Animal World - Adapted from the manga "Gambling Apocalypse" by Japanese cartoonist Nobuyuki Fukumoto

The film tells the story of Zheng Kaisi's survival by participating in a mysterious game on a cruise ship to repay his loan.

Zheng Kaisi ( Li Yifeng ) was deceived by his friends and saddled with millions of debts. Facing a seriously ill mother and his childhood sweetheart Liu Qing ( Zhou Dongyu ), he is determined to get on the "" Destiny" cruise ship, to change his life without accomplishing anything. As long as he wins the game on the ferry, he will have a chance to write off his debts and give his family a better life. This game is deceptively simple. Participants only need to use the poker marked "Rock, Scissors, Paper" as props to win the star logo on the opponent. However, the bottomless fraudulent competition of the desperadoes on the cruise ship exposed the selfishness and cruelty of human nature. It is not a movie about animals, it shows the competition between the strong and the weak without legal and moral constraints. Although the movie has many useless strokes of abusing special effects, in the closed environment of the ship, it is quite imaginative. The conception makes the simple game of rock-paper-scissors cloth appear full of tension, and it has become a medium to gain insight into the good and evil of human nature.

Human experiments in a closed space, there are actually many movies of this type, and the game based on rock-paper-scissors in "Animal World" is not complicated, but the concept of the movie is through clever settings. The game is used as a tool to expose the darkness of human nature, not to mention a group of desperadoes who have no bottom line organized by the organizers?! A game of intrigue and loss of human nature unfolds in this game, and builds a The "animal world" it predicted. The

movie not only lashes out as ugly as a beast, but also shows the beauty of human nature. In such an extreme environment, as the male protagonist, Zheng Kaisi, the protagonist's halo set by the movie for him, in addition to the blessing of intelligence, is in the The light of humanity in this "animal world", in the face of all kinds of darkness that will do anything to survive, his persistence in self and faith in kindness have become the core of the film's touching heart.


However, in the process of focusing on the male protagonist's inner evolution, the movie also exposed its own shortcomings. In "Animal World", the image of the clown that constantly flashed in Zheng Kaisi's brain was originally a very good idea. , which not only reflects the continuous evolution of the hero's thinking, but also represents his resistance to ugliness, but too much repetition of this plot makes the movie appear exaggerated and dazzling. In fact, these visual effects, which cost a lot of money, have actually become a double-edged sword in the movie.

The reason why people are different from animals lies in our human nature. If we look at "Animal World" in an enlarged scale, what is implied by the movie is our real life. The competition between human and animal nature is actually in our daily life Can you hold on to the instinct of human nature like Zheng Kaisi did?