Forgive me for not knowing what to title. .
"Alcohol", what kind of existence? What can it bring us?
Thousands of years have never left the human field of vision, these two words are combined with an unknown amount of love and hate
0.05% is a delicate number
"People are born with a lack of 0.05% alcohol in their blood to achieve a perfect balance" is the main introduction of this film
Like the story itself, the film exudes an air of experimentation from the inside out
What would happen if this missing 0.05% was artificially filled with alcohol? Several protagonists in the film carried out their small research with such questions
People don't panic when they are at a party, they don't talk when they teach students, and they don't get off topic when chatting with friends...
It seems that with the help of this subtle adjustment of alcohol concentration, everything becomes so easy, and that inexplicable confidence and relaxation suddenly surge up
When these phenomena are about to point to the same conclusion - "alcohol makes life better, and easier, too"
They decide to increase the dose and even get drunk
The ending is palpable, and all the good things that were light and fluffy in the past are broken like a sugar glass...
(Spoilers omitted)
The direction of the plot almost unfolds according to the audience's expectations, but what is really attractive is the "light and floating" feeling that the audience can also feel during the viewing process, especially the ubiquitous shallow depth of field close-up, as well as handheld photography, It created a feeling of drinking and slightly drunk to the audience. During the process of watching, I couldn't help but take out a bottle of Heineken from the refrigerator and take a whole two bites...
As with the conclusion drawn in the early stage of the film, for me personally, I especially like this state, because a small amount of alcohol intake can indeed allow me to temporarily abandon some of the excessively restrained subconscious in my mind, and let my mind and body muscles relax together. At the same time, it is actually in a controllable state, letting go of doing something and saying something.
From childhood to adulthood, I have been taught how to restrain myself, like tying hands and feet to dance a dance. This subtle 0.05% seems to be the secret formula to break this shackle and release the "true self" in our hearts. ..
But this 0.05%, do we have to fill it in? The answer is absolutely no
Due to my work relationship, I also unfortunately experienced a story similar to the second half of the film. Once I even entered the emergency room, and the heart rate was only one digit away from receiving the critical illness notice, which is considered to have passed the gate of hell. One trip, the reason why it became like this that day was because of this inexplicable confidence...
Alcohol is a difficult thing to control. People who can really control it believe that they do not need to use it to anesthetize themselves in ordinary life, nor do they need to rely on it to improve the so-called "state". It's just a tool people use to escape reality. There is an old saying in China: "Wine strengthens people's courage."
If we can really grasp the scale of alcohol intake, so that it will not eat us back, then it will represent joy and carnival. Just like the end of the film, Martin and his party joined the team of graduates and danced wildly, toasting Have a drink, shake hands with everything that happened in the past and...
(cough cough seems to run far away...)
Why is this film particularly "experimental"? The first is of course that its story itself revolves around the word "experimental", and then is the script's handling of the concept of "opposing alcohol abuse". If you follow the conventional thinking, the ending The mood of the film must be inclined to the negative side of emotions. The unconventional thing about this film is that it seems to deliberately avoid talking about this concept, but you can think closely around this concept in your mind. In the end, it even ends with a joyous scene of carnival to the extreme, which makes you want to drink and dance with them. According to reports, the director did not want to deal with this at first, and just wanted to simply make a movie about "A celebration of alcohol", but after the director's daughter unfortunately passed away in a car accident, he was in grief and decided to modify the theme of the story , making it "it's about being awakened to life", like redemption, finding the subtle light in life through movies.
Crackling and talking nonsense, it’s not that I like this film very much, but the feeling it brings to me is really special, especially in the past two years, when the epidemic has been impacted and there are only a handful of excellent new films, its It really caught my eye. In addition to this one at the European Film Festival in 2020, there are also "Father Trapped in Time" (read, it's great), "Never, Rarely, Sometimes, Always" are all highly discussed and well-known Yes, I feel that it is rare to have a whole block of time to watch movies recently. It's time to write a KPI for this year's movie viewing list (no)
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