This movie is a well-made trap, a spider web lying ambush in the bright sun, and a mousetrap with cheese in it. If you are careful, you will find flaws, those repressive soundtracks, those shaky camera language.
Requiem is not a train guessing, not so punk and black humor, but more heavy and depressed. The fate of those characters who are getting more and more collapsed while watching the movie grabbed their hearts and made people helplessly suppressed. The sweet and future expectations between Xiali and his girlfriend are based on an already shaky foundation; the old mother’s old and helpless life, living alone on the sofa, watching TV and sustaining traces of life, although the phone call gave her a new life The direction of her, but it can't change the essence of her life, this is the reason why she finally went crazy.
So when the young lovers gradually began to crack due to their addiction, when the old mother took drugs to lose weight because she wanted to be on TV, everything became so natural. The question is not whether the relationship between Xiali and Marianne is deep enough, but what is the relationship with which they are operated. If they opened a fashion store together, it would be a different scene. Unfortunately, they chose the completely opposite. Lu: Taking drugs.
What the old mother needs is not bonuses or fame, but to be noticed and needed, just like her monologue to her son, she is alone, she is old, even after she rushed to the TV station, she still insisted that she was not For money, to be able to be on TV, why do you want to be on TV, just to let everyone know that there is still such an old woman, this is the inner monologue of every lonely old man.
I remember that in the first half, Marianne told Xiali when she was lingering with Xiali, you made me feel like an individual. And in the description of Marian returning home after going through the body twice to exchange drugs, it can be seen that she gradually fell, the first time she yelled in the bathtub and tried to wash herself to struggle, and the second time she returned home. Curled up on the sofa holding the drugs in exchange for her body and dignity, she had already seen that she had compromised.
In fact, there are a lot of human touches in the film. Before pushing the TV away, Xiali was so heartbroken that her mother told her to come out; when the old mother went to the pawn shop, the old man kindly persuaded the old mother to call the police and talked about how long they had been together. After making a fortune from drugs, Xiali thought of buying a TV set for her mother as a gift and went back to see her mother; the old mother and her friends were basking in the sun downstairs and her friends helped her dye her hair; Xiali and him After making money, his friend put the money in a common box without worrying about being betrayed by the other party; after Xiali was in jail, that friend helplessly asked the police officer to help Xiali treat his arm; Xiali called Marion and said that he missed her and Marianne told him to come back tonight; and the scene where the old mother's friend went to visit Xiali's mother who had become mentally ill and cried at the station outside... etc. It's just that these inconspicuous human touches seem to be particularly ironic and distressing in such a depressing and heavy film.
The first feeling after watching the film is to be sucked into a downward spiral black hole, want to break free but have no attachment. A shot in the film perfectly portrays my feeling when watching the film: Xiali saw Marianne in the familiar illusion after being amputated, but when he approached, she couldn’t find her, and suddenly lost a foothold when she retreated. The ground then fell into the abyss.
Always, people still yearn for a better life, otherwise they will lose their meaning, and the constant degeneration and perdition are just constant self-destruction.
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