A twisted world based on suicide, where people are unhappy because of external factors and see death as the road to redemption. The French animated film "Suicide Shop", with its unique Gothic style, adds a lot of singing and dancing elements to express the profound philosophy of life and death. The film tells the story in the form of a regular linear narrative. The beginning is full of the bad taste of death, which sets the tone of gray and sadness. People who committed suicide fell from the upstairs like discarded things, as many as ants, and human life was worthless. The film does not explain what kind of background led to this modern spiritual crisis. In this gray tone, the suicide store is a bright color. There are colorful poisons, a dazzling array of slings and guns, and it has become a "safe haven" that gives hope to suicide. In the face of the cold humor of the French, this film will not be a downright depressing work. The film adopts a relatively joyous singing and dancing form to defuse the sharp black background of the story itself. The gloomy and bleak scene in the film is accompanied by grotesque and interesting songs and dances, showing a strong sense of despair, darkness and even cruelty. At the same time, the playful lyrics suggest that the shadow of death will not hang over the sky forever, and hope will come one day. The films represented by the Gothic style seem to always be unable to escape the topics of towering, gloomy, weird, mysterious, and horror. The thick dark circles, thin limbs and decadent expressions and actions in the film convey the darkness of society and people from the side. of indifference.
The names of the family in the film are real portrayals of real people. Dad's name is Mishima, a reference to Japanese writer Yukio Mishima. There is a detail in the film that his father sells a method of cutting the abdomen to a client, while the real Mishima admires Japan's traditional Bushido spirit, but is very dissatisfied with the westernization of Japan's post-war society and the control of Japanese sovereignty by foreign countries. The mother's name is Lucrece, an allusion to the maid who was raped by the king's son in Shakespeare's long poem "The Rape of Lucrece", a symbol of women who are controlled by the ruling class. My brother's name is Vincent, Alluding to the Dutch painter Van Gogh. The most frequent action of the brother's camera in the film is to sharpen the knife, and Van Gogh's "Self-Portrait after Cutting the Ear" depicts Van Gogh cutting off his right ear with a sickle. The world speaks. Sister Marilyn, after receiving the birthday present of silk scarves and dance music, broke the concept of suicide, began to pursue beauty, was liberated in dancing, and finally gained love. This is exactly what Marilyn Monroe stands for. Originally, the owner and his wife did not feel guilty because they were in the dead business, but they were not happy, and because of helping others commit suicide, their psychology became more and more gloomy. The youngest son, Alan, appears in the film as a savior, and the laughter brought by the suicidal person and the shopkeeper begins to examine the meaning and color of life. However, his parents didn't give him a chance at the beginning. One of the scenes is impressive: the father intended to violently kill Alan in his imagination, and when he woke up, he found that Alan was still beside him and tried to hold hands with him. The father, however, took a different approach: he taught Alan to smoke, causing him to commit a chronic suicide, and Alan believed in his father before being awakened by his friends. Ultimately, Allen managed to force his parents to close the suicide store and reopen a crepe shop. I thought it was a happy ending, but a hapless suicide suddenly appeared. He committed suicide several times without success. Even a sling that was stolen from the store was cut off by Allen. But the suicidal man finally died alone on the street at the newly opened crepe shop, where he bought a cyanide crepe from the owner's collection, Mishima. The arrangement of this episode is quite interesting. In similar films, there are always a few people who stood up and shouted to save the world. They also encountered setbacks, and some people did not follow their plans and lost their lives, but in the end their plans were successful. (Formulated plot and stereotyped characters) At the end of the film, the film is immersed in an atmosphere of objective ideas, showing a happy ending like a Disney animation. People can find hope to survive in the world changed because of alan. And those who have to resort to death have the right to freely choose death.
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