In this small French town shaped by Suicide Shop, the products people choose from the shelves are not used to improve their lives, but to end them. Under the cloud cover, death has almost become people's only belief. The obsession with death and the dark and oppressive style in the film are easily reminiscent of the typical Gothic style. From the perspective of the characters alone, most of the people in the town are pale and bleak, with melancholy expressions, and lingering haze and morbidity all over their bodies. sought to create an eerie effect. In addition, a major feature of Gothic movies is the analysis and thinking of complex human nature. Starting from the little boy's sister, she seems to have no interest in anything, but we can see from the ending that she also has girls of this age. It should be sexy and yearning for love. Take the little boy's father as an example. He always introduces and demonstrates various methods of suicide to customers. In his eyes, other people's lives are not worth money. He seems extremely selfish and greedy, but he will also The collapse in the middle of the night will also leave tears when the old man dies, and will regret and blame himself after the little boy falls from the building. Human nature is inherently complex, and most of what Dad shows is its dark side, but it is undeniable that he also has a conscience that has not yet been extinguished. The biggest difference between gothic films and pure thriller films is that they bring warmth to the audience through depressing and dark pictures, so there is a little boy in "Suicide Shop". Full of vitality and vigor, it can be said that he is one of the few "angry" characters in the small town. He fights against death, brings joy subtly, and finally even changes the world like a revolution, which is completely in line with Gothic. The yearning for beauty behind pain and death, as advocated by the style. In a sense, death means escape. In the Middle Ages when the Gothic style appeared, almost everyone felt pain in their hearts and longed to escape, and the film is like a black fairy tale, interspersed with warmth in the sadness, telling people that no matter how depressing the status quo is, they must learn to escape Seek hope.
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