"I desire to do evil, and I am also satisfied." - Dostoevsky, "The Demons" Sonoko Wen is a crazy genius. This "Mediocre" is very gentle in his many absurd and perverted films. Personally, it feels Dostoevsky-style, and it is a bit like my favorite British drama "Fuck the World". The climax of all the contradictions in "Mediocre" is that the male protagonist Shuta kills his father, and "The Brothers Karamazov" has the same contradiction, so it has to be Freud's set (oh, thinking about so many things in Sono Ziwen's film) also has Freud's theoretical explanation). There is also the incomparable suffering in Sumita's heart after committing the crime, which reminds people of Raskolnikov in "Crime and Punishment". Raskolnikov realized his sin under Sophia, and Sumita was in With Jingzi's company and encouragement, he regained his new life. Dostoyevs used to discuss the question of whether God exists or not. If God does not exist, then morality has no meaning, and people can do whatever they want. If it exists, how can he tolerate the ugliness and suffering of this world, and the children like angels are suffering cruelly? The gloom in Sonoko Wentuo's works comes from this. In Sonoko Wen's films, moral values are often shattered, leaving absurd erotic and violent carnivals. Children who were supposed to be like angels, Sumita and Keiko, had to survive countless cruel disasters, overwhelmed by despair and defeated by hope, and in the end they could still keep running forward with the dream of being an ordinary person. Originally, I thought that according to Yuan Ziwen's tonality, it is possible for the male protagonist to shoot the female protagonist or to shoot himself in the end. When I saw the last few shots of the male protagonist by the river, I really thought he was dead, or that he was going to leave an open ending abruptly like "Fuck the World 1", but Sumita came out of the water and said Go to the police station, hahahaha, okay, if it gets dark, it will be too depressing, so keep it light.
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