The theme of the film is related to food. Invisible from the food line are men and women who want to stay young forever, plus Aunt Mei who makes dumplings. Therefore, the dumplings in "Three Watches" are not just as simple as food, they carry a period of time, a period of reluctance to part with the past, and a period of extravagant hope for the future. Before officially starting to enjoy "dumplings", we can't ignore other "beauty" in the film, even if it is chilling, yes, that is a kind of beauty.
Let's talk about Aunt Mei and Mrs. Li first. Aunt Mei's body is like a spring with good elasticity. Her speech has the cleanness and neatness of a northern woman. The scenes of making dumplings in the film are all her special performances, and the pair of high heels are props. Her somewhat old voice came from Li Jing's face, eating melon seeds, making dumplings, and having sex. Every moment she had a peculiar charm, full of temptation and danger, I suddenly remembered a word - 魑魑魍魉. Look at Mrs. Lee. Mrs. Lee's first appearance was gorgeous. Dress and hairstyle constitute a jarring conflict with herself. The gorgeous clothes made her pale; the twist of her hairstyle secretly revealed her age. When she walked into Aunt Mei's room for the first time, you would find that the furnishings in the room formed a peculiar echo with Mrs. Li. The lotus leaf-colored wallpaper is pasted in the house, but it is no longer fresh and tender, but constitutes an ambiguous atmosphere in the house; there are statues of Guanyin, Chairman Mao, and a large glass plaque hanging in the house, and a Photos of Aunt Zhang Mei when she was "young". The strange thing about this room is that it is not a time in the past, present or future, but a combination of all three—the beliefs of the 1960s, the cheap fashion of the 1990s, and the present Mrs. Li's gradual aging and Aunt Mei's youthful appearance. When Mrs. Li, Aunt Mei and the house set off against each other, a strange atmosphere was created. A discordant impact penetrated from the environment little by little. Together with the flying gauze curtains in the house, the silky buttons brewed. Let out a layer of cool air.
Before talking about dumplings, I would also like to talk about a novel by Mr. Lu Xun called "Medicine". In this story, the blood of revolutionary martyrs is used as a medicine for curing diseases, and the model of "human blood + steamed buns" is deeply rooted in the hearts of the people. The strange thing is that every time I think of the description of this man's blood steamed buns in the novel, I find it delicious. It's not because of mental insufficiency, but, when you open the novel, you will find that, except for the difference between this steamed bun directly stated at the beginning, the whole text does not describe this as a "human blood" steamed bun, but through The details are written from the aspects of color, aroma and taste. However, in the description, Mr. Lu Xun endowed the steamed bun with "delicious" characteristics - such as "strange aroma", "a wisp of dark red smoke", and so on. Back to "Three Watches", the baby embryos at the beginning of the film did not meet us in a terrifying image, they were soaked in water, crystal clear, like shrimp. In the later episodes, except for the part of the abortion, there is no disgusting picture, instead, there are bowls of delicious sleep. The skin that can be broken with a finger, a packet of fresh juice, and even a soft "click" sound when chewing, like a brittle bone being squeezed a little bit between the lips and teeth, and then swallowed. The director, like Mr. Lu Xun, replaced the naked expression with "delicious", so that the whole film has a feeling of horror from beginning to end.
The director did it. Just like "Flower of Evil", the beautiful appearance is full of absurdity and torture of human nature. Therefore, when Aunt Mei cruelly made the girl suffer in order to get a live fetus, when Aunt Mei captured Mrs. Li's husband, and when Mrs. Li finally raised a knife and slashed at the five-month-old fetus, we will find out the cause and effect of this. , how absurd, and how reasonable. To be absurd, sin is hidden by beautiful appearances, and those who walk everywhere turn out to be beasts. Aunt Mei's sexual desire, Mrs. Li's cruelty, Mrs. Li's husband's lust, and the many aspects of life are reflected in "Three Watches", and there is already a reasonable explanation for "cannibalism".
This is "Three Watches: Dumplings", an absurd beauty, a torture about human nature.
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