ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on the urban environment through an analysis of Roy Andersson's movie You, the Living and Ernst Barlach's Beggar on Crutches in order to explore the reciprocal interaction of the human and the spatial. You, the Living is a unique composition, in which the film's microcosm showcases not an overarching existential drama, but a tapestry of small, ordinary dramas from which a leading message eventually emerges. Through its characters and constructed, urban environment, the movie reveals how the naked, raw and uncooked in human existence attempts to adopt a clothed, cooked and cultivated way of life. Roy and Benny Andersson use three different forms of music, interchanging typical audio files, action music and background music. Like the dynamic patterns of raw bricks on building facades, You, the Living's characters create a gloriously rich and multifaceted web of social life.
