In recent years, films about how terminally ill girls face the rest of their lives have taken up part of the European and American screens, but most of them have been shown in a lack of restraint, tending to be sensational, often making people abandon the film The urge to run away, when the film "Me and Earl and the Dying Girl" adapted from the novel of the same name appeared in front of me, I couldn't help but sigh: Thank goodness, there is finally one to watch. of such films.
In fact, "Me and Earl and the Dying Girl" is not only to be watched, it is out of conventional but unconventional expressions, the alternative high school life it reproduces, the mental journey it presents, the open-mindedness in its bones and The natural performances of the actors in the film are all pleasing. No wonder the film shined at the Sundance Film Festival, won the Jury Prize and the Audience Choice Award at the same time, and was appreciated by almost all mainstream film media in North America, and film critics said that it can not only impress young audiences, And it will become a classic youth-themed film in the minds of a generation.
Perhaps, what the film critic of "Variety" said is not appropriate. Personally, I feel that the film does not deliberately impress anyone, it is just doing itself, and presents it vividly and interestingly with young people's thinking mode and situational processing method. It is an extraordinary experience at the end of high school life. It does have the qualifications that make the discerning audience shine, and through its quite fresh presentation method, the audience can experience the main journey of the three children in that year. , including moods, encounters, changes, and inevitable growth. Perhaps, the author Salinger's statement that "growing up is a must-have fester" is a bit tragic, but most people have experienced pain, irritation, trauma, festering, and then healing (of course, there are also many that cannot be healed). And the state of mind has been stuck in adolescence), this healing process, some self-study completed, some thanks to others, can be bestowed by others, but also depends on the individual's ability to comprehend, the growth of the boy Greg, part of the It comes from self-study, partly thanks to friends, and he happens to be a kind-hearted and emotional and rational person.
The value of the film is not only its freshness and uniqueness in its narrative, but also its humorous and optimistic tone, and its equality of perspectives, no praise or criticism. The audience seems to have entered the life of the people in the film, regardless of school, It is still a family, watching them playfully, watching them earnestly, watching them unlucky, watching their joys and sorrows, watching what they do to stress "the troubles of growing up", "the misfortune of fate" or "brain damage" or "Smart" move. The director Alfonso Gomez-Rejon, together with the original work and screenwriter Jesse Andrews, leads the audience into or re-enters the situation of youth. It doesn't matter whether the audience is in a high school in the United States, the sense of substitution has been completed in time and space seamless stitching.
The film's opening scene with a little self-joking and seemingly "beautiful and sad" adjusts the viewing mode to a comfortable state. Greg, the hero in the film, seems to be living a non-mainstream life in high school. He wanders in various factions. Besides, he can say hello to anyone he sees, but no one can really get close to him, even his only "friend" Earl, in his opinion, is just a partner. . Obviously, Greg is the type who "has a fire in his heart, and people passing by only see smoke", but this does not prevent Greg from enjoying himself. Probably such a small literary hobby makes him look inconspicuous. He lives comfortably in his own world.
At first, he was asked to visit the terminally ill girl Rachel. Greg refused, but he couldn't hold back his mother's broken thoughts, so he went to express his friendship with the school. Greg, who is different from the tragic greeting convention, and Rachel, who is different from other terminally ill and has various emotions, did not seem to give the audience any appearance of intersection at the beginning, but in fact, the film is hidden here. An opportunity for the two to become friends. By chance, Rachel saw Greg and Earl's "filmmaking" and could share the most intimate creations, making it possible for the three to become friends. Movies are once again an indispensable and irresistible bond in human relationships.
Let's join Rachel and watch the light and shadow production of "Geer Film Productions" in those years, many of which were directed to Orson Welles, Federico Fellini, Francois True Tribute to masters such as Frederick and Stanley Kubrick, such as "Senior Citizen Cane", "ate 8 1/2", "the 400 Bros" , "A Sockwork Orange (A Sockwork Orange)", "Eyes wide butt" and so on, so that fans can not help but sigh at the same time.
Halfway through the film, Greg said that Rachel was not dead. After watching the film, the audience may understand what Greg means, usually a person will die twice, once physically, once completely disappear from people's memory, and Rachel will never disappear, she is a friend of hers. The letter written in the college application has changed the trajectory of his friend's life, giving him more possibilities in the future. She will remain in Greg's life just like the world in the books she created. Rosie de Palma once said, "Even in death, I have seen beauty." Indeed, some people's deaths also shine with beauty.
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