you are still alive

Louisa 2022-03-22 08:01:03

The little stories, which have no logical relationship with each other, are sad and humorous. The lives of many characters in them are not easy and sad, but the director (also written by himself) is devoted to a kind of detached gaze-this gaze produces humour. The humor that grows out of life's unhappiness seems to have some existential trajectories. It is recommended that students who can buy or download it to watch it, it is really beautiful.

The tones of the film are uniformly processed into pink tones, and there is a sense of distance (not that "hazy", from the eye). Well, since most of the film is shooting ordinary life scenes, if there is too cruel humor, the sense of reality will be too strong, which will have an aesthetic conflict with some unrealistic scenes that appear next. , the pink blurred tone treatment bridges this conflict. (In Chinese movies, there are unrealistic scenes under the framework of realism. "The Good Man in Three Gorges" actually did a good job. Jia Zhangke did not use the method of changing the tone to reconcile the contradiction, but directly used the viewfinder to view the Three Gorges, which was undergoing great changes. The reservoir area was filmed because the scene was already a realist spectacle, and its spectacle made it organically integrated with the later non-realistic occasion.)

In addition, the director linked the tone to the minimalist set . The set in real life is not so simple at all. The director placed the small sadness and excitement in life in such a simple set that is rooted in reality and has a certain gap with reality, which not only makes these emotions detached. The realistic scenes that usually bind them jump out, and make them free between reality and non-reality, leading the audience to enter a kind of non-reality narrative that can experience real emotions. (The philosophical underpinnings of Nordic minimalist homes also appear to be existential.)

The plot is as loose as prose, and the branches are endless: an aunt is sad and she blames others for not understanding him; a girl falls in love with a rock singer and has a sweet dream; a loose ensemble; a teacher cries during class, Because her husband scolded her this morning; a torrential rain;. . . In short, they are all trivial things in life, but under the director's arrangement, they seem to have achieved a "beauty of discovery", which is something that can only be discovered after re-examining the details in life. A film that I thought was very good last time, "The Buried Woods" by Oguri Kangping seems to express this kind of return to life itself by different paths. Is this a direction for future films? The life ethic seems to be an important rediscovery after the ebb of Western postmodernism.

In addition, for the depiction of non-realistic scenes, my favorite part is the marriage part, and the last plane seems to be incomprehensible.

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  • Giles 2022-03-23 09:03:36

    #HKIFF# Another 35mm film (slightly old). Music has a sufficient role to play, and plays a great role in constructing absurd scenes of mixed sadness and joy. The conversation is almost repeated twice (communication failure, "no one understands me"). Various metaphors and indictments of contemporary life. The roles of children, the elderly and salesmen are always present. Stalling in multiplayer scenes. Anesthesia, dreams and a glimmer of illusory hope ("Tomorrow is another day").

  • Rey 2022-03-29 09:01:09

    Really showing life with absurdity and dark humor is what makes it cute! The music is too beautiful. I like Anna's dream wedding the most! #Northern Film Festival# (with the elephant boy

You, the Living quotes

  • Mia: Serving non-alcoholic beer with food that smells so good. It's torture!

    Uffe's mother.: I only want what's best for you.

    Mia: Best! Is this what's best for me? Enduring this damned existance... with all the shit and deceit and wickedness and staying sober? How can you expect or even want a single poor bugger to put up with it without being drunk? It's inhuman. Only a sadist would demand that.

  • The psychiatrist: Oh dear, oh dear, oh dear.

    [examines the large stack of patient's files]

    The psychiatrist: I am a psychiatrist. I have been for 27 years. I'm completely worn out. Year after year, listening to patients who aren't satisfied with their lives, who want to have fun, who want me to help them with that - it wears you out, I can tell you. My life isn't exactly a lot of fun either. People demand so much. That's the conclusion I've drawn after all these years. They demand to be happy, at the same time as they are egocentric, selfish, and ungenerous. Well, I would like to be honest. I would like to say that they are quite simply mean, most of them. Spending hour after hour in therapy, trying to make a mean person happy... There's no point. You can't do it. I've stopped doing it. These days, I just prescribe pills. The stronger, the better.