The entire film is set against a giant stage backdrop - here the stage is both real and imaginary. And the actual "stage" means that everyone in the play is performing all the time, and everyone takes the meaning of their existence in the eyes of others, and in this way, the meaning of existence that points to oneself disappears (this naturally includes that Mr. "Transparent", his image in this play is pathetic, pitiful and ridiculous, like a harlequin in Chinese opera; and his lyrics are obviously sad about his "transparency", which also shows that he wants to escape from this transparent state of being).
False birthday. absurd. Here is my overall impression of the show. "This is Chicago." Maybe this is also the irony the director wants to express, the irony of the way the whole society works, the way of each individual's existence; questioning whether the way our laws work is really reasonable? What kind of role is our media playing? The law is caught in a cycle of serving money, and the media is caught in creating a stimulus for people, and people are caught in a sad cycle of chasing it and consuming it.
When we analyze a literary work, we always refer to "image", and the important value of image is that it contains not only superficial meaning, but also implicit meaning. Film and television works make such "images" more visual and specific. In this play, the use of "images" is an artistic technique that can be called exaggeration, telling the absurd real world.
(A little personal impression, although I haven't seen many musicals)
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