“Swiss Army Man” Who made this movie? ? Who is Daniels, the new director who is attracting a lot of attention?

The origin of the “corpse compass” where libido goes out of control

I would like to mention another music video that made “Daniels” popular. "Turn Down For What" is a collaboration song between French hip-hop and EDM musician DJ Snake and rapper Lil John. It's an age-old song that makes you think, ``This is not the time to be depressed!''

What this video and Swiss Army Man have in common is the "uncontrollable libido." "Turn Down For What" starts with an Asian man (Daniel Kwan) standing on the roof of a building, and the crotch area of ​​his sweatshirt starts to throb and grow in time with the beat of the song, and eventually he uses the power of his crotch to break through the concrete on the roof and burst into the room below. I'll say it again: "use the power of his crotch to break through the concrete on the roof"!

Speaking of crotches, one of the convenient features of Many, the "useful corpse" from Swiss Army Man is that when Many, who was supposed to be dead, remembers the joy of love, his crotch points in the direction of human settlement like a compass. It may seem like a silly dirty joke, but it is a convincing depiction precisely because it shows how the primal desire to "meet the person you love and want to live" is directly connected to libido.

In "Turn Down For What", the Indian girl's buttocks start to move wildly, and the breasts of the woman on the floor below start to move wildly, leading to an incomprehensible party where the crotch, buttocks and breasts are in a battle royale. This overly upper, high-tension style of comedy had not yet exploded in "Swiss Army Man", so I look forward to seeing it in the second or third feature film that Daniels will be working on in the near future.

Text: Akira Murayama

Born in 1971. Writes articles for magazines, newspapers, movie sites, etc. Representative of “ShortCuts,” a review site for distribution-based works.

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