Black humor is about finding a seemingly orderly but absurd world through a certain angle, making us laugh, and then leading us to think: Is this life? How far is the distance between rationality and absurdity? Replacing a patient's full urine bottle with a finished saline bottle and recirculating ("Catch 22"), the police spend their lives catching criminals at night As a lawyer, Bai Tian tried his best to defend him and won the case ("A Lump of Cheating"), the human body structure is a joke, and the legal order is indeed laughable. We begin to suspect that reality is nothing more than a carefully screened rationality, which is fragile like a layer of window paper, which can enter nothingness with a light touch.
To a large extent, the failure of French comedy films (such as "Shut Up You", "Guests Become Pigs", etc.) is that they will go directly to the point of the joke, but the point of the joke is notified in advance, just like a colleague told me on my birthday. All your colleagues will surprise you in the office. Laughter creates a gooey texture where purpose and method are glued together, like a melted candy bar stuck to a icing. What is even more incomprehensible is the sluggishness in the performance. From the beginning to the end, there is a psychological and facial expression. What you see is not the natural reaction in the state, like a pantomime actor with lines. The reaction of the characters is like the feeling of French. , like sprinkling beans, it bursts out. Their performances only use the stubbornness, neuroticism and chatter of their personality to please the audience and detect the bottom line of our boredom, but they can't really integrate into the audience's heart. Take "Escape from a Tiger's Mouth" as an example, there is no way to win in the plot. His overly jumpy character has the theme of patriotism as the bottom line, the dangerous situations such as guns and guns as a foil, and the arrogance and stupidity of the Nazis as a reprimand. When the actor's unique personality and the contrast of the role played are wonderfully merged. We think it's amusing when his selfishness, shrewdness, provocative vices, and the comical cover-up of his inadvertent involvement in the Nazi struggle, when his character is pulled from the story and put into conflict In a play that is not very sexual, it will become a free and throbbing note, making us feel that his performance is purely overreacting. , is nerve-wracking, like a mother who complains that you are lazy and loud. For example, in "Policewoman", the jokes are without exception clumsy and exaggerated. For example, the scene of a traffic accident caused by the dancing of male and female police officers spreads the jokes in a single-frame comic to the point where they can't be added, and they are all wasted money for that scene. not worth.
The French seem to be able to go beyond the dramatic expression to appreciate the heart (philosophical tendency), similar to watching a static four-frame cartoon, but also lose the sense of jumping (that is, the sense of rhythm) of the cartoon. Maybe because of cultural differences, some characters are set too old-fashioned, almost like the fun and level of films in the 1950s and 1960s: characters tend to be single-line, their expressions are either too rich or too sluggish, and the characters and plots are not well integrated stand up. Some content that looks a little funny will be so badly filmed that it has no fun at all (such as trying to cover up the obstacle in "The Banquet of Stupid People" and the tax officer finds that there are many famous paintings hidden in the cupboard), like telling a series of bad jokes . The inner conflict is not proportional to the outer expression at all, sometimes it feels too hysterical, and sometimes it is too indifferent (the response to life does not seem to be on the same level as ours, they will naturally accept and recognize it, and have no desire to climb to another level , can not get the correct proportion of the response to things and the overall perception of the world. The living environment of the characters does not have the desire to rise and fall with it like we do, and it is easy to be dry, neurotic, hysterical and a gluten.
This is actually a country where a great revolution broke out, with deep-rooted traditions, outdated moral values and a look of disdain for morality, their serious and persistent deduction of male and female rights between husband and wife. The chattering performance. Maybe their enthusiasm is exhausted, maybe they start to miss the light side dishes like officials who have eaten too much chicken, duck and fish, maybe the stage of the grand narrative in the French mind has passed, and they start to think about the closest life, and start to discover Life is far from the grandeur imagined in the early days of the revolution.
"Useless Santa Claus" brings into the mind, brings into the most intense questioning of life, and also brings into consideration the meaning of broken life, does it make sense? It makes sense again Is it? He is like taking a pair of chopsticks on a plate and picking dishes to eat. He is laughing, and he is laughing wildly, but he is not a martyr's laugh at the means of a despicable enemy, nor the kind of nervous breakdown He laughs, but he is also pity, and he keeps turning this pity naturally into thinking, not denying people and their efforts, but finding a way out for a love that is uncertain and uncertain, our love is saturated with desire , free from form, the essence of love has been stripped to a precarious point. This is like a farce but far from a farce, we have the same experience as them, the same likes and dislikes, the same impure love and morality, the same half-hearted love Let go and let go.
Christmas, which was originally meant to be warm and affectionate, became a bloody and not cruel, absurd and non-nonsense day among these absurd people. The thief who played Santa Claus had a dispute with his pregnant wife, and the wife ran to The SOS rescue center asked for help. Another staff member rushed to the banquet but was trapped in the broken elevator. A person who had been rescued by SOS brought all kinds of vomiting cake products from time to time... Everyone used it. They influence other people in inexplicable ways. They use their persistence, indifference, numbness, and effort to connect with the world around them, and then they can't get rid of the chaos and embarrassment. The indifference and indifference of the people want to be recognized by the society, but in the end they cannot.
The characters in the play are also frustrated and embarrassed, still neurotic and hysterical. The interception is no different from the behavior of the shrew in the streets, but it wonderfully shifts the audience's attention to a broader background - the absurd and uncontrollable life makes us not. Abandon it but regurgitate and think, and be purified to a certain extent. Life is like a jerky fruit, it looks very bright, but when you bite it, it is so sour. What we ask for and what others can give is not only not equal in quantity, but also in quality. Relatedly, life's problems are far from being solved by an SOS relief center. In addition to some specific operations in business, SOS has become a specific secular symbol of love and compassion between people.
How great is the external form and internal original intention of life, how cruel is the contrast between the reality of life and the beautiful vision, we want to love, but we are always concerned about external forms such as identity, status and hygiene, these forms undoubtedly have no doubts about the essence of love. It is the biggest deconstruction and challenge to make love less pure and fragile. We have to ask, where is the origin of love, and how many external conditions does it have to adhere to before it can be established. How many impurities are included in love, and whether the desire for love itself is a legitimate reason for basically irrefutable appeals. That gay man is thirsty for love, whose virtues do not qualify him for a sympathetic role, we seek love and are devastated and miserable in a chaotic world.
Love has been reduced from caring to charity, and from charity to SOS-style iconic symbol. From the caring and giving in the will to the inwardly equivalent exchangeable object. When love cannot improve, it is very easy to fall and sink. When our life cannot be tied to one person, love will become a mere formality. Love does not seem to have an intermediate stage. It can only be extreme left or extreme right, and others. can only be enclosed by stateful things such as responsibility. When it's in its middle shapeless state, it's always awkward, like Pierre dancing with gays while dragging his shirt back. The nude portrait, the out-of-the-box sweater, the utterly disgusting snack, all become eccentric samples of love and non-love, a true portrayal of the embarrassing situation we are in in a chaotic world. How empty would love be when it loses its sublime, mission, redemption, etc., like a rag doll that can't be filled and missed.
The person who was locked in the elevator for a few hours and rushed to the banquet almost represented a kind of embarrassment of human nature. The hoarse voice was ignored, and finally the unlucky person was stunned by the electric shock; a Christmas present sweater tattered and ill-fitting (just picked up from a rubbish heap); the male SOS staffer's suit was the exact same pattern and color as the quilt on the sofa; the man who shot himself while talking to the center staff The bursting method is just an episode of life, and it is quickly integrated into the chaotic and chaotic background of life. The relationship between the characters ended in collapse in the end. Pierre wanted to express his warmth to the gay and finally had to tear his face. The manslaughter of the repairman became believable in that atmosphere. With unbelievable confidence and courage, the boxes and confetti wrapped in Christmas gifts turned out to be all used to hold a dismembered corpse. The SOS Rescue Center is simply an irony of human nature. It tramples on the bottom line from time to time, and it is cleverly controlled in the range where it does not completely collapse (killing the repairman is just to seek the climax and exit for the story), all people are abnormal, but all Sustained by some normal motive, all people are neurotic, clumsy, vulgar, reckless, numb, and affectionate, containing all the hopeless flaws of human nature, where we see hopeless human nature The struggle and redemption, but the stubborn human nature still looms from the turbid black background, a bright color that cannot be erased.
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