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MaxZXL

/10 4 years ago

From the comments here I think people are missing out the idea I think is behind the movie and it's actually a good one.

The level below doesn't exist. I think Goreng died at the bottom and threw the Panna Cotta because the rules of not keeping the food should still apply but didn't, as part of his illusion. The little girl couldn't survive the last level and was too clean for the place, also an illusion.

I think she's the Panna Cotta, which found it's way up and we see it in one of the earlier scenes, where the head chef tried to find whose hair is on the dish.

Goreng thought that his message doesn't need a messenger, that it will be clear - but it was missed. The administration, which I think is a analogy to God which is mentioned a few times in the movie and at every level the question of belief is asked, misses the whole point of it and is clueless to the pain and the suffering of the people below (Imoguiri worked for them, didn't know what the people really go through and thought there are only 250 levels).

They make everyone their favorite food of the highest quality and they probably think it's enough for everyone because each one should get his. The people being people, take more than they should or have to and as a result there's only enough food for the first 50 levels and the familiar hierarchy (the rich take most of the food that can be enough for everyone).

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Reply by lola_debs

4 years ago

I like the analogy ideas you gave, and the illusion along with the god's representation makes it a little less nonsense. I still don't get the bottom part. What is that supposed to mean? No bottom? And I don't believe there was actually everyone's favorite food ever at this table. It still seemed too empty for the amount of people that was there. Also, it makes way less sense of quantity along with the bottomless image. But following your analysis, and going deep throw a religious view... We could say that the deep bottom is supposed to be hell of some kind? And the first levels would be some sort of heaven. The middle could be Earth, and the transition to levels, an analogy to reincarnation of some type. I mean, that would be the only explanation why people would be transitioning between so extreme levels. Also I was wondering... Is it really randomly selected? I had the feeling as I watched it, that some people would be mostly put at better places than others... As if what you've done would reflect on which levels you would transition between. We can't forget this is supposed to be a prison, so everyone in there is essentially guilty in the first place. But maybe there are levels of guilt and so punishment? As the protagonist starts doing worse things, he starts descending on levels... And I think maybe there might be a balance between the two people, idk. If the movie was supposed to follow that religious symbology, also I think the protagonist might be a religious figure, as the recruit Imoguiri, and Miharu that was looking for the so said son, that later is said to be unreal. As for Trimagasi (?), the scene of him as a Goreng's delusion reminded very much of a representation of the gatekeeper of hell from another movie I watched, that seemed to reference Dante's inferno.

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Reply by Mahur01-deleted-1589497454

4 years ago

@maxzxl brilliant observations. I missed many.

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Reply by SunnyOst

11 months ago

One of the lower levels also had a "rich person" with a bunch of money, which fits into this idea much more than [spoiler]capitalism[/spoiler] metaphor. @lola_debs might be onto something with the guilt theory as well. Good catch with the [spoiler]chef[/spoiler] scene, I totally forgot about it. I guess, putting it in the end would be too normal or something?

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