this is life

Duncan 2022-03-22 08:01:03

The man who was electrocuted for breaking a set of tableware more than 200 years old told a sobbing lawyer next to him in court, "This is life." The
story takes place in rooms, bars, shops, streets In the scenes of daily life, the scene layout and fixed wide-angle lens design are very simple, seemingly rational on the surface, but in fact full of absurd black humor. There are so many characters that I can't tell who is who and I can't understand the context, but such a fragment of life is not a microcosm of somewhere in your heart. A woman crying "no one understands me", a barber who shaved her clients bald in a fit of rage, an old man who had sex while thinking about his pension, and a band rehearsing during a thunderstorm.
Favorite wedding scene escapes the calm scene, the musician plays the guitar, the girl wears a wedding dress, the room slowly drives into the station like a train, and people cheer for the union of the musician and the girl, but it's just a girl 's sweet dreams.
All the absurdity is also a life worth cherishing when swarms of bombers fly over the town.

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  • Giles 2022-03-23 09:03:36

    #HKIFF# Another 35mm film (slightly old). Music has a sufficient role to play, and plays a great role in constructing absurd scenes of mixed sadness and joy. The conversation is almost repeated twice (communication failure, "no one understands me"). Various metaphors and indictments of contemporary life. The roles of children, the elderly and salesmen are always present. Stalling in multiplayer scenes. Anesthesia, dreams and a glimmer of illusory hope ("Tomorrow is another day").

  • Rey 2022-03-29 09:01:09

    Really showing life with absurdity and dark humor is what makes it cute! The music is too beautiful. I like Anna's dream wedding the most! #Northern Film Festival# (with the elephant boy

You, the Living quotes

  • Mia: Serving non-alcoholic beer with food that smells so good. It's torture!

    Uffe's mother.: I only want what's best for you.

    Mia: Best! Is this what's best for me? Enduring this damned existance... with all the shit and deceit and wickedness and staying sober? How can you expect or even want a single poor bugger to put up with it without being drunk? It's inhuman. Only a sadist would demand that.

  • The psychiatrist: Oh dear, oh dear, oh dear.

    [examines the large stack of patient's files]

    The psychiatrist: I am a psychiatrist. I have been for 27 years. I'm completely worn out. Year after year, listening to patients who aren't satisfied with their lives, who want to have fun, who want me to help them with that - it wears you out, I can tell you. My life isn't exactly a lot of fun either. People demand so much. That's the conclusion I've drawn after all these years. They demand to be happy, at the same time as they are egocentric, selfish, and ungenerous. Well, I would like to be honest. I would like to say that they are quite simply mean, most of them. Spending hour after hour in therapy, trying to make a mean person happy... There's no point. You can't do it. I've stopped doing it. These days, I just prescribe pills. The stronger, the better.