Andersson's work "Singing from the Second Floor" shot in the early 21st century is one of his representative works. As a literary film with an extremely loose plot, the film tells the tragic fate of several small people in our lives. For example, a bookseller who burns his own bookstore by mistake to cheat his insurance policy; a magician who gets hurt because of a performance error; an old employee who works hard but gets fired; a foreign immigrant who gets beaten up and so on. Between the absurd plot and the realism of expression, Andersson paints a picture of capitalism in ruins: the massive traffic jams of the city, the spiritual emptiness of people, the parades in the streets, the isolation of individuals, despite the show The pity and sympathy of the characters in the film and the powerlessness of the characters in the film to control the world still make us feel the predicament of human beings as a whole.
Swedish films, from Mauritz Stiller and Victor Sjostrom onwards to Ingmar Bergman, have never stopped thinking about how to appease the human soul in distress, and The Song from the Second Floor brings this theme to the fore. pushed in front of us. In the film, Andersson repeatedly quotes the poet Cesar Vallejo's verse, "The one who sits is lovely." None of the characters in the film sit still, busy "adding a zero to the end of their bank account." So we, we human beings, are lovely and yet disgusting.
"Singing from the Second Floor", like other Andersson films, uses a lot of long shots to make the film more heavy, while giving people a realistic fear. This work ten years ago has shown a more appropriate meaning and connotation in the current financial crisis.
In today's entertainment era, it is difficult for us to give the film more missions to reflect on our current situation, and it becomes more of a tool for cathartic expression. The popularity of genre films has made us accustomed to the so-called narrative rhythm, and the looseness of literary films constitutes a rebellion against our aesthetics on the basis of reality. Thus, we perish in self-redemption. This constitutes the overall tragedy of human destiny. Russell once said that there are three simple but powerful emotions that have dominated my life: the desire for true love, the search for truth, and a heart-wrenching compassion for human suffering.
Therefore, every individual that constitutes human beings is an incomplete part of the whole, we are immature, we are one-sided rational, we strive for perfection but keep failing, but there is always a power that will forgive us, will guide us, will give us what we need Mercy, it comes from love, it comes from the Lord!
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