Anemia's dream

Berneice 2022-03-22 08:01:03

Carefully avoiding the story, for fear of touching on the meaning, but unable to hold back my sympathy, this sway confuses me. We can pay attention to some empty symbols: the photo of the fish tank being shaken by the closed door, the machine carried by the driver who talked about the dream, the girl in the toilet looking at herself in the mirror, especially the pair of men and women in deep focus when the psychiatrist spoke, do you imagine , if you let them kiss passionately, and a psychiatrist in the close-up is talking about his inner anxiety, the comical opposite effect will be immediately highlighted, and the intention will flash. But no, the film seems to be giving up construction all the time, and sometimes even deliberately cutting off half of the story, this timidity is so timid that one wonders what the director is unconsciously avoiding. At the same time, dreams, as a means of presenting meaning while concealing the narrator, are frequently used. The invisible participation of psychoanalysis also makes the film more personal, opening a window to appreciation but completely closing the door to interpretation. It may be said that, from the perspective of the Western system, this film belongs to the pedigree of "exploring" existence. The title and Goethe are a guide, and it has an innate weight and an ethical height that seems unreasonable at the moment. God is dead, but God's love is still alive. At this time, who is to tell, who is qualified to tell, and how to tell this love becomes the anxiety of the writers. Just like in this movie, the woman lying on the chair praying, sang two songs about heaven, especially the last time, the man in deep focus looked up at the same time, looking up to heaven, the director couldn't catch it after all In order to escape from compassion, at the same time, the overall lighting of this film is from the window inward, unnatural and alarming, the girl's toilet and the mourning hall, the strong light that penetrates through the window, is just like heaven. Summoning, and the dark room, just means the dark predicament of people. And under this kind of internal pressure, in addition to dreams, exaggerated performance styles, strange costumes and conversations of a fat man and woman, fat women wearing military helmets having sex, etc. , to darken the humor, it actually came from an internal thoracic injury, making the murmur of the lesions in the throat sound like laughter. Perhaps in terms of structure, prose-style and fragment-style works give up the whole, meaning, and preaching. If you are not willing to fall into pure games and jokes, each fragment needs to be meticulously done. This is relatively a reconciliation between species and meaning. At this point, there are only three shots that light up my eyes, the flowers caught in the cracks of the door, the house and the music in the girl's dream, and the repeated copper horns, that metallic, fighter-like sparkle golden snake. Most of the time, the swaying inside the film makes me unable to grasp the feeling that pervades the unintended image, like an apple, drained of moisture, the glossy coat is pleated.

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  • Laurie 2022-03-25 09:01:23

    uh.. a bit repetitive.. traffic jams, bars, monologues... nice music

  • Gregorio 2022-03-26 09:01:14

    "You Are Alive" is a very strange movie. It can be divided into fragments of life. It is cold and pale in color, like a world without temperature, and the citizens of each fragment are numb and numb. Neuroticism, such as a man who complains when he has sex, absurdity abounds in movies. In the composition, the director deliberately created a sense of depth, so that the distance between the audience and the story itself is easy to open. Such a movie that deliberately creates a sense of distance reminds me of "The Last Night on Earth" not long ago. In order to reduce the sense of distance, it deliberately held back a big trick of putting on 3D eyes to be in the scene, but in fact , For ordinary movie fans, the private context of "Earth" makes the viewer feel in the dark, which is counterproductive. But "You Are Alive" cuts through the continuity between stories, but the temperament between each segment is unified, and their combination has become the overall shape of the city.

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  • 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.

  • Anna: Forgive those who only think of themselves. Forgive those who are greedy and cheap. And those who deceive and cheat or grow rich by paying miserable wages. Dear lord, forgive them. Forgive them. And Lord, forgive those who humiliate and desecrate. Forgive those who torture and kill. Forgive those who bomb and destroy cities and villages. Forgive those who are dishonest, those who lie and are false. Forgive governments who withhold the truth from the people. Dear Lord, forgive them. Forgive those who are heartless, merciless, and quick to pass judgment. Please Lord, forgive them. Forgive courts that pass sentences which are too harsh or convict the innocent. Forgive them.

    The minister: Anna... We have to close and lock up now.

    Anna: Forgive newspapers and TV channels that mislead. That distract attention from that which is important. Dear Lord, forgive them.

    The minister: There now, Anna. We have to close and lock up now.

    Anna: Dear Lord, forgive them. Forgive them.