Songs from the Second Floor Comments

  • Rosemary 2022-03-20 09:02:27

    Towards the darkly humorous Bruel, not smart. Crying from the second floor. On the actor's posture and posture --- "The seated person is lovely." The world is moved to the stage of a...

  • Ericka 2022-03-20 09:02:27

    The person who only shows his feet and the person watching him, the observant and the observer who are not fully displayed, the onlookers who cannot see the face and the inner perspective all arouse people's interest. From talking about specific things smoothly to talking about the meaning of life, I started to make music. The same fixed shots, each of which is like a performance in a theater, should be interesting enough to connect these performances in series. There seems to be makeup on the...

  • Pearlie 2022-03-20 09:02:27

    A / Although it is not as good as "Han Zhi Que Jing", it still laughs like crazy. I personally think that the effect of "tears in laughter" is really overestimated, and laughter is full of dead silence and despair, which is the artistic realm of digging out the limits of people's emotions and thinking. Cannes in 2000 was...

  • Carroll 2021-12-30 17:17:16

    #HKIFF# The third time I watched (the first time I watched a big screen film). Can be regarded as the beginning of the master stage. The camera is completely fixed, and the switching between scenes is not only narrative, but also pure repetitive lines (sometimes everything, sometimes miserable). The division of space by depth of field also begins in this section (more obvious in "The Pigeons"). The image of life-time-path is also obvious from this...

  • Renee 2021-12-30 17:17:16

    Personality mask-like shapes, dramatic story conflicts, and unconstrained movie structure-the trilogy is watched together: because it is a 20-year movie classic, it is the first time to see the director's work with a handful of...

  • Brionna 2021-12-30 17:17:16

    High cold absurd surreal comedy. Sometimes you just need to concretize a certain way of thinking into a symbol that is common but unexpected to most people, and you can often get dramatic comedic effects. For example, the religion in this film is concretized into crosses. The magic section is so funny. Both theme songs are very...

  • Elissa 2021-12-30 17:17:16

    12/16 This Nordic director used a fixed-focus wide-angle lens of the film, specially arranged simple scenes and concise dialogue. Shooting with minimalist techniques / unusually white makeup has a kind of absurdity and a sense of indifferent masks [and Temple Mountain Dead Pastoral Festival Similarities and differences] / Oil painting-like scenes and people in a daze for a long time embody a sense of urban indifference and alienation / Use realism to express surreal things like Ingmar /...

  • Llewellyn 2021-12-30 17:17:16

    Symbolic, surreal, and even ghosts, the scene is as simple as a drama. Scene: A parade of office workers being beaten forward by a whip, large and small crosses, sacrifices, a silent mad poet (son), a hundred-year-old general sitting in a crib-like fence... "Life is a market," Buy something, then add one or two zeros to the back and then sell it." He is a good man, a poet, can’t drive a taxi, and can’t do business, so he’s...

  • Linnea 2021-12-30 17:17:16

    I was able to watch this disaster happen so indifferently, with a calm perspective, as if I was on the scene, watching silently, just watching, not moving, surreal, funny and crying. This reminds me. You are still alive from another Anderson I saw a long time ago. Many scenes of such a dull film are actually vivid, and it turns out that it is so sharp in the depths of memory. The theme song is sad but not...

  • General 2021-12-30 17:17:16

    Fixed-length lens shooting, extremely challenging work. After arduous rehearsal, Anderson finally put it on the screen, reflecting on religion, emotion, history, and memory, showing the childhood memories of many directors, and extremely personal movies. Questioning the various problems of the current European society, too many symbols, too much indifference, and too much humor gather together, a great author...

Extended Reading
  • Kurt 2022-03-25 09:01:16

    Sedentary is lovely

    Sedentary is lovely

    - "Singing from the Second Floor"

    "Those who endure humiliation and bear heavy burdens are lovely; those who wave their hands and watch a movie are lovely; those who have no money are lovely; those who lie on their backs are lovely; those who forget their childhood are lovely;...

  • Roel 2022-03-21 09:02:51

    A cautionary tale for the millennium: behind this is a human concern for existential value

    "Songs from the Second Floor" is the first film in Swedish director Roy Anderson's "Life Trilogy", who studied under Bergman. The film presents eerie everyday life with fragmented narrative and scattered characters, and won the Jury Prize at the 53rd Cannes Film Festival. The film features an...

Songs from the Second Floor quotes

  • [repeated line]

    Stefan: Blessed be the one who sits down.

  • [about his son]

    Kalle: He wrote poetry till he went nuts!