Yes, this is exactly the best way to describe it.
I don't know if the director intentionally aimed to weave deep psychological themes into the film, or if it was just to make a name.
But I do know that the film carries a heavy tension between ethics and human desire throughout.
It's a film with little unnecessary dialogue-almost 90% of the conversations have meaning, delivering the film's core message.
In the most colloquial terms, the film's theme can be summed up as:
"They're aware, but the pleasure feels inevitable-as if you're telling them not to blink."
A film that reflects the endlessness of human desire.
A film that acts like a warning.
A film that says the only thing keeping us from total collapse is that thin thread of awareness about ethics.
One of the most interesting and heartbreaking aspects is that it's not a virus that turns you into someone else, or a zombie, or anything like that.
It's still you-completely you-who transforms from a victim into a full-blown maniac with no boundaries or rules.
And in the final scene, where the director builds the story's climax in the very last moments,
when even the protagonist is not spared from the madness,
and the tears and pain turn into tears of twisted pleasure-
you hope for a happy ending,
but the director keeps you suspended in a surreal state at every moment-
a surrealism rooted in realism.
