Swiss Army Knife Man is a blackbird Films drama film co-directed by Dan Guan and Daniel Schnnett, starring Paul Dano and Daniel Radcliffe. It tells the story of a man trapped on a desert island who becomes friends with a corpse and then embarks on a journey home with the body.
A man trapped on a desert island, Hanksheng, is loveless, and when he is desperate to hang himself to end his life, the rope on the desert island is not very strong, at this time he finds a corpse that comes down the water, the courage to die is interrupted, and the extreme loneliness makes him start talking to the corpse. Loneliness overcomes fear, and Hank can't let go of the corpse and walks around the island with "him" on his back. He took the corpse as a friend, named him Manny, and gradually, the corpse exhibited an astonishing function—a violent "fart stream" that could become a jet rowing boat and take him off the desert island. The corpse also began to speak, learn human expressions, light a fire with the snap of a finger, act as a compass, and fire various objects at high speed, like an omnipotent Swiss Army knife, saving people from distress.
One of the highlights of this film is that the actor: Daniel Radcliffe, is already "dead" at the beginning of the film. But he still starred in the whole film in a half-dead state. It also comes with special skills: spraying water, farting, ignition, etc. There are some bridges in the film that are simply too dirty to look at. Although Daniel Radcliffe said in an interview that the body that Paul Dano abused in the film was not really him. However, for Harry Potter fans, the impact of this movie is really not small, that is, the collection of bad tastes that dare not watch and cannot bear not to watch.
The last scene and opening of the Swiss Army Knife Man forms a circular narrative in which Manny's body farts violently and drifts away from the water from the group from "normal society". Among a group of adults who looked either frightened or disdainful, there was a child who burst out laughing, and to her the scene was funny rather than unsightly. The intensive farting plot at the beginning of the film is undoubtedly embarrassing and uncomfortable, but after an hour and a half of discussion of farting, sexual desire, and loneliness that usually seems less decent than society, when the audience sees the final scene, the audience feels completely different about the "misbehaved" corpse. "Normal society" is sometimes weird, and when a child is whimsical, believes in fairies and ghosts, and plays family games, people think it's perfectly normal, even imaginative. And when an adult does that, he is described as mentally handicapped, a freak. If there is really any difference between these two kinds of people, that is, the difference in age. The last shot inexplicably evokes a children's fantasy adventure story of Peter Pan and the like, perhaps hiding a never-ending or blue bird that only children can see, so that it can make them laugh, and adults only see a strange corpse.
Even if Westerners have seen a lot of weirdness and vulgarity about young people, the stories and characters written by this pair of young directors are still amazing. In other words, the average person does not have the courage to really shoot such a work and present it on the big screen. Because these are the imaginations in the big boys' minds.
The film's label on Station B is comedy and adventure, which is reminiscent of the Grand Budapest Hotel, and both films are far more complex than any label can define. The Swiss Army Knife Man is in a sense more complex than the Grand Budapest Hotel, because the boundaries between the real and the unreal in the film are more blurred. Whether or not the fact that Manny is a super-powered, talking corpse is true or not, there is no denying that he is part of Hank's personality projection, so this passage can be seen as Hank's confession of the missing plate of his heart after returning to the real world. It was only after returning to the real world that he realized that what he had thought he needed was not necessary. In those times when they build dreams with Manny, they can sing and dance whenever they want, drink all night and throw parties, and don't care what "others" think. So he said to the policeman who handcuffed him, to everyone present, "I want you to see that scene, it's beautiful." "Normal society certainly thinks that in front of him is an incomprehensible madman, with a camera and suspicious disgust in his eyes, after all, the eyes of adults can not see the blue bird.
The end of the film is not strictly a breath-taking ending, leaving many questions unanswered, but for the protagonist Hank, this is already the end of a stage. His Peter Pan drifts away from him, but Hank knows that Manny is still not dead and will always exist somewhere. At the same time, he also lived from a freak in the eyes of others to a freak in his own eyes, although the latter is not necessarily less painful than the former, and it is easier to be a freak for himself than to be afraid of being a freak in the eyes of others all the time.