life is a struggle

For a long time during the National Day, stay at home to make up for the good films that have fallen before, including winter's bone and the mini TV series "They Explode on the Day of Graduation". It is impossible not to associate these two films with very different temperaments, because they both feature a seventeen-year-old boy as the protagonist, and despite their unremitting efforts to maintain their innocence and bravery, they are inevitably rejected. The evils of the dirty world are involved in tragedy. Of course, in terms of ending, the former is a little warmer than the latter, but the Chinese R&b "life is a struggle", which is repeated in the latter, can actually interpret the former as well.
When it is the biggest difference between the two films, it is actually the way to deal with the vicious jokes of life. Seventeen-year-old Chen Haoyuan, faced with the embarrassment of suddenly finding out that his father had been pretending to go to work and borrowing loan sharks for him to study, and then he suffered the pain of losing his father before he could confess that he actually forgave him. When the gun pointed at the behind-the-scenes boss of the underground bank, there was actually a sentence "Since I can't go to college, I'm also ruined." In the eyes of oriental people, the life of inertial thinking is difficult, sometimes making people laugh and hold back.
In comparison, the difficulties faced by the seventeen-year-old Ree can be regarded as an advanced version--the death of the father, the madness of the mother, the tenderness of the younger brothers and the younger sisters, and the danger of being confiscated from the already poor family. relatives of convicted criminals who want to retrieve their father (which later became his body) in order to keep the house that was confiscated on bail for his absence from court. She has been rock-hard throughout the process, save for occasional desperate pleas to her mad mother for "can you please help me this time". Of course, this kind of super precocious strength is not abrupt unless it grows up in the special setting of a criminal family.
In comparison, I must think that Chen Haoyuan's confusion, bitterness, and despair when facing the plight of his youth are more like your and my reactions. When life is unsatisfactory, we are more accustomed to hoping to hide in the warm shelter provided, such as love, reading, and the university that we are looking forward to. The final solution is a certain explosion of despair. In our movies, it is like winter's bone. The narratives that spin around in cruel reality are generally in the context of middle-aged people. Adolescence is so haloed that we are so helpless and ignorant when we face the struggle of reality.

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