Absurdity is the antidote to absurdity

Hannah 2021-12-30 17:17:16

This is a collection of short films, one by one in series, the dim tones set off a group of miserable people, and they are helpless in the face of the absurd world.
The director said: "When you watch this film, you should understand how stupid human behavior is. Disorder cannibalize people, and the situation is getting worse."
Everyone lives stupidly in disorder. The humble staff emphasized that “there are always variables” and were humiliatedly dismissed; the obese Kahler burned his own furniture and tried to defraud the insurance company for compensation, but the gain was not worth the loss; the priest, who was supposed to enlighten the people, was like a teacher. Min complained about the ups and downs of stocks. His house has not been sold for five years. He wanted to use Jesus, who had been dead for two thousand years, to add a few zeros to his bank account. Finally, he could only throw the cross in the garbage dump. ; A group of adults who have read all books, in order to get rid of the helpless situation, held a grand ceremony to push the little girl who hadn't read a lot of books off the cliff, and finally got drunk and fell in the hotel.
Each character in the film is basically an independent relationship, and only the protagonist Kahler has a clearer relationship between the characters. His eldest son is a poet and stays in a lunatic asylum. Every time he visits him, he always shouts "No one can help you?" But who can help a lunatic? Everyone can't save himself, so how can he save others? Not every time Kahler is helplessly framed out of the lunatic asylum.
In this chaotic town, indifference and stupidity are characteristic. In the traffic jam that can never be resolved, there are white-collar workers whips whips to each other, but who cares about these, people just walk a few yards forward in the long wait. The director said that people’s stupidity should be responsible for this chaotic world, but who is responsible for people’s stupidity? Is it God? But the priest stopped preaching, but complained that he had lost hundreds of thousands; the cross sold by Ufu was also dumped in the garbage dump; the adults pursued peace of mind, instead of praying, but pushing the little girl off the cliff.
In the absurd world, faith is so pale and powerless, perhaps God himself has fallen into this absurd world and has become powerless.
The film tries to give a prescription-the person who sits down is cute. This is a poem written by a poet, and it appears many times in the film. But in the absurd world, it also becomes absurd, because the poet is unable to save himself, so he enters the lunatic asylum and does not speak any more.
Perhaps absurdity is the antidote to absurdity. Since you are unable to get rid of it, then accept it silently, without having to escape or resist.

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Extended Reading
  • Sigurd 2022-03-20 09:02:27

    8/10. The embarrassing director's high-strength strange film, the highly creative scene conception, and even the surreal restoration method breaks the gap between time and space: the Russian youth hanged by the Nazis, the creditor's ghost and the living are wandering in the same space. The pipe sends the exhaust gas into the stuffy tanker where a group of naked women lined up, and the bizarre slaughter is the same as [Han Zhi Que Jing]; at the end of the square where the cross was thrown away, blindfolded people continue to gather, symbolizing the theme of collective redemption?

  • Elissa 2021-12-30 17:17:16

    12/16 This Nordic director used a fixed-focus wide-angle lens of the film, specially arranged simple scenes and concise dialogue. Shooting with minimalist techniques / unusually white makeup has a kind of absurdity and a sense of indifferent masks [and Temple Mountain Dead Pastoral Festival Similarities and differences] / Oil painting-like scenes and people in a daze for a long time embody a sense of urban indifference and alienation / Use realism to express surreal things like Ingmar / Thoughts transformed into inaction by the economic crisis in 1998

Songs from the Second Floor quotes

  • Kalle: What can I say? It's not easy being human.

  • The speechwriter: My approach was a rather philosophical one. About being human year after year. This is how I see it. Life is time, and time is a stretch of road. That makes life a journey, a trip. Don't you think so?

    Stefan: Yes. I guess you could look at it that way.

    The speechwriter: Yet in order to travel you need a map and a compass. Otherwise you wouldn't know where you were. Would you?

    Stefan: No.

    The speechwriter: And our map and compass are our traditions. Our heritage, our history. Aren't they?

    Stefan: Yeah, sure.

    The speechwriter: If we don't understand this... Before we know it, we're fumbling around in the dark. Where are we?