"Tokyo! 》Chair, dung, house
——(Issue 111) Dayin Minority Movie Watching Club · Notes
"Interior Design" is a discussion about "the meaning of life". Hiroko, who has only hobbies but no skills, is useless when walking in the city. Friends, boyfriends, and others seem to know what to do, but Hiroko has no clue. This sense of meaninglessness continued to erode her, until she found herself beginning to mutate, starting with a hollow heart, and finally turning into a chair. Why a chair? The value of the chair lies in being used by others, bringing convenience to others, and realizing its value. This is an answer to friends who haven't found their purpose in life yet. Doing what you can do is more meaningful than worrying about what you can't do all day long.
"Mr. Dmitry" is undoubtedly the most puzzling of the three short films. "M.D." is the same sound as "dung" in French, so this is the story of Mr. Poop. Disgusting appearances, anti-moral behavior, incomprehensible language, confusing plot, everything makes people feel uncomfortable. So, I can only interpret its metaphor in a more magical way. Stool is stinky, disgusting, dirty, but it is produced by everyone. We are ashamed to let others see the behavior of defecation, thinking that it is dregs, but we enjoy the pleasure of excretion. It is the survival of human beings. Must function. Mr. Stool is the shit of society, the dark side that the Japanese nation does not want to admit, the ideology of militarism, the contradiction between chrysanthemums and money, and the karma in people's subconscious. Those in power decided to hang him, but in the end he disappeared "everywhere". I am more inclined to understand Mr. Stool as the ugly in people's subconscious. Its behavior is unrestrained and difficult to control. You can't kill him, you can only appease him, calm him down, and live with him.
"Shake Tokyo" at first I thought it was a story about an otaku, but it turned out to be a story about an otaku society. In the convenient living conditions, people increasingly do not want to go out, do not want to be in contact with people, and can survive at home. The home is comfortable, everything is under control and orderly, but I always feel that something is missing. A person could eat, sleep, read, observe, think (the Internet was not yet widespread), but a little bit of humanity was missing. People need interaction in order to feel their existence, and they also need love. Such a high-level thing makes us live more passionately. Every encounter is a shudder, and the fireworks created by the collision of two independent universes are the most beautiful. For such splendor, go out of the house.
As far as the movie is concerned, the narrative is a little confusing, probably related to a fairy tale-like story, and one has to have a little imagination to interpret the movie. If you don’t think about it or discuss it, you will definitely feel inexplicable. From another angle, it also gives the audience a lot of space for interpretation, full of metaphors, and you need to be aware of it a little bit.
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