The film "Suicide Store" uses sadness, pain, and death as its performance themes to analyze people's spiritual world, which also contains the yearning for a better life. Coupled with the smoky makeup and leather of the characters in the play, we can clearly experience this Gothic style. The film tells the story of a family that has been selling poison and other suicide tools to help others commit suicide for generations, until the wife gave birth to a young son, which changed their lives.
The first half of the film is full of depression and dark humor. The characters in the story have dark circles under their eyes, and they all look downcast and listless. The director used a very contrasting approach to tell us the story. First of all, judging from the title of the film, suicide is not in line with the overall social consciousness, but the director is so outspoken that the whole outside world is full of gloomy, depressed, and hopeless feelings, but this shop is full of dazzling sights. Calling an ambulance in a suicide store, someone begging for death, while someone else is begging for life. Two ridiculous suicide tickets. And the last poor old lady who appeared in the face of the "generousness" of the hostess to help her commit suicide said, "If the people I met before also thought of you as selfless, I wouldn't use it." Many comparisons like these , making the whole film full of irony and indifference. In addition, the people who commit suicide throughout the film are of different ages and identities. This creates a morbid psycho-society in which all people seek death, just as a happy atmosphere is easily contagious, so is sadness. The reality has become so hopeless that suicide has become a relief, which is also a satire of the oppression of modern society and those who are prone to self-defeating. In this case, the little boy's smile and optimism become out of place, because there is no room for optimism in a negative world.
The biggest feature of the film is the combination of singing and dancing and animation. The way of production of animation enhances the expressiveness, and the characters, behaviors, and scene layouts separate the real world from the film world to reduce the sense of depression. Songs and dances appear repeatedly throughout the film, because only songs can express a mood that dialogue cannot express. On the other hand, the form of singing and dancing can also ease the atmosphere and enhance the comedy effect in the same way as the animation production method. In addition, singing and dancing also played a role in portraying the characters in the film. For example, the lyrics of the younger son are always full of hope and sunshine. Singing out the characters' inner monologues also played a role in promoting the plot.
At the end of the film, there seems to be a happy ending. My sister became more confident and found a home, and the whole family business changed from helping others commit suicide to buying crepes. Coupled with the songs sung by the ghosts of people who had committed suicide, everything seemed hopeful and sunny again. However, the director injected a tragic color into it. In a peaceful atmosphere, Dad still secretly gave others a poisonous crepe, and the old man chose to commit suicide. It's as if people who really want to commit suicide can't be stopped, and one person can't save a world. What you understand as help and rescue is just to entertain yourself
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