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It is no exaggeration to say that I can watch this video ten times, and in my heart, he is the most beautiful boy on the whole street.
He is called closed knot, Taiwanese words are constipated meaning, because of severe stuttering, so he used the name of closed knot, this is the most free and happy moment in the life of closed knot, he finally stopped stuttering. This scene uses a push-track lens, the camera in front of the left side of the subject is often implied that the camera knows the future and fate of the subject, coupled with the "last hour before sunset" shooting time choice, "the sunset is infinitely good, just near dusk" The meaning is expressed to the extreme.
Stuttering suddenly became better, in fact, it was the return of the closed knot, that night, the closed knot was refueling at the gas station, and was beaten to death by a group of people, the reason was that the other party recognized the wrong person, the closed knot ended his life absurdly, and he died young like many people.
Absurdity is a topic that director Huang Xinyao wants to explore in this movie, "Classmate Meñas" is Huang Xinyao's second feature film after "Big Buddha Plus", this time, he will focus on his classmates, through the perspective of classmates to see society, look at life, and taste the sadness of middle age. Of course, the tone of the film continues the characteristics of "Big Buddha Plus", and the director appears from time to time, intervenes in the narrative, attacks Taiwanese politics, and still speaks in a humorous way, reflecting a distinct personal style. The director is sometimes normal, sometimes nervous, and we are once again following this somewhat schizophrenic person into the world of him and his classmates, cherish it, and don't know when he will make the next one.
Wu Mingtian, Chen Dianfeng, canning, closed knot, four people are small hair.
Wu Mingtian (Tim Tsai) has a movie dream, he dreams of making movies. He has a supportive wife, gentle and virtuous, life is also considered stable, and he wakes up in the morning, and his wife is making him breakfast. Although life is ordinary, but from the details can always see some clues, for example, from the dialogue between Tim Tsai and his wife and the look in his eyes, you can feel that he is not willing to the status quo, whether it is a career or a wife, can not calm his restless heart, so his eyes look out of the window, marriage and small kitchen space, are imprisoned for him.
Dreams are surging and in reality, Tim Tsai can only shoot some strange advertisements, such as aphrodisiacs, as a director, he does not even understand some basic concepts, and he has to teach them in cans. Tim Tsai shows the speculative psychology of the little people very well, eager to be respected, but does not want to waste some real skills.
Until one day, Tim Tsai received a task to help the mayor shoot a propaganda film, when filming, Gao and Valerie came to the mayor (that is, the High Commissioner and his assistant Valerie in "Big Buddha Plus"), because of the matter of the Buddha Park in the Big Buddha Mountain, the party wanted the High Commissioner to withdraw from the election, but the gold lord behind the High Commissioner did not agree, so the High Commissioner came to the Mayor, and the Mayor suggested that he find a new person with no political background to run, and he became a shadow legislator, so that the gold lord had an explanation. Therefore, the mayor recommended Tim Tsai to the high commissioner, and from then on, Tim Tsai began to go to the career.
When Tim Tsai expressed his ideals to Commissioner Gao, he said
The pupils of the high committee members were dilated after hearing this, and this kind of person who can shout the slogan so loudly without blushing or beating his heart is simply the chosen son of the political circles, and the high commissioner is like a treasure.
Chen Dianfeng is an old employee of the insurance company, the business ability is first-class, but he is straight, has a strong temper, and is afraid of the customer and the boss when he does not agree, so the good things such as salary increase and promotion are always not his turn.
When a customer with a mafia background wants to cheat, he said
When his superiors educated him, he returned
The money saved for many years of work is not enough to buy a fraction of the house, but also rely on the old, can not afford to buy 1 million Taiwan dollar parking space, can only buy a parking space for the motorcycle, because the space is small, every time the car is half poured in, he will come down and push the car forward.
He also explained to the camera: "This position has the advantage that other people will not hit my car with the car door, I push every day, I can exercise and make money." The director replied mercilessly: "It should be that others are more afraid of being hit by your car." "Debunked, Dian Feng walked away, came back a few seconds later, forgot to take the bag, repeated the previous action, manually pulled the car out, and then pushed in.
He has a lot of things to understand, how can not find the answer, he worked rigorously, outstanding performance, but committed the taboo of leaders, because he is too strong or even more than the leader, so he is suppressed everywhere, people are still small staff in middle age, watching people who are not as good as their own appreciation and salary increase.
The more he insists on himself, the more difficult the situation is, here more or less there are directors to express their hearts from the perspective of Dian Feng, he makes movies, has not made money, but the capital favors the director who has the ability to absorb gold, Huang Xinyao is a consistent director, the focus is always on the sadness and joy of the people at the bottom of the society, he should also think about the struggle for a long time, just like Dian Feng, on the way to work, Dian Feng does not know what reason, suddenly wants to jump into the roadside pond to swim, there is no why, he wants to do so, when Dian Feng jumps, The director understood something.
Canned family is not well-off, others are not very clever, but also owe some foreign debt, all day sad face, one day actually in the three warm to take diet pills to commit suicide, fortunately the ambulance arrived in time, canned was rescued. But he should not want to be saved in his heart, because he also called Miss twice before committing suicide, owed a fee, and was asked by the boss of Sanwen to pay a debt when Tim Tsai and Dian Feng helped him with the aftermath.
Later, Tianzai introduced canned food to work at the household affairs office, and the can's job was to walk through the streets and alleys every day to check the household registration, and met all kinds of strange people, yes, stranger than him.
Once, he came to an apartment building, which is famous for the red light district, and at first the canned came with a hunting mentality. He knocked on the door of the household who applied to relocate, and it was a middle-aged woman who could be guessed from the ambiguous red light in the room that this woman was also engaged in pornography.
When he saw the woman's face, his eyes changed, and the woman in front of him was the school flower of his student days, the goddess Manas who had been thinking about the can for more than twenty years after graduation, and she had long been enshrined with her ancestors on the altar of the canned soul. The life of the can may be fruitless, decadent, and can only wander at the bottom of society, but at least there are goddesses to look up to, but now, the goddess has become a woman of wind and dust, and the altar inside the can has collapsed.
When the canned food went back, he kept thinking about Minas, thinking about it when he ate and sleeping, and finally he plucked up enough courage to go to Minas again, and he told Menas that he had liked her since a long time ago. But in today's eyes of Mynas, will there be a difference between canned food and those guests? Perhaps because of her professional habits, she offered to serve the can, which he could not refuse, and Menath was ready in another room, and the can waited in Mynas's studio for a few short minutes as long as a century, and finally the can came out of the door and cried in the late-night street, the dream that represented his youth shattered.
The closure of the knot is the worst of the four people, because the stuttering is serious and the people are honest, so it is easy to be forgotten by society. The work of the closed knot is to make a paper house to serve the deceased, and some of the deceased often dream of closing the knot, telling the closed knot of his needs, and when the knot is awakened, he will always modify the sacrifice according to the requirements of the deceased, and he wants to meet the last wish of the deceased. Once, at the grandmother's bedside, closed knot saw old Li and the golden boy and jade girl (in Taiwan, it refers to the ghost god who receives the deceased to the underworld, similar to the black and white impermanence of the mainland), and the closed knot has always thought that grandma is leaving. The neighbor suggested closing the knot, marrying grandma Chong Chong Xi, so the closed knot came to the marriage agency, met the gentle and kind Ah Yue, Ah Yue's husband died very early, in order to take care of her daughter, she has not been married, did not expect to meet the closed knot, the two people are in love, the words said by the closed knot, Ah Yue can understand, as if fate is destined.
With Ah Yue, closing the knot feels very happy, Ah Yue does not mind that the knot is made of paper, she feels that the knot is doing good. Closing knots personally made a room for Ah Yue, and for Closed Knot and Ah Yue, this is the beginning of a new life full of hope.
One day, when he woke up early to see that grandma could actually get up to cook, he was a little worried, thinking that it was grandma's return to the light. At the same time, he accidentally found that he was not stuttering, and he was very happy to close the knot, and the first thing he did was to cheer for Tim Zai, who was canvassing for votes. Here is also the director expressing the satire of Taiwan's politics, only when the votes are drawn to sing praises, will listen to the voice of the people, will let the people at the bottom speak.
But the closed knot could not imagine that his normal speech was actually his own return to the light.
As for Tianzai, while busy campaigning, while fooling around with Valerie, the assistant of the High Commissioner, he was discovered by his wife, denied everything, the more enthusiastic the desire for power, more and more like a politician should have, where there are many people, he will take the campaign team to drill where, dianfeng's wedding, and even the closed funeral, are his opportunities to solicit votes, Dian Feng and can can can can not look down, a big fight against Tianzai, and finally a scene in film history, the director personally rushed to the camera to beat Tianzai.
What Tim Tsai has lost, what will he gain, when there is a temptation, he easily gives up his movie dream and sells his soul, which can be pitied and hated.
Life is so absurd, it is a nonsense, and when I hear the director say this, I understand and feel sad. Let's end with a poem we all read when we were students: Then we had dreams, about literature, about love, about traveling across the world, and now we drink late at night, and when the cups touch together, it's the sound of broken dreams.