"Les charmes de la destinee Ont des detours insoupconnes." The charm of fate lies in unexpected turns.
Jesus also said this: "Let those who are willing to die die freely, it is their freedom."
"Suicide Shop" is based on the comics of French cartoonist Jean Trey.
In Suicide Shop, the author constructs a near-dead city in which almost everyone is desperate and looking for a way to die. Even the government had to issue a decree prohibiting people from committing suicide in public.
Just looking at the name is fascinating enough. Similarly, in the face of the cold humor of the French, it can be guessed that this film will not be a downright depressing work.
movie types
"Suicide Shop" is undoubtedly a French comedy with singing and dancing elements.
Let's start with singing and dancing. Music and dance dramas are always filled with a lot of emotionally disturbing music, which can often awaken many feelings and emotions that people have forgotten in their daily lives.
Judging from "Spring in the Cattle Class", French musicals have a relatively small proportion of singing and dancing; American musicals are mostly "singing and dancing, supplemented by plot dialogue", such as "Song in the Rain" that we have all seen. .
The film uses a relatively joyous singing and dancing form to defuse the sharp black background of the story itself. Although the song is not comparable to the tune or the voice of the actors, the lyrics are still full of fun.
And then from the gothic comedy point of view. Create an atmosphere of sadness and despair with a dark Gothic style. This kind of weird combination mode, if it is placed in Hollywood, will be frightening, but it is really nothing in France.
For example, "Rhapsody of the Black Shop", which is also a French film. Dull with ambiguous tones, quirky yet lovely character shapes, expressive set props, and a splendid style that is not messy, this is a film dominated by fantasy and talent. Another example is "The Addams Family", even the characters are similar and of the same type.
character type
As many people have analyzed. My father's name is Mishima, representing Yukio Mishima, the famous suicidal suicide; my mother's name is Lucretia, who insinuates the beautiful woman Lucretia who subverted Rome with a suicide; my sister's name is Marilyn, the most famous Marilyn Everyone knows that Monroe died in the bedroom by holding down her skirt that was blown by the wind on the subway vent; her brother was Vincent, who had the same high painting as Van Gogh who cut off his ears and shot himself. Talent; the younger brother is called Alan, and the Turing who is said to be very related to the Apple icon is called Alan Turing.
Like their names, everyone in the family has an innate shadow of death, and has always been responsible for making people better and faster to commit suicide. This sense of mission even forced them to live. Even if they are extremely tired of the world and themselves, they must live for the mission of the family
style
"Suicide Shop" is full of the bad taste of death from the beginning. The film does not explain what kind of background caused this modern spiritual crisis (perhaps you can understand it as an insinuation of the economic crisis), but the pedestrians who hit the car on the road even The gray pigeons falling from the sky are all rendering a gloomy and tragic scene, and this small "suicide store" has become a "safe haven" that gives hope to those who commit suicide.
Perhaps influenced by the style of painting like "Zombie Bride", black animated comedies always seem to be inseparable from thick dark circles, thin limbs and even decadent expressions. Only when we tell the story, can we convey the strong French flavor: scattered structure, literary tone, quirky temperament and sharp and incisive language.
Sexually suggestive
The fat, ugly, gothic skin of the older sister is nothing but something to look forward to in the first few minutes of the show. In the opening ten minutes, he was called ugly by his own mother, and after twenty minutes, he said why she couldn't commit suicide, and she didn't need to inherit the store. From her dialogue, she knew that she was the first to reflect on the family's business positioning and the first to express suicidal desire in the family. This may also be the reason why the little boy Alan ripped the gloomy atmosphere of the whole show from her.
After receiving Allen's gift, the sister fiddles with a silk scarf and dances naked in front of the mirror in the middle of the night with music. If the plot is likened to a roller coaster, then this place is the most exciting part where the director slowly pulls the car down to the point where he wants to dive all at once.
Watching her take off her clothes one by one, I feel that her plump and self-liberating nude is very beautiful and flexible. Although it is undeniable that there are sexual hints intentionally mixed by the director in the whole scene, this is the real feeling that the film wants to express. My sister discovered her human side through Allen's gift, which echoes her final love ending.
In a city that is already very depressed, to express a kind of life tension, the element of sex is undoubtedly the most vital way of expression.
At the end of the film, Mishima sells a chloride crepe to a customer. The customer who played a clue from the beginning is still dead. In Mishima's words, this is a farewell to his old life.
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