Supermarket sleepless night
Directed By: Sean Ellis
Writers: Sean Ellis
Starring: Sean Bigsdyff / Emilia Fox / Michael Dixon / Sean Evans / Michelle Lane
I haven't driven in a long time, and now my driving skills are obviously unfamiliar (no).
Cough, I haven't lost sleep for a long time, I didn't sleep last night, I was old, and even sleeping such a simple thing needed some luck, it was really painful enough. Fortunately, I have always had movie companions in my life. This "Supermarket Sleepless Nights" has accompanied me on countless sleepless nights, and few movies can be as large as it is but tell a story of such pure love. So much so that on Douban, more than 100,000 people commented, scoring a score of 7.7 points.
By the way, if I were looking for this movie on a video site, I would dare pack a ticket and the mouse would stay on the cover poster for a few more seconds.
Let's ask the audience two questions first! First of all, what would you do if you had insomnia? Second, if you could make time stand still, what would you do?
stop! Stop, across the screen I have already felt the shy thoughts of some viewers!
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Don't dare admit it, I think so too) This is not a shy little movie!
Although the plot is so similar...
Ben Willis, a student at the University of the Arts, whose dream was to be a painter, believed that the curves of women's bodies were the most beautiful lines, and even the source of all beauty.
His girlfriend had just broken up with him and then seamlessly hooked up with a new boyfriend.
He, who seems to have been green...
Ben has a deep affection for his girlfriend, completely unable to forget her smile, and after the breakup, he began to lose sleep. (Recall that my insomnia also seems to have gotten on after the breakup, crying and whining.) ）
So he had 8 hours more than normal people for no reason, and his life was suddenly extended by a third.
In order to spend the difficult night, he used various ways to pass the time. Reading, watching movies, drawing, even staring at clocks and wasting one minute and one second...
Until one day, he found himself shy, and the things he bought at the supermarket could only be returned to checkout.
Since you have more time, why don't you sell time to monetize money? It just so happens that the supermarket is recruiting night shift employees.
In this way, Ben and a group of strange colleagues became night shift partners.
Noisy night shifts, boring work, everyone is having fun in their own way.
Jenkins, the night manager, often takes advantage of his position to take advantage of female employees, which makes Ben very disgusted, and he is extremely harsh on his employees, with a standard capitalist face.
However, he also has a very cute side, such as making an appointment with the manager of the supermarket next door to play a friendly football game for the sake of face, or paying for his own birthday to let employees "have fun".
Sharon is the night cashier at the supermarket. She is young and beautiful, like a special thing in the world, and she is also the female employee who is most oiled by the manager Jenkins, and many male employees will salivate at her, and Ben also secretly agrees.
She tried everything she could not to pay attention to the time, so that she would feel that the night shift would pass faster.
Barry is a fool who thinks he can perform all kinds of cool extreme sports.
After a failure, he was photographed and posted on the Internet, and he did everything on the Internet, still thinking that he was fearless. In short, less tendons.
Matt is Barry's best friend, and they both take pleasure in teasing the bullying customers of the supermarket or passing the time by making some obscene yellow strips with each other. For example, the following scene...
Just happened to be seen by the manager who came over, and the two were shot dead on the spot.
Not only do they have to report criticism, but they also have to market new types of shampoos. The shape of this shampoo bottle is so indescribable that many adults can probably understand it at a glance.
Everyone knows that it is regarded as a kind of toy for women, and few customers are willing to buy it because of too much shame. Barry secretly put the shampoo into the female customer's shopping basket, and at the time of checkout, the customer will be stunned when he sees it, and then look around at no one, it is likely to secretly check out.
Matt also had a "I understand" expression and then pretended to be indifferent.
The "indecent duo" with tacit understanding has turned shampoo from a slow-selling product into a best-selling product.
The new employee Brian is a martial arts fan, and his way of passing the time is "everything can be martial arts". Even if you put a bag and wipe the ground, the horse step cannot fall.
Matt and Barry think he's a freak and want to verify that Brian really knows martial arts, and then let him perform for a while, and there's the following hilarious scene...
The big ear post slapped Matt with a confused face, and this laugh was miserable.
Then, the main old driver came! Ben's way of passing the time is to fantasize that time stands still! Then, in his senses, he really entered a stopping world, where only he could move freely, and everything was stagnant.
What will the audience do at this time? I can't guess, but Ben is a cruel man, he... Stripped off the female customers' clothes and began to admire their perfect body curves! It must be said that although the scale is very large, and there are even close-ups of sensitive parts, the director has handled it particularly well and achieved an artistic examination. (Thoughts?) Meitu! ）
Sexy without pornography, seductive without being obscene. In Ben's imaginary world, he stripped off the clothes of female customers and only drew human sketches, using his own lines to praise, praise, and outline the beauty of women, and he used art to sublimate his most primitive desires.
The film intersperses Ben's memories of his childhood to narrate his sexual enlightenment and explain how to look at the female body from a correct perspective, rather than vulgar covetousness.
When I was a child, a seventeen- or eighteen-year-old schoolgirl used to spend the night at her home. Her beautiful ketones calmly walked out of the bathroom after the bath and passed in front of Ben casually. Young Ben had an inexplicable impulse, and at the same time he was shocked that the lines of the human body could be so beautiful.
Soon after, Shawn found an adult magazine under his parents' bed, and the two little children were enjoying it, and suddenly Sean's mother returned. They hid the magazine in time, but they couldn't get rid of the physiological reaction. So for a long time, Sean's mom felt like the two of them had same-sex love...
By chance, Ben overhears Matt saying that he and Sharon are together and have had a relationship. Ben secretly hated and had no choice.
The football match was held as promised, and the team led by Rory from the supermarket next door was like this...
Have the fitness citizens kicking shuttlecocks in the square seen it? This group of players can do the ball without landing at all.
And then Ben their camp is like this... mob.
Sure enough, the game began as a one-sided crushing and "slaughter".
The other side is technical, organized, and capable, and our teammates not only concede balls in succession, but even called when they played.
26:0！ Boy! Just by looking at the score, I thought it was a basketball game!
In the last minute, Jenkins encouraged his employees to be sure to score a goal! Enter one and win! After careful deployment and full cooperation, at the critical moment, Matt exhaled a big foot on Jenkins' face, his face full of blood.
The game ends, Matt takes Jenkins to the hospital, and Ben has the opportunity to take Sharon home.
They sit in the café, chatting about each other's lives and dreams, during which Ben finally learns that Matt is just bragging and that the two have nothing to do with each other.
On Saturday, Jenkins' birthday, invited all employees to come to their homes for a body. And ordered Ben to find a few high-quality tuo dancers.
Ben was confused about these things and could only turn to Sean for help.
The two come to the club, Ben looks at these exciting scenes, and his mind wanders too vainly, as if he sees Sharon dancing for himself...
Ben and Sharon get closer, she invites Ben to be her party partner, and the two even kiss. That night was the first time Ben had fallen asleep peacefully in weeks.
At the party, Ben enters his own time-lapse space and does something that Sharon feels is excessive, Sharon leaves in shame, followed by Ben who is scolded for a dog blood sprinkler. Ben started losing sleep again.
On the other hand, there are galleries that are finally interested in Ben's paintings. In fact, during this time, Ben secretly painted many portraits of Sharon, and in these paintings, he poured his admiration for Sharon. On the day the paintings were exhibited, Sharon also came to the scene, and she couldn't help but see these paintings.
They ran out of the gallery hand in hand and into their own world... (This one is beautiful!) ）
"Supermarket Sleepless" is a typical British love sketch, the storyline is simple, the content is light and interesting, there are many cold humor and small reversals exclusive to the British, very playful and interesting.
Unfold around Ben's inner life and primal desires. There are a large number of monologues and golden lines in the film, which have a very wong kar wai flavor, but they are more direct, and Ben never hides his love and praise for the opposite sex. Even if the naked stripe under the lens shows the female body, but each frame is like a work of art, there is no evil thought at all, more to praise the lines of the human body or to encourage women to boldly show and express themselves.
The footage of this film is quite elaborate, such as the first stop, the film appears a montage deep shot, gradually advancing from the panorama, and the frame is fixed on a close-up of a beautiful woman's face (that is, the famous poster heroine, so beautiful!). ), it strengthens the sense of time-stop space substitution, the fantasy sense of imaginary world and the texture of the film.
In addition, in terms of soundtrack, opera arias, Bolero and other music are played one after another, like a large concert, directly through the ear to achieve intracranial climax, the look is very good.
Finally, in terms of thematic expression, although the storyline is simple, the film explores an extremely deep and complex problem, involving Freud's psychology and sexual source dynamics (Freud believes that all human behavior is sexual), and expressing the loneliness of human nature and the estrangement and incomprehensibility between people.