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There are fifty people here. A small circle under their feet is their respective territory. Outside this area, people die from shock similar to an electric shock. You have the same impact when you touch someone else. One dies every two minutes. There is an arrow at the foot, and only one's own arrow is visible. They can move the arrow toward another person. It's a kind of vote, and the person with the most choices dies. Once every two minutes, the murder vote continues until there is one person left.
In the film's reviews, most people say that the film has accused humans of their ugly nature. It is not to say that human nature is hidden, but the instinct for survival is natural and perhaps reasonable. If you have to vote to kill one out of every 50 people, it is natural to hope it isn't you. Who would call this ugly? Everyone is a complete stranger. Still, is it human and beautiful to go forward and sacrifice your life? I don't think so.
The film is actually accusing the average violence and group discrimination against minorities. When the first 50 people woke up and met each other on stage, they learned the rules of limitations through the death of someone who had left the zone at will. The death of some people later found out that a vote through the bottom arrow would decide who would die. From now on, people will be voted to die.
Then a man takes his words off. Let's kill older people in their 70s and 80s first. They say they're going to die anyway. Most people agree. As many old people died, they decided to kill a person with cancer (even she was a completely cured patient).Then say kill the Mexican who might be illegal. Criminals are also a victim of voting. Then black and white fight sides. In some cases, votes are held before opinions are heard, and an Islamic woman dies. They have also called for the killing of a porno actor, and sometimes they depress a lesbian by defining her as a social evil. They also ask each other about their jobs or income. In some cases, a group of theists kill atheists.
They constantly form groups based on themselves and make minorities victims. And you can feel it whenever people die one by one. There are no real ordinary people in the world.
We are all ordinary in some ways and special in some ways. This peculiarity applies to both superiority and inferiority. It means living with something above or below the average. We all live with some fatal chronic disease. Some are completely excluded from their experience and some have completely unusual tastes.
We can all be few, depending on what criteria we judge. Nevertheless, how much do we believe in majority rule? It's ironic. They collect diverse opinions when it is difficult to divide the minority, but present a utilitarian position in cases where the minority is overwhelmingly few, such as gender identity and treatment of the mentally handicapped. Perhaps human meanness lies in such cowardice rather than survival instinct.
When we have the advantage, we always put up a majority of profits, but when we are a minority, proving our injustice. I was really shy watching the movie. It is hard to say that the perfection of the movie itself is very high, but it certainly throws a lot of thinking away. By the end of the movie, I had often wanted to be a bit less cowardly.
I sincerely hope that I have the courage to stand on the side of the minority without being intimidated by the majority.