Introduction: The director has thrown an unexpected stone into their lives, and all the expressions of this film are the ripples of this stone.
The movie "The Housemate" is a 2015 drama film directed by Sammière BenChetri, adapted from the director's semi-autobiographical series of novels, which tell the warm tones triggered by three families in an old residential building after encountering strangers. Men who can't afford to pay the elevator fee and are refused to take the elevator, young boys who obviously have guardians but seem to live alone, arab wives who are married to France and have children in prison, they meet nurses on duty late at night, newly moved to the opposite side of the actress and astronauts who have returned to Earth from outer space but lost, before meeting each other, they seem to have absolutely quiet personal lives, the director has invested an unexpected stone into their lives, and all the expressions of this film are the ripples of this stone.
On the other hand, the width of the picture
Compared with the current popular widescreen and wide format of movies, this film taken in 2015 has a classic 4:3 frame, first of all, the square picture composition does not have a prominent order from left to right in guiding the audience's line of sight, so it is decided that the audience sees what returns to the structure inside the picture itself, and also makes the inside of the picture eliminate many messy backgrounds and highlight the subject more, which also increases the sense of viewing distance. This is very obvious in the voting plot at the beginning of the film, the crowd raises their hands and the second floor residents do not raise their hands, the crowd is expressionless and the second floor residents raise their hands, and the crowd stands on one side to receive the second floor guests sitting on the other side, concisely and clearly illustrate the voting activity about the installation of the elevator.
Secondly, the square 4:3 frame itself is a more prominent geometric figure, and the windows, door frames, elevator doors and other indoor spaces that appear in the film still appear in large numbers of squares, giving people a heavier sense of oppression and bondage. In the plot where the actress forgets to bring the key to meet the boy at the door to go home, the two talk in a narrow corridor, behind which there is a square frame of the gate, a rectangular wall, and a 4:3 frame outside the screen for watching the film, and now both the big screen and the TV mobile phone and other devices are also more and more towards the "wide screen", the proportion of the frame of "The Housemate" makes the composition rich in square frames in the film more obvious and cramped. In addition, the film also uses a large number of fixed lenses to bring an objective documentary photography style to the film, which highlights the expressiveness of the characters inside the picture, and this sense of alienation also opens up the immersive experience of the audience when watching the film.
Second, the collapse of adults
The whole film is mostly calm and soothing, although there is no strong dramatic conflict, but the documentary depiction of daily life is delicate enough, and the most poignant of the three stories must be the experience of the second-floor guest, and the most emotional of them is his two collapses. First, after the mad pedaling of the dynamic bicycle caused by paralysis, in the face of the mailbox that cannot be reached, the elevator that cannot be taken in front of everyone, he uses his own methods to solve, he chooses to travel late at night without taking the elevator, he buys food in front of the vending machine, and when he invests change, he is stuck in the vending machine and how the bread cannot fall, which becomes the last straw that crushes his entire emotions, and the silence and forbearance of life are helplessly slapped and wailed at the vending machine.
Second, in the film he imitated the "Dream of the Covered Bridge" that he had seen, the photographer male protagonist talked to the female protagonist, met the female nurse on duty in the hospital, the two also set the image of the photographer for themselves when they talked, and secretly held expectations for feelings in their hearts, and late the next night after the two reached a photo agreement, the elevator had problems at this time, the man was trapped in the elevator, and at the same time trapped in his heart, the throbbing of love and a glimmer of hope for life, he cried loudly like a child, He moved his long-unconscious legs with his hands in an attempt to kick open the elevator door.
In such moments, his "anti-intellectual" behavior is an outbreak of countless repressive moments accumulated to the peak of life, some people say that the collapse of adults is silent and dare not speak, and his hysteria erupts in the emptiness of no one around and then heals quickly. Dazai's "Human Disqualification" mentions such a sentence: "It is not easy to live in this world, there are all kinds of shackles everywhere that bind you, and if you move a little, blood will come out." "In modern social life, everyone is saddled with huge shackles, and collapse has become a common moment of emotional catharsis, and it seems to have become the only outlet for emotions.
Third, the guests of the atrium
Through a vote, the opening of the film shows the audience the antecedents and opportunities of the "isolation" of the second-floor guests, who are paralyzed by illness but no one knows, expressing a kind of indifference and social isolation between people in modern society. Before each character in the film meets his own "heart tenant", the director gives them such a character description of "loneliness", to reflect the contradictory status quo that this warmth is both hard-won and accessible, and it seems difficult to break their own circle and take a brave step, but the film uses a small dilemma encountered by the protagonists to make them feel the warmth and pity of being born as human beings.
The atrium can be opened, but the sudden visit can only be used as a "guest", and there is still a gap between each other: the fake photographer telling her true situation only in exchange for the smile of the nurse, the actress seems to have retrieved a part of herself from the boy but is still ready to move, and the old woman who helped the lost astronaut is more explicitly expressed the coming and going of this visit. The different interpretations of the sound of the garbage can door in the film hint at the far difference in thinking and perception between people, children crying, circus lost tigers and demons from hell, and the completely different feelings of the listener are often one of the reasons why people are divided and separated.
"I didn't know you a week ago", but a week later I only knew you, and the story of the film stops at this time, just like the fairy tale "The prince and princess have lived a happy life ever since", and the atrium seems to be opened at this time, but how long can it last? This is similar to the modern social communication method of Pingshui after meeting and then quickly fighting hot and hurriedly saying goodbye, and the warmth is more and more lonely.
epilogue
To a certain extent, the film "Heart Tenant" reflects the contradiction between the loneliness of people who are accustomed to being alone in modern society and the expectation of opening up inner communication, and also shows that it is very easy for people to open the atrium and provide "guest rooms" for "heart guests", but when the "heart guest" leaves, only a ripple trace can be left in the atrium, telling the contemporary philosophy of human loneliness.