So it seems that the world after death should be very beautiful.
In fact, anyone who has thoughts of suicide should have had such thoughts. Death is a way to get rid of trouble, or a desperate dog jumping over a wall. But what is the wall then? neither knows. (No one who knows can come back.) But this side of the wall is very helpless, troublesome and terrible. If you can escape, you can run away first. People burn their eyebrows, just look at the moment. Knowing it was poison, he ate it all.
In "The Wrist Slasher Paradise," director Goran Dukic satirized the human being's drinking dove to quench thirst. It was written that a policeman was frightened by the rain of bullets on the battlefield of the Vietnam War. In order to find a way out, he ignored everything and committed suicide by swallowing his gun. When I think about it, is it better to put Hemingway? However, the one that Hemingway swallowed was a large-caliber double-barreled shotgun. It is estimated that the director did not show such a cruel scene to the audience considering the classification of the film.
In this black humorous film, although the director hung the title of "Love Story", he was actually making an extremely pungent satire on the phenomenon of suicide. The self-killed person, although temporarily escaped from reality, but on the other side of the wall, it may not be a paradise-but it is not Infernal Purgatory either.
Compared to Infernal Purgatory, it is a more intolerable place for suicides. Zia who committed suicide had no eyes at all. Say: Is this a punishment? It's actually no different here compared to the human world. It's just worse. In other words, the life you escaped in reality must continue here.
Moreover, the world here can never laugh. Everyone has a cocky face, his face is in estrus, and his eyes are dull. The sky is always a lifeless gray cloud at dusk. The streets are desolate, and garbage recycling stations and garbage incineration plants can be seen everywhere. And it's terribly hot. What's more tormenting is that after you died, you didn't drink Mengpo Tang. On the contrary, the memory before death is surprisingly clear after death.
Therefore, the suicidal person is just like Phussis, enduring endless torture.
The pain of this torture lies in its immutability. In fact, in heaven, any change is impossible and forbidden. For example, people who have committed suicide have thought of committing suicide again. However, the pain of the last suicide is still unforgettable. Naturally there are certain people-such as fanatical religious elements-who do not hesitate to commit suicide again. But God, People In Charge immediately fell from the sky. Stop those who want to commit suicide again.
The hero Zia died for love. It seems that the director is quite upset with this kind of martyrdom child. While Zia was dying, he only saw a handful of dust and hair in the corner of the wall, nothing light or familiar. (It is said that Goethe said before his death: "I saw a light.") After his
death, impartiality happened to be in a Kamikaze pizza restaurant. The owner is also a Kamikaze team member who returned to heaven for a nihilistic ideal. The manager and the clerk didn't say a word, their faces were expressionless, just the pizza in their hands.
After work, people who committed suicide gather in bars, relying on alcohol and sex to kill their boring lives (or ghosts). It's really unbearable, and you can bet with people in the bar, guessing how the passersby died.
Zia could have passed the time this way. But unfortunately, he died for love. Love tortured him to death. He couldn't let go out to feast and feast, but was thinking about his lover before his death every moment, and would not want to show off the cyan-faced female ghosts around him. A person who can't even follow the crowd after death is really restless.
Zia is a true idealist. Before the film, Zia reads a book in the apartment after his death. The title is "Eve, A Woman With No Scars". Pursuing Love With No Scars is Zia's lifelong pursuit.
But in fact, Zia's dying love is also imperfect. First of all, in reality, his girlfriend's feelings are unfaithful, and he has no opinion. Finally, it's great to be fucked by a cult leader; the girlfriend committed suicide not for Zia, but to follow the cult leader.
But none of this hinders the imagination of an idealist. Zia imagined that her love was perfect and that it was worth dying for love. Even if you want to redeem after death, you still imagine that you can find happiness and new life by retrieving your love.
Zia was ecstatic when he learned that his girlfriend was also following in his own footsteps. I am about to drive out to find my girlfriend, and more, I hope to save my hopeless life. Eugene questioned: No one knows where his girlfriend will go. But this does not hinder Zia's pursuit. He tried to convince Eugene, and he was also convinced himself: "She is not in the city. Whether it is instinct or whatever."; "I have a hunch that she is not far from me."
But in the end, it was quite ironic. , Zia's dead princess jumped off the building. She is no longer "a woman with no scars". Even the princess jumped off the building not to die for love.
If the director is satirizing the death of love, it is better to say that he is satirizing the lovely idealist.
Compared with idealism, there is also realism. In "The Wrist Slasher Paradise", Zia's companion Eugene is an out-and-out realist with a disillusioned ideal.
Before his death, he was the lead singer of the band. He had been pursuing his musical dream since he was a child, but the poor child's dream was crushed by life one after another. In the final Live, he couldn't stand the spectator's backlash. Pour the beer in his hand into the electric guitar and was electrocuted to death. Very alternative died in the guitarist. In his death, it also meant giving up ideals. So, he can relax. Just like a bowl of Mengpo soup, the entanglement of the world, completely clean.
After his death, he also felt that his method of suicide was really unconventional compared to others, and it was really maverick and very unique. So show off his method of death everywhere. And use this as a forum for pick-up girls.
Life in heaven is very painful for Zia, but for Eugene, it is exceptionally easy. Although this kind of life is not satisfactory, but for a person who has lost his ideals and pursuits, there is nothing particularly unbearable.
The only unbearable thing is just the monotony of life.
It doesn't matter, a relaxing trip can regulate the body and mind.
He was very dismissive of Zia's search for his dead girlfriend. He was not very enthusiastic about this trip, and he didn't even want to travel. He has no pursuits, and life is the same everywhere to him. So Zia said: I have a good reason, that is, do you have anything else to do here? Eugene only agreed to go with him.
But as a realist, Eugene didn't really like the other pursuits of those around him. For an out-and-out realist, life should flow slowly according to the current laws. Along the way, he kept emphasizing the meaninglessness of Zia's actions. Even when the heroine Mikal said that she was going to find the "person in charge," Eugene even mocked "Do you think this is a country club? You can find an office
wherever you want?" Compared to idealists, there is no pursuit. Realists without dreams seem to be more pathetic to the director.
In this dead road movie, all the contradictions before the journey are triggered by Eugene. He chattered about a pair of sunglasses, even furious; and he was always hitting Mikal's ideas. When Mikal rejected him, he discussed with Zia behind his back very gracefully how to get rid of Mikal so that he could deal with the next ignorant girl.
In Eugene's life, only food and sex are what he cares about.
Even the director has lost interest in teasing him, because he has become an existence no different from mud. Ignoring him is precisely the greatest irony of people like Eugene.
In "The Wrist Slasher Paradise", the director seems to portray the heroine Mikal as a nearly perfect woman. She was thin, with short hair and thin lips, but she was quite sensational. Just like Faye Wong in "Chongqing Forest" back then, with dark eyes and a kind of rebellious light, but in the spring light, the little deer who came to the world rushed.
A girl like her is unlikely to commit suicide. In fact, she did not commit suicide. According to her, it was just a momentary carelessness and overdose.
When she came to this world, she was also the only one who wanted to escape from this paradise. She hitchhiked around looking for the person in charge of heaven. Zia and Eugene met Mikal halfway. Along the way, the camera was fed up with the desolation of the journey, and Mikal was wearing a red shirt, standing on the side of the road to intercept the car. The eye-catching red is stunning in the barren gray and yellow. Eugene was immediately attracted to the car and took the initiative to park, which was of course ill-intentioned. Even Zia recalled a conversation about cheating on the beach with her girlfriend before she was alive.
Desiree: Do you know? I'm thinking.
Zia: What?
Desiree: Even if you want to cheat, you must find a beautiful girl.
Mikal is such a beautiful girl. And it's not only beautiful, but also very spiritual. It was simply Nabokov's Lolita, a fairy who wandered through the world. For them, life is a delicious or not delicious snack. Although they are rebellious, they love their lives and lives deeply.
Mikal has a childlike innocence that no one in this paradise has. From the cute sleeping face with her finger sucking on her first night of sleep to her graffiti on the signs of No Smoking and No Exit. She is a wayward Lolita and coquettish Shana. No one is allowed to say No to her.
Even the pic of heaven. (People in charge)
For a girl like Mikal, life in heaven is so lifeless and absolutely unbearable. Here, "you can't even laugh, everyone has an expression of awkwardness, and it's so hot." The purpose of her journey is to find the person in charge, complain to them, and find a way home. Like a piece of music inside, three people squeeze in the car and sing to a broken tape recorder:
When these sa trap
Set up for you
Every corner of your room
And so
The only way to go is through the roof
Or underground
even if there is no way, mikal will dig one out. It is to escape anyway.
Such a girl, compared to the walking dead in heaven, is as bright as the sun. For Zia and Eugene, they can even be regarded as the savior. The journey with Mikal is undoubtedly the salvation of the two poor creatures of ideal realism.
For example, Eugene repaired the headlights in it countless times. In the end, even the so-called genius boss of Mike's car dealership felt powerless. In the end, Mikal was allowed to light up; there are no stars in the heavenly world, but the match that Mikal lighted was thrown away and rose into the sky, becoming a little star. If there is still light in that world, it can only be Mikal. In the paradise of the slasher, she is all hope.
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