Structure is King

The director is very distinctive in the processing of the structure of the film. Instead of flashbacks along the time, it mainly shows the spatiality of time. The composition of time in the film is blocky and flows into a loop in space. No one knows where a movie starts and ends. This novelty will be greatly appreciated. But the story seems to be a little scattered, and the multi-angle observation seems to be the writing of another chapter in the novel.

Analyzing the film structure, in fact its order should be. Two killers murdered, boarding a car, one man accidentally killed one, went to a friend's house to deal with it, met a little pumpkin and a little white rabbit in the restaurant, robbed the pumpkin and white rabbit, and then the story of the black killer ends here, the long-haired man continues to help the boss to accompany the little one Honey saves Xiaomi's life, and then dies under Boxer's hands. During his escape, Boxer meets the underworld boss and helps the sodomized boss, and then leaves with Xiao Xiaomi. In fact, the sequence of the story is like this. If it goes down in sequence, the story should end here, but you see, if the story is shot like I described, it will be boring, the director is not a fool, he is dealing with the structure Upward deformation: In some places, he used the camera lens to cover up the space outside the space, for example, the two killers did not appear in the camera when the pumpkin and white rabbit robbed. Cut, interspersed in the front and end of the film, forming a certain loop on the surface, in fact, it is only the surface arrangement of the lens, and its deep meaning is not very big.

As far as the meaning of the content in the film is concerned, one is the biblical text that the black killer has to say every time he kills. He said it righteously and funny, but the meaning of this sentence is very deep, almost alluding to the whole theme. The paradoxical concept is reinforced here, maybe you are a murderer one second and a redeemer the next. Maybe you're a hero one time, but you're one shot the next. Maybe you are the boss of the underworld in front of your younger brother, but you are accidentally sodomized in another place. All the people and roles in the film are constantly changing, just like when I saw the long-haired man and Xiaomi dance, I thought the long-haired man was the protagonist of the whole film. In the clip, he was shot dead by the boxer. The absurdity of time and the emptiness of life are vividly displayed here. The whole real world is the same, life is illusory and fickle. One day you are a hero, another day you may be a clown.


(I can't remember all the names in the play, so I use the code name instead)

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