Well, why won't we?
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controlcenter — 9 years ago(August 25, 2016 01:43 PM)
I would say that discussion on this movie often takes quite a literal direction arguing about power shortages etc. Yes, as mentioned above, this is a metahphor for society - but to be more precise, to acting of an individual within the society, on various levels of society. In this context Laing works perfectly - he is a decent guy, he has the face of a likeable actor, he does not do anything evil And yet, he does nothing to stop the breakdown. He just goes around his daily routine, disregarding everything going to beep Yes, he could leave. But why should he, as long as his life can go on? Easier than to make an effort to change it.
This is what I found so powerful about the movie. The accute sense of us doing nothing to help. Take it as an allegory to famine, global warming etc., it does not matter, but such a message about human nature is enough to make otherwise weird movie work for me -
elwyn5150 — 9 years ago(August 27, 2016 03:46 PM)
This was one of the things the book explains. The residents have an unspoken groupthink that includes:
- not leaving the building
- discouraging police intervention (in the book, it is a group of residents leaving for work that tell the police officer that everything is alright)
- not using firearms