"Which day is today? It is impossible to know by feeling. It depends on continuous recording. If you can't keep recording, then chaos will follow." A small extension of the meaning of this passage: Except experience , Seeing and experiencing the things around you in sequence or mechanically, what else can you expect in real life? The portrayal of "happiness" in the film, those greetings and tenderness that may be on the phone, are mostly limited to the form, chatting to masturbate. All the surrounding status quo is placed in a lifeless space, and the actors’ faces are like walking dead, presenting a pessimistic view of the current status of life and human existence in an all-round way. Questioning the closed social order or the shackles of reality, in other words, perceiving resignation and unconscious emotions are the only anger that exists as a human being. Interpreting tragedy with comedy, when serious reality encounters comical interpretation, forms the unique absurdity of the film. If the Chaplin-style tragicomedy is the result of the lack of material, the icy characters in "Hard Branches" are surrealistic tragedies in a spiritual world. The changes in time and space, grotesque characters, and even comedy rituals are the most profound strokes to outline and interpret the real dilemma.
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