Johnny Depp was still very young in this period.
The era of Edward Scissorhands has just passed. He is not the pirate captain Jack who is popular all over the world, nor the weird and feminine Willy Wonka, and he is farther away from the brutal and forbidding barber Todd. His face also showed extreme changes in youth and after maturity. However, he is still him.
I prefer weird characters, and perform them with ease and perfection.
Gilbert in this "Different Sky" is relatively bland to the bones.
In it, his mentally handicapped younger brother Yani is played by another world-class superstar today - Leonardo DiCaprio, the uncrowned king famous for <
The film begins with Gilbert and his brother Yani sitting on the side of the road waiting for the camper van that passes by every year. Their desire for freedom was evident from the very beginning, but it contradicted the reality of their lives.
They live in an old wooden house built by their father, who committed suicide more than a decade ago, with their sister and sister, and their mother, who was said to be the most elegant and beautiful in the area when they were young.
On the surface, their lives seem to be unchanging quiet and leisurely, but in fact, they have gradually collapsed on the inside.
Gilbert was only responsible for repairing the house, but was not allowed to rebuild or abandon it. They never leave this plain and simple place, and they never accept new things.
Their mother is still unable to accept the reality of her husband's suicide, and has not stepped out of the house since seven years ago and gradually gave up on herself and became too fat to move. Younger brother Yani was ruled less than ten years old by doctors, but he is eighteen this year and his family decided to throw a birthday party for him.
Working in an old-fashioned grocery store down the street, Gilbert had to take his brother, who could disappear at any time, with him wherever he went. He never had plans for the future, and he had no dreams that he couldn't have. Their older sister had to quit her job as a teacher because she had to take care of her younger siblings and her overweight mother, and her younger sister was growing up and had a bad temper.
Work, quarrel, play, look for a playful younger brother, hang out with a married woman, meet regular friends every day.
He never complained about life because he didn't know how to live otherwise. He even approached everything with an almost numb attitude. When the woman who seduced him in his arms
decided to leave this place. He asked her, why me? She said, because I know only you will never leave.
Such a life is as stagnant as stagnant water, and eventually tends to extremes. Until one of the never-ending convoys of campers stopped.
Betsy is used to wandering and is free and easy. Temporarily parked here due to a breakdown of the camper van.
The first time Betsy saw Gilbert, he was coaxing Yani down from the tower with a trumpet singing a tune of his own, and she stood in the crowd watching him from a distance, smiling.
She changed his life. Or to say, she glowed with his desire to leave.
They sat on the harvested rice fields and looked at their blurred house on the horizon at the end of the sunset, he said, it looked so small here, but inside it was so big.
Yanni, who has no thinking ability, climbed the tower in the town again and again, and climbed higher and higher each time. In the end, he was taken into custody because he alerted the police again and again.
The death of their mother may have been the ultimate relief for them. Both for the mother herself and for her children.
In order not to make the mother a laughing stock, they left her in the old house and burned the house together. They watched as Xiongxiong's burning flames and billowing smoke burned their shackles to dust.
So I finally saw that Kibert and Yani were still waiting by the side of the road for the camper van as scheduled, but this time, they left with them.
The film as a whole looks pale and hopeless, but there is hope everywhere.
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