fragments of life

The last part of the "Glacier Trilogy", news reports about the war, violence, blood and entertainment on TV fill the entire screen, and the huge and noisy TV noise makes people have nowhere to escape. This is also the TV news entertainment in the trilogy. The show is one of the most revealing of the devouring of life and the dissolution of personality. The film is composed of five fragments of family or personal life, a large number of fragmented fragments of different lengths and shady transitions between each fragment form the entire film and connect all the characters in the form of violence and tragedy at the end .

A young Romanian refugee boy who sneaked across the border swam across a river to Austria. He was unable to communicate with people because of his language barrier. He was penniless on the streets. He stole comic magazines from street shops. chased and ran away and lost the camera. Facing this bustling and icy city full of novelty and helplessness, he finally came to the police station on his own initiative, he appeared on a TV news program reporting the situation of refugees, and was finally adopted by an infertile couple.

A very old man came to the bank to do business, and the clerk was his daughter. He was eager to communicate with his daughter and to meet his granddaughter, but her daughter responded indifferently to her. The daughter promised him to call him at night, but the communication between the two on the phone was not harmonious or even contradictory, and the conversation with the granddaughter ended in a hurry. His life is filled with the loud noise of TV shows, the only spiritual solace and communication for him alone. In the end, he solemnly went to the bank to do business and took the opportunity to try to communicate with his daughter again, but he was shot.

A middle-aged couple, the husband is a bank warehouse manager, and he hands over work with the old man's daughter every day. His newborn child fell ill with a fever, which filled his and his wife's life with depression and anxiety. During dinner he said I love you to his wife, the wife was surprised by his sudden remarks and mocked him for having a broken brain, only to be slapped in the face by the husband... After a moment of silence, the husband apologized, but the wife was not angry Instead, she grabbed her husband's hand and told her that everything was fine. Apparently the husband has unspeakable difficulties...he would sit at home late at night staring into the dark...and he ended up being shot at the bank handover.

A young infertile couple adopts a girl with a sensitive, eccentric personality. But they couldn't communicate well with this adopted daughter. They took the adopted daughter to the zoo to watch the show, but it didn't help. In the end, they gave up the adopted daughter and re-adopted a refugee boy they saw on TV, the boy who once lived on the streets. In the end, the wife and the boy drove to the bank to do business, and they were shot.

A college student, he is a table tennis player in the school, in a three-minute table tennis training shot, he was crying while practicing catching the ball repeatedly. This depressing fixed long shot is suffocating and fully reflects him. Depressed mental state. Then the camera was aimed at the video of his game played on TV, and the voiceover was the coach's strong guidance and reprimand. He bought a gun from a friend and he didn't know when he would need it, but he knew it would come in handy someday. When he refueled at a gas station, he found that there was not enough cash, and the ATM machine could not recognize his bank card. In desperation, he went to the bank and was beaten up when he tried to cut the queue because he was in a hurry. Finally, his gun came in handy... Finally the news of the shooting, followed by news of the war and Michael Jackson's child molestation. The bland and even boring non-linear life segments of the characters in the film contrast and complement the violent and dramatic news on TV. Violence is everywhere. This is an important worldview throughout Haneke’s film career. A peaceful life is a surging violence factor. Surrounding you are violent commodities on the shelves. You have nowhere to escape...