According to the data: The director is guerrilla in North America and Canada in order to find snow scenes, looking for scenes that can be used for shooting. Therefore, the snow scene is the most important scene in this film. But in fact, the story itself has little to do with the snow scene, and the deliberate presentation of the snow scene must be the tone of the film originally set by the director.
The vast white snow covers everything and isolates the characters from the real society, showing the symbolic characteristics of absurd dramas. The story itself is a bizarre and absurd thing.
The "humour" of the characters in the play looks more like a documentary feature of the characters. The purpose is not to portray the characters, nor to ridicule anything. It is just a small feature that makes the characters look more realistic. Everyone is like this. living. The subtitles and documentary style of the title are also used to highlight the sense of reality and to balance the absurdity of the plot.
A group of real and credible people can only show the absurdity of doing a stupid thing seriously. Many domestic films have learned from Quentin, the Keen brothers, and Rodriguez...but they only learned the exterior.
In order to unify these two styles, documentary and absurd, the director used many methods. The vast snow, the special perspective that appears in the narrative shots, on the other hand, depicts the characters as realistically as possible, emphasizing that this is a whole.
The director did not deliberately praise or criticize the characters in the camera, but just presented the characters calmly. And the character also pays close attention to himself and does what he "should" do. The only connection to the outside world in the film is the salesman and his father-in-law watching a hockey puck on TV. The director let them all out of society, and then really played themselves in this closed snow.
This combination of absurd reality is the unique charm of this movie.
There is no explanation about the theme of the film. I think this is a reflection of the director's humility and calmness, and he did not explain anything above the audience. A passage of the policewoman at the end of the credits is more like that of the "character". And the real world is like that invisible white snow, no one can tell, I think this is what the director wants to think about and explore.
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