people accepted warships dominated by politicians and rogues on the premise of abundant food and clothing.
But what was not expected was that one day when the warship woke up, it actually sailed in the sky in isolation, as if it were a trek, and there was no longer a possibility of landing.
This made the people on the ship nervous about survival, and the politicians ordered that the food supply be halved in preparation for a long war, but they still enjoyed a better meal.
Until the average passenger is facing the crisis of famine, finally can not hold back the long-term accumulation of anger, began to rise up in groups to rebel against politicians, hoping to gather the strength of the people to grab food.
When the politicians were also threatened with their own survival, they simply blew up all the passengers and broke up with the hooligans at the same time, but they were killed by them.
In this way, after a massacre on the ship, it appeared to be a dead silence, and only the second generation of officials, the honeymooner's wife, and an enigmatic old man survived.
In terms of space chapter analysis, "national purpose" is the most appropriate word, and whenever the country suffers disasters, "overcoming the difficulties together" often becomes the reason why the rulers do not change, expecting the people to make sacrifices to preserve the opportunity for collective survival.
As the politicians in the play say, if there is no food control, everyone will quickly consume the food, and eventually face the dilemma of famine, and eventually only collective destruction.
The implication may be quite justified, but in the absence of leadership to lead by example, it is still on the road to subversion.
Indeed, horizontal and vertical are all a knife, and adhering to the purpose of the state or choosing the people's uprising, at the moment when resources are scarce, it is difficult to escape the fate of extinction, and the result is the same.
However, for people, the underlying autonomy and dominance still inevitably drive individuals to choose to fight each other, as if returning to the primitive jungle, no longer following any social rules, everything is convincing with force, returning to the barbaric state before civilization.
The silent old man who appeared from the beginning was always silently collecting dust for planting seeds, while he also fed the chicks, expecting to grow into a hen and lay eggs.
When the wife found that she was pregnant after being violated by everyone, she originally intended to have an abortion, but under the old man's suggestion, she thought that the child might also be her husband's, so she decided to stay, so as to follow the old man to engage in the work of picking up soil and planting.
The old man's image was quite peaceful at first, but with the transients on the warship, it gradually changed: when the dirt on the ship could no longer be found, he used the remains as nourishment and continued his cultivation work, and then even more frighteningly, when the wife and pregnant women could not find food, they unloaded eight pieces of the body for the pregnant women to enjoy.
Eventually, after all the food, including the body, was used up, he cut off his flesh and gave it to the pregnant woman, sacrificing himself to death.
Let the entire warship be left with the second generation of officials, pregnant women, and seedlings and chickens full of pits and valleys.
From the passage of time, it is quite clear that it is the image of the silent old man, that is, God.
God, when people seem helpless, will give the head-to-head drinking point at the right time, prompting himself to get out of the mud of the dead end and regain the courage to live.
Just as pregnant women may be pregnant with bad people, to think that the child may be husbands, it is all out of the old man's good temptation.
Secondly, in the face of life and death, as an almighty god, he can no longer stay out of the matter, can no longer act in a good way under moral norms, but must realize that "in order to survive, do whatever it takes", and then there is the horror of using the body as a nutrient for planting plants.
Because the old man knows deeply, "What is morality, can it be eaten?" If the seeds of the future are not planted at this moment, it will cause indelible harm to the subsequent survival of mankind."
Of course, in the end, the old man sacrificed himself in order to save the new life in his belly, which is the most insurmountable difference between God and politicians: both may be endowed with some kind of dominating power, but God knows how to dedicate, and politicians will only live in selfish thinking, and the pattern of the heart is thus established.
In short, time is continuous, and people are only a role in the torrent of time.
But no matter what kind of script is given, it is also entrusted with a common task, that is, the sustainable survival of mankind.
Under the premise of eternal life, morality is not important, humanity can be abandoned, and even the divinity that is considered sacred and inviolable is by no means an option that cannot be put down.
After the sacrifice of the old man, the second generation of officials and pregnant women still feel hungry, pregnant women uphold the principle of not killing chickens and taking eggs, hoping that everything can live endlessly, but the second generation of officials only seeks to solve the immediate appetite and intends to directly kill the hen to eat.
In a hurry, the pregnant woman hacked the second generation of the official to death, continued to eat his body, and finally lived smoothly until the child was born.
After another seventeen years, the seeds planted by the old man have grown into a jungle, and the hens are constantly multiplying, so that wives and children have abundant resources for survival. Everything seems to be thriving, and the world is full of prospects like a rebirth after a disaster.
However, in the midst of adolescence, the desire rooted in human nature has re-emerged, and it has begun to covet the mother's flesh, and a pursuit of desire that transcends moral taboos has once again begun...
Placing the chapter of people in the final chapter can already see the director's original intention of putting people to the highest.
The bloody contrast between the bloody after the extreme killing and the greenery after tomorrow shows the director's expectations for the current environmental embarrassment.
In order for humanity to continue to survive, unscrupulous killings may be inevitable, and at the same time, any statute system that hinders the survival of mankind should be completely abandoned.
Even if it is the final outcome, the child is bound to have incestuous intercourse with the mother in order to give birth to a new life again.
For, standing under the ultimate goal of eternal life, everything must be compromised and sacrificed.
After the great destruction, there will be a great rise, which is a profound realization that contemporary human beings should have!
The picture directed by Kim Ki-duk is creepy and shocking, but it also induces a complete reflection on human nature.
The film is a microcosm, watching its evolution, it seems to have walked through the history of mankind from ancient times to the present, as if it understands something, but it is also increasingly aware of the inevitable process of human beings, and gradually believes in the unchanging fate of alternating between glory and decay.