this is life

Duncan 2022-03-22 08:01:03

The man who was electrocuted for breaking a set of tableware more than 200 years old told a sobbing lawyer next to him in court, "This is life." The
story takes place in rooms, bars, shops, streets In the scenes of daily life, the scene layout and fixed wide-angle lens design are very simple, seemingly rational on the surface, but in fact full of absurd black humor. There are so many characters that I can't tell who is who and I can't understand the context, but such a fragment of life is not a microcosm of somewhere in your heart. A woman crying "no one understands me", a barber who shaved her clients bald in a fit of rage, an old man who had sex while thinking about his pension, and a band rehearsing during a thunderstorm.
Favorite wedding scene escapes the calm scene, the musician plays the guitar, the girl wears a wedding dress, the room slowly drives into the station like a train, and people cheer for the union of the musician and the girl, but it's just a girl 's sweet dreams.
All the absurdity is also a life worth cherishing when swarms of bombers fly over the town.

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Extended Reading
  • Florida 2022-04-21 09:03:50

    [Roy Anderson's "Life Trilogy" Part 2] Similar to Roy Anderson's previous work "Singing from the Second Floor", fixed shots (two or three more moving shots than the previous work) + cool and humorous (but one Contrary to the pessimistic atmosphere of the past), add talking to the camera to break the fourth wall, so as to flash back and insert the plot. Moving houses, planes in the air. The ideas and composition are probably all derived from experience or works, and almost all of them are shot in the studio, which also makes the movie screen clean and free of any confusion. It is probably only Roy who can transform the performance and style of the stage play into such a minimalist film. After experiencing the doomsday scene, it is good to know that he is still alive.

  • Timmy 2022-04-24 07:01:25

    If you are given such a living environment, you will feel funny at first, and then you will feel bored but there will be times when you will smile knowingly, but if you live in such an environment all your life, maybe one day you will really only be I can look at myself in the mirror and shout, "Oh my God! you are still alive!

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.