Analysis of Short Film Me and You-Group work

Group Members: Qian Yiwei, Xu Qiqi, Xu Mengyuan, Ye Deyi
Me and You:

Summary:

A man is tiding up his bedroom, waiting for his girlfriend’s arrival. He throws away empty beer can, and hides pornographic magazines. At first, the atmosphere in this room is happy. He and his girlfriend live a sweet life. They watch TV, play video games, and have fun in the room together, then make love. They take photos and decorate the room with these photos. However, with time going by, they notice each other’s shortcomings. The roof leaks, and the atmosphere in this room becomes cool. They do their own things in this room, paying no attention to each other. Conflict eventually comes up. They quarrel for the bills. Then the man’s girlfriend leaves the man. He lies in the bed alone day after day. Finally, the man gets up, cleans his room, takes down those photos, changes the sheet, and finds out the pornographic magazines again. A new life is waiting for him.

Elements in the film:

The mess of the bedroom：It a changing of the bedroom. The man cleans up the bedroom. When the man dates with the woman, the room is more and more messy.

Bed: At the beginning of the story, the man makes up the bed. The bed is never cleaned up during their courtship. After they break up, the man cleans his bed. 

A little blue doll: it shows up three times and the man reacts differently. First, it shows up when they are in sweet courtship. The man laughs happily when the blue doll makes a sound. Second, it shows up when the man quarrels with his girlfriend. The man throws the little doll out of the window. Third, the doll is thrown into the bedroom by someone. The man holds the little doll for a moment and puts it into sundries box.

Porno magazine: At the beginning of the story, the man hides the porno magazine. In contrast, the man takes out the porno magazine in his beside table.

Analyze one element:

The bed: it is the main subject in the film, which is always in the center of the frame. It symbolizes the relationship between the man and the woman.

·      In the very beginning, the man makes up his bed and makes it look clean and tidy, which indicates that the man is anticipating a relationship. Then, he and the woman watch movies and make love on the bed.

·      The man and the woman have great fun on bed. After they become lovers, the woman dances on the bed, they play video games on the bed, and they eat on the bed while watching movies. These activities on bed indicate that they are very much in love with each other.

·      After a period of time, their bed is becoming increasingly disordered and they do not clean the messy clothes and stuff on the bed. Later, they throw things on bed when they fight with each other. The above suggests that they begin to feel tired of the relationship and find conflicts between them.

·      When the woman left, the man just lied on the bed but did not cleaned it up. It seems that this man was looking forward to woman's coming back.

·      In the end, the bed is cleaned up again, like what the bed looked like at the beginning. It indicates the end of the relationship and this man did not dream that the woman could come back. The cycle starts anew. This man may wait for his next love, like what he did at the beginning.