She is a girl who wants to defect from the pedantic life experiences of her parents, she is full of aura.
At this starting point, her films have similar themes-namely, the emptiness of life and the fragility of beauty and fragility. Understanding this point may help to understand this seemingly boring movie-and boring, I believe it is a serious and unavoidable artistic theme-it is a pity that there are few directors who can express well. few.
Just like "somewhere", that kind of powerless floating feeling still permeates every detail of this film, even boring, but it can't be abandoned-because this is the only boat you can live in the world. As a young director with a pure style, Coppola has always been in this direction. You can say that she is shallow and frivolous, avoiding the importance and neglecting, or saying that she sees the big from the small.
If you can not regard stealing as a crime, put aside the moral judgments of good and bad and the notions of right and wrong, let alone karma and vanity matter, and only regard it as a process of a few young girls pursuing life experience and self-realization. , Then, many details of this movie are easier to understand and not so boring.
In this way, the second half starts with the mother and daughter being interviewed (this is a very wonderful ironic scene), and there are some dramatic details that are restrained, indifferent, but indeed very similar to storytelling, and " Meaning". Including girls who think they still live a life of attention in prison (stealing is also part of this life and performance), and they can lead other people's lives like their obsessed star; including the boy who is not aware Until the best friend deceived him-this kind of director is portraying and trying to touch the hearts of those naive, childish, chaotic and divided boys and girls-children's attitude of not admitting mistakes usually evolves into playing real Fake game------ "I just talked about it. I want to see what happens when I do this. Don't you know acting?" Relying on the gossip of big people and celebrities to live a imaginary life..."------As in the scene of a mother-daughter interview, the mother rushed to answer reporters’ questions, and her daughter asked her not to steal her limelight. At the same time She also wanted to express her own independent thoughts and opinions, with a mouth, saying the same things as her middle-class parents who firmly believe in a healthy life.
The only boy in the girl thieves group is very interesting. The reason for his involvement in the theft is not because of vanity and love for famous brands and money. He is because of loneliness and the need for friends. Many details are around this boy's setting. And paved.
According to the common sense of psychology, adolescence of girls is a stage of self-searching. Before self-formation, they will imitate others and hope to gain recognition-a detail in the film: news reports say that the Hollywood girl they like The star was caught stealing jewelry in the store. Everyone is stealing, and what they stole may be what someone else stole home from the store.
You will find that the director consciously shoots a lot of the theft scenes, very chic, very relaxing, and very different in meaning-----the beautiful lights of the mansion, the images of the girls who sneak out and sneak in excitedly are playing the protagonists of the movie; It seems that a passionate self has been found in this kind of theft...The flooded shoes symbolizes the material scene where everything is surplus...The director wants to say a lot, even a "clockwork orange"-- ------At first, the girl’s purely subjective wishes and instinctive behaviors eventually turned into legal punishments and celebrity shows that people easily understand. This is a world where only jewels are used as the rules of control.
If you want to bypass the traditional logic and concepts of society, morality, idol culture, and material consumption, and capture the emptiness and exaggeration of a pure life, the shortcomings of young directors are easy to leak...The meaning of the second half comes out It's-----and the meaning of this is somewhat realistic, cliché and deliberate, the ending song is the theme-"We can't drink too much".
Some critics say that this is not as pure as "Spring Break", which is probably what it meant.
Generally speaking, there are two failures:
1. Arrange the lines for boys and girls to be as simple and empty as possible—because if you say too much, you seem mature. If you are mature, how could it be possible to steal Is there no fear of the consequences of being punished? How can you not want to have a monitoring system? This is a dilemma in creation.
Because there is little to say, the director over-controls the characters' reactions in the event, which causes the characters to appear flat and a bit distorted, and there is also a lack of contrast between the characters. For most viewers, they are neither cute nor worth digging into their hearts.
2. As adapted from a news event, the social orientation (meaning and signifier) caused by this event itself is too established and stable, and it is difficult to dissolve it, and then rewrite its meaning, causing misunderstanding and ambiguity, and weak emotional appeal . Just like a boy assaulted a stranger for a reason he didn't understand, for most viewers, the explanation is nothing more than brain damage, violent impulse, and acting cool. It is difficult to explain it as loneliness.
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