Don't think about it if you want it in China. I admire it if you can get the source. Because the film involves the lives of Chinese migrant workers overseas, as well as the intimate scenes of Chinese gay men. However, this does not affect the atmosphere of the whole film in the slightest. What the director wants to show is a world that is realistic to terrifyingly gloomy.
In all the shots, only the child is warm. But children always have to grow up and come into contact with ugliness, so why can't the beautiful beginning of our life be called a mistake?
No wheel what country, no matter what skin color. Where there is a gap between the rich and the poor, there are those who live at the bottom. The male protagonist is a jobless vagabond among the foreman, the Chinese pirate dealer, and the head dealer. But these grey deals became the entire economy of a single-parent family with two children. The subway that evades fares as much as possible, the crumpled euros that come out of his pocket every time, the messy hair, the image of this down-and-out father persists throughout the film. When he discovered that his hematuria was so severe that he was incontinent. When doctors told him he had a few months to live. He becomes vulnerable, trying to do "good things" but getting worse and worse until the end of his life. The director cruelly let him die like this, leaving behind everything that he needed to bear. Or maybe it's a relief. But it's still too realistic to accept.
Family under the hierarchy, a concept that the film has always emphasized. Whether it's the man's shattered home, or the struggling mother and baby in the shabby little black house that sells bootleg bags. Still in the basement, 25 Chinese stowaways, including children and women, slept in rows on the ground. Real, all in all. Likewise, the head boss holding a prostitute in a bar. Their lives are in stark contrast to the Chinese bosses who earn tens of thousands of dollars but give stowaways a few points.
Sex, the director emphasized the upper-class exploiters as homosexuals twice, perhaps because he hated the existence of such things. Therefore, sex is likened to a tumor, the evil of human nature, and the annihilation of human nature. The director made a close-up of the Chinese boss's family eating, the meat in the bowl, the daughter's long blue nails, the son laughingly said "I still can't understand other people's speech", the old father kept talking Ribala's meal. Chatting and laughing. Suddenly, when the boss' gay man came in, everyone was silent, especially his wife. Indeed, what they eat is obtained through the inhuman exploitation of gays and bosses. But everyone acquiesced that such ugliness existed. It's like the boss driving a sports car himself, but keeping the 25 stowaways, who are also Chinese, in an airtight basement. However, when they died of gas poisoning, they were thrown into the sea like garbage. I don't know if people with "high patriotism" are going to scold the director again. However, this is indeed a corner of the survival of overseas Chinese. Like that gay guy said, do you know how many people in this country want to lick my dick and come out and do it? ! Comparing the wages of domestic migrant workers with the wages of foreign black workers, it is obviously higher than that of foreign workers. I sighed, my heart sank every time I saw this.
This is an extremely dark, realistic to terrifying film, regardless of skin or borders. Where the rich always exploit the exploited. The difference is that when some people are exploited, even the little bit of humanity they have left is evaporated in the stench of copper with the powerless luster of money. And the male master is struggling with his helpless life among these inhuman people. A life that finally faded away.
However, the funny thing is that the director called the film biutiful, I don't know if there is this word in Spanish, if it doesn't, it's a false beauty. Just like the life of the master.
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