A master classic, a film that can laugh from beginning to end.
This movie is not about a story with a beginning and an end. It can be said to tell a story about six men and women who want to eat and can’t get it every time. However, the story has no beginning, I don’t know why it is necessary to eat at the beginning, and there is no end. Personally, I ended up walking on a country road and it was all over.
In terms of story, the film is incomplete, but in terms of daily life, it is rich enough. In our daily life, there are many people who have made an appointment for a meal and have not succeeded in the end. Does this need a complete story? It does not need. Get rid of the story of the movie and return to the life, you will find that the incomprehensible not being able to eat every time is just amplifying the accident and absurdity of life. By comparing it with the dream, we can see that the bourgeois life is even more absurd than their dreams.
The main line of the whole film is that the six people continue to fail to eat. The last few times are through dreams in dreams to illustrate the thoughts of each person and create unsuccessful appointments. Although the dreams here are absurd, they are not more absurd than reality. The authors form a thought-provoking contrast, is life more absurd or dream more absurd? At the beginning, the ambassador used his identity to openly sell drugs and openly took out a gun to shoot on the street. Compared with the ambassador's dream of taking out a gun and shooting the colonel, who is more absurd?
Dreams are reflections of reality, faithful reflections and surreal distortions of each character's thoughts. Every dream in the film has its roots in reality, and surreal development is both logical and inevitable for dreams. Everyone dreams more or less, dreams are related to reality and unfold unexpectedly, yet we still take dreams for granted in our dreams until we wake up when we feel that the story of the dream is too surreal. In the film, dreams are an ingenious means to increase the stories of not being able to make an appointment. They are also a reasonable development of reality and a reflection on comparison with reality. The absurd life at the asset stage is not in dreams, but reality. Drunken life and dream death in dreams, the absurdity is only a corner of real life and human's complement to it. Therefore, the constantly appearing scene in the film where the six people thirst for the endless distance together is not only a transition, but also a dream shared by the six people. This dream is a reflection that the six people cannot seek in real life.
In contrast, the proletariat in this film is neither qualified to talk about food nor to talk about love. Drinking by the driver was seen as rude and the maid was not married until she was 52. The bourgeois six can have appetites, greed, and sexual desires but cannot be satisfied, while the proletariat is drawn away from all kinds of desires. This contrast is a bitter irony of reality. The satire and revelation of the bourgeoisie, the government, patriarchy, etc. are all integrated into such a short film, which is unobtrusive and hoarse, and the director's skill is evident.
ps: This film is a work from the 1970s, but the appearance, style, and clothing of the six-member group, especially the female characters, are still outdated today, and the selection of the bishop is especially good.
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