Recently, there was a thriller with a rating of only 7.7, but the whole network is spreading wildly.
It is said that the director is not shy about talking nakedly about the parts that we do not want to look at directly.
In my opinion, a lot of the plot in it is proper 18+.
Sensitive subject matter, adults can only watch, such a fierce R-rated film, Hollywood does not dare to underestimate it:
"Hunger Station" 丨El hoyo
Back in 2008, Dennis Villeneuve, the director of Blade Runner 2049, made a short film, The Next Layer.
The story is mainly about big men from the upper echelons of society, frantically overeating at the table, while the waiters constantly serve new food.
As they ate more and more, the table and the people began to sink layer by layer.
The 11-minute short film reveals the greed and depravity of human nature.
Although "Hunger Platform" and "The Next Layer" are not directly related, the inspiration for "Hunger Platform" should be largely derived from "The Next Floor".
Compared with "Parasite" metaphorically depicting class contradictions, "Hunger Station" is not obscure, directly creating conflicts and contradictions.
The setting of "Hunger Station" is somewhat similar to a closed prison.
But prisons are not structured horizontally, but vertically.
There are hundreds of cells, each containing two people, criminals and a few who volunteer to experience life.
Before they went to prison, they were all allowed to bring one thing in.
In the center of the roof and floor of each cell, there is a large square hole.
Every day, the prison chef prepares a large table of delicious dishes and descends from the 0th floor.
Can't store food, only a few minutes to eat.
Usually, the people in the first 10 floors can eat well, and the people in the back can only eat the leftovers left by the upper people.
However, after the dining table reaches the 100th floor, there may be no bones left on the table.
Logically speaking, as long as the food is distributed reasonably, it can basically ensure that everyone can eat enough and there will be no starvation.
However, the reality is not optimistic, and human nature can never withstand temptation.
First of all, the beginning of the film directly points out the root cause of the problem: there are three kinds of people in this world, the upper class, the lower class, and the fallen people.
And "food" here symbolizes power, money, education, work, opportunity...
The upper class enjoys the best and richest resources, they have the highest priority choice, the lower the resources are less, and the lower people often earn their heads and blood for this.
Secondly, the big pit in the prison, designed very interestingly, tries to build a window for "equal" dialogue between the upper and lower levels.
You can ask the person above to pull you along, or you can go down there at any time.
But the reality is that you've been living in this prison for a long time and you don't want to talk to the people below, and the people above won't pay attention to you.
Because, human nature has a selfish side.
The upper class people do not worry about eating every day, and do not care how the people below are doing.
The lower class pulled him? It's not impossible, but I will find someone to grab resources with myself.
So in this prison, the lower classes can not find any opportunity to retaliate against the upper people, but can only hurt the people of the same class and the lower classes.
In the absence of food, you should be able to guess, but certainly dare not think about what will happen in the lower layers.
Every other month, however, people in prison get dazzled and redistribute the number of floors.
People who used to be carefree in the upper layer may wake up and find that they have no food to eat; on the contrary, those who are starving to death in the lower layer may live a life of fine clothes and food.
So will the change of identity make the situation better?
In fact, the reality is only going to be more daunting.
In "Iron Tooth Copper Tooth Ji Xiaolan", Qianlong and Ji Xiaolan have a dialogue.
He appealed to Qianlong in the hope that the big corrupt officials would be severely punished.
However, the emperor himself was also very helpless, he felt that it was easy to punish those corrupt officials, but it was very difficult to do.
"Have you ever thought that you drove away the fat ducks, and the new arrivals may be hungry wolves with empty stomachs?"
Because they have lived in the lower classes for a long time, the lower classes have lost the ability to think differently.
At this time, once they reach the upper level, they will have a sense of revenge and frantically fill the desire of the real body.
Before, how did the people at the top treat me. So from now on, I'll do what to the people below.
So, it's not so much a testing ground for humanity as a dystopian society!
The male protagonist, Glenn, is highly educated and voluntarily comes to this prison to experience life.
Before going to prison, he chose to bring a book of Don Quixote to spend time in it.
Don Quixote in the book is actually a character full of irony, specifically referring to idealized ways of doing things that are contrary to reality.
So the film predates the hint that Glenn is destined to be a don Quixote again.
At first, Glenn was imprisoned on the 48th floor, neither an upper-class person nor a lower-class person.
The first cellmate he met was an old man with a knife who had been here for a year.
Apparently, the old man was an egoist and already knew the "rules of survival" of prisons.
From him, Glenn gradually learns the cruelty of prison.
During this time, Glenn meets a mysterious woman.
In the movie, the mysterious woman did not say a word from beginning to end.
Listening to the old man's introduction, every time she came down from above, she was looking for her son.
And Glenn was one of the few people who was in prison who had good intentions for her.
With plenty of food, Glenn and the old man can be good friends with nothing to talk about.
By the second month, however, when Glenn woke up, he found himself tied up.
It turned out that the two were locked up on the 171st floor this time, and when the table came to them, there was no food to survive.
So if you want to survive, you can only eat each other's meat.
Luckily, the mysterious woman rescues him at a critical moment and makes Glenn completely accept reality.
At first, Glenn had unrealistic illusions about changing everything here.
But it backfired, and he failed every time.
Soon, it was time for the second layer change, and Glenn was on the 33rd floor.
This time, his cellmate was Imoguri, the woman who had interviewed him to prison.
She brought a dog in and led by example every day, eating only a small portion.
This woman is an idealist who wants to keep everyone here alive by distributing food equally.
From Imoguri's body, he saw his own shadow.
At the end of the day, it's Imoguri who overestimates humanity.
Eventually, after her dog was eaten, she committed suicide in despair.
The third cellmate was a black uncle, and Glenn and he were assigned to the 6th floor.
The uncle, unlike Imoguri, is a liberal.
He did not want to change the concept of the lower classes from top to bottom, but wanted to achieve a leap of class and become an upper class person forever.
But what the uncle did not expect was that whether he could climb up depended on the wishes of the upper echelons.
After this lesson, the two agreed that the only way to break the prison rules was to become the one who made the rules themselves.
So Glenn and uncle made their own weapons, descended with the table, and threatened the people below with force to eat limited food every day.
At first, there were people who followed their orders. But as we go on, more and more people disobey discipline and have to use violence.
In the process of sinking, the two meet a wise man who wants them to bring a complete custard to deliver a message to the prison administrator.
According to Imoguri, the prison has only 200 floors in total, but the table is still falling after reaching this floor, indicating that there are still people below.
When they reached the 333rd floor, the two found a clean little girl here.
At this time, the uncle died of excessive blood loss, and Glenn carried the little girl to the dinner table, thinking that she was the best message to the upper echelons.
They can dominate their desires and control their own destiny, not at the mercy of others!
In my opinion, the little girl is not a real character, but a fantasy of Glenn.
She represents hope, and the brilliance of humanity!
For prison administrators, however, no matter what you send up, they don't care at all.
Remember that "custard"? At 36 minutes of the movie, it's actually in the hands of the manager.
But they don't care what's going on down there, but why no one eats? How can there be a hair in it? Who the hell is this hair?
In the final analysis, the eyes of the upper echelons are only their own interests.
It is worth mentioning that as a low-budget, small-language film.
In my opinion, the plot is too straightforward, the human nature film has become a restriction level, and this R-rated god work can only be seen on the hard disk.
But with this debut, the director received 3 nominations for the Spanish "Oscar".
Unexpectedly, after being screened in various places, there was a situation where a ticket was difficult to find.
In fact, the topic of "class gap" has been deeply discussed in many movies, and "Snow Train" and "Parasite" are notable examples.
People shout "democracy and equality", but behind the scenes, they do "either you die or I die" competition.
Once you're deep in it, there's never a middle ground.
So the whole movie, we can't judge from God's point of view.
In extreme circumstances, never overestimate the goodness of human nature, and never underestimate the evil of human nature.
Between ideal and reality, it is difficult to find a balance point.....