What happens when a person is extremely sad?
Presumably many people may not have experienced it.
Of course, don't tell me that you failed a quiz, that the person you liked didn't choose you, that you're working overtime this week, etc., that may be sad for you.
But they are not extreme enough.
for example.
In the car, men and wives bicker over the little things of life.
The accident happened instantly.
In the next second, the man was unscathed and his wife was gone forever.
How annoyed and sad a man should be.
Yet he went to work the next day without any sign of sadness.
This is the movie "Broken Life". It makes the story clear in its five-minute opening.
The audience will be curious, why this man named Davis is not sad at all?
Is there another secret?
Xiaoyi chose Davis's three fantasies, and you will gradually understand what he is thinking.
01 Davis, who had just lost his wife at the
airport
, didn't immediately act differently.
But the little details of life have revealed his abnormality.
For example, because of a bad shopping experience at a vending machine, he began to write to the customer service staff of the vending machine to express his feelings.
To be clear, Davis has been working in management at his father-in-law's financial company.
He is not lazy in the company because of his identity: he gets up at 5:30 every day, keeps an eye on financial news while exercising, takes the subway to work after taking a shower, goes home to sleep after get off work, and his life goes back and forth.
With a fixed time and pattern every day, his life is basically unchanged.
After that car accident, he suddenly began to observe the small details of life.
The scenery along the road while driving, people and things not related to you. He began to find these previously overlooked things interesting.
Even taking his family to the airport, he could stare at passers-by for two hours.
He was wondering what the hell were these people doing flying around, what was in their suitcases.
He even fantasized about what it would be like to open everyone's suitcases and put the contents together.
Then a huge mountain of luggage appeared in the movie screen.
There is a subtle joy in this scene, which softens the film's otherwise sad tone.
These unrestrained details of life gradually revealed his abnormality.
02About
the heart
Davis often feels uncomfortable in the heart.
The doctor advised him to take a film.
He was surprised when the results came out - it turned out that his heart was missing a piece.
No wonder it feels wrong all the time.
Several expert doctors surrounded his video and told him that the missing part of your heart is obviously a bite mark, and we judged that it was bitten by a gypsy moth.
The audience certainly knew it was another joke.
Regarding the gypsy moth, the movie also has a stalk.
When Davis' father watered the family garden, Davis said it was better to leave it to the workers. My father said that they were not careful with the flowers and plants and could not control the gypsy moth.
Davis immediately retorted, but there were no gypsy moths near our house.
At the same time, metaphors are frequently used in Broken Life.
The absence of the heart in Davis' fantasy is a metaphor. He knew he was missing something, but he couldn't make it up.
So he hopes to find someone to talk to, and hope that someone understands his pain.
Karen, the vending machine's customer service agent, enters his world just in time.
A customer service who made a return call at two o'clock in the middle of the night, and this person who was going through a low point in his life and was cranky all day, did fit in some ways.
03
About
the Carousel Davis and Karen saw the carousel when they were together.
He immediately thought of his wife Julia sitting on the carousel.
This is not the first time he has made up his mind about the scene of his wife. He recalled over and over again, and the audience felt his love and nostalgia for his wife.
However, the pain in my heart can never be expressed.
Because he heard the phrase "things need to be dismantled before they can be reorganized and restored", he became interested in dismantling everything he could see.
From refrigerators, lights, computers, toilet doors to their houses.
He slowly turned into a violent outlet.
His pain and confusion intensified in the destruction one after another.
Until the end of the film, with a small reversal, he began to slowly relax.
With the blasting and running of the last scene, he finally found his true self.
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