I am just gonna write down my thoughts randomly before it all goes away.

To be honest, there more than a few times during the film when I want to just get the fuck out of the theatre and go home to sleep. But afterwards when I thought about why. Probably because this is my 4th film today and I have been cold and tired the whole afternoon. More possible, I have been watching so many “American film” (not necessarily from America, but the “exciting style” ) it’s been hard for me to really watch anything that is not that “exciting” anymore. Desensitized I would say. Like after eating too much spicy food, can’t really taste anything subtle anymore.

It is actually an brilliant film. The shots are almost unusual in mainstream theatre. Still shots, portrait like close ups, far far away shot. Muted color. Natural city setting. Reminds me “too much” about boring everyday life that leads to my losing interest constantly. People who walking through cameras without knowing they are in a film. Just so mundane and too real! Same as the sound work! Cars driving, people talking... really distracting and even annoying. (This seems so intentional that I almost hated the filmmaker for it but turned out to be just an “accident” : the sound guy was sick and it was some punk musicians who did the sound and it was “not very good” according to the director) .

It’s so interesting how the audience and filmmaker view the same work so differently. Not only intention vs. accident, coincides vs. hidden meaning ( the reoccurring joke that the characters keep forgetting titles of films and music was after all just joke! Not criticizing people spend too much time on their device!) Also the overall theme. While the audience, even the programmer sees cyber security and technology. The director was just interested in how people act in interpersonal conversations. Like important info coming up in just everyday conversation. It’s almost strange and bazaar when you really think about it. It happens everyday. It’s happening right now. It’s just we are so used to it. It’s hard to notice anymore. Again, desensitized. This makes me think about someone talked about arts that they make you to SEE the things you watch everyday that you don’t see them anymore. The question normality. The refuse to “get used to things” and criticize the notion of “normal” or mundane.

The director is so funny and intellectual that makes me want to go study in Europe!

影片道出了現(xiàn)代社會下個體的無力感。

個人信息不再是秘密，每時每刻都可能收到推銷電話。反復計算各種優(yōu)惠，哪個商家給的減免多，哪個套餐流量最高，可是到頭來會發(fā)現(xiàn)人們總是會超額消費，比如為了使用5元的優(yōu)惠券，可能會消費50元。

還有就是世界的復雜性超出了個體的理解，看著藥盒上一個個奇怪的醫(yī)學名詞，銀行、支付寶的一行行抽象的條款，人們沒有能力憑借自身去判斷。

最典型的就是老人了，他們對網(wǎng)絡完全是文盲的，無法融入和了解這個“抽象”化的社會。再加上年老后對情感的渴望，很容易被人利用騙錢。片中電話公司和騙子都利用的這一點，騙取他們的信任。從這個角度來說，合法的公司和不合法的騙子都是犯罪，利用他人的無知和弱點來牟利。