Financial elites, luxury houses plummeted, salaries were cut and supply was cut off, and the world was miserable......
The keywords on the recent hot search become more and more absurd the more you look at them.
But many years ago.
There is a tertiary film with rotten intestines, which predicts the magical today
Victoria One
Dream house
A 2010 work.
It is said that the full version was broadcast at foreign film festivals that year, and because of a large number of bloody scenes, three viewers were scared into the hospital......
In order to be successfully released in Hong Kong and Taiwan, the film finally deleted some scenes.
But.
This may still be the most restrictive level of Chinese language in the past decade.
But the question is, is it just a big scale?
Maybe behind the bloody cruelty.
We can also see more insidious violence.
01
Let's talk about what you're interested in:
Scales.
There are many large-scale violent movies in Hong Kong films, and there are many people who feel physiologically uncomfortable, such as the famous "Human Meat Char Siu Bun", "Black Rat Confidential File", "King Li", etc., from burning the little girl to punching the intestines and piercing the stomach, I don't know how many people have brought psychological shadows.
can use women as perpetrators, and Sir only has an impression of "Victoria One".
A kung fu master like "Overlord Flower"?
No.
The eldest in the film is just an ordinary ordinary woman.
She is a migrant worker.
Dressed plain and rustic, life is two points and one line, the main business is bank customer service, specially calling to ask if you want to borrow money, and hanging a professional smirk around the clock.
The side hustle is a bag shop waiter, and the side hustle is ...... Little Three. However, it's not the kind that will be coquettish, but the kind that brings its own sugar water to coax her boyfriend, and the room fee has to be posted upside down.
But on a certain Halloween.
Grandma, who seems to be unable to pick up a hammer, decides to the guy and walk to a mansion of tens of millions to create a tragedy of 11 corpses and 12 lives......
How could such an ordinary woman kill so many people?
While interspersed with Peng's humor, the director also gave the killing a clumsy sense of pain.
The first to die was the building security.
At this time, Ah Chang didn't have much experience, so she took advantage of the security guard's sleep and tied her neck with a plastic chain, originally wanting to suffocate the other party.
As a result, the security guard was agitated, picked up a knife and desperately tried to cut the chain, but in the end only his throat was cut......
Wow, it's so easy to kill?
Ah Chang's confidence suddenly doubled.
Go straight to the goal
A family of four with a nanny, a pregnant woman, and a husband.
Of course, each has its own new ideas:
The back of the babysitter's head was inserted into the back of the steel pipe, and the eyeballs flew out directly;
I have to say that Ah Chang is still more sympathetic.
In the case of pregnant women, they did not directly injure them with sharp objects, but sealed their heads in a vacuum bag, and then inserted a vacuum cleaner to slowly absorb the oxygen inside......
Suddenly, my husband opened the door and went home
Eh, what's the sound?
Oh, it turned out to be stepping on the babysitter's eyeball......
This little clever ghost, of course, Ah Chang can't let it go.
And this is one of them.
The heaviest part is that Ah Chang broke into the mansion where she was having a sex party, and killed everyone one by one while she was taking advantage of the drug carnival.
Especially a man who was having sex was stabbed to death by Ah Chang with a knife from behind.
The sexual organs split in two pieces in the air.
At this time, the woman didn't know it, thinking that the man was going to ejaculate, so she said "You're so much", and finally died on the toilet.
emm…… How bad the taste, how bad the taste.
But you're going to say, this is a killing game, just a show of scale?
Neither is it.
Because after this visible bloody violence.
And the violence that we don't see.
02
Why did Ah Chang kill people?
Seeking revenge? Or is it something to do with feelings?
Neither.
Because these two families have nothing to do with Grandma, the most familiar pregnant woman among them has only had a one-sided relationship.
There is actually only one reason why Ah Chang killed people indiscriminately
Create a murderous house.
That's right, kill all the people in the house, then when the house is put up for sale again, the price will obviously be much lower due to the murder.
So.
Is this another story of a dove occupying a magpie's nest?
Neither is it.
Because compared to Ah Chang, she used violent means to "lower the price" of the house.
The rise in housing prices is more "violent".
Let's go back to Chang's childhood
Anyone who has watched Hong Kong films will never forget it.
The buildings in Hong Kong are densely packed. In different neighborhoods, the difference in facilities and housing prices may be nearly a hundred times.
The place where Ah Chang lives is called "public housing".
Many years ago, the place where she lived was barely called a "sea view room". Because the next floor is the wharf, her favorite thing to do is to accompany her grandfather, who has been a seafarer, to watch the sea in a daze.
Until one day, the developer came.
I don't know what's going on, my little friend Jimmy, who used to live opposite, suddenly had a water and power outage at home, and there were a lot of water snakes, and then, he moved away; Then, the unit where Jimmy lived was completely bulldozed to build a palatial mansion with sea views.
The name is: Victoria One.
After that.
Ah Chang never looked at the sea again, because the sea was blocked by the Victoria One.
Ah Chang grew taller and wanted her own room, and her younger brother was born.
Dad always told her:
I don't have a lot of money, I can't afford to buy a house, if you want to live in a room by yourself, just study hard, and when you grow up and have money, can't you buy a house of your own?
This has become Ah Chang's obsession.
Ah Chang is very obedient.
Remembering her father's lessons, she studied hard and was admitted to university (at that time, the enrollment rate at the University of Hong Kong was only about 14%).
But the result?
Ah Chang soon realized that the house price had lost her mind.
It swelled like nothing but a frenzy.
Victoria One, which she cherished, was still 2 million when she was in college, but when she graduated, it was 3 million, and by 2007, it had exceeded 5 million......
It's getting unaffordable.
What to do?
At the beginning, Ah Chang did not complain.
She believes in the Lion Rock spirit.
So he worked diligently all the way to make money, saving money and living frugally, in order to use the money saved by reducing the quality of life to catch up with the soaring rate of housing prices.
But capital won't wait for you to catch up.
On the one hand, due to the sharp rise in housing prices, Ah Chang not only could not afford to pay the down payment at all, but even her request to increase the loan rate in her own bank was denied.
The leader made her simply die.
On the other hand, Grandpa Chang's father is obviously not a lucky person: he has pneumoconiosis, and the operation costs hundreds of thousands. But Ah Chang, who has been using high-priced insurance, said:
If we conceal the history of the disease, we do not report it......
Ah Chang has no master.
She cheekily borrowed money from her lover after a special service.
As a result, the other party said, I have all the money with my wife, don't you buy a house first, it will fall now......
Alas, scumbag, scumbag.
And when Ah Chang finally scraped together enough money for the down payment.
When you're ready to pay.
However, because of the sharp rise in stock prices, another round of housing prices has risen by the way.
The landlord then said directly
The deposit will be refunded to you, and nothing will be sold.
Ah Chang completely collapsed.
Wait a minute.
Since the lover does not lend her, the bank does not lend her, and it is impossible for the family to have ......
So what did Ah Chang rely on to make enough money for a down payment?
Yes, by killing.
And this is also a plot with a strong recoil.
Because she killed not others, but relatives
On the night of her father's hypoxia attack, Ah Chang held the ventilator tightly, and her father had no strength to call for help, so he desperately pulled the corner of Ah Chang's clothes, but Ah Chang still chose to turn her back.
Only when her father dies can Ah Chang get 2 million insurance money and make up enough for a down payment.
So, Ah Chang didn't make a murder to seek money.
She just wants the dream house that has risen faster than changing her face to quickly become a murderous house, so that the owner has no chance to increase the price, and she can also buy it at a low price......
But the problem is.
Can she really get her wish?
03
Fourteen years later, when we look back at "Victoria One", we may no longer be surprised by the large scale that has never existed since then, nor are we puzzled by Ah Chang's motive for killing, I am afraid that more will ask ourselves:
Why?
Especially in the film, there is such a scene:
When Ah Chang was killing someone, she suddenly received a call from her boyfriend.
She didn't refuse.
Instead, he answered the phone as always, chatted with his boyfriend, and his tone was as calm as ever.
I am afraid that compared with those violent means, the alienation of such people is more terrifying.
So what is to blame for all this?
Real estate developers?
On the surface, it seems so.
The film's opening credits have this data:
In 2007, the average income of Hong Kong residents was HK$10,100, which was lower than the average income, accounting for 24% of the total population.
After 1997, the average income of the population increased by 1%.
But in 2007 alone, Hong Kong property prices rose by 15%, and the average price of Victoria One that Ah Chang wanted to buy was HK$8,000 per square foot, with a total price of HK$4.9 million.
This is the context in which this story takes place.
Just like Ah Chang's father said
Real estate developers have already "played in Hong Kong".
As the front-line builder of the city, he could not afford to buy a decent unit for the rest of his life.
I can only watch the numbers go up and down.
But is that all?
Neither is it.
Shooting at the real estate agent is only the first meaning of the film.
The second layer is about class.
Looking back, what is the identity of the two families killed by Ah Chang?
One is the middle class.
The husband travels back and forth between Hong Kong and the mainland, and the wife has nothing to do at home, only to buy and buy, and there is a maid at home.
This was the most common middle-class happy family on TV commercials that year.
And what about the other?
Rich second generation.
They also don't have to be busy 9 to 5 like Grandma, they can enjoy the best social resources, ignoring morality and ignoring the law.
In the house of the rich second generation, the cabinet with limited sneakers and figurines alone is as big as Grandma's entire room......
So, ah.
It is not so much "indiscriminate killing", but rather that the director's intention is to express the violent resistance of the people at the bottom to the upper class, in order to express their dissatisfaction with the solidification of the class.
It's like clearly propagating that all men are created equal.
But who can explain
Why do some people live in Victoria One as soon as they are born? Some people have been cattle and horses for decades, but they still can't afford to buy a murderous house?
Here we must focus on Ah Chang's murder weapon
A bunch of tools for a construction site.
That is, this father, who has worked for half her life and is penniless, is the only inheritance left to her.
But it is precisely these worthless things that finally made Ah Chang complete an extremely absurd, the ultimate rebellion of the bottom against the top.
At the end of the day, it's like what it says at the beginning of the movie
"In order to survive in a crazy city, you have to be crazier than it."
Ah Chang's killing was tangible and brutal.
But the killing of civilians by housing prices, the exploitation of the lower classes by the upper classes, and the hypnosis of the lower classes are like the upward shots of the buildings in the movie, which are terrifying and eerie, and there is no escape.
This is the most important expression of the film.
But the problem is.
Can such a revolt really succeed?
Maybe.
Compared with those angry catharsis, those doubts and resistance, "Victoria One" is actually focused on ourselves.
Back to the first act at the beginning of the movie
The security guard tried to untie the plastic rope, but cut the major artery and ended up losing too much blood.
This kind of death with black humor.
Like the self-deprecation of a house slave
In an international metropolis with a lot of land, Hong Kong people have been put on a tight spell since birth:
Do you want to get ahead, counterattack the class, and live a happy life?
Then buy a house.
Buying a cramped, old, but five-star service house will prove it
You are the one who wins in the jungle society.
And when it dawns on you, you can't breathe when you are strangled by your neck.
I want to escape.
It's tantamount to suicide.
What to do?
Nobody knows.
Just like in the movie, Ah Chang's tragedy made the owner take the initiative to reduce the price by 1.5 million, and finally moved in.
But in reality......
In Hong Kong, when a house becomes a murderous house, it becomes a new hot commodity because of the drop in price.
However, does the absurdity of the murderous house only happen in Hong Kong?
Presumably, you remember it vividly
In the first two years of the talk show conference, Meng Chuan had to ask an intermediary to take him to see the murder house in order to find a school district house for his child in Shanghai.
The agent said: This house is worth it, it is 2 million cheaper than ordinary houses!
As a result, Meng Chuan asked:
There really is.
At the end of "One Victoria", Ah Chang moved into a new house.
She looked at the sea view she had always dreamed of.
A dazed face.
Why?
Because the radio was playing the news of the subprime mortgage crisis......
Soon, the Hang Seng Index will plummet by 66%, and the city, which likes to play the numbers game the most, is about to be invaded by a new round of financial turmoil, sweeping away countless people's dignity, reason, and property......
Other words.
She killed 12 lives in exchange for the price reduction on this floor.
But then, property prices in Hong Kong will fall.
So how many lives will be taken away?
I still remember that the last sentence left by the stock god in the drama "The Great Era" in the stock trading password was:
Leave early, just four words.
I understand the truth.
But when does the human heart and desire stop?
Or rather.
How can we ordinary people be qualified to leave?
So.
Now that we watch "Victoria One", we will find that the most terrifying part of the film may not be the murder scene.
It's the world
A model toy, decorated with a fairy tale appearance, it will attract you from a distance, and you will be sucked by blood when you look closely, and you will never see through it......
A world made up of grass deck teams.
And in such a world, we can only be like ants, willingly submerged in towering modern buildings.
In order to live.
Strive to carry the little sweetness left after the king has eaten enough.
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