When it comes to suicide, most people's attitudes are evasive and obscure, and very few people really think from the perspective of a suicidal person. For suicidal people, the blind persuasion of the people around them often cannot solve the difficulties they encounter in reality, so that they cannot be understood and respected after they choose to die. The gothic style is rendered in a childlike romance to analyze the painstaking thinking of modern human civilization, especially the deconstruction of life and death, which is the inevitable ultimate proposition of human modern wisdom and civilization.
The film begins with a record player playing a cheerful and refreshing romantic single melody. Through the medium and long shots, a low-pitched dove droops its eyelids and looks down. dead world. The background music tells the sweetness and brightness of love, but it forms a strong contrast and contrast with the negative despair in reality. In the words "Good morning swallow, good morning", the pigeon also committed suicide, leaving behind swirling feathers. The gap between the happy time and reality in the lyrics further reflects the dark depression.
As a genre film, it is first and foremost a normative aesthetic form dominated by narrative. The narrative of the film is very clear. The protagonists are a husband and wife and a child who run a ten-generation ancestral suicide store. The so-called suicide store is to use various professional tools to help suicide groups die in private at one time. But the allure of suicide shops for suicides is not only here, but also to respect the human rights of suicides here, because there is a family of bosses who are not shy about death and are well-mannered. After peeping at the suicide process, the children of the shop owner felt that helping others to commit suicide was a burden. But what is interesting is that the couple who persuaded others to face death, but they worked hard for survival and ancestral teachings, refused to die, and felt depressed for a long time in their hearts. The idea they trust is: In such a cruel life, positive false hope is shameful, not conducive to survival, and only ruthless can face life better.
The second is the stereotyped characters. In Marvel movies, it is a hero to save the world in one sentence. The birth of the shop owner's son is an entry point for the film. His son Alan has an optimistic spirit that is out of tune with his surroundings and loves life very much. He even tries to infect everyone around him. In addition to caring for the people around him, gradually, Allen found that more and more people died because of suicide stores in the city. He began to want to change this situation and save those who didn't really want to die, but just because of a single thought. And those who go to hell. There are also graphic visual images, whether in terms of color, scene, or the use of lenses. The negative atmosphere that can be seen everywhere in the film is very appropriate, and the whole city is immersed in the breath of death. The camera language used by the director to show "Dead City" here is very beautiful.
The last song and dance of the movie interprets the director's mentality. The ending seems to be very happy. The family has transformed the suicide store into a crepe store that brings happiness. But is the ending really so healing? If this is the case, then this film is only a novel theme, but its own connotation is insufficient. So the director used such a bridge at the end, an old man famously came to the modified suicide store to decide to die a second time after his first attempt to commit suicide failed. At this time, Allen's father secretly handed him hydrogenated Crepes. Eventually the old man took the poison not far away while the crepe house cheered happily.
Isn't that what life is like? While countless people were redeemed, there were also people who lost their confidence forever. These people often lingered on the fringes of society and were difficult to be noticed. After all, this world is where despair and hope coexist, and sunshine and haze coexist.
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