Many people are full of fear of "death" and full of misconceptions about funerals. In fact, everyone is close to it and never knows if it will be touched in the next second.
There is a chinese film that uses comedy to describe the funeral "Dying Incident", the film tells the story of Niu Xiaobo was born in a coffin family, when he was a child, an absurd accident, he lost his "smile" forever, fortunately he has been living in the countryside, the simple environment did not make him feel that it was not a serious thing to "laugh", after growing up, he tried to get out of the mountains, left the coffin shop that raised him, went to the outside world to wander, but still had to work in the funeral home, and Xiaobo in the funeral home witnessed the changes in life. On the platform of "the last stop in life", let Xiaobo grow slowly, and finally Niu Xiaobo learned to "laugh"...
When a person reaches a certain age, although he is no longer willing, he will also begin to contact "death", relatives, friends, his own, and lovers. Finally, everything. But the distance between all people and death is still far away, they are in the air, and there is never anyone like this group of people in the funeral home - funeral celebrants, featherers, morticians... In the same way, it is so close to death that it is close to death all the time.
So we thought they understood death better than we did.
But the truth is that when Niu Xiaobo walked from the coffin shop in the mountain village into the palatial funeral parlor in the city, he, like us, had a blank understanding of death. As a result, the camera follows his back in the funeral home full of horror atmosphere, using an embarrassing joke to let the audience and the characters understand the real "inside story" of death.
Suddenly, I was startled.
After Niu Xiaobo entered the funeral home, the senseless comedy atmosphere quickly switched to the environment of horror and horror, in the funeral home, the transit station of death, it seems to hide countless ghosts waiting to be selected and devoured, the pulse warmth with the cold tone of the camera makes people stand up, the music is gradually shrouded in panic, flashing figures, rattling toilet doors, hands and hammers, black cats that suddenly jump out... Burying himself in the chair, like Niu Xiaobo, he was frightened several times. Who's scared to pee?
However, the sharp change in style did not reduce the interest in watching, seemingly absurd stories, switching back and forth in comedy and thriller, suddenly surprised and happy, occasionally showing off the warmth, facing death but not death, love is growing in the seam and burned and sadness again and again. Bai Yujie, a young girl wearing a mask, has become Niu Xiaobo's dream lover, and she has the shadow of his mother on her, which is a potential condition for many men to choose a mate.
Although the loss of laughter skills will make people miserable, but more terrible is to lose the ability to laugh, the former is damaged by lightning nerves, the latter is into despair and no more excitement, this is the most helpless thing for Niu Xiaobo, who will not laugh, the expression of emotions can not be completed to make his love also faltering, Bai Yujie has his own love line, tied in the hands of a person who has never met the audience. Bai Yujie also understood his love after the "person" died, who said that too close to death will understand death, who said that the more death he saw, the more indifferent he would be, just like the heart of the blood drop is most afraid of injury, it is the time to see too much, too close, the more fearful the more afraid. Bai Yujie gets love, and Niu Xiaobo once again resumes the function of laughter, and the thriller returns to the warmth of comedy, like countless flips of life.
At the end of the film, the uncle played by Zhan Ruiwen, the Lao Wang played by Feng Quanfan, and the Bai Yujie played by Wen Yongshan all found their own destination in life, and Niu Xiaobo also grew up in this process, in front of his mother's tomb, he recorded the video of his uncle, a little bit to find the inside story of death, that is an expression of love, yes, even if life and death, there is a huge and strong love in it.