First of all, the movie shows its unique dark humor as soon as it comes out. The expressionless person jumps from the tall building, the dove with the watch of freedom and peace voluntarily goes to death, the gray sky seems to be pressing people out of breath, and the only one with Hope, filled with soft tones, is a specialty store that helps people commit suicide. In just a few minutes the film sets its dark and unreasonably funny tone. The seemingly peaceful place is rewritten as hell, and the real hell is described as heaven. Such contrasts are more intense and impactful in appearance. The appearance of the protagonist of the film is to push the black humor to a small climax, father Mishima, mother Lucrece, brother Vincent, sister Monroe. These are all people who have committed suicide in the real world. They come out to teach others to commit suicide, and the pungent sense of irony blows out, making people feel that this store is more authoritative, just like a physical education teacher in the movie. When I came to the store and asked how my father committed suicide to be more masculine, my father Mishima said something like this: Burning gasoline on the playground and setting yourself on fire? Very party! But frankly, incision is even more unique! This is the jargon, also called belly cut. The process of death is full of oriental style and very manly! This is how Yukio Mishima died in real life. It seems very manly, but it is a way of misleading the audience. Suicide is the most unmanly escape method. In every sense, suicide is not a man's way of showing masculinity. However, it can express its masculine charm in a bloody way, which is quite clever and will make people laugh bitterly.
When the male protagonist Allen was born, the contrast reached a peak. In this dark place, he was the only one who kept laughing all the time. Everyone took gloom as an expression, put suicide on their lips, and regarded death as a belief. Allen kept laughing again. He loved life very much, and he didn't understand why people always wanted to commit suicide. At this time, he was undoubtedly an outlier. In real life, people who thought were correct and positive turned out to be negative in movies. Characters, thus reflecting the film's dark humorous style, alienating this world into the real world, thus also reflecting the absurdity of this world. What is even more incredible is that the father makes his son smoke because he dislikes his son's laughter and makes him commit suicide slowly. This kind of father certainly does not exist in real life. But why did the father let his son learn to smoke? In fact, there is not only one metaphor in the film. The father not only thinks that there is no such person in the family, but also because his smile makes people feel that Seeing hope, he gave up suicide, but his father Mishima envied him. He didn't understand why his son Aaron could still laugh so happily in such a dark environment, why Mishima could not be happy but Aaron could get it. With jealousy, he instigated his son to smoke. And when the mother, brother, and sister saw it, they just asked the father and didn't stop him. As if the life and death of their loved ones were worthless in front of them. On the contrary, Allen's friends stopped him from smoking, because among the friends who also love life, they know that smoking is a chronic suicide, and they don't want a friend who loves life to die. In fact, here is not the comparison of family and friendship, but the comparison of people who love life and negative life. For positive people, every day is interesting, and for negative people, every day is also interesting. But what they think is interesting is that the new day is one step closer to death.
The ending is very dramatic. The director shattered the items in the store through the vibration of the music. The angry father raised the samurai sword and chased after the son. When the son jumped off the building, the father felt the value of life and changed the suicide store to cocoa cake. specialty store. All suicidal souls and melancholy people ended with laughter and laughter. The seemingly happy ending contained a lot of irony. The suicidal souls were very happy, but they saw the happy side after death and felt that Happy, but if he felt it while he was alive, would they still choose to die?
Another feature of this black humor film is that it expresses joyous things that make people feel dark, such as music or singing and dancing. It should be joyful, but it makes people shudder. In fact, in the film, music not only has a narrative role , more of a satire, the appearance of music in this film is a kind of satire, and there is a lot of sadness behind the seemingly joyful, contrasting methods to show a more secluded feeling of birdsong and mountains Come, it is undeniable that this method is quite clever, and this method is even more chilling than showing it directly to the audience. The director also satirizes the indifference of human nature, the absurdity of the world, and the metaphor of the real world through music.
The film expresses an accusation of people disrespecting their own lives through dark humor, which makes people feel more absurd and cold. Taking contrast as a way of expressing the virtual world contains a metaphor for the real society.
Personal impression: Actually, I like dark humor very much, whether it is "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" or "Hot Afternoon" is my favorite. Maybe it's because I see more black eyeballs. Just like I like looking into your eyes when talking, black eyes give me black power.
But this film made me feel average, not as happy as Groundhog Day.
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