It is difficult to describe the main axis of this movie, it can be said that there is almost no clear story line. The movie is composed of several paragraphs, and the scenes of each paragraph are fixed positions, and the composition is exquisite and exquisite like a famous painting. Anderson said in the interview that he was deeply influenced by the famous Dutch painter Bruegel the Elder. But in my opinion, his shooting style reminds me more of the works of American realist painter Edward Hopper. In the minimalist picture, the alienation, loneliness and alienation of modern people are nakedly displayed, and people are performing joys and sorrows. In dozens of scenes in the movie, some are unemployed, some are bankrupt; some go crazy, some chant poetry; the house is moving, but the car is blocked on the road; the cross of Jesus is thrown into the garbage dump, and the cute girl becomes Victims of religious ceremonies; life is better than death, but the dead chase the living... All these inexplicable scenes happen in an inexplicable city. The cars in this city were all stuck in one road, and even though the other streets were empty, everyone was still stuck in a swarm on the seemingly only road. They may sit in the car anxiously and helplessly, or imitate the crucifixion of Jesus, while whipping themselves while walking slowly. No one knows what they are doing, no one knows where they are going in the future. In such a movie full of eschatological metaphors, black humor is everywhere. The crappy magician almost cut the volunteer lying in the box in half; the elite "bricks" were panicked and ugly when they saw the house moving; the failed businessman burned his company and met him. The creditor who has killed himself... All these absurd scenes seem disorderly, but in fact they are more or less overlapping with the fat old man who appeared at the beginning of the movie. So, taking the poor man whose business failed and his son went mad as a clue, the pathological and absurdity in this dead end world was staged one after another.
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