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Today I'll show you a dystopian science-fiction film: "Carre Blanc"
Spoiler ahead, watch out and take care
The movie opens up showing a fable about two mama bears, and the fate of their cubs
The first mama bear's skeleton was found; and a bear chased her cub, presumably eating it alive
On the other hand, the corpse of the second mama bear was found on the frozen sea,
and her cub managed to escape
Before her death, the mama bear warns her cub that the world is full of monsters,
and the cub will witness them in the end
The scene then moves to a decaying plain building,
where its rusty speaker announces a motivation for the people to make a baby that night,
depicting a dystopian society where the film is set
This society forces its people to live in a heartless caste system,
in which everyone needs to climb the hierarchy to survive
Because of its heartlessness, the suicide rate becomes high;
and the birth rate is dropping, making the population drop
This is why society's loudspeakers repeatedly motivate people to reproduce
Inside one of the plain industrial buildings,
the processed foods dropping one after the other can be seen
The factory manager intently stares at the mother worker,
who is sanitizing the factory at that time
The mother worker stares back when she becomes aware of him
Presumably, the mother worker is tired of the shitty factory,
so she decides to sneak out of the factory, and heads home instead
Later, the mother worker is walking home with his son, named "Philippe",
along the dark and decaying hallways of the apartment building
While they are carrying groceries to their home,
Philippe looks concerned about his depressed mother
At their home, his mother angrily scolds Philippe for crying
She then says to Philippe not to cry like a little child
After his mother calls him a little child, he suddenly outbursts, and throws their photo frame
He then says that he hates her, and walks out of the room
The mother whispers to herself that Philippe's reaction is a good start
It seems like she is training him for the cruel world that awaits him outside
Later, the mother stares into nothingness, seemingly drowning in her own thoughts
She comes to check the sleeping Philippe
After staying for a while just looking at him, she then leaves his room
In the middle of the night, Philippe wakes up, finding his mother gone from her room
He looks at their terrace, as if he already knows what already happened
He walks slowly to the terrace, and looks down,
only to find her mother already dead after jumping from their apartment
Knowing that the state orphanage will take him after his mother's death,
he removes the leash of his dog to set it free, so it can survive on its own
The dog's situation also reflects his situation, as he is now alone in the cruel world
Soon after, the state orphanage staff arrives in their home, and takes him away
Along the way, he seems nervous; but he needs to follow the rule, leaving him no choice
Meanwhile, it is a usual day of work for the staff, who take care of his mother's dead body
They seal the body in the bag, and put it in the freezer van with another dead body
The ground where the mother fell, is now fully clean,
free from any trace of the mother's depressing death
The following day, Philippe comes to his first class in the state orphanage
The staff ushers him into the dim room, where the teacher and the students are completely silent
After him, the staff ushers a peculiar girl orphan, named "Marie", into the room
After their class, the student walks into the hallways of the orphanage
The announcer in the speaker says that at their age,
they can now be inseminated artificially if they want to be pregnant
In the orphanage lounge, Philippe observes everything silently
He sees orphans violently beating each other
He also notices Marie, and she also notices him
Their faces show no emotion, as if they are never allowed to express it
Philippe cannot take the shitty situation anymore, and finds a way out
He stands on a stool, and ties his neck with the leash
After that, he kicks the stool, in an attempt to hang himself to death
The leash slowly chokes him out; and he soon passes out
Fortunately, Marie arrives to save him from his impending death
After removing him from the leash, Marie revives him by beating the smelly shit out of him,
until he wakes up
Mari then wipes the blood out of the wound on his neck
The orphanage supervisor knows about his suicide attempt
So she puts him in the evaluation room with the other orphan,
who also attempted suicide by cutting his wrist
The supervisor then says they can tell her about their problems; and she is there to help them
For their evaluation, she takes out a body bag, and asks the two who want to get sealed inside
After a few moments of silence, the other orphan raises his hand;
and the supervisor seals him inside the body bag
As the supervisor presses the buzzer, a man bringing two nightsticks walks into the room
The supervisor then declares that whoever accepts to be vulnerable inside the bag,
does not have a place in the orphanage
The man hands over a nightstick to Philippe, instructing him to beat up the other orphan
Philippe refuses to accept it, so the man beats him up
Without a choice, Philippe cutely smashes the other orphan with the nightstick
The man then beats him up again
This time, his anger comes out;
and he uses all of his force to gruesomely beat the poor orphan in the bag
As he stops, the man hits him again, forcing him to beat the orphan endlessly
The supervisor then releases a smile of satisfaction,
as she watches Philippe violently beat the orphan
After that, the supervisor comforts Philippe from his guilt,
saying it is only a game, where someone wins, and the other loses
So she advises him to just play the game; and everything will go well for him
Meanwhile, he remembers his mother telling him that the world is full of monsters
But the supervisor conditions him not to believe his mother
so he starts to believe that the violence in the system is only a part of the game
After several years of indoctrination from the state orphanage,
Philippe is now a grown-up, who manages to climb the caste system,
after learning to play the game correctly
He works as an evaluator of prospective employees
Also, he is now married to Marie, who truly loves him
As an evaluator, he puts the prospects into a humiliating and futile test
In one of the tests, he puts the lady prospect in front of a hundred telephones,
where she must answer every single call from them
The lady prospect then tries her best to impress him, despite the impossibility of the task
On the next test, he makes the other prospect resist the electrocution, coming from the objects
The other prospect resists the electrocution until he passes out, and eventually dies
Philippe's associate comes in;
and they casually talk about sports, as if nothing happened to the other prospect
Soon after, the staff takes out the dead body, and puts it in the freezer van
Philippe then heads home after a normal day at work
On his way out, the parking attendant releases a robotic smile for him
After a day of pretentious smiling, the parking attendant comes home in his depressing home
It appears that his wife is gone; and now living along with his son
He hears his son playing with a gun during sleep time,
so he comes to take away the gun from his son
Meanwhile, Philippe comes home, and finds Marie's possession already placed in the box
Philippe puts back their photo on the shelf,
and sleeps on the couch, waiting for Marie to come home
Later, Marie comes home, appearing to be cold towards him
So Philippe begs her not to leave
The following day, Philippe goes to work, despite Marie's apparent longing for him
She appears hopeless about their relationship; so she removes their marriage photo on the shelf
Philippe drives to work; and the parking attendant welcomes him with a robotic smile
As he arrives in his office, he apologizes to the lady prospect, for making her wait for him
In response, the prospect politely says it is alright
But he gives him a sarcastic remark,
asking the prospect if it is alright for her to make people wait
The prospect then feels shame, and becomes speechless in his response
After that, Philippe puts her on the electrocution test; and she manages to survive
Soon after, she recovers from the shock
He then subjects her to the next test, where he instructs her to press her back to the wall
After that, he tells her to walk backward
She then walks backward endlessly against the wall
The other prospects also experience the useless test
On the next humiliating test, he keeps smashing the prospects with a stick;
and they must avoid it, while staying on the white circle
Meanwhile, the lonely Marie comes to visit him in the office; but she sees him busy at work
She tries to call him; but he fails to notice her call
She then just leaves a voicemail, where she expresses her resentment towards him
She says she cannot stand him anymore, because he became a cold heartless person
At the same time, she wants to have a child, so they can become a happy family
But he does not want to have a child
After saying what she hates about him, she suddenly remembers the thing she loves about him
So at the end of the voicemail, she says that she will still see him later at night
Night comes; they attend a birthday celebration of an old associate in the company
The old man is having a hard time blowing the candles because of his age
so the thuggish group on the side make fun of him
Marie then observes the thuggish group; and Philippe notices her looking at them
The thugs also take a look at them in return
Amid the celebration, a waiter accidentally spills wine to the thugs
This provokes the thugs; and they start beating the helpless waiter endlessly
This catches the attention of the other people;
but they just watch the thugs gruesomely beat the waiter to death
Soon after, the staff arrives to put the dead waiter in the bag, and places it in the freezer van
Meanwhile, Philippe and Marie decide to drive home
Along the way, Marie coldly tells him to stop the car
She then comes down, and takes a breath of fresh air
Suddenly, the thug arrives on the scene, and attempts to harm her
In response, Philippe immediately walks out of the car to defend his beloved wife
At this point, they are completely vulnerable to the violent thugs
Fortunately, the parking attendant arrives, and brings out the toy laser gun of his child
The thugs immediately drive away in fear, thinking that it is a real gun
After that, Philippe and Marie have a conversation with the parking attendant in a coffee shop
In his six years of work, it is Philippe's first conversation with the attendant
Philippe then compliments the attendant's smile, since his paternal smile inspires confidence
Marie butts in, and asks the attendant if he has a son
The attendant then denies he has a son
It seems that he is keeping his son a secret
In response, Marie also says that she also does not have a child,
since Philippe subconsciously prevents them from having a child
She then reveals that the caste system conditions Philippe to avoid weakness
so he prevents them from having a child,
since a young child is vulnerable to the cruel world they live in
Afraid to confront the reality of human vulnerability,
Philippe stays to play the game of the caste system, where he always wins
Soon after, they bid goodbye to the attendant;
and Philippe instructs the attendant not to tell anyone about the incident that night
After that, Philippe comes to confront Marie on the park bench
He says that they do not have a choice, but to play the game to get higher;
or else they will end up like the waiter who died earlier
He then tells her that they have each other, but she replies that it is not enough
So he says he can leave anytime, if she thinks he is not enough for her
The following day, Philippe comes to work, and greets the attendant
However, the attendant remains robotic,
and refuses to have a personal conversation with him, since it is part of the rules
Philippe then leaves in disappointment and walks to his office
The thugs visit him in the office, and offer his wife a flower as a sign of apology
Philippe then apologizes to them in return
After they leave, Philippe throws the flower into the trash can
During lunchtime, Philippe comes up with a plan for the thug
Meanwhile, Marie attempts to have a conversation with the attendant
But the system instructs the attendant not to answer her
He then closes the door and ignores her
Philippe calls the thugs to his office, telling them that the boss wants to evaluate them
On the evaluation, Philippe instructs them whoever empties the bottle will win,
and will prove their loyalty to the company
They then start to fight over the bottle;
and the tall guy immediately uses violence against his friends to take it
Philippe then reprimands the tall guy for using violence,
since it turns out that they can altogether drink over the bottle using the straw
After that, Philippe provokes the other thugs into beating the tall guy to death in the parking lot
In the end, Philippe wins against the violent thugs; but he soon reflects on his action
He remembers his mother, who tells him the story of the mama bear before her death
Apparently, the mama bear chooses to abandon her weak cub,
so the cub will grow stronger in the land of bears
The society they lived in, reflects the land of bears,
which is a cold place where the weak get eaten by the stronger
Philippe then realizes that his mother abandoned him
so he will become stronger; and no one will dare to go against him
In this way, he will survive the cold and heartless caste system
That night, Marie seems out of herself while driving her car
So she accidentally hits a man, but she continues to drive as if nothing happened
The following day, someone is knocking on their apartment, to avenge the death of a man last night
Learning that the men would harm her, Marie kisses Philippe, and jumps out of the window
Philippe then quickly follows her, as he also jumps
Fortunately, there is a net on the ground, that prevents people from committing suicide
Philippe crawls towards Marie, who gets injured from the impact
He then revives her by punching her face, which immediately wakes her up
The men chase them on the ground, so Philippe smashes the man's face with a mallet,
making the other man run away in fear
After that, Philippe and Marie drive away from their apartment
Because of her, Philippe figures out that he has become a monster in a world full of monsters
He then declares that Marie is the only one, who prevents him from being a total monster;
and as long as she is there, he will not be afraid,
and will never be alone nor cold in the land bears
In the end, the cub of the second mama bear manages to survive;
and now becomes a big bear, who wanders through the land of bears
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