Japanese director Chang Jiuyun is good at making youth-themed movies, because he is just a young child. In 2017,
won the jury award in the short film section of the 33rd Sundance Film Festival with the youth short film "Just like this, we put the goldfish in the pool".
At the 2019 Sundance Film Festival, Director Chang Jiuyun brought his feature-length feature film "We Are Little Zombies" to the exhibition and achieved good results.
is dazzling, bright colors, alternation of fast and slow shots, nonsensical stories, broad imaginations, advance the story by playing games, Yes or NO is your choice. Each chapter is linked by title, but there is no inevitable connection between them. These techniques are Changyun's consistent style, alternative and full of creativity, and are once again incisively enlarged in "We are all little zombies".
should be sad, but she couldn't shed tears.
The four children Hikari, Xiaopang, Youshu, and Ikuko met in the funeral home. Their parents are dead. They have no tears or emotions. They just live like zombies. The four children formed an alliance and wandered around together, going to Guang’s home, going to Chinese restaurants that were burned to ruins, going to the supermarket to steal things, going to love hotels, some familiar places, telling each other’s lives.
Finally they wandered to a garbage disposal plant and formed a "We Are Little Zombies" band.
wanted to be a different band, and became popular online because of a video.
Guang’s parents died in a traffic accident. Therefore, the driver who caused the traffic accident was exposed to human flesh on the Internet and chose to commit suicide.
So they decided to disband the band and return to ordinary teenagers. After a week, they are no longer remembered, because in this era of information replacement with the speed of light, yesterday is a certain day in the past. The four friends of
robbed a garbage truck to go to the place where mom and dad had a car accident.
This may be their last stop together, they will continue to wander together, or they will go their separate ways, who knows, their average age is only 13.5 years old, zombie thinking, this section will be cut, because they are just alive.
Two hours of film, "mourning" is capitalized in every plot, everyone has a bad emotional experience, and the director uses a child's perspective to express his thinking about this society and life.
is like in the ending lyrics: We are living zombies, just aimless zombies (the goal is to live). While director
is showing off his skills, maybe he is also reminding each of us: Don't live like a zombie.
(picture from the Internet)
