highly ambitious and challenging work, religion, economics, generational relationships, family, love, all kinds of issues are peculiarly and absurdly twisted, showing A side that people often turn a blind eye to. The statue of Jesus swaying with one hand on the cross like a monkey, the degenerate old man celebrating his 100th birthday in front of a house full of ghosts, the father who set fire to extort money, the son who wrote poetry and went to the hospital, a unique vision Language, between the seemingly loosely connected scenes, constructs the deep face of the contemporary world in the director's mind.
On a strange night of unknown location, strange things happen one after another: humiliating layoffs of undignified company employees; inexplicable attacks on migrants by bad actors while the entire bus stop stands by; The teacher really cut open the belly of the audience who volunteered to come on stage. In the chaos, Carl appeared with a face full of smoke. He had just set fire to his furniture store and tried to cheat the fire insurance money. All night, everyone was too busy to close their eyes.
The next day, the level of chaos continued unabated, insurance companies were wrestling with Carl, the city was caught in a traffic jam that was completely immobile, and when everything seemed to be out of control at the beginning of the millennium, Carl slowed down. Slowly realizing the absurdity of the world, and gradually understanding how difficult it is to be a "human".
It's a loosely plotted film made up of a series of skits, full of dark humor. Everyone in the film becomes irrational and some disorganized weird behavior happens. A clerk is humiliatingly fired, a new immigrant is attacked on the street, and a magician makes an undeserved mistake in his performance. In one of these oddities, Karl, covered in ashes, burned down his furniture store for insurance money. Finally they realize how ridiculous the world is and how hard it is to be human.
Winner: Special Jury Prize at the 2000 Cannes Film Festival
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