One sentence definition "Suicide Shop" is a comedy drama that mixes musicals and thrillers, with a three-part narrative structure with a strong Gothic style. It mainly tells the story of a family who sells 100% of their lives to survive. From them, it tells about the process of the people in the small town changing from longing for darkness and terror to full of hope and vigor.
At the beginning, the whole town is gray, and only the suicide store is psychedelic in color, which makes people feel sad, what kind of despair can make people see death as a kind of happiness and relief. In the film, all the cars on the street revolve around the church, but religion cannot give people peace in real life, and cannot wash people's hearts. Even in the place closest to the church, the coldness of death still envelopes the town, and people don't believe it. Life, the pursuit of death, the yearning for darkness, as if death can bring a moment of peace. A cross appeared when Mishima confessed, and a cross appeared when the sanitation worker suffocated himself, as if death was the harbor for them to rest and rest, and their hearts would be at peace.
The store family has been teaching the people in the town to commit suicide, providing them with the tools to be 100% successful in suicide, but knowing that the arrival of Allen gradually broke this pattern. He's the only person in the town who smiles every day, and he's trying to change the town's weird quest for death and destruction. The whole family of the store is in line with the symbol of Gothic characters, and even Aaron, who seems to be full of sunshine and vigor, is also a Gothic character. Another characteristic of Gothic figures is forbidden love. In the film, Aaron is slightly obsessed with his sister and also indulged in his sister's nudes. As a character representing hope and vigor, his deeds also have a gothic shadow, but he is still a key figure in the turning point of the story.
His smiling compliments and angry gifts changed his sister, so that she was no longer in despair, and indirectly changed his mother's weird view of his sister. Then he met his sister's boyfriend, and then life was like a train running on the right track, full of getting better and full of getting out of the haze. The film belongs to the category of musical genres and the music also has a strong gothic style. Gothic music mainly expresses the gloom and emptiness of human nature, and also has a strong interest in death and pursuit of destruction. Slowness, sadness and even horror are all characteristic. The gothic music in the film is also full of rich world-weary sentiments, icy and biting, with a fine aesthetic feeling, but also incongruent sounds that deviate from the main melody. The music of my sister's boyfriend's appearance all shows the desolation of life, the rejection of the reality, and the pursuit of the strangeness of the abyss of the soul for fun, making people desperate and depressing.
But in the end, the sudden reversal of the ending caught people off guard. It turned out to be a happy and positive ending. My sister's boyfriend is like a golden key, opening the door to a new world with everyone. People no longer want to commit suicide, and specialty stores no longer sell suicide tools. Everyone appeared in the crepe shop that used to be a suicide shop and now the crepe shop, and the deceased floated and looked at the colorful and vibrant town. Everyone in the film used to despair of survival and yearned for death and darkness, as if they were in a hopeless today, always looking forward to the night, but now they are all laughing and talking while eating crepes, with natural expressions and full of vitality. What is more expected than death is to live, and what is more beautiful than a numb and expressionless face is to smile like flowers and full of life. (But in the end, the appearance of the Gothic characters has not changed, Mishima is still quietly selling lethal drugs, but we still believe that life is getting better a little bit, we must have enough courage and patience to see it slowly. Become better, become what we imagined it to be.)
Supplement: The classic color scheme of gothic style is black and red, and the classic use of this color matching is vampire (vampire is also one of the symbols of gothic style), and in the film Mishima confesses and he wants to kill Alan when the picture is red Take black, red occupies a large area, more creepy.
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