Criticism and Resistance

Emmalee 2022-03-23 09:02:30

I stumbled across this film by accident, and someone commented that it was a combination of Lolita and Uncle again. I suddenly remembered "This Killer is Not Too Cold" and a burst of warmth came to my heart, so I decided to watch it. After watching the beginning, I was completely attracted. There was no gorgeous action, no visual impact movie effect, no CG, nothing, just a simple narrative. It is this simple way of storytelling that attracts me. Under the impact of commercial blockbusters such as Transformers, Special Forces, Thor, Captain America, etc., it is refreshing to suddenly see this unpretentious film. The film is constantly reflecting on why people are so impetuous, egoistic, pompous and shameless.

I remember seeing residents on the 2nd floor of other units in the community dumping garbage directly from the windows for the sake of it. The property in the community is actually doing a good job. There are trash cans on each floor (enough to store the garbage of two normal households for more than two days), and the trash cans are cleaned every day. It only takes 30 seconds to walk from your own house to the trash can in the corridor and back (including changing shoes). I really can't figure out why someone would dump garbage directly from the window. Due to the perennial immoral behavior of the residents on the second floor, the windows of the residents on the first floor are already filthy.

Today a person is judged not by virtue but by appearance and wealth. When going on a blind date, first get to know each other's family, then look at the appearance, and finally other things. When the child is out of school, the first thing parents do after picking up the child is to take off the schoolbag and carry it on their own. Now the slogan has changed, saying that students should put learning first. Little do they know that in the Analects: "When a disciple enters, he is filial; when he leaves, he is humble; he is sincere and faithful; he loves the public and is benevolent. If he has spare energy, he should learn literature." It means to be filial to your parents at home first, to be friendly with your brothers outside, to be cautious and honest, and to have a benevolent heart. Then there is learning.

The film captures all kinds of weirdness and ugliness in today's society, and uses absurd performance methods to expose all kinds of filth. The soundtrack of the film is also very exciting. It has "I'm Not Like Everybody Else" by The Kinks. It is not the original version. It was collected in To the Bone in 1996. It is very difficult to find.

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God Bless America quotes

  • Frank: I wish I was a super-genius inventor and could come up with a way to make a telephone into an explosive device that was triggered by the American Superstarz voting number. The battery could explode and leave a mark on the face, so I could know who to avoid talking to before they even talked.

  • Frank: I am offended. Not because I got a problem with bitter, predictible, whining millionaire disc jockeys complaining about celebrities or how tough their life is, while I live in an apartment with paper-thin walls next to a couple of Neanderthals who, instead of a baby, decided to give birth to some kind of nocturnal civil defense air raid siren that goes off every fucking night like it's Pearl Harbor.