kitchen, the man stared out the window in a daze, and his wife said on the phone: "I'm glad to hear you.
Well done.” Behind the desk, while pointing a pistol to his head, a company boss said on the phone: “I’m glad to hear that you did a good job.”
These are 39 scenes of "Han Zhi Que Jing". Three of the scenes (that is, 39 shots) reflect the aesthetic taste and philosophical thinking of director Roy Anderson. This eccentric Swedish director is always keen to refract the characters in the play through the construction of extremely absurd temperament. Reality/surreal tragicomedy.
Roy Anderson, who is over seventy years old, is a director worth mentioning in film history. His film works are very few, and the feature feature film is even rarer to only five. The first work "Swedish Love Story" created a good reputation in the Swedish film industry and a double harvest for audiences in 1970, and then in 1975, he produced a novel "Journey in Love" with extremely avant-garde techniques at the time. The fiasco at the box office allowed him to become a very successful commercial director without touching any feature film project in 25 years. Beginning with "Singing from the Second Floor" in 2000, he has slowly created a "survival trilogy" composed of ridiculous single scenes with a seven-year tortoise speed. Of course, "Second Floor", There is no logical connection between "You Are Alive" and this "Hard Branches and Quiet". It is difficult for the audience to sort out the complete story line from any of its single works, but they also enjoy the clever placement of Roy in each work. In a single scene (every scene), an in-mirror montage with amazing story energy in itself.
The so-called "story" in "Hang Zhi Jing" focuses on two slow-moving prank toy salesmen, drawing the costumes of drama actors They peddled these toys that tried to "enter others" but no one took care of them. They were also collecting debts from the retailer while they were also being collected by the supplier. Other characters and scenes are like two people passing by. The absurd scenery, sometimes sad and joyful, sometimes moved, and sometimes cruel. "I have vampire teeth, I can sell it to you at half price", on the cold streets of Gothenburg, there is no echo.
Before letting the two salesmen go on the road, Roy inserted three interesting sketches about meeting the god of death at the beginning of the film. A man died of a myocardial infarction while trying to open a bottle of wine. His wife was cooking dinner proudly in the kitchen; an old lady clung to her purse in front of the dying bed. There were tens of thousands of dollars in it and all heirlooms. Jewelry, "Mom, you are not allowed to take these to heaven", the son struggled to snatch it; a customer closed down in front of the coffee shop counter, and the waiter told the police that he had already settled the bill, "Does anyone want this steak beer set? It's free." Gothenburg In the withered autumn, it seems that there are crows and birds on the dead branches watching the parting scene of life and death in the world.
The two longest shots, one is the King Karl XII of Sweden, who has won first and then lost, admires the modern bar. The army marched neatly outside the window. His entourage drove away the female customers in the store so that the king could observe the male color; the second was The elders in another bar reminisced about the lush years of 1943. The barmaid sang "Song of Glory" with all the navy soldiers. "You can drink free beer if you give the girl at the Limping Lotta bar in Gothenburg a kiss." On a bleak winter day in Gothenburg, the old man took the lipstick memories of 70 years ago, put on his coat with difficulty, and disappeared into the dark streets.
And more scenes, there are also traces from the previous work "You Are Alive", the British colonists lined up black slaves into the scene of weird brass wind instruments, and also followed the line of naked women in "Singing from the Second Floor" Entering the stuffy tanker, the horrific scene of being executed by exhaust gas from the rear of the car. I'm very happy to see that Roy is still doing well.
"Hanzhi Quejing" has another subtitle, "Reflection on Existence". Roy Anderson, who has a deep aesthetic accomplishment, reflects on the visual level as a tribute and reference to some lesser-known painters in the history of art. Under 39 beautifully framed shots, the audience almost took a painting journey from the Italian Renaissance to the Neo-Imitarianism in Weimar, Germany. The former is the Dutch Proverbs by Peter Bruegel the Elder and Works such as "Tong Tian Pagoda" are directly projected into the scenes with a large number of characters in "Han Zhi Que Jing"; the latter are Otto Dix's satirical paintings embodying the death of meaningless heroes, and indirectly are movie scenes. Dedicated some kind of heartless and humorous inspiration.
The salesperson parted ways in the needless struggle, the bird on the branch was still silent, and in the boring apartment and on the street of mediocrity, you could only hear the meaningless polite greetings of the living dead, "I am glad to hear you did a good job. ."
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