The movie "Suicide Shop" is an animated comedy that integrates dark humor and singing and dancing elements, expressing the content of tragedy in the form of comedy. Through the description of the abnormal behavior of people in the absurd world, the director expresses the director's sympathy for the people living in the oppressive and helpless reality who are unable to resist the living environment, and the attitude that people still have to look for hope and work hard to live despite this state of life. . The film uses grotesque image expression, abnormal character setting, humorous lines and constant foreshadowing, step by step, the characters in the film are redeemed. Structural Analysis - A foreshadowing of a successful redemption The background of the story is a city full of sadness and melancholy, where everyone wants to be liberated by suicide. The film uses the first ten minutes to set up such a background, and an important place to tell the viewer's story is a famous "suicide shop". At this time, the author begins to bury the first factor that transformed the family and the whole city - the birth of Allen. It is an image that is out of tune with the life around it, and the anomaly is the beginning of breaking the repetition. The movie probably wouldn't have turned if it hadn't been for Aaron's birth. Allen's image when he was a child only lasted for about a minute. When he was young, Allen just let the customer's old lady have the idea of "it's really heartwarming to see the child's smile". The first rescue was unsuccessful. Aaron's role is to save others, so in the movie, he grew up quickly in a few seconds and continued to promote the development of the plot - the young Aaron secretly got up at night to destroy suicide goods, send beautiful gifts to his sister, and prevent others from jumping into rivers... In the climax, Aaron borrows a car to screw up the store with a stereo, and his sister gets love. As the plot continues, the father will be the only unresolved family member, Allen shows his father various suicide methods to save his father, and eventually the store becomes a cake shop. Step by step, these rescues resulted in Alan and his family being rescued, while the disappearance of the suicide store and the positive impact of the bakery resulted in others being rescued. The structure of the story is the same as usual, but what makes it stand out is that it is set in a setting where everyone wants to commit suicide, and there are absurd and unconventional ideas everywhere, which is the hallmark of dark humor. character setting-- Aaron is a figure who doesn't fit in with the lifeless life around him, and it's his "abnormality" that saves the "not abnormal" people in the movie. Aaron is the only character in the film who never transforms Aaron's character, only sublimates. His character image is that he is laughing non-stop from birth, stubbornly loving life, and wants to make the people around him return to normal life. Aaron's main mission in the film is to try to save his family and "other parents", so Aaron grows up in seconds. Unlike Alan in the original book, who committed suicide and died, what the director wants to convey to us is that although the living environment is cramped and everything seems unsatisfactory, we have to accept life and be full of hope. Aaron's father was a hard-working, serving man with a strong sense of pessimism and a symbol of power, and his worldview couldn't be broken. He works diligently every day, and loves his own work. In one of his songs, he sings that they cannot commit suicide because they have to serve everyone, and study various ways of dying day and night. His pessimism and power are mainly manifested in not allowing Aaron to change his family's life, not even allowing Aaron to laugh, and taking the initiative to let Aaron smoke to hurt himself. He was the last person in the family to be redeemed by Bell, but after the store changed, he still sold other people's suicide stuff, which showed that he couldn't adjust to his new life quickly, and he may not have given up on "suicide" completely. But he has also been touched, when he was delivering poison to Mr. Carmel, he was moved by a picture of a happy family, but a song and dance expressed why he did not kill himself. Allen's father is a multi-faceted person, not only good people and bad people. Allen's sister was the first person to be truly saved from the heart, from when she started accepting Allen's gift to dancing her first dance, it was the beginning of her beginning to feel the beauty of life. Until the store was destroyed and he met a loved one, his sister gave up suicide completely and was full of hope for life. All the characters in the film cannot simply judge the good and the bad, because the initial setting of the characters is absurd. Lines - dark and humorous comedy "Don't die, don't refund... Tongsouwubuying" has become an irony to apply the principles of honest merchants in real life. In reality, it is not Tongsouwubuying who really need Tongsouwubuying. With the slogan of being an old man without deceit, but doing harm to others. "The guest insisted that he was laughing" "What's the matter, he must be alcoholic and sometimes confused with the smile, but this is not, please see, if the source is pushed down... He is not laughing, he and His older brothers and sisters are born with a stinky face..." Alan's mother did not allow Alan to laugh, in the eyes of the audience, this is really ridiculous behavior, and the absurd and humorous style is vividly reflected. The reality behind this humour is really hard to laugh at. "Goodbye, sir and ma'am, have a good evening... I'm sorry mom, I made a mistake... Farewell, sir and ma'am..." This grotesque language seemed funny and deviant. The film uses their ridiculous words and deeds to express the author's views on social issues. It's ironic to mix philosophical reasoning with gag language. "To be honest, I don't know how to be true in life, but I did really believe that I have done my best, within my ability, but I gave up..." The first person who committed suicide in the film sang, The passage implies that these people do not want to live, nor do they love life, but they cannot find their own value in life, cannot compete with the established social class and social rules, and lose faith in life and lose their lives. The motivation is despairing. Through their ridiculous words and deeds, they allude to social reality and express the author's views on social issues. Mix up serious philosophies with gag. The brushwork is ironic, and the language often breaks with general grammatical rules and inherent word-matching habits. Image expression The film adopts a Gothic style, and the whole film presents a decadent, sad and melancholy atmosphere. The film is dominated by gray tones, the whole city is immersed in haze, and the characters are also sad and tired. The composition of the film sometimes adopts an oblique composition, mostly when the characters commit suicide, to express disharmony, make the audience feel uncomfortable and awkward, and express the perversion of the society that is forced by death. The film uses close-up shots to avoid the bloody scenes while maintaining a sense of mystery. For example, when introducing the products in the suicide specialty store, close-ups are often used, and close-ups are also used when showing the suicide of characters, so as to avoid bloody scenes. Secondly, when introducing the suicide store for the first time, the camera first focused on the man's face from decadent to surprised and happy for six seconds, so that the audience could guess the appearance of the suicide store based on the reaction, and then turned to the suicide store, creating a mysterious feel. In the film, the range of motion of the camera lens is very large, and there are many kinds of pictures such as high-down shot, high-up shot.
(5) Songs and dances - to ease the impact of suicide themes. Songs and dances appear many times in the buffer film for the ending, so that the animation is no longer too depressing, and the impact of the theme is alleviated, so that the audience will not be overly pessimistic in appreciation, and also Everyone at the end of the film was rescued, and the sunshine life paved the way. At the same time, the absurdity of the lyrics makes the film more watchable and more in line with the public's aesthetic expectations. The combination of dark humor and singing and dancing makes the film acceptable to people of more ages.
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