Chapter 13: The Lobster
The story is set in the future, in a completely fictional social system. Human marriage and love are strictly regulated, and only two people who match the attributes and are completely compatible are allowed to become husband and wife.
This attribute can be summarized as: You have finally found another self on Earth. Two people must be completely consistent in terms of their way of thinking, hobbies, special habits, and even bad habits and personal physical defects. From mutual attraction to fair marriage, to the continuation of the marriage, one of the partners can report the other suspected fraud at any time to reveal the other's infidelity to love and deception to themselves.
Execute the opponent by hand, you can designate him to turn into any kind of animal and then shoot it.
Of course, there is a limit to how much time you can have to find a partner. If you can't find it within the allotted time, you'll be enchanted and turned into an animal.
The animal breed is chosen by you. This rule setting is also very user-friendly.
Where there are contradictions, there are struggles. Such an impersonal and bottomless system will of course be questioned. So there were rebels living in the jungle on the border of the city. These people are unmarried, and in addition to evading official sanctions, they also have to be wary of those who need to continue because of unsuccessful matches. They will go into action at night, hunting frantically. Because for each unmarried person killed, one more day of choice is added. Many hunters have developed to keep their lives alive and not turn into animals, and they have been trained to be ruthless killers.
And if you choose not to love and not to marry, then singleness will also become the eternity of your life. You can't opt out. You should not be emotionally attached to any member around you. People will monitor each other and report each other.
Not only will you be strangled by members of the rebels, but they will be the first to blind you and bury you in the ground.
There is a couple in the movie who have nosebleeds, and the husband is reported by his wife because he doesn't have nosebleeds every day at all. Fearing to turn into an animal or be exiled to the jungle for slaughter, he would sneak through his nose every day, causing it to bleed profusely, so that he could be paired with the woman he had found with a congenital nose problem. Ms. A had nosebleeds all day long, and she always carried a large handkerchief with her.
After being reported by his ex-wife, this unlucky man turned into a monkey.
The male protagonist with an old K face is carrying a shepherd dog. The shepherd is actually his older brother. In order to be able to take care of his brother, he pretended to be ruthless and got together with a perverted ruthless woman. But the ruthless woman hacked the male protagonist's brother (that is, the shepherd dog) to death because of a trivial matter. The male protagonist finally ran into the wilderness and jungle, and met and fell in love with an unmarried female rebel.
The plot of the film is absurd and weird, and in each segment of the story, a low, short music voice is recalled. It was the sound of a cello.
For the first time, Seungjun felt that the sound of the cello could be so cold and violent.
At the beginning of the film, when the tester asked the male protagonist what animal he would choose to become if the match failed, the male protagonist replied without hesitation that it was a lobster. Because he felt that the lobster was extremely loyal, and that there was noble blue blood flowing from his body.
It just so happened that Seung-joon had just eaten this thing at night, and he suddenly felt that at dinner, he seemed to have eaten himself.
Chengjun wanted to make an appointment with his cousin Jing Chengyu in the evening, but the phone was never connected, and Chengjun called the other party's store again, but still did not find anyone, and in the end, Chengjun had to call Jing Chengyu's work assistant. The little girl told him that Jing Chengyu had set off for Saipan the evening before. He always doesn't turn on his phone when he travels. Seungjun listened, and he didn't know why, but he was a little jealous.
There are not many people around Seungjun who can do it, including himself.
Seungjun was almost blank for Lagunda's food, clothing, housing and transportation, driving around several commercial districts in the city center aimlessly. He had wanted to take her with him, and he thought she would give the best advice. Whatever it was, he wasn't supposed to spend the night alone.
The rain was so heavy that Seung-joon had to turn around and drive into the underground parking lot of a shopping mall. He took the elevator directly to the top floor, picked a restaurant with a clear door, and walked in.
Seungjoon ordered a signature salad and a bread. According to the waiter, matsutake bread is a new dish that was launched this week, and the idea comes from the boss's perception of life.
It's just toast bread with crushed eggs, cheese and matsutake slices. This boss must have had a trivial life lately to come up with such an idea to fool people. However, the salad is quite fresh, with fresh grapefruit and avocado and a little lobster meat.
The ending of the story is not happy, which is in line with the tone of the whole movie, and when the sound of the cello sounds again, people have already begun to leave the scene in a sparse manner. For the young couple watching the movie together, what the director wants to express and convey is simply terrible. Seung-joon sat in the last row of the movie theater, and he was also the last person to stand up.
There is not much traffic on the road, and the occasional midnight bus stops on the side of the road, and the passengers sit loosely. At this time, the subway is out of service, and more people will choose to take a taxi than the midnight bus. But because of the continuous rain, taxis are in high demand.
The girl hid under an eaves to avoid the rain, the boy pulled his clothes over his head to hail a taxi, and the taxi passed by him from time to time, but all of them carried passengers. The boy had to stand on the side of the road all the time. Finally, he stopped an empty car. He leaned down and spoke to the driver, the car waited on the side of the road, and the boy quickly turned back to pick up his girlfriend. He put his clothes over the girl's head, put his arms around the girl's shoulders, and the two of them ran to the taxi in a group.
The signal light switches to green, Seungjun lightly steps on the accelerator, and the figures of the boy and girl fade away.
The windshield wipers scrape the car windows, more like wiping the road winding forward, the same shrubs, the same street lamp poles, and there is a kind of ghost hitting the wall in a trance. Seungjun glanced at the time in the car, and he felt as if he had really been walking around one place for a long time.
After the car drove into Longshan, these roads would have been almost completely replicated if it were not for the occasional road signs on both sides of the road. Seung-joon parked the car on the side of the road, he opened the window of the car a slit, and the fine rain suddenly swept into the car and pounced on Seung-joon's face.
This is the place where the rear-end collision happened that day.
Seungjun gasped, he suddenly had the illusion that he was drenched, he hurriedly closed the window and stepped on the accelerator. Strangely, the car didn't move, only the roar of the wheels spinning in place. Seungjun suddenly panicked, and the scene of that day resurfaced in Seungjun's mind. It was as if the drenched woman was back in front of him. She was staggering past the pavement, and wherever she passed lay black muddy water, the mud mottled her legs, perhaps the mud covered her long dress, and her lower body looked more like a heavy stone monument, and she walked slowly like that until Seung-joon's car drove very close to her. It was ridiculous that afternoon, not a single car passed by Seung-joon, or descended the mountain on the opposite road.
The woman's hair hung lifelessly behind her, on the sides of her face, covering her face. Seungjun couldn't see her face clearly. Seungjun rubbed the car forward for a short while, and he picked up the high beams to signal the woman to go faster. The woman suddenly stopped her steps, she slowly turned her head, and a hideous face immediately appeared in front of Seungjun.
That's not a human face.
Maybe it's not a person at all.
In the middle of the day, Seungjun actually hit a ghost. He slammed on the brakes, and at the same time, he felt as if his car was being gently pushed against him, and he quickly glanced in the rearview mirror, where a silver-gray Japanese car was clinging to the back of his car. In front of the car, the bare asphalt road was scorched by the scorching sun, and there was nothing, not the slightest water stain, let alone the strange illusion.
The car finally started, but due to the exertion, it almost jumped straight out, and Seungjun hurriedly slowed down the brakes and adjusted the speed of the car. At this time, there happened to be a vehicle passing by on the opposite side, and the other party picked up the high beams, and Seungjun made a blank look. The car was slow, and it passed Seungjoon gently.
Thanks to this car, Seungjun feels like he's finally back in the real world.
"Why hasn't the rain stopped!" I complained.
"I don't even know when it was ordered~ No wonder the business in the store is so bad today, it really happens to rain on Sunday~" Pai Ge laughed. He took the umbrella from me, propped it up, leaned over to me, let's go! ”
The two of us trotted over to Paig's "classic car" and quickly got into it. The repair shop called Pige directly on his mobile phone and told him to pick up the car.
The car was replaced with a new bumper, and the old bumper was left in a corner of the yard of the repair shop, and it was only under the guidance of the maintenance worker that Paig found it. His car is not insured, so we don't need to take the scrap metal to the insurance company to pay the business. But Paige took a few pictures around the bumper and passed them on to me.
"Do you want to go for a late-night snack? It's rare for you and me to meet so late~" As soon as he got in the car, Paig proposed. At one o'clock in the morning, it was the time when he was at his most energetic. I shook my head, "Let's go home and eat instant noodles!" ”
"I'm in for a treat~"
"Still don't. I have to wake up early for work today. ”
Midnight on weekends is spent in the rain after all.