——The businessman said to the fat old man in front of the crumbling statue of Jesus with his left hand removed from the cross.
The 90-minute movie is divided into a group of shots. Each group of shots has different people and things, but each group of shots has the same pain and confusion. This is my most direct impression of "Song from the Second Floor" . The film has no obvious narrative line, and the story is not strong, but in the alternate scenes that seem to be intertwined with reality and absurdity, pessimism is like a shadow, lingering in the minds of the viewers. With, precipitation. My feeling is that the director is trying to express his pessimism and anger about the extremely cold emotional relationship between people in the modern life of human society, as well as the stagnant state of existence and mental state.
It can be said that everyone in the film is unfortunate. Many scenes in the film are the epitome of various tragedies in reality: the unemployed man, the failed magician, the fat businessman who has lost his life's hard work, the passers-by who indifferently observes other innocent victims, the cold-blooded boss, the businessman, and the coldness is as stagnant. In the relationship between husband and wife, priests talked endlessly about stocks and real estate to businessmen who came to seek comfort, taxi drivers went crazy because their ideals could not be realized, and so on. Some seemingly absurd and unrealistic scenes actually have profound meaning behind the scenes. For example, the traffic jam problem that can never be solved in the film is a reflection of the stagnant mental state of people in modern society; fat businessman To be able to see the dead creditors and Russian youths and talk to them was actually tortured by their own moral conscience; a large group of politicians tried to determine the future direction of society through the crystal ball, but when someone pointed out that an earthquake might occur They rushed up to watch and nervously made birds and beasts, expressing their anger at the rabble quality of government leaders; politicians took turns to teach a little girl, and the little girl later walked under the crowd of religious leaders and government leaders. The scene where these so-called leaders were drunk in the tavern after the cliff and was pushed down, expressing the lack of modern society’s leaders to think about the status quo of human existence and spiritual status, education has therefore been reduced to pure experience. And is killing the future of mankind, etc.
Many of the actors’ lines in the film are also given the task of triggering the viewer’s thinking by the director. They are very well coordinated with various scenes, such as: "The seated person is cute"; "Life is a market, people just buy and sell things, and I hope to add a 0...or two after the bank account number"; "I am just a person, and the competition is just to have food on the table and to eat better"; "How can I expect from a dead person? Two thousand years of losers made money" and so on. The language that seems to be in line with reality is actually the anxiety and helplessness towards reality, reminiscent of Nietzsche's chant of "God is dead".
Regarding this collection of sad and painful, or realistic or absurd fragments, after carefully experiencing it, one can't help but ask such questions: where is mankind? Where to go?
The hustle and bustle of the crowd on the street, is it not like the group of people in the film who move forward while waving the whip in their hands and hitting the people in front of them?
In the end, when the fat businessman threw out the iron bucket and threw it at the group of dead people, would he think
in his heart: "The pain I have caused to others will be done to me by others."
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