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What other movies takes a dig on class and capitalism? ( Snowpiercer, Parasite etc )
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22. If you are a tech genius, once you build a perfect working prototype of an invisibility suit, keep it secret behind a single layer security control such as a 6 digit numeric password and pick an important date from your life as the password such as the day you met your girlfriend.
23. An invisibility suit would give you extreme strength and would perfectly noise cancel every sound you make such as footsteps and screams but would not let you get away from being sniffed out by a dog.
The child is only meant to be seen at the topmost floor where the platform stops. But according to the film the topmost floor is not resided by the administration but rather inmates who happen to be on level zero at the very top of the food chain literally. Now this is not stated anywhere explicitly and I know logically it is supposed to be the level where the food is served by the waiters.
But by the logic of the film it can be inferred so. The wise old man says to leave a food item so that it can be a message to the top of the food chain that if everybody ate their share of food only without being selfish the food can reach the bottom most level. And that is why they decide to leave a pina codda as a message.
Leaving a pina coda as a message would not make any sense if the platform were to be only seen by the food servers. To them it would mean nothing, probably something wrong with the item.
But the system they are about to change would require a message to be sent at the top of the food chain, people who begin eating. Hopefully they would receive the message of spontaneous solidarity.
Now a child who has made it to the bottom and returned safe would serve as a better message of the spontaneous solidarity than the pina codda if seen by the level zero of the food chain.
As per a new article i saw today production lines in China have already started rolling. The chinese industrial complex is back on its feet within two months. Even Wuhan is about to open its factories very soon. How did they contain it so quickly when scientists around the world are saying it would take minimum six months of social distancing and lockdowns for it to be relatively safe.
But then it would not make sense for the protagonist to stay behind. Regardles of whether or not he goes up with the girl, the message about the girl being there will still sark an investigation.
However if the message is about the selflessness of the people below having spared the girl, then the presence of the protagonist might be seen as done in his selfish interest.
The child is the message because once he reaches level zero it would lead people on that level to conclude that the child had made all the way to the bottom and has come back up. Since the platform zips past very fast on its way up the child has to have gone all the way down if he were to have climbed on it on any random level. This would mean that inspite of the starvation and hunger the people at the bottom were certainly facing they have decided to spare the child's life. This underscores the humanity that is still alive and not completely forsaken. People would rather choose starvation that eating a child. This hopefully might snap people out of the "Eat or be eaten" philosophy that the system
has indoctrinated them into.
This is quite similar to snowpiercer when Gary Oldman's character helps awaken the humanity in the people of the last compartment by cutting off his own limb and offering it to be eaten in exchange for sparing the child's life. Almost as if people stand back and ponder on the monster they have become. A chain of greed broken by an act of self-sacrifice.
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Here is a cool video on 10 existing invisibility cloak technology. None of them involves camera and display. Most of the decent ones seem to involve some kind of light bending phenomenon in them.
https://youtu.be/kUhKShrHTYA
Without getting into all the complexities the suit consists of a large number of small camera cum display units. The footage being recorded at the back of the suit is being displayed at the front and vice versa all around. So no matter which direction you are looking from the footage in your line of sight just behind the suit is being recorded and displayed at the front of the suit.
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