他们说“我很好”

影片道出了现代社会下个体的无力感。

个人信息不再是秘密，每时每刻都可能收到推销电话。反复计算各种优惠，哪个商家给的减免多，哪个套餐流量最高，可是到头来会发现人们总是会超额消费，比如为了使用5元的优惠券，可能会消费50元。

还有就是世界的复杂性超出了个体的理解，看着药盒上一个个奇怪的医学名词，银行、支付宝的一行行抽象的条款，人们没有能力凭借自身去判断。

最典型的就是老人了，他们对网络完全是文盲的，无法融入和了解这个“抽象”化的社会。再加上年老后对情感的渴望，很容易被人利用骗钱。片中电话公司和骗子都利用的这一点，骗取他们的信任。从这个角度来说，合法的公司和不合法的骗子都是犯罪，利用他人的无知和弱点来牟利。

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!