The fourteen-fifteen-year-old boy Eisley was at the moment of his first love. The ignorant young man's concept of love has been influenced by the adults next to him. The film is very real, showing the love in reality tepidly, without being overly romantic or exaggeratingly cold and extreme.
Every boy who is in love is the same, imagine a beautiful and flawless love, as long as you love me and I love you at some point, we can stay together forever and grow old together. Maybe love should be like this, without being disturbed by the chaos and complexity of the world. Ellis thought so, and even fought to protect the older girl he had a crush on. I love you, so I want to protect you. This is the responsibility of love.
On the island of the Mississippi River, Ellis and Naik meet Mad, a down-to-earth but charismatic man, on a curious teenage adventure. Madd told Eisley a love story of life and death, he tolerated all the flaws of his girlfriend, and even killed for her and planned to fly away together. In the story of Madeleine, Madeleine and his girlfriend Jenny fell in love with each other. This story deeply touched and influenced Eisley. The fourteen-year-old boy began to yearn for a simple and pure love, and sincerely helped Madeleine implement the escape plan. .
Meanwhile, Ellis' parents' marriage is in crisis, and Mom wants to leave the Mississippi River where she's lived for decades, leave the houseboat left by her father, and go to town to live a new life of freedom (as Madd says , everyone needs freedom, so his girlfriend Jenny has a tattoo of a flying bird on her right hand). Dad is conservative and yearns for comfort. He doesn't understand what's wrong with a quiet life, and he once condemned his wife's irresponsibility. Caught in the contradiction, Ellis doesn't understand why love can easily fail in such trivial matters, and why men can't pay and sacrifice for the woman they love, just like Mad on the island. So he is more determined to help Mad and fulfill their love.
Before, Ellis thought that this was love because of the "You can call me" and a kiss from the girl who had a crush on Mei. It was later found out that May was not serious, maybe in May's view what she did to Ellis was just a thank you to those who appreciated her, in her view Ellis was very small and naive; maybe it was just a frivolity just a promise. But in Ellis' view, it was the first heartbreak in his life, just as Nick's uncle said in the film "When you fall in love with a girl, you start to break."
There is no right or wrong in the world of love, and it is not simple. Although Mad and his girlfriend still love each other deeply, in the face of the powerful Avengers, they have to consider each other's safety, and the two eventually broke up. This result is difficult for the pure Eisley to understand, after all, the adult world is far more complicated than he imagined. He didn't understand why Made and Jenny gave up. They clearly loved each other. When she saw Jenny crying sadly in bed, Ellis didn't understand love more and more. After all, juvenile love only advances without retreat. But could adult Made's love be a continuation of teenage Ellis' love?
The film is not only about love, but also about family and friendship. The love of Ellis' parents for Ellis, the love of Tom's for his non-natural son Mad, the love of Naik's uncle for Naik, the love of the bounty hunter for his son (so much so that he went after Mard), these loves All contain tolerance, protection, responsibility and helplessness. Everyone will envy the friendship between Ellis and Naik. They encourage and help each other when each other encounters difficulties. This is also the inherent wealth of young people. At the end of the film, Ellis' mother leaves the boathouse, Moving to the town, Naik rode a motorcycle to the houseboat to comfort Ellis. Ellis said, "If you are free, come and help me tidy up the new room." Many teenage friends lost contact because of moving or studying abroad, but here , gives a touch of warmth, love hurts, then hold on to friendship.
Believe that all that has happened will make Eisley mature faster, just like you and me in real life, he has nothing to lose in the end, parents, friends, and Madd who is running away on the Mississippi, he Maybe he also got a lot, the importance of parents and friends in his heart, a life experience, an insight, or a pure love in his increasingly mature life.
At the beginning of the film, two teenagers drive a boat on the misty Mississippi River. The fog is like a person's complicated state of mind, but there will be a day when it will dissipate. This just caters to the end of the movie. The Eisley family moved out of the riverside cottage and came to a new place. He saw a new beautiful girl. At that moment, what would his idea of love be like? Made out of the cabin, the mist of the Mississippi River under the sunlight has dissipated, and the long river flows slowly to a wider distance.
The rhythm and style of this film are close to the narrative of life. It is tepid, just like the flowing water of the Mississippi River. As the story develops, people get better and better. What's even better is that Matthew McConaughey and the two young actors' very good performances add a lot of color to the film. Matthew McConaughey - "sludge mud" in the play is as his name suggests. A tolerant heart, for love can tolerate everything, take risks, and finally give up everything decisively. Because he knew that leaving was the only feasible ending for his reckless love with his girlfriend.
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