Introduction: The dead are dead, the funeral is for the living, if no one shows up, no one cares; the dead are dead, they will not care.
The film "Silent Life" is a 2013 film directed by director Uberto Pasolini, which tells the ordinary life of an ordinary community worker - looking for relatives and friends who have come to the funeral for the deceased, and thus exploring the unusual life experiences of each deceased, the film mainly focuses on Mr. May's running and dedication to the last funeral before he was asked to resign. The film has a large number of fixed shots, and the scene scheduling has been determined at the beginning of the composition, highlighting the performance of the actors, and the whole film is full of gloom and coldness, which seems to foreshadow the tragic end of Mr. Mei. The film slowly shows us how a very lonely person loves life in his own way, and the portrayal of loneliness is empathetic, and the film won the Best Director Award at the Horizon Unit Awards at the 70th Venice Film Festival.
1. About a final funeral
The title of the film "Silent Life" heralds the silent life of the protagonist Mr. Mei, whose job is to do for the "dead people" who can no longer speak - to find relatives and friends who have come to the funeral for the deceased, and thus to explore the unusual life experience of each deceased. It was such a conscientious twenty-two years, but the dissatisfaction of the newly transferred superiors was changed - high cost, time cost, in short, Mr. Mei's way of working was "time-consuming and laborious", so he asked him to resign and find another high, and told Mr. Mei that "the dead are dead, the funeral is for the living, if no one appears, it means that no one cares; the dead are dead, they will not care." "The boss thinks that everything Mr. May did is for the deceased, but the deceased has no knowledge or appreciation for it." Therefore, the william stock case that followed before this became the last funeral of Mr. May before leaving, and the film focuses on Mr. May's "family search trip" on the eve of this funeral.
William Stocker was the master of the funeral, he had been a soldier, a fierce warrior on the battlefield, he had worked in an ingredient factory; he was a rebel who bought rest for the workers; he was a father, although he would only look at him on the occasion of his daughter's 18th birthday; he was a romantic maker who could give his lover the pleasure of the whole world; and before his death he was the homeless man who was the least like a beggar. In Mr. Mei's little blind man's elephant-like groping, the audience spied the arc of Stoke's character, and it was also this arc and Mr. May's unremitting efforts that made Stocky's funeral no longer a single shadow.
2. About a hundred sentient beings
Since Mr. May began Stockker's "family search journey", at the beginning of finding every friend and relative related to Stocker, they refused to attend the funeral, as the food processing factory staff said, "I had a good time drinking with him, but the funeral has been so long." "People will eventually die, and will face it alone, the funeral is not like the wedding is a pleasure, as a friend who has only worked together, no contact for many years, and then hear the news that the friend has passed away, although there is regret in my heart, but it is always a little abrupt to be invited to participate in the funeral." But recalling that Stoke once fought for the rest time for the workers' "uprising" can be said to be closer, on the one hand, it shows the character traits of Stoker's kindness and justice, on the other hand, it also hints at the delicate relationship between people, as an individual person, in the common memory of the past, once again poked the softness and warmth of the bottom of the heart, so in the end, as a friend who had been together for a short time, he also came to this funeral.
Later, before Mr. May visited Stocker's daughter Kelly, he spent a little thought to make her childhood photos into a photo album to impress a daughter whose father had been "leaving" for many years, the relationship between people was like this, the previous moment was hard to refuse, but after seeing the father's treasured photos, the memories of the father's memories were implicated, love and hate were intertwined at this time, but also brought a new "clue" in the memory - a photo of the father and the comrade-in-arms, which paved the way for the next relationship. It is under Mr. Mei's persistent questioning that the relationship between the characters around Stocker gradually becomes clear, and the related characters also surface after a series of searches, involving factory workers, women who run small food shops, women as animal volunteers, veterans living in nursing homes, and beggars wandering on the street, a picture of urban beings appearing in the narrative.
3. About a heart of love for life
In "Silent Life", Mr. Mei also seems to be the epitome of many people in life, he has a solitary life, almost obsessive-compulsive cleanliness of placing objects, crossing the street must look left and right, walking on the same road every day, doing the same work for twenty-two years, everything implies Mr. Mei's loneliness and isolation, and it seems that he is not a person who loves life. However, on the contrary, Mr. Mei shows his love for life in his care for the deceased, treats every deceased kindly, writes a eulogy for their funeral, if it is only a relationship that is not known, so as not to be the same, but the work Mr. Mei does is to write the past of each deceased through his own capture.
epilogue
The dead are dead, the funeral is for the living, and if no one shows up, no one cares; if the dead are dead, they won't care. But "Silent Life" is to use the silence of death to set off people's loneliness, although Mr. Mei's funeral at the end is empty, but at the end of the film, every deceased person who goes to Muling is the result of Mr. Mei's love for life, and it is also an interpretation of a life.