with all the misery in the world and how can we not get drunk . miaa lovely aerial view of a major city turn ominous with the approach of a fleet of airplane bomber while an irate hairdresser react to a perceive racial slur cut a road through a businessman bushy hair while a man dream of be drag to an electric chair after a failed magic trick and a teacher break down in front of her grade school class because her husband call her a hag . these and about fifty other vignette that run the gamut from the outright depress to the wildly humorous to the joyously uplifting populate roy andersson you and the living and his first feature since his critically acclaim if commercially unsuccessful song from the second floor . you and the living be fill with the same kind of imaginative set piece a song and replete with black humor and surreal situation and and strange look character . though a bit overlong and less focused than his early work and what remain constant be andersson unmistakable style with it stationary camera and sterile look background and and precise attention to detail . if there be a theme that tie the sketch together and it be that our time on earth be limited and tomorrow another day and so let treat each other with kindness . along the way and we be entertain by tuba and drum music from the louisiana brass band and dinner guest at a banquet hall stand on their chair sing a rousing song and and a house that turn into a move train . the emotion range from the gloom of a daughter attempt to communicate with an alzheimer patient to a young woman ecstatic dream about marry a handsome guitar player name micke to the cheer of a crowd of onlooker . while there be no continuous narrative thread and the theme of greed and desperation appear in several sketch . the first of these thread feature two corpulent individual and their tiny dog sit on a park bench and the woman bewail the fact that no one understand or love her and yet she blithely ignore the man comforting and reassuring word . there be also a hefty admixture of irony . during what seem to be an executive luncheon and one man tell another on the phone that worker do not appreciate quality and how nice it be to appreciate money and the thing that it can buy such a fine wine . when he be not look and however and a man at an adjacent table calmly lift his wallet from his jacket on the back of his chair . though andersson cynicism be at time not very well hide and you the living have an underlying humanism that show compassion for the human condition . it be a cautionary tale that look at the mess we human have get ourselves into but suggest there be still time to turn it around and if we heed the warning of the poet goethe that open the film and be please then and you the living and in your delightfully warm bed and before lethe ice cold wave will lick your escape foot .