let’s talk about the third short film "Vibration", directed by Bong Joon-ho. In the evaluation of this short film, I had disagreements with many people. I personally think this short film is the most exquisite and outstanding of the three short films.
First, Bong Junhao grasped the two psychological characteristics that Tokyo and even the Japanese generally possess. One is the "house" and the other is the fear of earthquakes. This entry point has an incomparably perfect anatomical angle, and then with the concise script, the use of saturated colors and light, and the performance of Kagawa Terunoki, a home is filled with mineral water bottles and stool rolls, and every day just calls for pizza to eat. A living otaku is deeply rooted in the hearts of the people. In these short minutes, there are many details that are very moving. For example, Kagawa Teru is so boring to press a print on the palm of her hand with a paper core, and see how long the print will disappear. For example, Kagawa Teruyuki never dared to order a takeaway. A look at the delivery person...
After this short period, Yu Aoi appeared on the stage, and Kagawa Teruyuki looked up at the delivery person for the first time in ten years. This simple detail became full of tension because of the previous foreshadowing. After this glance, an earthquake happened and Aoi Yu fainted at Kagawa Teru's house, and the latter suddenly became at a loss. It was also very interesting to wake Aoi Yu. A switch was drawn on her arm, and Kagawa Teruyuki pressed it, and she woke up. Many people told me that they couldn't understand the plot. I think this design is very beautiful. It shows the comics of the whole short film. After seeing it, I discovered that this design has meaning.
Aoi Yu left, and Kagawa Teruyuki's otaku life would no longer be possible. The next day he called for a takeaway, and the delivery was a rude old man. He said she had resigned, but told Kagawa Teruyuki her address.
Then Kagawa Teruyuki drummed up his courage for several days and went out for the first time in ten years. The director’s treatment here is also very interesting. It is driven by the small-to-large plot. When he first went out, his pupils were not used to the scene and the picture was overexposed, and then he used a psychological narration to show his hesitation: taking the bus? Subway? Riding a bike? He pulled out the bicycle, it was scrap metal, and the picture was pulled up again, and the whole house appeared, covered with plants. In the end, Kagawa Teruyuki decided to walk, and there was no one on the way. He saw many people in the window, judging from their faces that they had been nerds for several years. Then he also saw the robot delivering pizza, and the humans had stopped going out at all.
In the end, Kagawa Teruyuki stopped at the door of Yu Aoi's house. He told her to come out. She didn't come out. Then there was an earthquake. Kagawa Teruyuki went to drag her out, and she resisted desperately. At the time of the confrontation, Kagawa Teruyuki pressed another button on Aoi Yu's arm-Ai, and Bong Junhao gave Aoi Yu's face a close-up of more than ten seconds, which was so beautiful. Does the setting of this button mean that there is a lack of emotional communication between people, and it becomes stylized? I don't know, the video stopped here. Makes people addicted for a long time.
The first short film is "Interior Design" directed by Michele Gunray, which tells the story of a man who did nothing in Tokyo turned into a stool. The moral of this short film seems to be that the stress of life in Tokyo is breaking down. Many people without a job are like a stool at home, or not as good as a stool, at least they can sit on it. The first half of this short film is too plain, and it is not enough to catch people as a short film, and the second half is more curious.
The second short film is "Merde" by the famous Leo Karax. Meld is a weird man who lives in the sewers of Tokyo for no apparent reason. He hates humans, destroys everywhere, and even throws grenades in the street. In the end, his trial made some people hate him, and some people admire him incomparably.
What I don’t like the most is this short film. First of all, it’s very uncomfortable, dirty pictures, and Meld’s language that no one can understand. The director spent a lot of time on Meld’s harp. Animal-like dialogue; then I feel that he did not grasp any of the urban characteristics of Tokyo, and it is unqualified to be placed here.
I have never liked Karax very much because I think he is too self-righteous. The sense of art in his films is out of touch with real life ("Pola X" may have to be ruled out), and most people will not particularly like him unless he is also very self-confident. I don't know if Karax understood Tokyo too thoroughly, or didn't understand it at all, maybe I am not qualified to judge this person at all.
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