Ah Shou and Ah Pang are two unemployed unfortunate people, ugly, stupid, and without money.
They slipped into the factory warehouse, trying to steal scrap steel to sell for money, when a band happened to pass by the window and had to hide in the corner. The sound of music gradually faded away, and the two were about to show off their skills. The security guard locked the warehouse door again. People outside could not enter, and people inside could not get out. Two huge steel bars lay across the dilapidated factory in the empty mine.
Ah Shou came up with a good way to transport the steel bars, but at a critical moment, the success failed.
This is a comedy movie full of dark humor. There is no exaggeration at all, no burden at all. It means living next door to your house, going to the same primary school as you, fighting every day, climbing trees, climbing walls, digging Bird's Nest, the adult life of a boy who was chased and beaten by his mother as soon as he took an exam, can make you laugh from time to time, as if it was a bottle of Arctic soda that was just pried open and kept bubbling.
But just after laughing, there seemed to be another rag stuck in my throat, and I panicked and felt bitter, because these are not happy things in real life, such as suicide, helplessness, despair, unemployment... Okay The next hilarious point is coming soon.
"Laugh it off", psychological research shows that many men take this attitude when facing unemployment. Like this movie, they face their inner trauma with a playful and brisk attitude and "laugh it off".
They don't shed tears, they don't complain, they try to solve problems, with their inherent rudeness and blind confidence, they run into walls everywhere and when they are disgraced, they just say a few foul language, and it seems to rain in the next second. Overlook.
In fact, psychological research reports show that unemployment has a great psychological impact on a person, no less than the sudden death of the person closest to him, loss of personal dignity, weakening of life motivation, and increased economic burden. The suicide rate is three to four times higher than that of practitioners.
In European and American countries that have experienced several economic recessions, many people have been unemployed for a long time, can't find a job, and live on social welfare.
At the end of the last century, China also experienced a large-scale wave of layoffs due to the reform of state-owned enterprises. This issue has not been brought up for a long time.
Now, the problem of middle-aged unemployment seems to have surfaced again. Whether it was a 42-year-old male master's employee who committed suicide because of the company's dismissal a few days ago, or a 36-year-old female toll collector who asked the government what else to do if she lost her job, it seems that they are all in this movie. Find the prototype.
The film takes place in Sheffield, a major British industrial town in the 1990s, the hometown of the Brontë sisters, the authors of Jane Eyre and Wuthering Heights.
In order to revitalize the British economy, Mrs Thatcher implemented a privatization policy, and the local economic pillar - the steel industry - changed from state-owned enterprises to private enterprises, resulting in a large-scale wave of unemployment.
Whether it is a low-level worker or a middle-level executive, they lost their jobs overnight and seemed to have lost their male social identity, making it impossible for them to be a good father, a lover and a husband.
Ah Shou came up with a way to make the most money with the least cost in the shortest time, and that is to form a group to perform striptease. He quickly gathered a group of like-minded "rabble people" and began an ironic training process.
British male striptease emerged in the 1960s and 1970s
The men couldn't understand the dance stance at all and had to explain it in football terms.
The debt collectors saw a group of naked strippers, frightened and fled.
Hearing striptease music while queuing in the employment center, they unexpectedly made "indescribable" and very dirty dance moves in front of the crowd.
The scene, which was publicly imitated by Prince Charles a year after the film's release, made headlines in the news.
In fact, it's the most ironic scene in the movie, with the job center's walls bleak and gray, and the unemployed lined up like shoddy products on a factory assembly line.
Released in 1997, "The Six Heroes of the Light Pig" meets the greatest inspirational movie "Forrest Gump" in history, the greatest World War II movie "Schindler's List", the greatest love movie "The English Patient" (of course Not "Titanic"), the greatest gangster movie "L.A. Confidential", became the greatest comedy movie in history, and even the soundtrack is a magical touch of humor, and won the Oscar for best film original music that year.
The film, which was almost released on videotape, earned $200 million worldwide for a small budget of $300 million.
The striptease performance of six men who were ugly and danced in a mess was so charming and cute that people couldn't like it, and it was hard to wave and whistle on the sidelines in person.
In contrast, Hollywood movies with the same subject matter are a hundred times worse than it, although the main actors are all peerless beautiful men who are in the limelight and have excellent sensuality.
The laugh-and-tear film, which was released three days after Princess Diana's death in September 1997, brought a light and airy tinge to a Britain shrouded in grief.
Who's life is not hard, "Laugh it off", sometimes, it is not easy to learn to live in peace with one's laziness, cowardice, anxiety, incompetence and failure.
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