The film consists of several absurd segments, namely
Before: Man looked at the moon and imagined separating one eye with a razor.
Eight years later: The man passed out on a bicycle and was rescued by a woman. When the man woke up, he looked at the ants oozing out of his palm, and then saw that a palm was put into a box by another woman. The woman was hit by a car and killed. It attacked the woman's chest, and was about to go further when the bullock cart carrying its eyes had been cut off and stopped. After the woman escaped, she used the door to jam the hand of the man with the ants soaking in it.
Sixteen years ago, a father taught his son and was shot to death by his son. Immediately after, the woman looked at the butterflies on the wall and went out to find the man on the beach
In spring, men and women are buried in the earth to die
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Each fragment has no direct connection with each other, and is separated from the narrative of the plot. It is a series of fragments of dreams. These fragments contain various human desires and repression, desire for sex, resistance to repression, and revenge. , is longing, is avant-garde but absurd.
It breaks the traditional meaning of a movie that tells a story well, and it is very groundbreaking, as we have shown that a movie is not necessarily composed of a storyline, but also a series of visual images. It does not have to tell something, It's just showing up, it's just happening
The series of visual imaginations in the film belong to surrealism, and are surreal spectacles created in the imagination, such as ants' palms, huge butterflies on the walls, and bull's eyes cut by razors. Our dreams, we use dreams to express all these imaginations, it is the composition of our desires, and it is also our desire for reality
Movies are the art of dreams, and this is a movie of dreams, it's a dream deep inside us
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