"The Wrist Cutters' Paradise", dead still road

In fact, putting aside its dark and ironic themes, this is basically a road movie. Very road, exploring the meaning of love, life, life, self. But it's black because the so-called highway is built in the afterlife of the suicide. The protagonist, ZIA, committed suicide by cutting her wrists because of a broken love, but after her death she found that the ending was not nothing but another world. In fact, this world is not too different from the real world. It needs to work to make a living, socialize, go clubbing and pick up girls, but it is a bit dull - of course, the world of suicides, no one can laugh. In order to find a girlfriend who also committed suicide, he and Eugene drove a broken car on the road. There was no goal but to search. By the way, he also took a girl Mika who was thrown into this world by mistake. There are people on the road, naturally, the main theme on the road is novelty.
In fact, this is a good start. The shelters specially opened for suicides are a bit interesting. But the new world is nothing special and not cool at all? Neither. The strangeness and little wonder of this world are revealed to you little by little. For example, a family of four committed suicide and ran to this world to reunite; for example, there is a black hole under the passenger seat of Eugene's broken car, and everything that falls will be lost, whether it is hats, sunglasses, tapes or sticky notes and flowers; Fear of suicide and the police who have to have a bullet hole in the head in this world; for example, the so-called PIC (person in charge) that Mika has been looking for really calls himself PIC (person in charge); for example, the weird old man encountered on the road actually It is PIC's undercover; for example, taking himself as an immortal to commit suicide in order to separate the soul and body, and in this world, it is still necessary to prove the separation of the soul and the body before committing suicide; for example, the "miracle" trick that can float, change the color of fish, and float a match; Mika, who proved that the death incident was a mistake, got a "visa" and left here and returned to the original world; for example, ZIA, who accidentally fell into a black hole and returned to the original world... This world, or this All the little oddities, little magic, and little ironies in the movie are a bit like star grass, with a little bit of embellishment. So subtle and pretty. There won't be that "wow so amazing so weird" exclamation feeling, kind of like Eugene's headlights, when they're flashing in the dark, they say: beautiful.
In fact, the most interesting thing is that there are all kinds of strange suicide methods: ZIA cut the wrist, Eugene electrocuted the electric guitar; fell from the sky; headshot with a gun; Those who lost their breathing apparatus; those who froze to death in the arctic snow... The people here first ask how they died when they meet, and never ask "Do you regret it?", but when they feel bored, they ask "what else do you want to do? Is it possible?" Can't you die again?!" The strange old man said, "No one here wants to die again, you know, it hurts to death."
ZIA is obsessed with the miracle that he can't do some tricks, the old man told him, the more persistent he is The less you get at something. Miracles happen when you don't care. easy. I like to have hope in life, but don't expect it, so that good things will come by themselves, and I'll be happy. That's how I've been happy.
In fact, the theme of this film is not necessarily grand and deep, there may not be any life and death, maybe it is just youth and love on the road, but there are some weird, cool and dark elements.

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