As the title suggests, "I" lost my body.
This movie is about the body, about the hands.
Douban 8.2, this adult animation was released at the Cannes Film Festival on May 17, 2019, and won the Critics Week award, standing out among the 7 films in the same unit.
However, a year and a half has passed, and the Watercress is cold and cold, and there are only 96 film reviews and 26 discussions.
It's a pity, so today I'm going to talk about this cartoon - "I Lost My Body"
The director of "I Lost My Body" is Jehemi Crapan, and when you think of him, you may be stunned: Who is this person?
The director won the Kodak Short Film Award at the 61st Cannes Film Festival in 2008 for "Schizophrenia" (Douban 9.0), and it was not until 10 years later that he appeared at the Cannes Film Festival again, a full seven years after his last work.
Speaking of which, "I Lost My Body" was also nominated for last year's Pingyao International Film Festival. In 2020, he received 3 nominations from foreign film festivals and one best screenplay award.
So, what exactly is this adult animation about?
The film begins with a bizarre flight path of an annoying red-headed fly that flies to the face of the male protagonist lying on the ground injured.
Where the male protagonist was injured, how he was injured, I don't know.
Immediately after, the tone of the film turns black and white, there is a fly on the window, and a child asks his father how he can catch the fly.
To be honest, when the flies were magnified onto the screen, I was nauseated and remembered the feeling of goosebumps.
Father told him that you should put your hand next to it and grab it, because flies will always react faster than human hands.
However, the little boy has never been able to catch the fly, and the film has actually laid the groundwork here.
Next, the picture suddenly turns, and you may not think that the protagonist who tells you the story has changed, and the perspective has changed.
In the refrigerator, there is a box filled with human eyeballs, which looks like pills;
Something was smashing the glass and smashing open the refrigerator door.
Yes, the protagonist appears, a life-threatening severed hand.
He slammed the refrigerator door open, and an eyeball fell, which attracted the attention of the man who had entered the room, and was trampled by the man, so the broken hand managed to escape.
Its journey began. The soundtrack and tone of the film make people feel a strange atmosphere.
So, who is this broken hand? Why is it in the refrigerator? Where are you going?
The film is set up very cleverly, the broken hand is unfavorable, falling from the tall building, falling to the ground, the scene turns to a small hand, the small hand is the same as the broken hand, there is a meat mole on the back of the hand.
The hand grew up, and we knew that the hand belonged to the little boy.
The little boy has a happy family, his father is an astronaut, his mother is a cellist, he wants to become an astronaut and a pianist when he grows up, with dreams and talent.
The little boy always holds a tape recorder, recording the various sounds around him and recording the bits and pieces of his relationship with his parents. But unfortunately, on the way to the family of three again, because when his father turned back to talk to the little boy sitting in the back seat while driving, in order to avoid a deer coming out of the forest, there was a car accident, his parents died suddenly, and he became an orphan.
So, the dreams of the astronauts and pianists were shattered. The little boy lives in a foster home and grows up delivering takeout to a speedy pizzeria that claims to win with speed, and if the buyer has timed, he can apply for a free ticket.
However, all kinds of accidents, the little boy will time out every time he delivers takeaways, complain and curse in front of the pizzeria owner every day, and when he returns home, he will hand in the daily quota like a host family; always inadvertently bump into the indescribable time of the boy living in the same room.
Every day is spent in this meaningless life, and life is full of hopelessness.
Isn't this the real society, whether it is a big city or a small city, then in order to survive to become a "hit worker" and "rice cooker"? It is this inability to break free from the reality of bondage and repression that makes us laugh at ourselves with endless labels.
This sense of hopelessness finally exploded one day.
On this day, he collided with a car on the way to deliver pizza, the motorcycle was damaged, and the driver did not show any expression and fled. I started the motorcycle and went downstairs to the residents, it was already dark, and it was raining.
He was a full 40 minutes late, and customers who were more than 20 minutes old could apply for a waiver, which meant that he would be verbally abused by the owner when he returned to the store.
But when the lady asked him to go upstairs, he couldn't open the door no matter how he tried, and 20 minutes later, the pizza still didn't come upstairs. He was still trapped outside the door.
When the lady was about to come down and pick it up herself, he said no, because the pizza had fallen to the ground when the motorcycle was knocked to the ground.
He explained to the lady that he had had a little accident.
The young lady asked him ,"Seriously?" ”
He said, "It looks like pizza, and it's covered with a pizza that's been eaten." ”
Yet the young lady said "I'm talking about an accident, have you been injured?" ”
The male protagonist was stunned and reacted a little and said, "Me? I'm okay, thanks for caring. ”
It was probably the only word he had heard in all these years that cared about him.
Suddenly thinking of the news I recently saw about the takeaway brother, the takeaway timeout, who can know what is really happening?
Next, he sat down in the hall and ate the pizza himself. It was getting heavier and heavier outside, and Miss Gabrielle spoke again, chatting with him, and he learned that Miss Gabrielle worked in the library.
Because of Miss Gabrielle's words, he became perked up and no longer muddy. He called one library after another, trying to find Miss Gabrielle and get close to her.
He got his wish and found Miss Gabriel as an apprentice in her uncle's carpentry shop.
His relationship with Miss Gabrielle grew increasingly intimate. On the roof of a tall building near his uncle's attic, he made an igloo for Gabrielle, because when he delivered the takeaway, Gabriel said it was raining outside, and she could only hear the wind, and the wind was moving through the buildings, and it felt like she was floating on an ice, floating in the storm, and she was hiding in her igloo.
In the igloo, he confesses to Gabriel, but Gabriel thinks that his purpose is not pure, and the relationship between the two has just been frozen, that is, he has fallen out of love.
The fly reappeared, while he was doing carpentry work.
So he began to catch flies, and this time he caught them, but where the flies landed was a chainsaw, and his hand was sawn off by the wrist.
Seeing this, we finally understood how the boy's hand was broken.
It can be said that the fly appears many times in the film, and we can understand it as an obsession in the boy's heart, and it doesn't matter what this obsession is, it's just an image.
And here, this broken hand at first wanted to grab a big bird and take it to fly elsewhere, but accidentally killed it;
The broken hand took the garbage truck again, carried the can into the subway station, fell into the subway track, the fingers were hung rotten and bleeding, the smell of blood attracted 3 rats, it fought with the rats, hitched a ride on the subway, and finally succeeded in coming to the boy's side, lying on the boy's pillow.
As the arms and hands were about to be connected, the boy rolled over and the connection failed.
The broken hand guided Gabrielle to the rooftop, finding the tape recorder that had fallen to the ground and never left him, and from the tape recorder she heard the boy's past, and maybe she would understand the boy and be with him, maybe not.
In the end, the boy risked his life and finally jumped on the construction bridge he had always wanted to go to. The film ends with a return to the boy's childhood, leaving a handprint on the beach, and what happened to the broken hand, no spoilers here, you can go to the film.
The guy who couldn't do anything, couldn't even open the door, seemed to let go of the obsession in his heart.
The film ends abruptly.
The process of watching is really depressing, but in the end it gives people a glimmer of hope, and this hope is restrained and unfinished. Everyone has an obsession in their heart, but not everyone will be trapped in the obsession forever, and maybe that's what this animation gives us.