The fixed lens of the fixed camera position captures all the images in the middle shot, and the appropriate distance and static lens give the audience a feeling of watching the stage play, which is naturally absurd and interesting. The actor's heavy pale makeup perfectly fits the temperament of the whole film, and his speech is vague and slow, as if he is walking in sleepwalking, just like the living dead, standing on the edge of life and death. At the beginning of the film, three dialogues with the god of death began to ridicule death, which is quite like his Swedish compatriot Bergman, but Anderson's way is more comical and his humor is more dry. The video style of the film is also worthy of praise. In addition to the characteristics of camera positions and scenes, the composition and scenery of this film are also first-class, with obvious characteristics of Renaissance paintings, and the lighting is also closer to the center, showing a whole A dark and dry character.
The sales journey of the two protagonists strung the whole film together, and they, like bystanders, completed the thinking put forward by the director at the beginning on behalf of the audience. In the exhibition hall, the husband looked at the pigeon specimen in the glass display cabinet with a puzzled face, and pondered for a long time. The wife next to him was waiting a little impatiently. The dove of the meaning of existence, the audience also starts to think about what the title means from here.
Much of the film is metaphysical, and the two salesmen go to great lengths to find a store called "Party" to get back the money they owe, but the address doesn't even exist, and although they know the direction, they're always there. It doesn't feel right, I'm lost on the way to find it, and I'm owed more and more money. Isn't this everyone's life? The director's design is really wonderful.
Anderson is really a funny guy, laughing at himself from the start. Two strange salesmen carry suitcases all day to sell things like "extended vampire fangs" and laugh bags that make weird laughs, but their purpose is to make people happy. I am afraid that Anderson also regards himself as a salesman, using his weird-looking whimsy and unique humor, trying to bring happiness to people.
However, although this film has humorous elements, many of the deconstructions of human behavior have an obvious pessimistic core. Let King Charles XII walk into the bar with only a glass of soda, and when the defeated army returns, he has to wait in line to go to the toilet; torture the monkeys with electricity, and make phone calls as if nothing happened; let the black party enter a full plug The trumpet incinerator, burning them to make music... These absurd scenes are Anderson's interpretation of human behavior. After reading these, I am afraid that not many people can laugh.
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