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About death, which is a taboo topic in various cultures, before the editor has introduced Sweden's "Journey to the Feather Country" is a rare animation film that explores death, but this movie is more about describing death as a natural law, irresistible, and there is no mention of unnatural death such as suicide.
So this time, Xiaobian will talk about a movie dedicated to suicide
- "Suicide Store"
Suicide Shop is an animated film by a French director based on the best-selling novel of the same name by French cartoonist Jean Terré. It is said that at the beginning, the director wanted to use real people to interpret the story, but there are many more grotesque and surreal and interesting descriptions in the novel, and the director has been struggling to find a suitable way to express it. It wasn't until friends suggested that it could be filmed in the form of animation, and there was this imaginative animated film with French black humor, a lot of song and dance elements.
The painting style of the film is the Gothic painting style that Xiaobian likes very much, with a three-dimensional effect realized on the traditional 2D hand-drawn surface, presenting a visual sense similar to a three-dimensional paper-cut book. There is a fundamental difference with the "pseudo-3D" films that were later transformed from France's "Jewish Elder's Grey Cat".
The film begins with a white dove shuttling through the suicides who keep falling from tall buildings, and finally jumping off a telephone pole and crushing to death under the wheel;
Late at night, police cars roared past zebra crossings, stuffed death certificates into the pockets of suicides who had been killed by a car, and left again. Here, people have seen life as a burden and death as the best destination. All of this paved the way for the protagonist's appearance – an ancestral suicide shop.
The owner's family has a total of five people, and the name of the family is also a very interesting point.
Papa's name is Mishima, representing Yukio Mishima, the famous belly-cutting suicider;
The mother's name is Lucres, alluding to the beautiful woman Lucretia who has overthrown Rome with a suicide;
The sister is called Marilyn, the most famous Marilyn everyone knows, pressing the wind blown skirt on the underground vent and finally dying in the bedroom Monroe;
(The left is when I was a child, and I really feel like I am disabled when I grow up)
The older brother was named Vincent, and he had the same great talent for painting as Van Gogh, who cut off his own ear and shot himself;
(Brother who is also crippled)
The younger brother's name is Alan, and the Turing, who is said to be very related to the apple icon, is named Alan Turing.
(The only person in the family who has a genuine smile)
In this shop, the colored poison is packed in exquisite perfume-like glass bottles,
Hanging ropes come in a variety of different lengths,
The stones needed to jump into the river will be delivered by someone to help you; according to your needs, if you die heroically or have feminine feminine qualities, recommend the corresponding suicide tools;
Their service commitment is:
"Guarantee a death, achieve an unforgettable moment, and if you don't die, you will be fully refunded",
The shopkeeper will wrap the suicide tools in beautiful bags, which are all deaths anyway, and the couple's clothes needed for martyrdom can also be discounted. What you think, what you can't think of, as long as it is related to suicide, can meet your needs here.
The editor is very impressed with a line from his father in the film, "Too many people die unprofessional... Did you know that of the 150,000 people who committed suicide, 138,000 failed? These people often become crippled and incomplete in wheelchairs, and if they buy our goods... The suicide methods we offer are guaranteed... Like I've always said, it only takes one time to die and make for an unforgettable moment. ”
This kind of using very professional marketing words to sell suicide tools is absolutely impossible to happen in reality, but it has produced a very strong comedic effect in this animation.
(This sentence is not very familiar, in other words, the promotional slogan of the wedding company)
The younger brother, Alan, is a heretic of this family, he will laugh, from infancy, scared his parents half to death,
"The people of our family will never laugh!"
He doesn't say "bad day" but "good morning",
will say "goodbye" as "goodbye",
Be optimistic about anything. He plotted a subversion that would change the fate of most people in the city who committed suicide and lift the shadow of death that hung over the city.
Alan subtly changes his mother and sister, taking advantage of his father's illness in bed, gathering like-minded friends and using speakers to destroy all the suicide tools in the store.
The mad father chases and slashes Alan with a knife, but when Alan falls downstairs and almost dies, he realizes the preciousness of life.
At the end, my sister fell in love, and the suicide store was changed to a crepe shop. Sing a joyful song at the end:
"Stop the useless complaining, happiness needs to be found." The occasional difficulty of life, dreams will always be realized..."
Suicide is the norm, customers come to the store every day, in contact with so many negative emotions of a family, has never thought of dying? No, the temptation of death did not give special favors to this family. They all thought about suicide at one moment, or rather, in many moments.
Dad came to the door to serve a local tycoon suicidal, he looked at the broken picture frame on the ground, reflected his face, bought and sold death, not funny;
Mom was questioned by a wife, "Which way do you choose to die?" Suddenly revealing a lonely look, the blood-stained bathtub on the tall building, the thrill of jumping down is heartwarming;
My sister received a gift from mom and dad on her birthday and asked happily, "Do you finally allow me to die?" "She has low self-esteem and feels worthless;
The brother sharpens his knife every day, and his paintings are skulls and black shadows;
Together, they blew out birthday candles to celebrate "another year less."
Their reason for not committing suicide is "to serve customers better", that is, to die for the sake of others better, so they can't die, how ironic.
At the beginning of the film, Dad sings "Suicide is an art"
Pessimistically speaking, people who look at the smiling and giggling may be more depressed in their hearts;
In the original novel, the younger brother Allen really let go after pretending to fall down and change his father's mind. This is more evidenced by this than the end of the movie version, where the father secretly sells poisoned cocake cakes that are not sold in the coke shop selling suicide supplies.
So, the real problem came.
What is death? What is salvation? Is it respect for human rights, including the individual's choice to give up life, or is it retention and consolation, and living is hope?
Every dead person in the story, the requirements for death are strange, not disgusting, not painful, not disfigured, not disturbed, it turns out that even if life reaches the end of the road, suicide is really not such an easy thing.
And you have to have money to spend. The most impressive thing inside was probably a poor man, very, very poor, and his mother sent him off in a plastic bag. His death was interspersed in his sister's showy dance, the hope of life and the despair of death intertwined, cheap of course not good goods, he suffocated in a plastic bag, spent a long time dying in pain.
The annoyed father in the movie asks his son to learn to smoke in order to get him lung cancer.
'Sister's Kiss'
In the book, her parents inject her sister with a special poison that makes her kiss a tool of death, and she sits in the shop and kisses everyone who is lined up to find death. Kisses originally represented love, but sister's kisses represented death.
(I didn't quite understand why Ellen was watching her sister dance outside the window with her friends.) ）
It's hard to say which is more brutal than the movie version or the novel. In fact, the authors are contradictory, the directors are tied, they consume suicide without giving the idea of death, and the puzzle is left to us. The film extends to life, which is what makes up this cartoon.
To be, or not to be, is an eternal topic.
Xiaobian feels that the real meaning it wants to express is that everyone has the right to choose. He can choose to live actively or die passively. The old man still wants to die after coming to the shop with such a happy atmosphere, so Mishima will obey his wishes. Everyone has the right to commit suicide.
In the original book, Allen chose to commit suicide after changing everyone. His choice is logical, and it takes a lot of courage and strength to stay positive when you live in an environment where everyone's values are opposite to yours, let alone to change others. In the end, this is by no means a children's movie.
Back to reality, Xiaobian remembered the "he" who did not dare to mention the name, and ended his life in this Mid-Autumn Festival, or a special choice. If such an end is his own true will, perhaps we have only the choice to respect.
May the red dust of this life no longer stain your soul,
Go well...
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