Michel Gondry used his real and illusory skills in "Sleep Science" in the first short film. This part is like the Japanese version of "Naked Lunch". Hiroko stepped away from the character of human beings, unable to find the direction and sense of existence; and what it surpasses "Naked Lunch" is that when she turns into a thing After that, she felt her worth. Hobbies, interests, everything is denied; the criterion of existence is only materialized competition. Metaphors continue to appear in the film, various machines, the evolution and degradation in the film, people are like cars-recycling, extracting content, crushing.
The long and tense scene at the beginning of the second short film is very cool...what have we lost in the sewer? What revenge does it bring? What did we rape? This is the most subtle expression of the theme of the three short films, but in terms of the atmosphere and the grasp of the lens, its theme has actually been revealed. In the pale and indifferent Japan, there is only this red-bearded Dmitry who is energetic-both in appearance and in his heart. In the process of watching this short film, I always feel that the director is pulling the image of Dmitry to the Christian story: face-slap, faith, execution, rebirth; and he walked on the bridge over the bridge where the bomb was thrown, maybe from Moses Find the shadow in the Red Sea. Unfortunately, contemporary cities are completely impossible to be redeemed.
Bong Joon-ho's third short film is quite calm. It’s like a gradual explosion in "Mother". When I watched the first half of this short film, I originally wanted to say that this short film was stingy, but when Kagawa Teruyuki walked out of the house and wandered the streets of Tokyo, slowly let the viewers discover When the whole Tokyo was empty, the desolate tragedy shocked the face. Everyone is trapped in a circle by themselves. This third short film also seemed to give a slightly brighter tail to this heavy trilogy. After all, Little Sister Aoi didn't go back in the end, right? It’s just that when I saw Kagawa and Aoi’s rivalry, I always saw the illusion of a strange uncle overthrowing Little Lori...
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