<h1>To see is to believe! </h1>
<h1>I am your good friend sixteen! </h1>
Recently watched an American short film "The Next Layer" in 2008, the introduction said that it belongs to the horror genre, but Sixteen feels that it is more humane! Compared to the impressive metaphorical meaning, what struck me was that the length of the movie was only 11 minutes! I didn't pay any attention at all when I watched, until I saw that the progress bar was only 11 minutes at the end. (It is recommended that you go to see the short film after watching it, and then see the effect is better.) ）
Overall, after the first look, Sixteen was most concerned about two people. The first is the most eye-catching is the wave woman who has no appetite, in the panorama of the first eleven people, she almost does not eat, but also shows a blank face, showing that she is very strange to the scene in front of her.
When the first floor of the film is about to crack, the camera is a close-up of her feet under the table, and the camera shows that she is probably struggling inside.
In the second layer, she refused the food that the attendant had added to her, but it was added in the end. Until the fourth layer was reversed, she began to eat with a gray face, and finally shed tears, and began to learn to grab food like others!
In her opinion, the eyes of the people around her were mixed with cowardice, worry, obedience, and excitement to get up! Sixteen feels that this woman is the most full and deliberate character portrayal in the whole short film. The image of the wave woman, the director should want to express that it is a kind of social growth! From the initial inner contradiction to the final tearful assimilation, the inner contradiction is because he knows that his behavior is wrong, and simply under the temptation of such a beautiful and superior environment in front of him, he also begins to wonder whether he wants to make a choice.
Until the final assimilation, it is conceivable that she made her own choice.
"Society has turned itself into what it hates" simply means. From the film, she tries to refuse and resist, but not brave enough! Not decisive enough! No power! It's like us who are just out of society! Green and ignorant, until finally it seems to be integrated into society, but in fact, it is like them falling into the endless abyss!
The second and another character is probably the one I'm most curious about, why is there a patient in the fourth layer? It's obvious that he can't eat at all, but why does he still appear at the table?
If you have seen and understood this film, you can ask the question in the comments section sixteen: Why did a sick old man appear when he was about to write on the fourth floor? What is the meaning of this?