The film consists of several discrete short stories.
The beginning is a reappearance of Goya's famous painting "The Insurgents Are Shot" in the Napoleonic era. The executed people shouted "Freedom", which is incredible.
Next, an uncle in the park gave some pictures of two very cute little girls and told them not to show them to adults - you are evil, right? The little girl nodded and agreed, but she turned around and gave it to her mother when she got home, without any hesitation. The mother and father were so panicked that they fired the maid who made the daughter talk to the stranger, looking at the pictures one by one. But those were really "beautiful pictures" - pictures of landscapes everywhere, the Arc de Triomphe, Notre Dame, parents looking at it and saying "disgusting" and "shameless". Totally upside down, replacing "what should have happened" with "possible" but absurd - kid's unhesitating betrayal (think how secretive everyone should be as a kid), pretty pictures really are pretty pictures , instead of being obscene, my mother was still worried, but she thought that this beautiful picture was still obscene... The abnormal behavior seems to reveal the cold relationship between people, but it has to be seen as a whole.
In the third story, the father went to bed last night. In the middle of the night, when his wife was asleep, the bell rang, and a rooster walked into the bedroom. , blowing out the candle; at two o'clock, a postman rides in and throws a letter to her husband; at three, an ostrich crosses the bedroom. The next day, the husband took the letter to the doctor, but the doctor could not do anything, but the director did not announce the content of the letter. This section has too much symbolic meaning and too many symbolic languages. It is really difficult for me to understand the symbolic meanings of these images in Western literature.
The fourth story takes place in a hotel, where a nurse meets four monks who gamble and drink, a masochistic shoe dealer, an incestuous nephew - it's all chaos, and chaos is everywhere.
The nurse leaves the hotel and takes a professor to the police station to give a lecture, opening the curtain on the fifth story. Before the professor came, all the policemen were noisy like elementary school students, dancing and singing, and writing insults to the teacher and the head of the group on the blackboard - when the teacher came, they pretended to sit back in their seats. The professor came and talked about legal ethics. People kept interrupting the class, making the class impossible, and the students kept making fun of the teacher. In the end, there were only two captains left in the class. The head of the regiment came to supervise, and at the climax, it entered the sixth story.
The professor talks about his experience of visiting a friend. One day he and his wife went to visit friends, dressed very formally. After the greeting, the two family members went to the "table" table together, and there was a large circle of toilets around the table... This is not a fake toilet, the host and the guests actually He took off his pants and talked on the table while using the toilet. According to the embarrassing convention, this is not a GC. The climax is when the little girl said to her mother: "Mom, I want to eat." The mother replied angrily: "Don't say such things at the table, it's rude." The professor stood up, very polite He asked the maid, "Where is the dining room?" Then he went into a separate compartment like a toilet and took the food to eat by himself. Someone came to knock on the door, and the professor said: "Someone!" The person who knocked on the door quickly apologized and left. This story is too easy to understand, and the criticism is too sharp - a society that speaks laws and morals, meeting guests becomes going to the toilet together, and eating becomes a kind of privacy - making privacy public creates an absurd effect - whipping The moral upside down of this society.
In the seventh story, the captains got up and went to work. When they met the protagonist of the scene, the protagonist drove to Paris to see a doctor, was diagnosed with cancer, and slapped the doctor before leaving. Arrived home and told her daughter was missing, went to school with his wife to look for her—actually her daughter was with them all the time—not missing at all—and everyone was looking for her, and the police were looking at the girl with seriousness," Caucasian, blue dress, White shoes, should be unmarried." In this scene, the absurdity of human existence is hilariously presented.
In the eighth story, a poet shoots passersby at will on a high-rise building, drags him to trial, and shakes hands with everyone happily after being sentenced to death. When he comes out of court, he seems to be a star. The ninth, the chief of the police station was robbed of his position, and he had an official talk with the new chief, and finally went to the zoo to suppress the animals... The screen revolved, and the sound of the beginning of the execution sounded in the background-Down with freedom! ~The face of a confused ostrich, the end of the film.
You must think this film is a farce. Indeed, surrealism is hard to accept, and the purpose of this film is precisely to critique the reality we take for granted and make us feel uncomfortable. Surrealism is a summary of the laws of our thinking. It performs "irrational transformations" on the recurring laws and reality in daily life. I myself quite like this trend of thought. Moral confusion and lack of existence are all acute social problems that remain unresolved and impact our thinking every day. In a "free" society, the alienation of personality is completely more than that of the film, which makes people feel both ironic and thought-provoking - and surreal art, in this humiliating way, reveals the alienated people image of.
In the first scene of the film, the death row inmates shouted down freedom before they died. What does it mean? I guess, this is a negative thinking about today's freedom, a questioning of the so-called freedom today? What is limited freedom? The freedom of an individual should not be exaggerated indefinitely, it should not affect the freedom of other individuals, and it should not fall below a certain threshold - otherwise chaos will follow. In this so-called freedom, the mother is worried that everyone who talks to her daughter, the strangers are strange uncles, and the pictures you put in have a purpose; in this, moral confusion, politeness is as absurd as everyone going to the toilet together, Even monks do anything, their privates are exposed in broad daylight, but sinful people are worshipped by others; in the name of freedom, people attack others wantonly, without any sense of shame or pity; sanctimonious hypocrites are everywhere, and they harm people. Dahaha makes people feel that the trouble of human existence (that is, what is existence) is not only the oppression of labor and the torture of ruling ideology, but also comes from false, reversed, and mystified social relations, a kind of life’s influence on human beings. alienation. I think ostrich refers to ostrich thinking, which means escaping from reality. Reality cannot be escaped. The ostrich can only come and go; the postman brings information, who brought the information, what information, we I don't know, so the letter means the unknown; the rooster comes, but doesn't croak, the witch blows out the candle, the world falls into darkness, it seems that there is no dawn, there is no hope, and then the postman sends the unknown, the ostrich comes and leaves thinking Escape but can't. The struggle of a husband's dream seems to be the pain of everyone, every modern person living in freedom. There is an ostrich at the end of the film, and it seems to be talking about escape—an ostrich-style escape, while the gunshots in the background, the cry of "Down with freedom", and the spinning shots seem to tell us that there is nowhere to escape, and freedom is just people's lust phantom.
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