So we will share an animated short film such as "Suicide Store", which will find resonance in "Sometimes I feel that my life has just begun, and sometimes I feel that my life is over." She might ask me, "Is life like this, with less and less expectation, more and more numbness, day after day?" I might share my motto with her, "There is no victory to speak of, hold on It's everything."
In "Suicide Store", there are too many reasons for suicide, melancholy, frequent disasters, unemployment, loss of love, loss of wives, death in love, like singing in a song, "Who hasn't had a sad moment?"
But Suicide is forbidden in the gloomy city. If you commit suicide on the road, you will be fined. If you die, the fine will be transferred to your loved ones. Of course, if you die at home, it’s okay. In other words, please don’t seek death in public places. Hmm, it's the same everywhere.
In this gloomy city, the only place with colored lights is a well-known old store, famous for selling creative suicide products from generation to generation.
The colorful poisons are packed in exquisite perfume-like glass bottles. The hanging ropes are of various lengths. The stones needed for jumping into the river will be delivered by someone; according to your needs, you can die heroic or feminine. It’s soft and beautiful, recommend corresponding suicide tools; “guarantee one-time death, achieve an unforgettable moment, full refund if you don’t die” is their service promise; the shopkeeper will pack the suicide tools in a beautiful bag, anyway It's death, and the couple outfits needed for love can also be discounted. What you think of, what you don't think of, and what is related to suicide can satisfy your needs.
The owner's family has a total of five people.
Father's name is Mishima, representing Yukio Mishima, the famous amputator; his mother's name is Luclis, alluding to the beautiful woman Lucretia who overturned Rome with a suicide; sister's name is Marilyn, the most famous Marilyn Everyone knows that Monroe died in the bedroom while holding down the skirt blown by the wind on the subway vent; his brother was named Vincent, and he had a very high painting like the Van Gogh who cut off his ears and shot himself. Talent; his younger brother's name is Ellen, and the Turing who is said to be closely related to the Apple icon is called Ellen Turing.
Like their names, everyone in the family is born with the shadow of death, and has always made it his duty to make people suicide more quickly and successfully. This sense of mission even makes them have to force themselves to live. Even if they are extremely tired of the world and themselves, they must live for the mission of the family.
In fact, the temptation of the god of death did not treat this family particularly favorably. They thought about suicide at a certain moment, or rather, at many moments.
Father came to serve a local tyrant who committed suicide. He looked at the broken picture frame on the ground, showing his face, buying and selling death, it was not funny; his mother was questioned by a wife, "Which way of death do you choose?" Suddenly he showed a lonely expression. The blood-stained bathtub on the high-rise building, the thrill of jumping down is heart-warming; my sister received a gift from mom and dad on her birthday and asked happily, "Have you finally allowed me to die?" She has a low self-esteem and feels that she is useless; brother Knife sharpened every day, the paintings are full of skulls and black shadows; together they blow out the birthday candles to celebrate "one year less to live".
The younger brother Allen is a heresy of this family, and the audience calls it a little angel. He would laugh, and from infancy, scared his parents to death, "People in our family will never laugh!" He would say "Good morning" instead of "Bad day", and would say "Farewell" to "Goodbye" ". He is plotting a subversion, changing the fate of most people in this city by suicide, and lifting the shadow of death that has enveloped this city.
Of course, he succeeded.
Allen subtly changed his mother and sister. While his father was in bed, he gathered like-minded friends and used speakers to shake all the suicide tools in the shop. The sister fell in love, and the suicide shop was turned into a crepe shop. At the end, I sang a joyous song, "Stop useless complaining, happiness needs to be found. Accidental difficulties in life, dreams will always be realized..."
People call this film the anti-suicide "Suicide Store".
Using a dark Gothic style, a peculiar plot setting, tell everyone not to commit suicide, but to live. If I have never read the original novel, I would probably think that this is a three-star work with a wonderfully creative theme and a little preaching.
But everything changed from the last sentence of the original novel.
When the younger brother was rescued by his father on the roof, the author reversed the ending with only four words: "He
let go." He overturned the city, but gave up at the last moment and chose to die. It was by no means some film reviews. His hands are slippery and relieved, but he is truly begging for death.
This ending, compared to the suicide store in the movie, turned into a crepe shop, and my father still secretly sells cyanide crepes to customers, the reversal is even more shocking.
"Too many people die without professionalism... Did you know that out of the 150,000 suicides, 138,000 failed. These people are often disabled in wheelchairs, with physical insufficiency, and if you buy Our products... The suicide method we provide is guaranteed... As I have always said, you can die only once and make an unforgettable moment. "
At the beginning of the film, Dad sang " Suicide is an art". The pessimistic point of view is that people who are grinning may be more depressed; conspiracy theorists say that this is a great suicide art practice by brother Allen, carefully designed, natural and perfect.
So, the real problem came. What is death? What is salvation? Does respecting human rights include the choice of an individual to give up his life, or does it mean to retain and comfort, and to live is hope?
Going back to the beginning of the story, the people who died in the gloomy city, the pigeons falling from the sky, "Last year's statistics: every forty minutes, one person committed suicide, 150,000 people tried, and 120,000 people succeeded."
Going back to every person who died in the story, the guests' requirements for death are all sorts of strange, no nausea, no pain, no disfigurement and no disturbance to the people. It turns out that suicide is really not that easy, even if life is at the end of life. Moreover, you have to Rich consumption. The most impressive person in it should be a poor man, very, very poor. His mother sent him a plastic bag. His death was interspersed in the dancing of his sister, the hope of life and the despair of death were intertwined. Of course, cheap was not good. He suffocated in a plastic bag and spent a long time dying in pain.
Back to the story, there are several important changes. In the movie, an annoyed father is added to let his son learn to smoke so that he can get lung cancer. Sister’s kiss. In the book, the parents injected her sister with a special poison, making her kiss a tool of death. She sat in the shop and kissed everyone who was queuing for death. The kiss originally represented love, but the sister's kiss represented death.
It’s hard to tell whether the movie or the novel is more cruel. The director’s interview said, “Its ending is outrageous and incoherent. I don’t think we can let the audience see a disappointing scene like a child jumping off a building. So I I want to make it positive. So there is an optimistic kitsch ending, and it becomes ironic that happiness flows down the wall, like some kind of joy and unfortunate sadness."
In fact, the author is Paradoxically, the director is at a loss. They consume suicide without giving a view of death. The puzzle is left to us. The movie extends to life, and this constitutes the whole of this cartoon.
To be, or not to be, this is really a brainstorming question, Brother Hamlet.
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