"That's how it is, it goes round and round."

Neva 2022-01-16 08:02:16

"This is my last three dollars."

"Thank you and welcome again."

...

For only 25 cents, you can see dancing chicken, piano chicken, drum duck and fire bunny, any of which can make people laugh for a few minutes. What a cost-effective business, consumption, fun, love the new and dislike the old, fortunately there will always be new choices, and there will never be a shortage of "next."

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Bruno Schuxi looks like an orangutan, a very small chimpanzee. The eyeballs are slick, the mouth is lordotic, and the skin of the lower jaw is loose and folded into several layers; the temples are long and messy, reminiscent of animal hair. The clothes are always uneven, and the dressing is funny. They are not dirty, but they will be treated as homeless people, even those who have been demented since childhood and have been stimulated.

Ewa is a typical working woman. It is difficult to imagine the configuration of the heroine in terms of size or skills-so of course she is not a heroine, except for her first appearance in a German pub. At that time, she was wrapped in a fur coat, caramel-colored wavy hair covering a small part of her face, and she could only see a pair of eyes and a delicately contoured nose. She was a street prostitute bullied by a pimp and picked up by Shi Chuxi to take care of her. She is gentle, helpless and innocent (see her eyes when she teaches the little starling to sing), and is the most common female figure in film art; but after arriving in the United States, the other side of the role is revealed-she is still gentle and understands , But also shrewd and capable, and proficient in English so as to be able to deal with life with ease. She is Shi Chuxi's only translator; she works in a restaurant and flirts with guests at will; she solves the loan problem; she needs her own room.

Later, like an adult abandoning his own child, Eva ditched Shi Chuxi who had overtaken the car. She left with the truck drivers in the United States and went to Vancouver, which would be "good fun".

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Shi Chuxi’s actor is the key to the success of the whole film. He lost his family and was mentally unstable since he was a child. He moved to the correctional home and nursing home. Later, he learned musical instruments and became a wandering artist. The characters in the film are almost completely set according to him. .

In the film, Shi Chuxi showed offensive anomalies as soon as he appeared on the scene: a prisoner is still an idiot; he is not only ugly, but also shows the phenomenon of returning to ancestors. He is slow to respond, indulges in alcoholism, and has a different thinking from ordinary people, which makes it difficult to achieve efficient communication. Living at the bottom, it doesn’t seem to matter

When he got home, the first thing he did was to visit his "old friends"-an upright piano, a grand piano, a few bells, and even a row of clocks that occupies a whole wall. He asked, if Bruno is gone one day, where should these guys go?

When he went to the fruit stand, he weighed a kilogram of grapes and "there is another kilogram of citrus for Eva".

Go to the street to perform, drag a big box, and stop in the gray winter day. He took out the instrument from the box and put the accordion on his back. He said, ladies and gentlemen, Bruno wants to use his glockenspiel to perform something for you, because Bruno now has a baby.

The difficulty of life is that there are no prizes in itself. You have to make up one yourself.

Eva is his prize.

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When Shi Chuxi shot and committed suicide, he was sitting on the cable car, and the cable car had actually circled the whole circle-uphill, downhill, climbing, and landing. He sat on it steadily holding a shotgun, still expressionless. She smiled slightly from time to time.

In this regard, as early as when he was released from prison, he had predicted——

"Then he will be cleared out..."

"First I was sent to a nursing home, and finally to jail."

"He will be cleared out... Strictly put in a mental hospital."

"Cleared out."

"That's how it is, it goes round and round."

"Swear to heaven, hope to die."

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Extended Reading
  • Weston 2022-04-23 07:03:55

    Lies about life, about dreams, control our lives at all times and determine our behavior. These lies are weapons to rationalize exploitation, to make us willing to be exploited. The class division on this basis has led to the emergence of "three, six, nine, etc." for human beings. This is a circle, and it is not easy to find an exit. For Shi Chuxi, that shot may be the only way to break the circle, representing true "political correctness."

  • Rowan 2022-03-27 09:01:18

    1. The fifth part of Herzog is better than the inner shocking will and spiritual strength, gentleness and ruthlessness coexist, and also stained with a touch of Wenders' style, the red sky of the three people is too beautiful. 2. What is the grip strength of a newborn baby? Even if he was toyed with by the doctor like that, he still had to hold on to the ray of life hanging above his head. 3. Just as the innocent Kaspar came to the modern age, in the past people could not conquer his spirit and could only kill his body, but now people can politely carry out spiritual abuse on him. 4. The spinning train and the animals doing the same thing over and over again: Life can't be better or worse, it's just going to repeat itself over and over again. 5. There is no murderer here, because everyone is a murderer. 6. Like the soundtrack.

Stroszek quotes

  • Der Bruno Stroszek: We're in America now. I thought that in America everything would get better and that we would finally reach our goal. But no. Bruno is being chopped off as if he'd never existed. You wouldn't recognize me any more.

    Eva: Bruno, nobody kicks you here.

    Der Bruno Stroszek: No, not in that way. Not visibly. But they do it mentally.

  • Der Bruno Stroszek: Right when a person is writhing in pain, it hurts so bad. And that pain is a spiritiual pain, it's deep inside.