? The film tells a series of events caused by collecting garbage for a living and the janitor's menu peeking at the boss's driving recorder. Director Huang Xin Yao was born to be a documentary, and the film description is mainly interspersed with narration.
The story is not complicated, but the combination of narrative style and color rhythm is perfect and won six awards. Next, look at the film from a metaphorical point of view.
1, color: black and white. Most movies are in black and white. It is a bold attempt to put it aside now. After all, all kinds of high-tech 3D and 4D have come out. Black and white may mean tradition, classics, and even a little outdated. For example, everyone will feel that life is very high now and they are out of poverty. It is not easy to see such a person. You didn't see them, and they don't necessarily exist! Another meaning is that the life described is either black or white and extreme! For example, at one end, there is a rich and powerful class with many resources and wide connections, just like the belly dish says, "three points depend on hard work and seven points depend on background", while at the other end, there are people living at the bottom. They go out to do odd jobs to earn some pocket money. They have an 80-year-old mother to support, they have no resources or money, and they are bullied. They were kicked out if they failed to lead well, and it was not taken seriously to find a nurse for intravenous drip. They're not in touch either. When they saw the boss kill someone, the gap was hard to overcome.
There are two places with color. One is that the scene of the driving recorder is in color, which is displayed for recipes and belly dishes. Their life is very simple, and they see the richness of their boss's life, which they can't imagine. The imagination of people with poverty boundaries, through the driving recorder, they can see the places where rich people go, with wide roads and many lights. In their cognition, they just see it, because there is no experience and feeling, just follow the crowd, for example, mistresses say. I don't know what yoga is on the menu. Speaking of names, I feel too foreign when I hear English names. If I can hear and understand them, I can fantasize. If I don't understand, for example, the English conversation between Kevin and female students, they will gag! But although this scene is colorful, it is only limited to the range that the car can see. Otherwise, they can't see it, just like they see a woman's album, just a fragment.
2, cars, the characters in the film all have means of transportation, Kevin's representative of luxury Mercedes-Benz, potato motorcycle, Sakyamuni's bicycle, cars are means of transportation, and the available resources are a kind of desire and demand, Mercedes-Benz, luxury status and power relationship! (it can be a few people, with private space), which can shelter from the wind and rain. The motorcycle can accommodate one person and three people if necessary. Three people huddled together to keep warm. It can be seen in the film that the energy of the three people is also very low, and they can't cover the wind and rain! Bicycle, simple, can accommodate one person, and it needs to be started by itself. It can't shelter from the wind and rain, and its speed is not fast.
3. Sakyamuni, riding a bicycle, Sakyamuni is the most interested person. I've been thinking about what kind of existence he is in the movie. He doesn't have a fixed job, and he has no lines except "shopping". He keeps clean every day. He lived alone in an abandoned sentry post by the sea, listening to the sound of the waves before falling asleep. He doesn't mind what he wears, even if there is a turtle on his clothes, maybe he picked it up. He didn't interfere when he was taken away by the police. He went to the police station just to watch and accompany him. He has been to many places, farther than the police, and he doesn't know what to do for a living. He has no menu, his mother takes care of him, and he is on duty at night, unlike him who wants to pick up garbage, clip dolls, watch TV and read women's picture books! Sleeping in his space capsule at night, Sakyamuni is like a Sakyamuni Buddha, looking at all beings and the human figure painted by belly wealth. Only on the night when belly wealth died, he woke up from his dream and could not sleep for a long time. Is it because the Buddha nature has been disturbed? He rode his bicycle round and round, and two days later he came back, quietly watching all this and looking at the menu, because Du Cai's portrait was fighting with Potato Boy!
Look back at the Buddha statue
4. The Buddha seems to be silent all the time. These respectable officials hooked up with the rich in front of the Buddha statue and even killed people. The Buddha is silent, just watching! But like Sakyamuni, they are all disturbed internally! No matter how big the Buddha is, there is no room for many sins!
5. Comedy. There are several places in this movie that are the funniest. One is that an emissary official accompanied Master to see the Buddha statue, and a female believer talked with Gao Wei, satirizing each other and defending "Amitabha"! The second one is Du Cai laughing at Potato Boy riding a pink motorcycle. Potato boy said that no one could see it in the black and white movie anyway, and then the back of the motorcycle in the movie changed color. The third kind is that the cookbook uncle cheated the money of the cookbook, even if he was a little depressed, he could laugh, just like the money in his stomach likes to clip dolls. "It's very healing."
6. Leave blank. Akiyama mentioned that there were three blank spaces. One was whether Kevin put the body in the Buddha statue, the second was that a man by the sea committed suicide, and the last Buddha statue made a sound. Blank space is for people's imagination, but I have an idea that the director has awe, and even if he shoots, he can't bear to blaspheme in front of the Buddha statue!
7. Wen Qi's wig, the true self and false self mentioned by Venekot, originated from the influence of maternal and infant environment on a person's growth. Fake me is to meet the needs of society, but the extremes meet. If I am exaggerated, my true self will be covered up. The wig worn by Wen Qi is a fake one for himself. After wearing it for a long time, he thought it was true, and he thought it was true himself, thus losing the moral bottom line a little!
While struggling for a living, belly wealth also has two and a half levels of self-confidence, including the doll's childhood and the fantasy of living in a space capsule. There is also an album of beautiful women in the space capsule. A garbage collector also hopes to find his own needs in garbage, that is, simple people and simple desires. Although they only caught a glimpse of the rich through the driving recorder, they were still very scared to see the naked killing! For the people at the bottom, they have never seen this kind of fighting, not in life, and women may not have touched it! I don't know what to do, so I seek the blessing of the gods. They don't have any resources. Finally, the potato boy was taken to a temple that only Jiang Gong could afford, and there was no result. The god of faith abandoned him, which may be a key point for Du Cai to realize that he was going to die. There is a god in everyone's heart. That heart lamp shines on people's lives. Someone gave this religious belief. Some people think that in looking up to the three-foot God, some people think that they are the God whose desires are easily satisfied. You can do whatever you want, angels and demons change their minds, evil thoughts are seen in action, and villains can do nothing, but something is changing, and the police are investigating Huang Qiwen; At the meeting of ten thousand people to protect the law, candles went out, Buddha statues rang, and the expressions of believers and masters were blank, which made people daydream!