"Strange Tenants" is shrouded in a desperate and sad atmosphere. The magical hallucinations, absurd atmosphere, repressive scenes, strange neighbors, etc., together build a huge prison. In the darker and darker mind, the devil creeps quietly. Going to the vacant seat beside the bed, I look at you crazy with a grin. However, extreme despair cannot be exchanged for a clear answer. Confusion and fear have always been the best companions. In the process of deciphering it, it's just stepping into a deeper delusion.
A French-Pole came to France to rent a room in an apartment. The porter told him that the last tenant of this room was a woman who had just jumped off the building. Just after the Poles went to the hospital to see the former tenant, the woman died and he officially became the new tenant of the room. However, the longer they live, the Poles feel like they are under the surveillance and control of other neighbors...
In the modern society where individuality and freedom are pursued, indifference and estrangement are indispensable. Are we seeing the ante-mortem hallucinations of the previous female guest or the schizophrenia of the new guest? Is it every new tenant who is driven mad, or the indifferent and selfish old tenant? Is the room with the yellow light on the opposite side of the room for surveillance or just for people who are alone and suffering? Was it the new tenant's mental breakdown from beginning to end, or was the whole indifferent environment strangling a shy introvert?
The audience can see the fantasy after the collapse of the new tenant, and can clearly distinguish between reality and falsity, but this is already the result. The person in the room opposite the tenant has never actually looked here in the eyes of the visitors, but in the eyes of the new tenants has become more and more severe surveillance. In fact, the fact that new tenants cannot integrate into this circle is the key. The embarrassment of being a foreigner and the anxiety of being a new tenant are all over him.
In order to integrate into this apartment, he cautiously pretended to be old-fashioned to please his neighbors, but he couldn't change the rejection and indifference of other people to him. As long as there was a problem, he would say that he was a foreigner, or even accuse him indiscriminately. At the same time, he threatened his unity not to have his own ideas. On this peculiar point, his neighbor is also a victim of indifference and selfishness. Because they have suffered so much, every time a new weak person appears, they have a target for bullying. Facts have proved that this kind of cold violence killing people is invisible, and the fear of being hurt by cold violence is expanded in "Fear Eats the Mind". Our new tenant finally couldn't bear the stress and madness. Whether he was driven mad first or had mental problems first, the whole environmental impact on him could not be ignored.
The revolving staircase is like a huge eye, staring at everyone passing by; it is also like a huge vortex, once caught in it, it is difficult to get out. The compact windows have become exposed to personal privacy, but in the eyes of indifferent people, they have become "excellent scenery", which exposes the contradiction of "voyeurism"-people peep into the lives of others without getting into it. Sincere and caring. In the absence of communication and communication, every conversation between neighbors turned into a malicious provocation, and a growing storm was brewing in the hearts of the new tenants until they swallowed themselves up.
Watching Bruce Lee's action movies in the cinema actually stimulates the sexual desires of two people. This scene combines violence and sex: people rely on watching other people's behavior to stimulate themselves, or substitution or freshness, and the pleasure of the mind arouses the body. Sensitivity, as if sex itself is a tearing process, groans and painful howls are indistinguishable from each other. However, when it comes to the time when they can really have sex, they always miss it. They lack the stimulus of their common experience. The lonely modern people cannot be satisfied by physical collision. It is difficult for each other to understand the situation and mood is the key.
Because I am too lonely, I want to blend in, I want to blend in at the same time I am afraid of change, I hate cowardice because of my fear of change, and indirectly hope that others take the initiative to care about myself because of all kinds of ambivalence, and this desire to be “cared for” is in an inherently indifferent environment. It was assumed to be "surveillance" with a persecuting nature. The so-called strange tenants are not just lonely people who have forced themselves into desperation and chose to commit suicide, are they not neighbors who silently watched all this happen? Does religious ritual-like performance really exist only in hallucinations? Why is the habit of dying tenants that people around me obsessed with so deeply?
The new tenant wants to be accepted by himself, but he has to inherit everything from the old tenant to be recognized. So who is he? He is unwilling to take the initiative to hurt others, but has to become a victim of others to release pressure, so should he resist?
It is really difficult to hope that your voice can be heard by others, because they only hear what they want to hear.
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