A fable of failure. The speaker is happy, the listener falls asleep

Priscilla 2022-11-29 08:34:34

The story satirizes the repetitive, boring nature of real-life patterns with abstraction and absurdity. The fact that two young men enter Yonder and cannot escape means that fate has chosen them as bizarrely as ever, not the other way around; the same house that stretches across the horizon emphasizes that this time and space is not just a story of two people; accidentally fathers feel that The child's origin is unknown, and their rapid growth is in turn their rapid aging; the world reveals its grotesqueness because they are gradually being abandoned by the times, just as things do not always work the way they understand. The male protagonist, like many men, worked too hard for a cause of unknown meaning until he died... The alienation from the next generation eventually resulted in a ruthless goodbye, so the young man who did not know when he was old was sent in like this. grave. There was no reason for the illusion that the heroine experienced at the end, as if it was just her momentary insanity, but left the audience to question her with her: What's going on with all this shit? No answer is the film's answer: we can't understand a world like a revolving lantern, and our intellect is still meaningless, except to add laughter. Okay, I can't make it up anymore. There is no hope for serious analysis, and the original purpose of such a mystical performance is to make you not understand.

The shortcomings are obvious: exposing the boring nature of life cannot entertain the audience, let alone educate them; the few people who are rightly seated probably will not feel much, because even if they recognize the truth of life, they still love life.

The object of the metaphor is so obvious that it is superficial—growth and bottlenecks, freedom and restrictions, generation gaps and absent family relationships—but the topics of bad street are all frivolous, or sneaking through the motions, lest you see It seems like it came out...Summary: The director has some life insights, but he thought that you might not want to hear it, so he packaged it as a vulgar talk, and thought that vulgar talk is difficult to go to the hall, so he decided to add some surreal materials, and finally made it difficult. Eat, the portion is large, and the dishes are still abstract.

In addition, some of the behavior of the oil-headed man is also a failure of the film - although they are one of the few elements that make the narrative lifeless - such as toad-like cheeks, spider-like crawling, etc., like an immortal web The hole the writer dug and didn't fill was just as annoying, and it didn't help much other than sever the narrative.

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After watching the interview with the director, I found that I was really over-interpreting it. His idea is actually just one sentence: Fate, it's amazing~

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Vivarium quotes

  • Gemma: [Last lines]

    [while dying, Older boy is about to zip her in a body bag]

    Gemma: I'm not your fucking mother.

    Older Boy: What?

    Gemma: I... said... i'm not... your... fucking... mother.

    [Dies]

    Older Boy: Whatever.

  • Gemma: What am I suppose to do with him?

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