The movie we recommend to you today is called "The Life-Taking Apartment". The heroine Sarah is a college student, her father is a scumbag, in her mother's critical illness and the nurse screwed, so the father and daughter broke up.
When her mother dies, Sarah runs away from home and comes to Los Angeles, where she wants to start a new life. No matter how much her father tried to explain, she just ignored it.
Sarah works as an intern at a law firm and becomes good friends with the curly-haired woman at the firm. Sarah wants to rent a house, she comes to a community, the residents are friendly, they all seem to live very well, but there are a lot of people applying for rentals, Sarah is about to leave, the community manager said to her: our house is not first come first served, we need to check the eligibility of tenants. So Sarah left her information, and to her surprise, the community manager thought Sarah was very nice and rented the sought-after apartment to Sarah, but with the condition that she could not have pets.
Sarah was very happy, but she had a cat, and when she moved she smuggled it into the apartment. The community is harmonious and everyone is very welcoming, offering to help her move her things and inviting her to parties.
However, at night when she goes to bed, Sarah hears strange noises coming from the walls all the time, but when she asks her neighbors, they all say they heard nothing.
The strange noises continued every day, keeping her awake at night and making her mentally ill. She was also bullied by her supervisor at work, so she became even more depressed.
One night, Sarah received a threatening letter from her neighbor saying she shouldn't have kept the cat secretly. And more terrible things happened one after another. At night Sarah was woken up by the silky sound of the oven while she was sleeping, and she went over to open it to see: her cat was cooked!
Then, the community guy who was very friendly to Sarah suddenly appeared and tied her to a chair, ready to inject her with an unknown liquid. Sarah struggled desperately to break free from her bonds and ran out of the room and cried out for help, only to find that the whole apartment was in cahoots.
They put Sarah in the room, injected a shot, and she fell unconscious. I don't know how long it took Sarah woke up to find herself changed and her room nailed shut, when the community manager came in with the guy and said to her: We know you don't have many friends, we've taken your phone and quit for you, and told your familiar colleagues that you hate them! Want to go far away!
Sarah, a college student, was kidnapped by the community manager, who also cut off all her social contacts.
The community manager said: if you obey, you will get food, or you will be punished. Sarah was made to keep her hands on the wall in a fixed position, which they called a stress position, in order to cause Sarah pain. She could only rest when the light next to her went off, and they would keep an eye on her through the camera.
Sarah held on for a while, but finally didn't carry on and took an early break, only to have the community manager and the guy walk in with a toolbox and nail Sarah's hand to the wall with a nail handle. Sarah suffered great pain, the community manager also put out noise to destroy her nerves, and finally Sarah frantic, she recklessly pulled her hands out of the nails, fell back to sleep. When she woke up, she found that the door was still closed, she did not know what to do? By this time the light was on and Sarah, afraid of being nailed again, put her hands on the wall in a fixed position.
The community manager and the guy came into the room and complimented Sarah on a job well done, saying it was the first step to joining the family. The neighbors treat Sarah's hands and tell her that everyone in the community has been nailed.
Sarah goes to the lie detector room and is questioned by the community manager and the handsome guy, who ask very personal questions and give Sarah further brainwashing about how the outside world is too messy and scary and that our community is the happiest. Sarah is asked to familiarize herself with the apartment community handbook, which contains four truths: To be selfless is to be undivided. Openness, which means no secrets. Acceptance is treating you like me. To be safe is to trust each other. Only by doing these four things can we be happy.
Sarah was assigned to work in front of a monitor, responsible for monitoring the community members' every move. One day Sarah saw that the oldest grandmother in the community was sick and reported it to the community manager immediately. To their surprise, the community members thought that the grandmother could no longer contribute to the community and put her to death even though she was the most senior community member. The community manager praised Sarah for her contribution to the community.
Sarah finally passed the test and officially became a member of the community. The community manager brands a mark on her head as a sign. At the same time, because the one-eyed man's wife has died, she is allowed to marry the one-eyed man.
The one-eyed man is trying to make love to Sarah when Sarah's dad comes to her door and asks for forgiveness from his daughter. The community manager tells Sarah that she must break off the relationship with her dad or there will be serious consequences.
Sarah's room becomes vacant and the community starts looking for a new tenant. Sarah discovers on the security camera that the person who is renting her room is her former co-worker and best friend, the curly-haired woman, who suffers the same pain as Sarah, first being harassed by the noise from the walls every night. Later, the community manager stole her social media to break off relations with her friends, and she was caught in the penalty room to nail her hands, but the curly-haired woman's personality is very hard, has not been tamed, the community manager told Sarah to curly-haired woman brainwashing, but curly-haired woman where to listen to, but also tried to escape. Angry community manager ready to chisel her ears to punish her, the community manager let Sarah take the wedge, he picked up the hammer, watching his friend curly-haired woman wailing in pain, has been hidden Sarah began to resist, she used the wedge in the community manager's neck, and curly-haired woman together to escape from the room, however, the community manager was not plugged to death, he shot the curly-haired woman from behind the head killed, the angry Sarah rushed up to the community manager The community manager was completely killed when Sarah rushed up and threw him to the ground and stabbed him.
Sarah grabbed the pistol and car keys and fled to the apartment door, when the apartment residents gathered around and tried to stop her from escaping, Sarah shot and stopped them, and in the moment of opening the door, the residents pulled Sarah, and the pistol was taken away by her husband, the one-eyed man. Sarah looked like she was about to be pulled back into the nightmare! The one-eyed man shot the man pulling Sarah, allowing Sarah to escape from the apartment, while he blocked the crowd and swallowed the gun to kill himself.
Sarah runs out into the street, desperately trying to get some fresh air, she looks around, but finds that the houses on the street are surprisingly all part of the community, the alarm sounds, what exactly will be Sarah's fate ......
As a horror, thriller movie, "Taking the Apartment" metaphorically presents the apartment community as a cult with religious implications. The members of the community try to build an ideal community, but it is a false utopia with a glossy veneer that is cruel in nature. The film's open-ended ending deepens the theme of the film. Just when Sarah thinks she has escaped, she discovers that the escape has just begun.
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