The "Life Trilogy" established Anderson's unique artistic style: the film uses only fixed shots, abandons the movement of the camera in film art, and returns to the Lumiere Brothers' early fixation for inspiration, in depth of field, scheduling, actors and sets. make an article. In terms of content, it shows the absurdity of life and society, but it does not lose humor in pessimism, and sometimes criticizes social injustice and human alienation, but the method is also absurdity rather than cursing.
Anderson is very good at expressing the dislocation of time and space naturally and smoothly, and the analogy of this dislocation of time and space often brings great shock and impact to people. The lightness in form and the heaviness in effect give people a feeling of light weight, and at the same time aggravate his usual sense of absurdity. In "About Endless", there is a modernized scene of Jesus carrying the cross. The classically glorified body of Jesus turned into a bloated middle-aged man in formal clothes. He walked forward carrying the cross in an unknown corner of the modern city, and was flogged by men and women in sweaters. Stopped to watch, expression indifferent. Faith is an extra dimension of thinking in the film compared with the trilogy. There are more than 30 shots in the whole film, most of which are not connected, but there is a priest's story that can be linked together, accounting for several shots. A priest who has lost his faith doubts the existence of God and goes to see a psychiatrist. This is a cold joke. Unable to answer his questions about God and existence, the doctor finally said, "To live is to be satisfied." And what kind of "live" is this? The priest has a hard time riding a tiger because it is his "job". Visited the doctor again, but was kicked out because the other party was going to leave work. Modern capitalist society leaves no room for the ultimate question beyond production and life. Anderson takes a priest and a psychiatrist, a pair of traditional and modern psychological comforters, and pessimistically presents the instrumental nature of faith and science in a dark humorous way. They are all about programs, not people. And the character is dark and indifferent in all the films after his "comeback". What I love most about Anderson is that the big events of history and the little details of life are presented in exactly the same way in the same film. The biggest impact this time was the humorous reappearance on the eve of Hitler's complete defeat. The drunken officers gave up resistance like all losers in life. The embarrassment of the Führer and the weight of history were indifferent to specific individuals. The director gave this scene the same rhythm and even the same length as the other shots. A father took his daughter to a classmate's birthday party in the rain, bending over to tie her shoes on the way; a female marketing director stared motionless at the bustling city outside the floor-to-ceiling windows; a few girls suddenly danced outside a quiet country bar. He makes it seem as if all of this has the same weight: you can say that historical events are insignificant, but a more positive interpretation should be that life itself is extremely important. The two feature films that Anderson made when he was young were about two hours long, while the "Life Trilogy" did not exceed a hundred minutes each. "About Endless" is even shorter, just over seventy minutes, a bit like Kundera's trend of getting shorter and shorter. In this year's Venice feature films that are often two or three hours long, such a short work is titled "Endless", which seems a bit big. Shameless. Anderson said at a news conference that he wanted to make a film that looked like it would never end, and the audience didn't want it to end. Because of his slow, minimalist, fixed-shot, fragmented narrative style, each of the trilogy, especially the 100-minute "Peace in the Cold Branch," is a bit unnerving by the last ten to twenty minutes. An "endless" movie is a movie that makes the audience not addicted to it, and makes people feel that they are okay
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