The story is about a company that has developed a device for supervising and sharing dreams. One of these devices has a «malfunction» that lets the wearer invade anyone’s dreams. The person whose dream is entered experiences a temporary loss of sanity.
2.DREAMS & REALITY
Kon himself said that the recurring parade, which signifies the line between dreams and reality, was inspired by Shinto and the idea that everything has a soul. Many souls, or kami, are gradually disappearing from popular consciousness. According to Kon, the importance of dreams seemed to dissipate along with old traditions.
3.CHARACTER
粉川利美. A person has more than two, relatively unique and separate sub-personality, which is called multiple personality. 1. The dream of falling from a height is often a hint of a heart attack, and Fenchuan just has a heart attack. 2. Freud said that dreams are the fulfillment of wishes. Fan Chuan’s dream has indeed fulfilled his wish to play important roles in the films of the Mind Cinema: The Greatest Show on The Circus, Tarzan, and Roman Holiday.
The performance used by the director throughout the film is very vivid and exaggerated, and the use of the camera shots is also very skillful. Through exaggerated expression, with humorous storytelling forms to tell the truest, pathetic and helpless social situation.
Coffin木官木才
1.BACKGROUND
The stage of the story is based on Hong Kong. Hong Kong has the world’s largest number of tall buildings but also carries the largest population density, people enjoy extremely low tax rates and high wages here. However behind this glamorous and beautiful, As an increasing number of people go to Hong Kong for work, the population of big cities has grown dramatically, otherwise, the prices have begun to rise in the face of limited resources and limited land, therefore people’s previous wages have become difficult to maintain their daily expenses. To save money, people have to cut back on food and clothing. That’s the main reason that the phenomenon of shared housing is very common in Hong Kong.
2.TIME & SPACE & CHARACTER
The director uses exaggerated deductive techniques, and flexibly handles the relationship between time, space, and characters. What I mean is jumps out of the inherent space to tell the story. Let the players in the soccer game on the TV jump out of the inherent performance space, come to the coffin room of the real space, interact with the protagonist, and use body language more intuitively to show the protagonist’s inner activities and emotions.
3.MONTAGE IN THIS FILM
The role of montage in this film is to use different content shots or pictures with similar compositions, to play an artistic effect of telling the emotions of the characters and showing the theme and topic of the film. It can be seen that the director uses different elements, for instance, the dog chasing around his tail, the temple, the frog boiled in warm water, and also the scene of the protagonist, in reality, they are cross-edited and show alternately. The elements used by the director have a very typical symbolic meaning and strong tension, which show the protagonist’s anxiety and nearly erupt.
The Rat 癔症
The meaning of the name”癔症”is similar to “hysteria” in Chinese. Hysteria is a mental disorder caused by mental factors, is a term used colloquially to mean ungovernable emotional excess, and can refer to a temporary state of mind or emotion. The story of The Rat is about a man who is addicted to alcohol and commits domestic abuse for a long time, after returning home. Therefore it is obvious that the title is a pretext and excuse for domestic violence and alcoholism. The film just crudely sticks to the original sin of bad habits, and the reality is obviously more complicated and even more poignant…
1.SHOT COMPOSITION(UNSTABLE & SKWED SHOT)
A large number of unstable and skewed shots such as the picture here in the film. the unstable shot will give people a psychological hint that something is rapidly erupting or about to collapse. The unstable composition will make people feel anxious and depressed, which allows the audience to better bring in emotions when watching the film, and at the same time metaphorically the family is about to collapse and destroy.
2.MIRROR IN THIS FILM
In the film, there is a scene with a mirror dividing the entire picture and space. The mirror appears in the film, which is a commonly used metaphorical technique. The role of the mirror or something that can reflect is to contrast the main subject with the reflection. Normally there will be an obvious proportional distribution in the composition and also the subjects will show different appearances with the reflections in some animation works and films. However in The Rat, the mirror is in the middle of the picture, the reflection and the real world are almost equal proportions, and the scene in the two pictures and the color are the same, showing that this is the most real world, although the director uses humorous forms and a lot of exaggerated techniques to create the performance and the stage, but the mirror world is as dilapidated as the real one. This shows that the ugly, dirty, skewed world outside the mirror is what it really is.
