Strange kid

I first saw the poster of "Kid Strange", a dazzling large green, and a strange boy with bunny ears, holding a small organ in his hand. The whole poster seems to be a big black hole full of gravity, which seduced all my curiosity. It's a neurotic film, with fragmented images barely able to piece together a complete story. They are just in front of you, constantly flashing. I don't know when I started to fall in love with a movie like this. I was confused and at a loss, with rules in improvisation and arrogance in the rules. What you see is not just a movie, but a slice of life. So you should never expect Harmony Colin to tell you such an inspiring story, he just puts the image in front of you, not only that, but it's a reality filmed in a documentary style Movies that are racist, people whose lives are so real that you don't believe what you're seeing is actually happening. Harmony Colin almost restored his life, as if he folded his arms around his chest and told you cheerfully that this is life, cruel and decisive. Aimless chaos is synonymous with this town. People's houses are full of rubbish and junk, piled up like hills on both sides of the corridor. Solomon didn't even care that something fell into the blackened dark green bath water, and he just took it out and continued to eat it with relish. A group of children who have been in prison talk about their experiences in prison. Solomon and Tenaro hunt the residents' cats every day, and then exchange money for drugs with the supermarket owner. Helen and Tenny watched the boys practice tennis, and the boy who played tennis told them that he had taken stimulants. Later, Helen and Tenny encountered a perverted middle-aged man in the process of looking for a cat. The boy who also hunted cats for a living robbed Solomon of "the way to make money", and they entered the boy's house and turned off his grandma's survival machine. The content of the film is scattered and broken, and it is almost impossible to summarize it in words. There are too many people who flash by, girls raped by their own fathers, gay men who have been abused by their parents since childhood, and deranged girls who like to cull own eyebrows. They repeatedly told the cruel experiences of their childhood, and there was almost no emotion in their tone, as if they were telling a story that had nothing to do with them. And when you are listening to their stories, the girl on the screen is standing in front of the camera with innocent eyes, suddenly laughing innocently. The cruelty of the story and the innocence of the girl, these two extreme feelings collide, creating a painful feeling that makes people cry without tears. What is unacceptable here is that as a bystander even more painful and sad than the party involved, we Pity them, sigh for them, but can't give any help, this feeling of powerlessness is the source of pain. Such a movie can give you a thousand and ten thousand possibilities, all of which are hidden behind the images, and what you see are only fragments of their cookie-cutter lives. People live and work in peace and contentment in the town, survival is never a problem, but what they see is endless darkness. Habits and adaptations are the best drugs we use to anesthetize ourselves in despair. This movie reminds me of Shunji Iwai's "Swallowtail Butterfly" and "Japanese Style". People in Qianzhen also live day after day. They follow the schedule of leaving early and returning home, but they are dazed and aimless. . In such a movie, you can't see a complete character, all you see is a group, and the consciousness of the group is scattered on each character. But they are all the same despair and numbness. They are the people who live on the most edge. They step on the gate of hell with one foot, let themselves fall into it and never turn over, but step on the paradise with one foot. They are afraid of Not survival, but a hopeless vicious circle of life as a whole. I really like Harmony Colin's shooting technique, especially at the beginning of the film, the long shot of Solomon and Turnaro riding bicycles on the road, the two people are going back and forth, and at the same time the background music is a noisy rhythm. Strong rock music, they are uninhibited, but powerless to resist. They were tormenting dead cats with raging metal music, a hint of sadistic tendencies towards them, but the young faces were frozen like frost and ruthless. The most impressive thing is the mentally ill girl who shaves her eyebrows. The action of shaving her eyebrows one by one and the rhythm of the small organ are in perfect harmony. Later, the screen changes, and the rabbit boy pushes and pulls the small organ in the toilet. And the tornado mentioned at the beginning and end of that movie. The tornado finally destroyed this town, which had been abandoned by the world, and all the people you saw and didn't see died. Bunny survived. He told us this story, the people and things around him. , with no ending and no beginning, the film also becomes a giant Mobius loop of memories and imagination. There is an end everywhere, and there is no end anywhere. This is not a desperate movie, but a desperate life account of people on the fringes.

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