The real absurdity-----"Singing from the Second Floor", a Swedish film!

Cullen 2022-03-23 09:02:52



It has to be said that it is a god-like film. It is the first time I know that long takes can be used in a film like this, which usually makes people fall asleep.
Of course, this film may also have a certain hypnotic effect. But if you look at it with thought, I believe there will be more and more gains along the way.

Dreams have a real absurdity, and reality has a real absurdity. Wang Xiaobo's words are more appropriate here.

Yes, the real world may be so absurd. But there is nothing we can do, the fate that cannot be escaped, the struggling people, the powerless environment, the lack of belief, everything is all around us, spreading continuously.


Watching this film is actually full of despair. The whole film made me feel very depressed, and I felt that life was such a fucking, so powerless, like that centenarian, sitting on a cage-like bed and struggling.

Perhaps only with faith can we know what life is for! Is it really money?

Maybe we really need to take a look at the world, to understand our life, to find the answer to life, and to solve the puzzle of the soul!

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Extended Reading
  • Mervin 2022-04-21 09:03:02

    Those who sit still are lovely, and those who struggle to find freedom are futile. Those who bear the burden of humiliation are cute, and the little girls sacrificed by the country and the people are "small enough to be less than a crumb of bread". When I say this, I probably only express a layer of sneezing like dust floating in the attic. Just take a look at it. This film outlines step by step the exhaustion that I have piled up in my heart and have no time to clean up. People are limited by time. They can't keep their pace by doing something or stopping. No, when you gradually waste language, you will become dumb and forget how to speak with your heart. When you're dizzy, dull, or infinitely content in your life, your soul will always sound an uncomfortable alarm bell at some point next. This film is a sound person who has been a mute for a long time and finally can't hold back his gestures and convey his feelings... I also thought that people who love movies may be lazy, very old, or just don't want to speak.

  • Gardner 2022-04-24 07:01:18

    An extreme creation of film art and aesthetic style, fragmented stories full of absurdity and surrealism, minimalist pictures, long still shots, and almost erased narratives, very abstract and expressive, The director attaches great importance to the information of the picture, and incorporates the absurdity and tragedy of human society, condensed to the extreme and extremely ironic. The new art form is on full display

Songs from the Second Floor quotes

  • [repeated line]

    Stefan: Blessed be the one who sits down.

  • [about his son]

    Kalle: He wrote poetry till he went nuts!