Gothic allegory

Cristobal 2022-11-11 15:27:37

In "Suicide Shop", the director used French chansons with the dark style of Gothic to create an atmosphere of sadness and despair, thus constructing a society that is almost dead. Almost everyone in this society is desperate and looking for a way to die, so much so that the government has to issue a decree that strictly prohibits people from committing suicide in public. It makes the audience more of a calm thinking behind the light and shadow: when suicide is no longer an obscure thing, when a shop selling suicide paraphernalia can open up for business, when the police give suicide victims who were hit by a car one by one Get a ticket. Where does humanity go when someone makes a living by helping others commit suicide?
The film begins with a French-style black humor "Happy Hour", which tells the audience a morbid society along the trajectory of life and death. Through this extremely disharmony between the sound and the picture, the audience's inner horror and tangled emotions are kept forbearance, but they continue to ferment and heat up in their hearts, so as to achieve a kind of "surrounding the beam for three days, the lingering sound is endless." ' artistic effect. In the film, Alan is a very important character, and he gathers the most warm content in the film, such as love, friendship, and growth. From a carefree child to a 'rebel', to a person who changed the psychology of suicide, and finally completed the redemption of the people around him, this is not only Alan's growth, but also the emotion and emotion behind all the audience's light and shadow. reward. The film adopts a number of detailed settings when shaping the characters, which has a prominent artistic effect.
"Suicide Store" presents the audience with a gloomy and morbid social picture with an almost silent and grim image style. In the film, only hope and love are warm, mixed with the director's universal attention and full of warmth. strength. It is worth mentioning that the film adopts the form of musical and dance drama, which is full of black humor and enthusiastic expression, which is the biggest highlight and ingenuity of this work. In this place, which is full of the bad taste of death from the beginning, and the whole city is immersed in a gloomy and desperate atmosphere, the director adopts a relatively joyful singing and dancing form to resolve the sharp black tone of the story itself, and the lyrics are full of fun. Each piece of opera-style musical monologue is interspersed, representing the most real thoughts and feelings of the characters. It plays a role in promoting the emotions of the characters, and at the same time, it also makes the film more vivid in these music, which relieves the audience's depressed emotions to a certain extent. Shows the creator's penetrating thinking tension.
At the end of the film, the stubborn father redefines the value of life with the help of Alan and completes his redemption. The solemn and indifferent specialty store in the past has also become alive with the replacement of crepes, filled with laughter and laughter. Everything is as Alan sings: 'Dreams are possible, just believe with all your heart. Life is sometimes suffering, and living has meaning. 'Through Alan's heartwarming smile, the audience's thoughts were revived again, as if they were full of hope for life again. "Suicide Shop" is a mirror, and we are all passers-by in front of this mirror.

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The Suicide Shop quotes

  • Lucrèce Tuvache: You can give death to yourself but death itself is not free.

  • Lucrèce Tuvache: Life is appalling. But we must fight.