Tragedy at the Heart of Absurd Comedy

Justen 2022-08-29 20:01:57

Thanks to the subtitles team for typing out the Oscar nomination for Best Foreign Language Film at the end of the credits, because this year's Oscar materials have been blocked badly on some commonly used websites. Also because of this line of reminders, it was discovered that the skin dealer was originally named a skin dealer. The two translations are judged against each other. Ye Daying once photographed "Red Cherry" with tattoos on his back, which was one of his childhood nightmares. So watching the plot of "Skin Pawns" is a bit like a ghost movie. Including the first shot, the use of mirroring is very powerful, but it is very ghostly. In fact, it is an absurd comedy. A walking artwork has disturbed the pseudo-gentleness of the European art world. The core is the tragedy of Syrian refugees. The ending is still an absurd comedy, and it didn't make anyone cry. It perfectly explains that the core of comedy is tragedy, not that the ending of comedy is tragedy. Because of the absurdity, photography also uses a lot of non-realistic images. The most prominent is the scheduling of the mirror image, and the meaning of the text can be interpreted separately, but the use of mobile photography and actor movement to schedule the pictures in the mirror image is the first time I have seen such a good shot. In the real space, there are many bugs in the story, and the comments have not yet picked up on them one by one. Probably because the gangsters don't know much about the Syrian war background, they are much better treated than some domestic films. I don't know if it is considered a kind of foreign adoration by the gangsters. Because they don't understand, they have a lot of tolerance for overseas backgrounds. Like this year's Oscars, it's a good result, but it's quiet. It's all absurd.

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The Man Who Sold His Skin quotes

  • Sam Ali: Don't take it badly, ok? fuck you.

  • Jeffrey Godefroi: Some pessimists rule that art is dead. Well, I think art has never been more alive than it is today. With my latest work I am exploring a new realm... we live in a very dark era where if you are Syrian, Afghan, Palestinian and so on, you are persona non grata, hmm? The walls rise. And I just made Sam a commodity, a canvas. So now he can travel around the world. Because in the times we are living, the circulation of commodities is much freer than the circulation of a human being. Thus by transforming him into some kind of merchandise, he now will be able, according to the codes of our time, to recover his humanity and his freedom. Now, that's quite a paradox, isn't it?

    [laughs]

    Jeffrey Godefroi: Sorry, it's not funny.