The second reason is because one of its directors is Charlie Kaufman, the Hollywood genius screenwriter who holds an Oscar original screenplay in his hands, and has one nomination for the original screenplay and the adapted screenplay. He always brings some unexpected things to people. Even though this is an animation he co-directed with others, the new part of it is worth looking forward to.
This is not a very commercial cartoon, and it does not have the lively scenes of "Zombie Bride" or other 3D cartoons. The story tells the story of a best-selling author who traveled to a city to give a speech. He felt lonely and depressed in a hotel, and then wanted to find someone to accompany and comfort him. The creators try to put the urban diseases that are common in modern life on the table for discussion. Some people think that its theme is that this middle-aged person encounters a mid-life crisis. I disagree, this theme is too clichéd.
In the film, where does the urban disease manifest itself: the writer has many family and friends, but he always feels that no one loves him; the writer’s ex-girlfriend, who has been single since the two broke up, has never been in love; the writer tells from the window Looking outside, in the window of the next building, a single man masturbates at the computer; there is a sex shop near the hotel where the writer lives, where lonely people buy sex tools to accompany... These are not only in the middle-aged crisis Most of the heroes have the symptoms, but most people are in a sick state.
The biggest highlight of this cartoon is its dubbing. Almost all of its characters are dubbed by male voices. Men are male voices, and women are male voices, including his ex-girlfriends, family members, restaurant waiters, and ladies who live in the same hotel... These ladies with male voices are all wearing one. Zhang Mask's personality is deeply immersed in the morbid state just mentioned. But only the writer’s one-night stand object maintains a female voice. This lady has no beautiful appearance and even has scars on her face. She is sensitive, low self-esteem, takes care of each other’s emotions, is gentle and quiet. However, in the morning after the one-night stand, after the two talked into daily trivial matters, the lady began to become a male and female voice, and finally became a male voice completely, with the male protagonist holding his head and running away.
Another highlight is that the movie still has some elements of horror. Because it is a puppet animation, human faces are combined. In metaphorical reality, everyone wears a social mask. They are afraid that their faces will fall off and show their true colors. This is especially painful to me, because I am also one of the animations. The reason why I have been single for so long is probably because I wear a mask like the characters in the movie. It is difficult for other people to find out what the real me is. Talk about falling in love with me again.
Although the whole movie is R-rated, it is not so burning scenes, except for the daily vulgarity, nudes, complete puppets, the process of making love, and sex shops...There are no other large-scale elements. When I watched it, the foreigners would burst into laughter from time to time. I am a little wondering how low their laugh point is! So people who look forward to the hot scene should be disappointed, but those who want to see a warm sketch, might as well look forward to it.
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