The film "Suicide Shop" tells the story of a family who inherited the family business and sells suicide products, living a dull life, living in tangle and melancholy every day. Broken by Lun's birth.
In this lifeless gray town, the only colorful thing is the suicide product store run by Mishima and his wife. Makes this shop look like a wonderful fairy tale world, however, this is a shop of death with countless ways of dying. Such a strong contrast is full of black humor and irony, which strongly satirizes the social status quo at that time.
Everyone who entered the store looked sad and was looking for the most suitable way to end their lives. They thought that if they died, they would be freed. It is obvious that each of them has a morbid psychology, so they form a society full of morbid thoughts, they are full of complaints about life, they are very desperate about life, and they think that the way to liberate is one, That is death. Different from the consciousness of survival of normal people, what belongs to them is the consciousness of seeking death. As long as you die, you can be freed and you can become happy, so more and more of them choose to end their lives, this kind of suicidal mood It's not that you really want to die, but that you are bound by something, and the worries in your heart can't be relieved to a certain extent, so you come to redeem yourself and free yourself.
Whenever the characters in the film want to express their truest feelings, there will be a lot of singing and dancing. Music and dance are good at expressing the characters' emotions, the development of the story and the conflicts, and sometimes the strong emotions that cannot be expressed in words. Can be expressed through music and dance. In the film, the owner and his wife introduced their shop through singing and dancing, which added comedy elements and deepened the irony. Through singing and dancing, we see the entanglement in the hearts of people who want to commit suicide, and their disgust for lifeless lives. We have seen the unhappiness of the shopkeeper and his wife, their repentance and entanglement about helping others die, and even more, we have seen Allen's confusion and disgust in real life as a child, as well as his refusal to help others to commit suicide.
Alan is a person full of positive energy and dare to act. He has the goal of changing the family. He started with his sister. The appearance of her sister's dancing undoubtedly pushed the film to a climax. The successful start of the Lun project. Although Aaron finally used the sound effect to blow up his own store, it was not rational, but this changed his mother's view of suicide. Alan changed the people around him step by step. Although he was finally driven to a desperate situation by his father, he still changed his father's mentality through his sincerity, and successfully brought his family to an open mind. .
The end of the film ends with a cheerful song and dance. In this light song and dance, everyone has their own changes, everyone's tone is very relaxed, and their faces are full of enthusiastic smiles for life. The dead people all appeared in the picture, and they were no longer sad, but repented of themselves, just like they sang "If we had understood this earlier, maybe we were still alive." They also changed their attitudes towards life, become less anxious.
There are always many unsatisfactory things and moments in the world. These are unavoidable. Worrying and melancholy will always lead people to despair, while a positive and optimistic attitude will often lead to new discoveries and unexpected gains.
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