The story takes place in an absurd era of the Great Depression.
An old apartment building stands alone in the suburbs, with yellowish tones and dilapidated residential buildings, creating an eerie atmosphere.
In this building lives a group of strange people, including an old man who raises toad snails, an old woman who is committed to suicide, and a sexy girl who relies on beauty to feed herself.
They are each pregnant with a ghost fetus, but they are bound together by some kind of interest.
As soon as the film opens, a dangling pig-killing knife shocks the audience.
The man was the owner of the building, a butcher who liked to sharpen his knife in the early morning.
The sound of sharpening knives went down the pipe upstairs, and a male occupant of the building, trembling, looked around.
He wrapped his body in waste paper and jumped into the trash can, hoping to escape the disaster.
Unfortunately, when the butcher opened the trash can, he had already stepped into the ghost door.
The butcher slaughtered the occupants of the building.
But he also did not kill everyone, and his slaughtering rule was to kill whoever was caught in the stairs in the middle of the night.
Therefore, the old residents of the building usually do not go out at night.
And those who are new and do not understand the rules naturally become the lambs that are slaughtered.
The next day, the residents of the building will come to line up to buy meat:
This one wants fresh and juicy shoulder meat, and that one wants a tight and chewy "ham.".
The "currency" they trade is corn kernels, two bags of corn kernels for a piece of meat.
Yes, in this world, food is proper hard currency.
One day, in search of new prey, the butcher published an advertisement in the newspaper for a job.
A young man named Louis was unfortunate enough to apply for this job, hoping to get free housing benefits.
He drove to the building, and the driver saw that he was poor and sour, so he wanted to take his shoes.
The driver told him that the food in the city was now limited by the government, and everyone was hungry, so even their shoes were rushed to eat.
Louis didn't care about this and moved into the building with a relaxed face.
What he didn't know was that everyone was staring at him, as if they were waiting for the prey to appear.
Louis's last job was as a clown, so there was an atmosphere of joy around him.
And Julie also noticed the new young man.
Julie is the daughter of a butcher and doesn't have to worry about her livelihood, so she still retains her good side.
When she saw Louis, who was also childlike, her heart was instantly hit.
The two gradually developed feelings in the process of getting along.
In order to save her beloved, she fights against the cruel rules of the building.
This "Rhapsody of the Black Shop" tells a wild story, but it reflects the moodiness of life and the intricacies of human nature.
In a mad age in an apocalyptic context, the pressure to survive broke free from the moral shackles, and people lived in the "rules" they created.
The butcher in the film is arguably the biggest villain, and all the bad things are done by him.
However, his love for his daughter is also a very human side.
If you think about it, the butcher is also likely to be the most sacrificed of this group of people.
If he had not "gone to hell", how could he have "lived a decent life" for the occupants of the entire building.
The so-called distinction between good and evil is actually only relative to the interests of the majority of the society.
There is no pure good, and there is no pure evil.
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