Background: Telling the story of what happened between people of different ages and professions on an old warship, rape, murder, mutiny, Kim Ki-duk did not give the characters in the film the slightest time to relax. All the characters in the film have no names or backgrounds, and the only thing that matters is the breathless "now". In the midst of a dramatic interpersonal vortex, a struggle over food and survival has turned completely into the absurd.
The main line of the movie is also based on the title of the movie, first describing that the environment in which they are now is an old warship suspended in the air, the whole film is relatively gray and depressing, and the politicians, underworld, ordinary people, and dust women on the movie warship are concentrated in the limited space of a warship, and their ugly nature is exposed due to material problems.
Even in an environment of extreme plight and lack of food, politicians and the underworld jointly kill the pure heroine's boyfriend in disregard of others, and rape the heroine, acting on the warship, seizing resources, and enjoying it alone. The number of people here is superior, but at first it was only a loud protest, no one was willing to stand up and resist, under the threat of triad weapons, the masses did not dare to resist anymore, but killed each other, "people eat people" to fill the hunger, this is the name of the film. It reflects the cruelty and chaos of South Korea's social reality.
In the human world, there are many kinds, just like the underworld in the film, politicians, ordinary people, dust women, and so on, all walks of life, mainly highlighting the phenomenon that politicians and the underworld do something wrong to ordinary people, allow themselves to be slaughtered, and only dare to speak out and dare not resist. There is only one person, the old man in the movie has been quietly whispering, silently watching all this happen, he is just collecting dirt all the time, and every time the heroine is dragged to a small room or basement to bully, he can always see it for the first time, do not stop it, and do not say anything to comfort. It was only when the tortured heroine wanted to jump ship and commit suicide that she pulled her back. And show the heroine a small vegetable garden he has worked so hard to cultivate for many days and two chicks that have inexplicably hatched. The old man alludes to the goodness of the world, compassion for the heart, good and evil will eventually be rewarded, the old man is kind to the heroine, let her live well, the old man is the only remaining warmth in the world. The heroine also alludes to the strong, hard life of the people oppressed by life.
The wicked man then killed himself in panic, panic, and cannibalism, and when the old man was extremely short of food, he used his own flesh to make the heroine and the hero survive, and he bid farewell to death. And left a mark.
This sign is that in mathematics "∞" means infinity, and in Buddhism it means endless intention, the cycle of good and evil, there is no end, and human desires will not end.
Although the male protagonist has a little conscience, but in the face of hunger, he still can't resist the temptation in front of him, he wants to eat the chicken left by the old man, the female protagonist wants the chicken to lay eggs to get more living resources, the female protagonist in order to keep the chicken, even cut off his own meat for the male protagonist to eat, but the male protagonist "human flesh" has been tired, the iron heart wants to eat chicken, and the female protagonist killed the male protagonist in desperation. Now only the heroine and the child in the belly are left.
After 17 years, the ship was full of plants, the chickens hatched a lot of chicks, and life became a little better. The heroine's child also grew up, under the action of youth hormones at this age, he actually had a non-divided thought about his mother, and moved his hands and feet, at the end of the movie, he chased his mother, and the movie ended.
The whole film has always been ugly, negative scenes, only the old man and the heroine are filled with color in a dull tone, and the people who remain in this world still cannot get rid of the ugliness of human nature, so that people are very depressed after watching it, which is an absurd movie that exposes the ugliness of human nature.