"You Are Alive" Sculpture in the fairy tale world

Jaylin 2022-03-27 09:01:22

The black screen, the music sounded immediately, and the heart-warming symphony suddenly appeared in the small room like Grimm's fairy tale in front of him. All layers of green tones were psychedelic, and the real world outside the window was like the fun of pencil drawings. The whistle of the train, a man with frightened eyes looked at the camera and told you, at that moment, I seemed to be outside this fairy tale world, looking at the cold and cold world, what would happen to the crowd different stories.

A fat woman complaining about life, an old man dragging a dead dog through a restaurant, a man carrying a golden tuba playing, unbearable downstairs neighbors, the characters are staged like a spectacle, but it's really not that irrelevant. It's important, there are too many metaphors in there. Although it's still difficult to fully understand the cold humor of Europeans, I was also deeply shocked and couldn't help sighing from the heart. This masterpiece is really not suitable for the present. Let’s watch, in this land where the East is in full swing with the economy and society, no one will have the leisure to discuss the various sorrows in life and the intrinsic value of living, because the heat meets the water, it can only be foggy , everything is pale, and the sight has become a white blind person.

The green tone at the beginning is carried through from the beginning of the film. Against the background of the fairy tale world that was deliberately created, the facial expressions and even the body language of the characters have a strong sense of sculpture. Under fixed shots and long shots, the precise movements are as symbolic as a drama. Even a certain person after each fixed actor will suddenly become the next protagonist, suddenly appearing in the most prominent position of the screen, This way of ranking is like watching a Shakespeare play full of visual conflicts. Everyone who seems to be plain is actually caught in our eyes through the position set up by the camera. You will find that we seem to be actively participating in this film, and when the actors speak directly to the camera, they can perceive the words and the atmosphere created are only for us who let the camera replace the eyes, from head to toe immersed in it.

This kind of sense is like cruising in an art gallery. In front of the huge picture scrolls and the sculptures placed in fixed positions, we become a real one with these works of art.

The best part in the film is Anna and Mick. Anna tells the camera about her dream at the recurring tavern. She dreamed of her wedding with Mick who was playing guitar in "The Dark Lord" . In fact, at the beginning of the movie, Mick suddenly appeared in the center of the picture like a constellation. His face with gothic makeup like Marilyn Mawson was cold and stern and sexy and uninhibited. Anna, who was going to talk to him before, had a slightly ambiguous conversation, and in the end, Anna couldn't let go of her love for Mick. So, when the film was about to end, Anna dreamed that she was sitting in a small house in a wedding dress and playing the guitar. Outside the window of the room was the scenery of the rushing Swedish countryside. When the three-story house reached the small house, In the town, all the people in the town congratulated the happy Anna, and Mick was also playing the guitar. The guitar was beautiful and deep, as if it brought a rare warmth to this cool-toned movie.

The posters of Japan and France adopted this picture. Maybe life is full of joys and sorrows, but as the most important life journey, love and marriage are the most important links in the formation of this world, so Anna's dream has also become this The most beautiful and warmest part of the film.

When I look back again and again, my mind always comes to mind, that picture after picture, only my eyes are wandering in this fairy tale world, where one after another beautiful or different statues, walk through. It seemed that it had nothing to do with me, and finally woke up like Nanke's dream. It turned out that I was just another sculpture in the fairy tale square.

2010-4-29

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Extended Reading
  • Rubie 2022-04-24 07:01:25

    The relationship of opposites, the bystanders in each fixed shot or the dialogue with the audience, the details are interesting to the explosion, and the use of sound is extremely sophisticated.

  • Frank 2022-03-22 09:03:03

    Roy Anderson's life trilogy. 1. Compared with the previous work, the embarrassing aesthetics is stronger, the degree of freedom is increased (the number of moving long shots is increased), the allegory is reduced, more fragmented, the reflexivity is improved (the fourth wall has been broken many times), and the degree of absurdity is reduced— - Surreal passages are embedded in the dream (indicated by front and rear mirrors). 2. However, there are still several main characters and approximately linear time throughout. I thought it was still a one-time character of [Hanzhiquejing] + disordered time + fragmented allegorical body that focuses on life and death is better. 3. The distancing of people & the impossibility of communication have become the theme (people who can't control crying, accusations of not understanding, disturbing musical instruments, and the husband constantly complaining about bad luck when making love, and the wife is there The scene in which they keep calling them cool), followed by ordinary people who are vain and selfish. 4. Pulling down the whole tablecloth reminds me of An Zhe [a wandering entertainer], and the courtroom in my dream is irrationalized (the judge drinks, the lawyer only crys, and the electric chair is delivered in an auction style). 5. The flower stuck in the crack of the door. 6. The mobile house in the dream bids farewell to the wedding. 7. Group machines. 8. There are always pubs and hospitals in Anderson films. (8.5/10)

You, the Living quotes

  • Mia: Serving non-alcoholic beer with food that smells so good. It's torture!

    Uffe's mother.: I only want what's best for you.

    Mia: Best! Is this what's best for me? Enduring this damned existance... with all the shit and deceit and wickedness and staying sober? How can you expect or even want a single poor bugger to put up with it without being drunk? It's inhuman. Only a sadist would demand that.

  • The psychiatrist: Oh dear, oh dear, oh dear.

    [examines the large stack of patient's files]

    The psychiatrist: I am a psychiatrist. I have been for 27 years. I'm completely worn out. Year after year, listening to patients who aren't satisfied with their lives, who want to have fun, who want me to help them with that - it wears you out, I can tell you. My life isn't exactly a lot of fun either. People demand so much. That's the conclusion I've drawn after all these years. They demand to be happy, at the same time as they are egocentric, selfish, and ungenerous. Well, I would like to be honest. I would like to say that they are quite simply mean, most of them. Spending hour after hour in therapy, trying to make a mean person happy... There's no point. You can't do it. I've stopped doing it. These days, I just prescribe pills. The stronger, the better.