How to face death, how to look at life and death, this question has always been discussed.
Some people say that death is the end, some people say that death is a new beginning, and no one has a correct answer, after all, no one has experienced what it will be like after death.
Today's Norwegian film may give you a glimpse of what happens after death - "Super Perfect Hell"
"Super Perfect Hell" won the Cannes Independent Film Promotion Association Award when it was released, and also swept the Best Director, Best Actor and Best Screenplay Awards at the Norwegian International Film Festival, and the current Douban score is as high as 7.6 points, which can be regarded as an unpopular film, and the absurd film techniques inside bring the audience a "super perfect hell".
Some people may not be too interested in this movie at first glance, but after watching it, they are guaranteed to leave a very deep impression.
In the first act of the opening, the male protagonist stands on the platform and watches a couple kissing in a big mouth, the male protagonist has no expression on his face, but this scene causes ten thousand critical hits on his single dog's heart, he looks at the speeding train, and one who wants to jump off the rail without opening ends his life.
After the man died, he took a bus to a strange place, which was unusually quiet, but he saw a "Welcome" banner specially hung for him in a house.
The people of this place were very welcoming to him, and the male protagonist was very confused about this, not so much that this was hell, but that this was the paradise that everyone envisioned:
The place where the man lived did not have to worry, because he was assigned a large house; there was no need to worry about work, and someone assigned him a job with easy money and more money.
He didn't have to worry about everything in his life, the place was too perfect compared to before he died, and his life could start all over again.
On the first day of work, the boss has an angelic gentle face, no matter what the male owner asks, he can agree, and he can advance his salary when he has no money.
The work content is also extremely simple, the working hours are freely controlled, lunch can be enjoyed at any time, there is no pressure to speak of, it can be said that the people here are no different from the world in addition to being comfortable and happy.
But soon he noticed something unusual, and the place wasn't as perfect as he thought.
The food here has no taste, and the hot dogs and beer on their hands are like eating air except for being full, so people here are very nostalgic for the taste of food before.
There are no children here, no music, no entertainment, except for going to work or going to work, even if someone jumps off the building, is stuck by a railing and hangs on the street, passers-by do not look at it, it seems that everyone is accustomed to all this.
These grotesque phenomena also attracted the attention of the male protagonist, but he still enjoyed life here.
Until one day when he was cutting out the file, he accidentally cut off his index finger, his hand was bleeding non-stop, colleagues looked at him without a little surprise, and even more terrifying was that the next day when he woke up, his index finger grew back.
The male protagonist began to doubt life, and he began to secretly investigate this strange place.
He found that every once in a while, the bus would send a person over, where these people came from, why they all came to this place, the man did not know.
This place is not heaven, but hell without reincarnation.
But even so, this place is still relatively comfortable compared to the human world, so the male protagonist still tries to adapt himself to life here.
He took the initiative to attend the gatherings of his colleagues, talked and ate with them, and during this time he also met a beautiful interior designer, Anne, and the two soon became lovers.
The two quickly heated up, and everything developed as the male protagonist hoped.
Anne's favorite topic to talk about is how to build her own love nest, at the beginning the male protagonist was still very excited to talk to Anne, but in time, he was tired of this life, and Annie never took the initiative to talk to him.
So the male protagonist quickly stared at another female colleague, in her male protagonist released his romance, immersed in the happiness of love, and he was sure that this lover was his true love.
The male protagonist told Annie about his cheating, and Annie was not angry or did not care that he was cheating or not, she just smiled and asked the male protagonist if he was at home on Saturday.
The male protagonist never dreamed that he would even cheat so smoothly, so he rushed to his lover to show that he was single and expressed his determination to live with her.
However, the lover is very anxious, because in addition to interacting with the male protagonist, she also has several lovers.
The male protagonist collapsed again, he thought of suicide again, he walked and walked to the subway station, and then met the couple who kissed, just like the beginning, he jumped up, hoping to start again.
But everything that happened before, there was only one chance, committing suicide in this place is a great sin, the male protagonist lying on the track not only did not die, but was repeatedly pressed by the subway several times, crushed into meat paste and could not leave this ghost place.
The flesh-and-blood male protagonist was brought home, everything here is still perfect, and the male protagonist returned to his original state the next day.
By chance, he found hope of being able to leave the place, and he found a crack in the wall where he could hear music, he could smell food, and everything was like the human world.
The male protagonist decided to open this slit, the more he went inside, and he heard the baby's frolicking, smelled the taste of pizza, felt the warmth of the sun, and the more he dug inside, the more like a new world.
But this practice is not allowed here, the male protagonist soon lost his job, and was arrested by the police, and the slit was also blocked, the male protagonist suddenly became the most unwelcome person in hell, and the mayor also talked to him:
"They think it's a wonderful city, they get what they need and most of the people are happy and we're proud of that!"
In the end, the male protagonist was expelled, and the people here invariably chose to forget the male protagonist, as if he had never been in the future, and people continued to live carefree.
Are you puzzled after reading it? In fact, this is the director's satire of Europe's high welfare society, and the "hell" in this film is not much different from some places in Europe.
According to the global happiness index report released by the United Nations, most of the countries in Northern Europe occupy the top ten happiness index, and the one-stop happiness in Northern Europe does make many people live comfortably.
But those places are not paradises, where there is a super high suicide rate, many people have a tendency to retaliate against society, and even some people are forced into mental illness by extreme weather.
As some people joked: "The unhappy people are dead, so of course the rest are happy." ”
In order to satirize the welfare countries of Northern Europe, the director deliberately created the "perfect hell" in the film, in order to show that stereotyped life, each shot in the film was designed with great care, such as the unified coordination of the picture, clothing, lighting, and background are all uniform colors.
The absurdity of the film is largely derived from the background music, and the cello music that runs through the whole movie is always serious and humorous.
So, the more you watch this movie, the more flavorful it becomes, we can't just look at the happiness of the Nordics, some of the troubles are just covered up.