After "The Invisible Guest", the Spanish film has produced a suspenseful thriller "Hunger Station".
This is also a heavy taste film, and the previous work's slightly gentle way to show the ugliness of human nature, the work is to set aside the dirtiest part of human nature for the audience to appreciate, with a more intuitive visual impact, may bring some discomfort to people's senses while watching the movie, mind please choose carefully.
Hunger Station is directed by Gard Gaztru Urutia and released in Spain on November 8, 2019.
In 2020, the film won the Midnight Madness Unit – Audience Choice Award at the 44th Toronto International Film Festival.
Although the scenes of this movie are concentrated in a small fixed space, it does not give people a monotonous and tedious feeling when watching the film.
The actor's excellent performance in the plot and the clever design of the suspense concept are undoubtedly the key to attracting the audience's attention, and even some small flaws that do not conform to logic and common sense and rough plot arrangements can be directly ignored.
This movie Has a Douban score of 7.8, which is a masterpiece of thriller and suspense movies that are already higher than 80%.
Fifty percent of those who scored four stars were up, and less than three percent were scored on two stars or less.
It can also be seen that the film "Hunger Platform" is still highly recognized in the minds of the audience.
The film is about a dystopian citizen, Gülen, who voluntarily comes to prison in a vertically managed prison with hundreds of floors or more, and promises to increase social mobility.
However, when I came in, I found that it was not as simple as I thought, and that eating here was obtained from a top-down table, which only stayed on each floor for a short time.
However, the food on the top is a certain amount, and there are two people on each floor, that is to say, if the people below want to eat the leftovers of the people above, then there will always be a layer of food on the whole table that will be eaten, and the people at the bottom can only endure hunger.
Thirty days of randomly assigned floors, but how people on floors without food can survive is the cruel place of this prison.
The instinct of hunger will make people completely lose their human nature, and when life is threatened with death, all ethics and morality will lose their original binding force.
Under the operation of this set of prison laws, the ugliest and darkest nature of human beings will completely explode, and the naked scene will once frighten people's selfishness and greed of human nature, and they simply can't bear to look at it directly.
In this prison, the law of survival is indifference and fierceness, and the male protagonist is obviously not suitable for such an environment, because his kindness and compassion will only make him die faster.
You can't reason with a pack of hungry wolves who are left with only the instinct to survive.
So when he asked his first roommate how a strange old man survived on more than a hundred floors, the old man simply made up a lie based on the fall of the suicidal man, and he let down his guard, only to be treated like a small snail to be slaughtered, and was almost eaten.
Gülen eventually survived the floor without food by eating corpses, and there seemed to be no choice in the face of the choice between life and death.
Like when he was confronted with someone else eating the rest of the table, the dirty scene made him feel sick, but in the end he had to surrender to the instinctive hunger of the body.
It's just that the male protagonist did not completely abandon human nature and become a slave to darkness, and he still had a strong sense of resistance to this ugly reality.
Gülen came in with a book called Don Quixote, I don't know if it was intentionally arranged by the director, and Gülen himself also had a Don Quixote obsession.
Although everyone thinks that absurd behavior seems stupid and ridiculous, the behavior itself represents a quality of bravery, loyalty, fearlessness, and dedication.
In the end, Gülen's rebellion against the Blacks, passing on the message to break the cruel cage of the world, but being ridiculed and insulted by others, did not these two people's behavior also seem funny and ridiculous in their eyes?
This film has many details to set up for people to guess the final ending and the director's intentions, it is a masterpiece worth watching and seriously thinking about, and friends who like to burn their brains may wish to take a look.
In addition, the final ending of the film is also open-ended, and the atmosphere of suspense is fully open, leaving people with unlimited room for reverie.