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Bailee 2022-03-27 09:01:22

Roy Anderson has established a more extreme personal style through these three films, not only in the language of the film, but also in the content of the film. The drama is dissolved, the narrative disappears, and there are only fragments that keep repeating the cruelty and sadness of life ("You Are Alive" is an exception; it also became the best of the three in my opinion. ). This way of filming may not reflect a director's control over a grand narrative, but it can indeed express what a person wants to express to the absolute extreme, so you can't say it's unsuccessful. Plus, some shots are brilliantly done; there are multiple layers of story in one shot. The seemingly non-existent symbolism actually catches the audience quite a bit. (Towel City)

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  • Talia 2022-03-25 09:01:23

    Be content, living man, in that warm and comfortable bed, before the icy winds of the Lethe lash your fleeing feet.

  • Chris 2022-03-23 09:03:36

    Those slow-moving, sad-faced, emotional, and neurotic people are subconsciously us, so the movie looks real and absurd, realistic and surreal. Very cool, very Jarmusch.

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.