The film begins with Tom Witz’s singing, the camera constantly sweeps the decadent streets, inserting passages of Jack and Zach in the room with the woman, and the women around them open their eyes with their backs to them, and they all live. In the emptiness of life.
Zach is a decadent radio DJ. After having a conflict with his girlfriend, he was alone on the street to get drunk, humming a small song in his hoarse voice. A "street friend" introduced him to a profitable job of driving a car from one place to another. Zach, who had originally refused, accepted the task because of the money. As a result, he was stopped by the police and found the male body in the trunk. Zach was wronged and imprisoned...
Jack is a street figure who sleeps with different women all day. In order to apologize to him and ease the relationship between the two, a friend gave him a room number. In the room is a beautiful woman who entertains him. This is a bit of sincerity from the friend. Jack arrived as expected, but he was captured by the ambush police before he could see the person... When he said that the woman on the bed was his girlfriend, the police turned on the light and found that there was an underage girl lying on the bed. Jack was betrayed by a friend and imprisoned...
The two lived in the same room in the same prison, and then began an awkward and boring prison life. The camera stays in a small room all the time, the two are silent, talking awkwardly, then silently again, talking again awkwardly, Zach shows Jack the radio DJ's broadcasting skills, and then fights if they don’t agree...but everything is still So boring. Until the arrival of Italian Bob, the awkward atmosphere was finally brought to the next level...Bob took out a notebook with English words and told them crappy jokes. Bob kept burping and asking them to smoke, because smoking can relieve his hiccups... He painted windows on the wall, as if he could see the scenery outside. Zac and Jack told Bob that they were wronged, but Bob, who looked stupid, said that he really killed someone.... He was found cheating in a card game and was killed with a billiard ball when he escaped. The card friends who chased him.........They kept yelling the rhyming slogan "I scream, you scream, let's scream for ice cream" in the prison to vent their boredom and depression. . When the three of them were playing cards in jail, Bob remembered a movie about jailbreak he had watched, which gave him the idea of jailbreaking, and then the three of them escaped from jail... During the escape process, he didn't plan to make a thrilling movie...
In order to avoid catching the shop, they crossed the river in a canoe, but the boat leaked and sank... With no direction and hungry, Zach and Jack fought again... Bob caught the rabbit, but it was roasted. The smell of tires...Until they met a family, Bob took the lead into the house to inquire about the situation, Zac and Jack hid in the dark to observe. As a result, Bob fell in love with the Italian mistress who lived alone... .) They danced, kissed, and sprinkled dog food in front of Zac and Jack. The scene was extremely embarrassing... Finally, Bob and the hostess became a pair. Jack and Zac exchanged clothes at the fork as a souvenir, no She parted ways (Although Jack always insisted on going in the opposite direction to Zach, he still can see that he was acting compelling and reluctant...) Three people from different directions gathered in the prison, Finally, it went in three different directions. The part of Bob’s encounter with love in the process of escaping reminds me of the story of a French soldier who escaped from prison in "The Great Phantom" met a German peasant woman...Jamuch didn’t tell us whether the three of them were caught in the end and whether they succeeded in starting a new story. Life. Jia Muxu just wanted to tell a fragment of life about three people with different personalities, the story of the intersection of life, which is absurd, humorous, decadent, and poetic. He rejects all the causality and morality in mainstream movies. Imprisonment for injustice or imprisonment for murder is just a means of placing three people in the same space. They met, and this is the point.
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