The film is adapted from the work of French cartoonist Jean Trey and directed by French director Tris Lecomte. Obviously, this film has obvious French characteristics. Although watching the 70 minutes of this film, you can feel that it wants to convey a depressing theme, but throughout the whole film, it reflects in different degrees. Romance unique to France.
The film tells the story of a husband and wife who run a 10-generation old "suicide shop", selling all kinds of suicide products that can help people clean, unconventional, and leave no trouble for a living. And that was all broken by their young son, Alan. Allen is different from his parents, siblings, and tries to break down the negative energy inherent in the family and instill optimism and positivity in everyone. Starting with his sister, to his dad, and even the whole family, there is no way to resist such an influence, it is obvious that there is a perfect happy ending, and the suicide store turns into a sweet crepe house.
This film is a very prominent musical with a Gothic style. This kind of film with obvious frustration, made into a musical genre, is indeed worthy of analysis. First of all, making it into a genre film naturally increases its commercial value, it becomes a "series", and a regular series naturally expands the audience. Secondly, the role of songs and dances in the film is undoubtedly huge, and the addition of songs and dances plays an irreplaceable role in shaping the characters and promoting the development of the plot. For example, not long after the film begins, the customer who comes to buy medicine sings with the rat in the corridor with poison, showing it with singing and dancing, which easily explains the character's inner monologue and plays an ironic role. If there is no singing and dancing, and it is expressed in ordinary narrative methods, then this animation will naturally lose its original flavor. Another example, Allen's sister Monroe, who was originally dull and gloomy, gave up her life. Allen rescued her. In the part where she danced naked, the singing and dancing not only showed her personal emotional release, but also the theme of the whole film. sublimation. Her sister represents more than a person, she is a turning point for the entire film. It is not difficult to list such a variety.
This film has a typical gothic style, with all kinds of black humor in the film, using the black style of sadness, pain, death and other themes to analyze the gloomy emotional world. It is worth mentioning that the term "Gothic film" does not exist in the dictionary of film art, but the term Gothic film is not meaningless. It can describe the common characteristics of a certain type of film, such as this one. It is this gloomy and heavy theme that is shrouded in black humor in the film, commonly known as "mourning".
In general, this gothic film with a special French style is a typical type of film, including business, humanities, and emotions.
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