You know as much as it sounds awfully cliche, the world is not a nice place and the people in it are most of the times incredibly disappointing. You can easily make a whole fucking list of the neurosis of the modern man. He is nasty, conservative, frightened without realizing it, rude, heartless and wants to see people lower than him. Art has many times tried to point that hideous state of the human being with many examples getting very near to the core of things. Director Roy Andersson deals with the individual in a different, most unorthodox way. In You The Living we see humans in a tragicomic state. Yes it's funny what you see, but underneath that funny side there is a whole universe of tragedy and sorrow for the human being. The film is highly theatrical with actors wearing heavy make-up, the camera is always still and there is a sense that you are watching a movie that offers another, close to some sort of deeply authentic... science fiction, state of mind and way of thinking.
The movie will be hated deeply by people who don't have the touch for arthouse movies, but I think that this hate is part of the movie also. This film cannot be understood by the morons of this world. They can't understand its humor and they can't understand its heartbreaking tragedy. The only thing that I have to say is thank God that exist people like Roy Andersson and we come to see some different approach to the philosophy of filmmaking as also a deeply idiosyncratic view of the social comment. It's not an exaggeration to say that the only films that are similar to You The Living are other films by the same filmmaker. And that is clearly a major achievement to make art that is so distinguishable that has that unique mark of yours. How many filmmakers can claim such authenticity? Roy Andersson is a filmmaker that works with his soul and not his brain and you can see that, gloriously, happening in front of your eyes that stay totally mesmerized by the sight.
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