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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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  • Felipe 2022-04-21 09:03:50

    Actually tmd appeared luck! move! mirror! head! can you believe it? ! This is Roy Anderson! What a surprise! ; "Rejoice, you are still alive and lying on a warm and comfortable bed"; in the middle of the trial, a beer is brought in, "Then go to the electric chair~", it is too much; "Spending so much time on treatment, trying to make It's pointless to be happy one after another, it's pointless, it can't be done, I don't do that anymore, now I just prescribe medicine, the more the better, that's it"; I really want to finally know why his picture looks like It's weird, you wipe the white tones, lower the saturation, and then increase the sharpness? The details are extremely clear, especially the front and back scenes are often super far apart to maintain the illumination and real texture, and the camera must have been manipulated. Anyway, the style of this picture is unparalleled in the world, I worship

  • Roselyn 2022-03-24 09:03:52

    [7.8] Wow, this fucking 2007 movie... I always feel like it's a movie from the last century when I watch it, with funny and absurd prose, low-contrast pictures with gray and white tones, making everyone look like The Walking Dead Again, the composition is still very particular. I didn't understand the last shot....what do you mean?

You, the Living quotes

  • 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.

  • Anna: Forgive those who only think of themselves. Forgive those who are greedy and cheap. And those who deceive and cheat or grow rich by paying miserable wages. Dear lord, forgive them. Forgive them. And Lord, forgive those who humiliate and desecrate. Forgive those who torture and kill. Forgive those who bomb and destroy cities and villages. Forgive those who are dishonest, those who lie and are false. Forgive governments who withhold the truth from the people. Dear Lord, forgive them. Forgive those who are heartless, merciless, and quick to pass judgment. Please Lord, forgive them. Forgive courts that pass sentences which are too harsh or convict the innocent. Forgive them.

    The minister: Anna... We have to close and lock up now.

    Anna: Forgive newspapers and TV channels that mislead. That distract attention from that which is important. Dear Lord, forgive them.

    The minister: There now, Anna. We have to close and lock up now.

    Anna: Dear Lord, forgive them. Forgive them.