It was recommended by the teacher and looked for it. Objectively speaking, the camera lens, picture production, soundtrack, and character design are all exquisite, and even the details are very real.
Let's talk about a few details I noticed first: (talk behind the camera)
First, at the beginning of the film, people in a row are falling from the sky like pieces of paper, even crows. I don't know if you have noticed that there are only two kinds of animals that appear throughout the film: crows and mice.
The crow is an ominous symbol. When the city made people commit suicide, it was inevitable that the crow had an impact. In a sense, crows are a reflection of people's existence.
Rats are the representative of filth and filth. When people are depressed and depressed, they rejoice and sing with smiles. They only like to be near depressed and uninteresting people, and they are only afraid of the protagonist of the story, "Alan". This is an irony.
Second, when crossing the road, people come and go, and the money falls on the ground, but no one picks it up. I think it's so abnormal, but also unusually reasonable. People are numb, living in the world in a daze, and wanting to die, the only thing that hesitates is not "death", but "how to die". Too ironic, but terrifying to think about.
The third is that the older sister "Marilyn" sits in the store blowing bubbles, and the colorful and dreamy bubbles blur the world and people's faces. I suddenly felt very scared. This is too much like a metaphor. Although the bubbles are beautiful, they will eventually burst. When Huang Liang wakes up from a dream, will everything be just an illusion? In the end, the good things are short-lived, and people still die one after another.
Also, when the bubble floated into the room, my brother Vincent was very scared, he kept chasing, rushing, trying to break the bubble, why, why was he so flustered? When he finally burst the bubble, he returned to calm.
Fourth, the color of the city is dark and gray, and the color of the clothes of people who want to commit suicide is also dark and depressing. Only the various poisons in the Suicide Store, flashing with strange colors, like the poisoned apples of witches in fairy tales. Only the smiling "Alan" and his friends avoided this.
Now, let's talk about the "dance" of my sister "Marilyn", which is not only an expression of beauty, but also a kind of awakening, the ability to perceive beauty, and the "acceptance" of one's own body. This is an "awakening" of self-consciousness. . It was this dance that made her stand out from the numb crowd. It is undeniable that this dance has a hint of "sex", even a bit like the "self-soothing" of the elder sister, while the younger brother "Allen" and his friends watched the whole process outside the window, will this also be the same? kind of hint? (I actually don't understand why my brother has to take his friends to watch his sister undress... This is an appreciation of beauty, but to a certain extent, it is also against human relations...)
Later, "Allen" and his friends borrowed their uncle's car and tried to wake people up by playing music. The effect was good, but their "suicide store" was also destroyed. Sister was in this accident. found true love. But also because of this accident, my father raised the sword and wanted to stab Allen to death.
This scene was extremely terrifying. At this time, my father seemed to have fallen into a nightmare and became terrifyingly insane. It reminds me of my father's dissatisfaction with Aaron before, fantasizing about strangling Aaron by the neck and trying to strangle him to death. The screen was full of bright red. Later, my father realized that it was a fantasy, and he lured Alan to smoke and tried to kill Alan.
Aaron is not a "savior" in this show, he is more like a "pretender" (my personal opinion), he seems to be disguising something with a smile (combined with the book Aaron died in the end), It's all like a carefully planned, he needs a "perfect and grand" suicide, horrible.
The film's ending, as the director puts it, is "kitsch," losing part of its irony and darkness. But as Siqi said in "Fang Siqi's First Love Paradise": "I'd rather be a kitsch, I'd rather be ignorant than see the backside of the world."
The backside of the world is sometimes scarier than we think, and the sores in this world are bigger than the world itself. Kitsch can sometimes be regarded as a kind of protection, covering up the truth. At the end of the show, only the net designed by others is left.
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