I was shocked when I first saw this movie, the Spanish science fiction and thriller "Hunger Station".
Some people say that it is a vertical version of "Snow Train", which is also a dystopian movie, and the story setting of "Hunger Platform" has attracted my attention even more.
The story takes place in an underground prison where the building is vertically stacked, and the elevator here is a platform on which managers fill up with food.
The first floor was filled with all kinds of food, each floor had two people, and after they had eaten within a limited time, the food would pass to the next floor, and the manager did not know how many floors there were in the prison, but only thought that these meals should be enough for all the prisoners, and it was obvious that the manager was stupid.
This is a huge prison, the male protagonist woke up from the prison and found himself on the 48th floor, the inmate was an old man, the old man said that he was lucky, and the male protagonist certainly did not understand the meaning of the old man's words.
At this time, a suspended platform descended above the floor, on which were the residues of the upper people eating cold and hot, the old man grabbed the food and devoured it, and the male owner saw the disgusting food and could not eat it.
It turned out that the platform food stayed layer by layer, each platform person fell to the next floor after eating, the lower the lower the level can eat less, the male protagonist does not know how many layers of the prison, the old man replied that as far as he knows, there are at least 132 floors, because he has been.
The man only picked up a pear, and the old man drank the wine and threw it down the bottle and spit on it.
The male protagonist did not understand why he did this, the old man said that the people below would eat anyway, and the people above would spit after eating, and stealing food would make the temperature of the prison layer rise until they were roasted to death.
It seems that this is the cruel rule set by the education manager for fear of prisoners leaving food privately, and the male protagonist hurriedly throws away the pear, but does this setting make sense, can everyone eat food?
After the platform delivers food, it will rise rapidly, and the more you go to the bottom, the more you can't eat, and the male owner wants to contact the people above to deliver food, but the upper management will not listen to these words.
The prison is also full of blood and cruelty, a woman in order to find her child from the food platform gradually fell, when she fell on the 49th floor, was dragged away by two men, the male owner on the 48th floor really looked, but he could not go to rescue the woman, after a while but saw the woman kill two men, and returned to the platform.
The male protagonist and the old man lived by eating food scraps, one day the two were lowered to another floor of 171 floors, which means that the two people will not even be able to eat the residue, the old man kidnapped the male lord, ready to eat the male lord to live, many prisoners on the nearby floor began to kill each other, some people chose to jump off the building, the platform came down, the food was nothing left, and the dinner plate was clean to the astonishing.
A few days later, the old man prepared to result in the male protagonist, the unexpected platform came down the woman who was looking for the child, saved the male protagonist and killed the old man, while eating human flesh, the woman made the platform to leave, the male protagonist was hungry to the dazzle, and finally couldn't stay up after a few days, grabbed the old man's meat, and ate the old man.
Until now, the audience did not know how many floors there were in this underground prison, but the male protagonist woke up again on the 33rd floor, and the prisoner on the 33rd floor was a woman who was also the manager of the prison.
She said that the prison has 200 floors, the food is enough for everyone to eat, because some people eat too much, the people below have nothing to eat, in order to prevent the lower class from eating too much, the male owner threatened that if they eat binge, he will on the food...
The fact is that this bad situation cannot be changed at all, the female murderer came from the platform to eat the dog of the female inmate, and the female inmate felt that she could not change this situation and actually hanged herself.
When the male protagonist reached the 202nd floor, he found that there were more than 200 floors in this prison, and even the manager did not know how many layers there were, and the male protagonist could only eat paper, and finally ate dead meat again.
The male protagonist woke up to the 6th floor, met the black brothers, the two had a bold plan, changed the prison so that all the inmates could eat, the two went down with the platform, they controlled the amount of food on the platform by intimidation, often used violence, met the female killer again, but witnessed the female killer being killed by two men.
Both of them were seriously injured after distributing food, and finally there was only one custard left on the platform, because they wanted to send the custard to the manager to let them know the situation, and finally the two came to the 333rd floor, which is the lowest level.
There was a little girl at the bottom, the male protagonist gave the milk jelly to the little girl to eat, but the black man died because of the injury too seriously, the little daughter was put on the platform, the male protagonist did not go on the platform but went down...
"Hunger Station" gives the audience an open ending, there is no living person below the 200th floor in the elevator, how did the little girl survive on the 333rd floor? Whose child is the girl?
Some viewers said that the existence of the girl was an illusion of the male protagonist, and the custard was successfully sent to the 0th floor, because the custard had hair on it, and the manager believed that because the food was not hygienic, the prisoner did not eat and did not realize the meaning of the male protagonist.
The film has a strong irony, the prison symbolizes the cage of imprisoning human beings, human beings are divided into three, six, nine, etc., the upper people are the people at the top of the food chain, they have a lot of resources, they can be extravagant and wasteful to spit on the lower people, the lower people are better and barely eat the residue, the bottom people kill each other and even to the point of cannibalism, but also alludes to the life of the bottom people is often more cruel and difficult, and the imbalance in resource distribution reflects today's society.
There is a saying "Change is never spontaneous!" "But don't underestimate the evil of human nature, especially in the face of the most basic survival, and in the end, only managers can change this allocation of resources, they are superior, and even change the class, and managers are mostly blind, even stupid."
"Hunger Station" recommends not watching it when eating, the movie is tightly paced, the design is very clever, and the theme is great and worth watching.