You, the Living Comments

  • Gregorio 2022-03-26 09:01:14

    "You Are Alive" is a very strange movie. It can be divided into fragments of life. It is cold and pale in color, like a world without temperature, and the citizens of each fragment are numb and numb. Neuroticism, such as a man who complains when he has sex, absurdity abounds in movies. In the composition, the director deliberately created a sense of depth, so that the distance between the audience and the story itself is easy to open. Such a movie that deliberately creates a sense of distance...

  • Janessa 2022-03-25 09:01:23

    Setting the scene for a single-camera...

  • Talia 2022-03-25 09:01:23

    Be content, living man, in that warm and comfortable bed, before the icy winds of the Lethe lash your fleeing...

  • Hester 2022-03-25 09:01:23

    Be content, living man, in that warm and comfortable bed, before the icy winds of the Lethe lash your fleeing...

  • Laurie 2022-03-25 09:01:23

    uh.. a bit repetitive.. traffic jams, bars, monologues... nice...

  • Monserrate 2022-03-24 09:03:52

    When the B52 swarm appeared over the city, Goethe's verse was easily transferred from a sigh to a pair of wide-eyed eyes. Roy Anderson didn't try to show the new dimension of life, he just fiddled with everyone's scene scheduling, painted them pale face makeup, and strung the jokes that made fun of the world into a picture of God....

  • Gracie 2022-03-24 09:03:52

    The "viewer" field of vision is equivalent to what the "viewer" sees. It is not an "intruder" but exists in a pseudo-closed fixed mirror. They (the audience) cannot produce uneasiness in the "contemplation (peeping)", but rather affect the composition. The aggressiveness or potential threat of the subject is confirmed. Deconstructing dead postmodernity back into stage-like installations instead re-establishes "chorus" as part of irony, or narrative (if there is...

  • Roselyn 2022-03-24 09:03:52

    [7.8] Wow, this fucking 2007 movie... I always feel like it's a movie from the last century when I watch it, with funny and absurd prose, low-contrast pictures with gray and white tones, making everyone look like The Walking Dead Again, the composition is still very particular. I didn't understand the last shot....what do you...

  • Giles 2022-03-23 09:03:36

    #HKIFF# Another 35mm film (slightly old). Music has a sufficient role to play, and plays a great role in constructing absurd scenes of mixed sadness and joy. The conversation is almost repeated twice (communication failure, "no one understands me"). Various metaphors and indictments of contemporary life. The roles of children, the elderly and salesmen are always present. Stalling in multiplayer scenes. Anesthesia, dreams and a glimmer of illusory hope ("Tomorrow is another...

  • Enid 2022-03-23 09:03:36

    I haven't seen such an adorable movie for a long time and I'm so moved! Although fragmented, it is particularly holistic. In the second scene, I burst into tears (the arrogant and poisonous-tongued fat sister is too cute!), and then I kept staring at the screen or giggling or tears... At the end, the dream of the girl was beautiful, cute and abusive, on the rails I still won't spoil anything about the wedding room>

Extended Reading

You, the Living quotes

  • Mia: Serving non-alcoholic beer with food that smells so good. It's torture!

    Uffe's mother.: I only want what's best for you.

    Mia: Best! Is this what's best for me? Enduring this damned existance... with all the shit and deceit and wickedness and staying sober? How can you expect or even want a single poor bugger to put up with it without being drunk? It's inhuman. Only a sadist would demand that.

  • The psychiatrist: Oh dear, oh dear, oh dear.

    [examines the large stack of patient's files]

    The psychiatrist: I am a psychiatrist. I have been for 27 years. I'm completely worn out. Year after year, listening to patients who aren't satisfied with their lives, who want to have fun, who want me to help them with that - it wears you out, I can tell you. My life isn't exactly a lot of fun either. People demand so much. That's the conclusion I've drawn after all these years. They demand to be happy, at the same time as they are egocentric, selfish, and ungenerous. Well, I would like to be honest. I would like to say that they are quite simply mean, most of them. Spending hour after hour in therapy, trying to make a mean person happy... There's no point. You can't do it. I've stopped doing it. These days, I just prescribe pills. The stronger, the better.