The four people who came across in the "Sacred Land of Suicide" met each other and opened a story of mutual salvation.
The character creation ability of this film is extremely surprising. The four people have completely different personalities and completely different suicide motives. The eldest brother is an extroverted acting personality, and the cause of suicide is career failure. The second brother is a skeptical personality, and the cause of suicide is social identity and anxiety. The eldest sister is a melancholic personality, and the reason for her suicide is helplessness and despair. The second sister is a hedonic personality, and the reason for her suicide is broken love and a sense of existence.
In the film, different aspects of each person's personality are expressed through various techniques. The four persons' personalities are quite three-dimensional, full and layered. Among them, the eldest sister's character shaping is particularly prominent.
I was particularly impressed by two scenes in the film. When the four people concluded a contract to commit suicide after Valentine's Day, the four people sat side by side on the bench in the hospital. Chaoyang slowly lit up the second brother's face, and the second brother said to everyone, "Hey, guys look." The dazzling sunlight shone straight from the horizon, cutting the shadows of the four people into the picture. At that moment, there was a feeling of being shocked in my heart. Yes, is there anything in life happier than seeing the sun the next day?
The second scene is the scenes where the second sister's son had a heart attack. The actors presented various emotions in layers. From the panic and fear when I found my son was sick at home. When I waited outside when my son started the operation, I was afraid of loneliness, hoped for relief, and worried about the future life of my son after his death. To the later self-monologue and self-salvation.
Especially the sentence "I listed the reasons for suicide and the reasons for living. But none of the reasons is that I don't love my son." The long depressive life has made her not love his son. But the weird thing is that when she committed suicide, she ignored the existence of her son, who became a non-existent person. This conflicted with her original intention of giving up everything to take care of her son.
Reality has given her a strong cage, but the long life has made her lose everything outside the cage. She has no social interactions, no friends, no support, or even a job. When she found out that only her son was a friend, she had no thoughts with the idiot. She wanted to break free, but found that she had become accustomed to this kind of life, and she had feared the outside world.
This kind of life is too desperate.
Each character in the film is wonderful, but the story is relatively loose. The stories of the four people before they met are not related to each other, but the film uses a lot of space to introduce them one by one, splitting the sense of the four people. It is regrettable.
This is a film with an excellent grasp of the characters' psychology, but the narration and structure prevent it from becoming a great film.
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