Russia is really a tough nation, not only in life the people are tough, but also very dare to shoot in film and television!
Recently brushed up on a long-ago masterpiece, "New Lands" directed by Alexander Melnik! A satirical film full of metaphors!
Today we will interpret this movie in detail from several aspects!
The plot of the film is very simple, set in the context of the global total abolition of the death penalty in 2013, a multinational government jointly formulated a realization, the 206 criminals will be transported to an isolated island called "Ice Devil Island", after which the government will provide them with living supplies, remove all the guards, and let them live freely on this desert island for three months!
The biggest irony here is the "abolition of the death penalty"! For the "Ice Devil Island" program, the official explanation is to alleviate prison pressure.
This is true, but the official purpose is not simple, they design all the steps to seem humane and rational, so as to achieve their ultimate goal!
In the first step, they will carefully select the subjects to ensure that each person is the most heinous person who has been sentenced to life imprisonment.
In the second step, they will carefully ask each subject to choose whether to participate or not, completely solicit personal wishes, and ensure that each subject is voluntarily conducted!
The third step, the means of transport is a very ordinary appearance, even simple cargo ship, to ensure that there is no flaw from the appearance, and selected in a big windy weather for transportation, to minimize the attention of the outside world.
The fourth step is to choose the experimental site in the Arctic Circle far away from all countries, and choose one of the inaccessible islands "Ice Devil Island" as the destination, which can not only prevent criminals from escaping, but also minimize the attention of the outside world!
The fifth and most important step is to jointly carry out experiments by multiple countries, and if any problem occurs, the responsibility of multiple countries is jointly assumed, to ensure that after the problem occurs, multinational joint public relations can be carried out, and no one party will fall into huge public opinion pressure!
With these five crucial steps, the experiment was half successful, at least at the societal level, and public opinion was almost controlled!
Why is this plan a great irony?
At the end of the film, when the United States transported a group of prisoners, the chaos broke out completely, and the official order was issued after a simple visual inspection, and finally everyone was buried under the dense bullets!
The results of this experiment are not much different from the execution of the death penalty. The only difference is that bullets and resources are wasted, but in the report, it is a suppression of the rebellion, not only does not violate the global policy of universal abolition of the death penalty, but also rationalizes the execution of criminals and even receives honor!
This is a movie that satirizes a very real social problem, and it is some of the more taboo problems, and the director really dares to make it!
In this movie, metaphors for order are everywhere!
The first is that when this group of criminals were serving sentences in prisons in Russia, almost every time they were questioned, the prisoners had to clearly and accurately explain their basic situation, which was an instinctive reaction under strict order, which showed how harsh the Russian prison system was at that time!
But it is such a country that strictly abides by order that can take the lead in participating in the "Ice Devil Island" plan, breaking the so-called conventional order, and secretly exile the prisoners and let them fend for themselves!
What kind of reaction will a group of prisoners who have been imprisoned for many years after suddenly gaining absolute freedom, and how different groups and forces will fight, these governments should have expected something, but they still let them go, and they did not care about anyone's life or death!
This is the government's contempt for order, but also a test of human nature!
After the officers and soldiers retreated, when the crowd snatched the key, the importance of order was once again revealed!
The Chechen gang still strictly abided by the order of their boss, and was the only calm and rational team, using the strength of the team, forming a human wall to take the lead in snatching weapons, and then having the first control!
It is reasonable to say that in such a place, whoever can take the lead will have absolute control, but unfortunately, the order formulated by the Chechen gang actually kills all the rest of the people, so as to avoid the consequences!
This is obviously a very stupid approach, they are facing a group of vicious criminals, not a group of small sheep to be slaughtered, and the weapons in their hands are only hammers and axes, not machine guns, and there is no absolute deterrent at all!
So under the leadership of the male protagonist, the rest of the people immediately launched a counterattack against the Chechen gang, and the result was naturally that the majority of people won and ended this alternation of order!
This battle made monkeys and others understand that if they want to establish a new order, they must use the power of the majority to suppress the interests of the minority!
So the monkeys and others organized their men, occupied the supplies, re-established a new prison, drove the rest of the people inside, divided them into four teams, and then every day they would make their internal struggles completely disintegrate their ability to unite!
The monkeys' approach is more cruel, in the case of food shortage, every day from the four teams of one person, and then kill, as food for the rest of the people, from the bottom of the heart to crush them!
Monkeys and a few other people occupied the supplies, lived a relatively normal life, and slowly formed a small society.
This point is ironic that in real life, a large amount of materials and wealth in society is concentrated in the hands of a small number of people, and they use the order they have formulated to let the rest of the people kill each other and compete with each other, thus ensuring the stability and status of the wealth of the minority!
If the order established by monkeys and others can be stabilized, it is likely that in the future, the "Ice Devil Island" will become a new prison base, that is, let the prisoners manage the prisoners, thus truly alleviating the pressure on the prison!
But the movie is a movie after all, and on the "Ice Devil Island", there are two major unstable factors!
The first is the lemmings living in the Arctic, and when the military provides supplies, the biggest beneficiary is this group of lemmings who are starving of food all year round!
When everyone was unprepared, the first night of the material and food was lost! This also indirectly caused the phenomenon of "people eating people" in the back!
The second is the male protagonist, who, after eliminating the Chechen gang, leaves the camp alone and survives alone inside the desert island until the man nicknamed "Crazy" finds himself and lives with himself.
In this kind of place, the two lived on each other for two months, until winter came, and the extremely low temperature allowed the two to return to the camp, but the restless male protagonist, after returning, led the crowd to resist, and finally successfully killed the monkey and gained new control!
This time, the male protagonist once again formulated a new order, that is, to remove the cage, distribute food, put an end to the phenomenon of cannibalism, and everyone survived the rest of the time together!
The two practices of monkeys and male protagonists are like capitalism and communism, one is to squeeze others, the other is to share happiness and suffering together, who is good and who is bad, immediately see the difference!
This is also the cleverness of the male protagonist!
Some people say that the male protagonist is the embodiment of justice, but from the plot point of view, there may be such an idea. But don't forget that the male protagonist is a person sentenced to life imprisonment, and in his hands, it is a case of dozens of murders!
Is such a person really "righteous"? Not necessarily, he just wants to use his own means to live, just start to live alone, just don't want to cause trouble, and finally find that it is impossible to live alone, so he changes his strategy and begins to use his control rights to buy people's hearts and minds to get the opportunity to live!
The male protagonist's approach is like the painting that the supervisor watches, a group of beast-faced human guys, flipping through and discussing a code, which means that those who make the order are not necessarily really good people, nor are they really the embodiment of "justice", it is likely to have their own purposes!
There is another thing in the film that makes people wonder, that is, whether the military has implemented satellite surveillance? If it is implemented, why has it not been found that the male protagonist and others are repairing the aircraft?
In fact, a shot of the supervisor on the warship gives the answer! The supervisor glanced at the display, which showed the aerial view of the warship, which also showed that there was indeed satellite surveillance!
If you can see the warships stationed near the "Ice Devil Island" from the satellite, you can naturally see the whole situation of the "Ice Devil Island"!
Although after the "madman" sent a distress signal on the island, the military did not find it, and also when the male owner proposed gasoline, the supervisor also pretended not to know what he was using, but these were actually all naked under the eyes of the military!
So why did he know that the man and others had found a frozen plane and provided them with gasoline to fix it? This is also related to the final life and death of the male protagonist.
Because the military knows very well that even if the male protagonist and others repair the plane and fill it with gasoline, they will definitely not escape!
Just like at the end of the movie, the male protagonist piloted the plane away, was not shot down by the warship, but took off into the sky towards the light, these are just illusions, the male protagonist can not live at all!
Because this is the Arctic Circle! Even if the male protagonist is flying a full-oil airplane, he definitely cannot fly far. Not to mention that it is not known how much gasoline the military provided, not to mention that the military also strafed the plane before it left!
In the absence of radar, distinguishing the direction is a problem, not to mention the damage of the rest of the aircraft, there is only one ending, the male protagonist fled the "Ice Devil Island", but could not escape death!
This is also why the military does not care about the aircraft, a useless action, why should the military care, they only care about the results of the experiment!
It is even very likely that this plane was deliberately placed on the island by the military, after all, this experiment was carried out jointly by many countries, and since the criminals transported here were carefully selected, it was naturally carefully selected for the "Ice Devil Island", and even every place on the island, every possibility that would appear on the island, had long been speculated by the military in detail!
At this point, the director satirizes reality! Any personal fluke can not do the operation of capital, any seeming hope, may just be a trap set by others, the arm is not able to reach the thigh after all!
If wiping out everyone is the ultimate goal of this experiment, then this experiment is obviously successful! After that, the rest of the countries can follow this experiment and continue to send criminals here to solve the problem, which can not only explain to the outside world, but also truly alleviate the pressure on the prison!
This point directly satirizes the whole society, and those achievements that are flaunted by others are probably just the conspiracies of some people!
If we can think carefully about this movie, we will find that what we want to express in this movie is really a lot of realistic problems, and even a lot of deep things, I will not say more here, you can slowly understand!