This is a very delicate film. Iceland in the Nordic countries has the same slowness and sensitive and delicate emotions as the Japanese island in the east. Although the two are quite different in terms of population, culture and region, the psychological emotions of the characters expressed in many films are very different. Similarity - loneliness, sensitivity, self-isolation, social avoidance and a series of increasingly aggravating psychological syndrome problems in modern life.
In the film, the director uses a psychological realistic shooting technique to shoot the hand-held lens at Fox's face for close-up shooting, conveying Fox's extremely vivid and subtle emotional changes. Whenever there is a dialogue in the scene or the environment changes, the director will focus the subjective lens on Fox for the first time to see Fox's psychological reaction to this change. For example: mother said about Cobain's death, mother's wife's teasing, mother's dance class, dance teacher's signal, facing girlfriend's invitation and rejection, co-worker's teasing and bullying... In front of the camera, Fox's The psychology is intuitively displayed in front of the audience, making people feel pity and extremely urgent sympathy. In the film, Fox consistently forbears and escapes, making him passively accept everything in front of his family, friends, neighbors, and colleagues. For these "oppressions", Fox can only talk to his good friends, and more often is alone. The director allows the audience to step into Fox's inner world and experience the real life of a patient with the syndrome together with him - as real and cold as the temperature outside the Nordics.
A long time ago, the Japanese Social Survey released a piece of news that some young people in Japan live at home due to personal psychological problems. They are afraid of public places, avoid social interaction, do not go to work, do not communicate with their relatives, and only keep themselves at home. Refuse all outside activities. Later, this part of the population gave up their lives due to worsening mental illnesses and livelihood problems. A few weeks later, the rotting and stinking corpses were found dead at home, surrounded by garbage, and there were corpse collectors to deal with their aftermath. This is another version of "The Mountain of the Virgin", called "The Life of the Disgusted Matsuko".
It's a sad social phenomenon, but it's not hard to see people with these problems all around us. In today's high-speed cities, the explosion of technology and information makes us receive different information variations in work and life, resulting in our daily life being isolated by information, only dealing with work in exchange for income, the generation gap of relatives, the company's squeeze, Even the closest people are drifting apart in the "change", and people's spiritual world has never been so challenged.
Foss is just one of these syndromes, and the symptoms include but are not limited to his usual emotional specific manifestations. As patients with syndrome, these people are emotionally sensitive and lack understanding and care, let alone get the attention of relevant departments. Because of their imperfect character, these people bear the pain that ordinary people cannot understand, and bear the whipping on their own minds from the outside world alone. In real life, the seriousness of the problem is far deeper than that of Fox, which is the frequent occurrence of news events such as lying on the rails, jumping off buildings, and revenge on ordinary citizens. Most people do not take this step, not because the symptoms are not severe enough, but because they choose to continue to endure and forbear in life like Foss. In the face of work and life, these psychological symptoms are mercilessly placed on the chopping board of modern life and allowed to be beaten, beaten, beaten! This ultimately led to the tragedy of the Japanese home crowd and the aforementioned news events.
The other side of the fragile heart of patients with syndrome is their comprehension and professional ability beyond ordinary people. They can perceive feelings that are difficult for ordinary people to notice. Some special fields are very attractive to patients with the syndrome, such as breeders, animal trainers, volunteer workstations, natural plant specimen collection... They prefer to get along with children, like animals, and also like to create, handcraft and artistic images. After watching the film, I found the director's information. In the photo, he is a kind fat man. As expected, the director and the screenwriter are the same person. Perhaps only in this way can the group that the director and the screenwriter be familiar with can be properly and truly represented. In a sense, this is the true portrayal of the director's life. It's hard to imagine what setbacks the director encountered during his growth, and what difficulties and challenges he would encounter when shooting this film, but in the film, what the audience sees is a man who healed himself after being squeezed, Fox that healed the audience.
So, has this type of people around us really been treated gently by us?
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