"Subway Style Painting": a poem covered in garbage

Deontae 2022-06-14 18:45:28

Whether good or bad, movies are so easy to leave a mark in our hearts. After reading "Subway Style Painting", it replaced "Subway to Spring" and became the color that floats in my heart every time I step off the subway escalator and look at the roaring carriages.

The translated title of "Subway Style Painting" is better than "Subway Maze Murder" at this year's Hong Kong International Film Festival. There is no forced gimmick like the latter, but it looks a bit bland again. The story is about the conductors who spend most of their time underground in a Budapest subway station. They shuttled among the carriages, doing nothing, and started a life-threatening race behind the last subway train - in front of them was the graphite-laden exhaust gas from the last train, and behind them were the empty trains that never stopped. It is no exaggeration to say that the broken scenes of the ticket inspectors doing psychological counseling near the end of the film saw my eyes turn red.

Even if you can't comprehend those who are floating between good and evil, you can see the dark underground like a labyrinth, where life never stops struggling. Well, I am willing to translate this film into "Subway Labyrinth Style Painting".

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Control quotes

  • [Laci is holding a passenger hostage]

    Laci: I asked for his ticket and he hit me. He hit me for no reason. He punched me in the nose!

    Bulcsú: Listen, I know! Just... leave him alone!

    Laci: I'm sick of it all.

    [kills passenger]

  • K., Kripli: The second our train pulled out, they jumped onto the tracks and started to run after us. It's not easy because the ground is covered with tubes and cables and the tracks are there, too. Your lungs fill with graphite powder and you can't breathe. The problem is the next train.

    Tibi: Wait, wait, wait... This IS the last train.

    K., Kripli: The last passenger train. We still have the midnight express behind us.

    Tibi: The midnight express? What's that?

    K., Kripli: It's the real last train. It's the last train that heads back to the depot.

    Tibi: So you're saying...

    K., Kripli: That's right. They got another train coming from behind. The real problem is that the midnight express doesn't stop at any stations.

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