——After watching the film "Me and Earl and the Dying Girl"
The film "Me and Earl and the Dying Girl" was adapted from the novel of the same name by Jesse Andrews. Described by The Hollywood Report as "smart, charming, and mercilessly tear-jerking, this film is a sincere celebration of adolescence's creativity." Unlike the domestic blowout teen movies -- endless The old song, the goddess who can't get it, this little fresh literary film is not only a true description of American high school life, but also a tribute to the film and full of creativity.
The male protagonist Greg is an ordinary American high school student who carefully maintains his various circles in order to maintain a proper distance from his classmates. As a long-time movie fan, he and his "collaborator" Earl have produced many short spoof short films adapted from classic movies. To a certain extent, this is the only difference between him and others. The change happened when Greg visited a terminally ill classmate, Rachel, one day at the behest of his mother. In the company of day after day, Greg and Rachel became good friends. In the process of helping Rachel, Greg achieved self-rescue and learned to accept others sincerely, not just treat others indifferently and withdrawn. At the same time, I also learned to feel the tenderness and beauty around me, and to treat the world more positively.
A lot of times we are similar to Greg, on the surface we are at peace with the world, but in fact we each form a small world of our own. We don’t want to take on more responsibilities, and we don’t want to change our stereotyped lives because of intimacy, so we just maintain basic social interaction with people. In fact, this kind of relationship between each other is not that we can't get it, but because its formation and maintenance itself is a very labor-intensive thing.
So we are afraid to love, afraid of changing again and again, afraid of gaining and losing again and again. We choose to escape when we are confused and uneasy, and we choose to give up when we worry about gains and losses again and again, and we are unwilling to let others share and enter our world. Therefore, Greg also called his best friend Earl, who grew up with him, as a "coworker".
In the film, Greg's mental activities are shown in clay animations, and he sees himself as a chipmunk living in a tall animal group, and is inadvertently crushed. So when his mother's endless nagging made Greg have to accompany a terminally ill girl, he could only accept it silently after the resistance was ineffective.
In the end, just as Greg had to deal with losing friends, college, and the future. One day we have to leave our comfort zone, change, and face the journey alone without being alone. Maybe we should be less anxious and numb to our surroundings, let ourselves be full of enthusiasm and anticipation for life, and let ourselves be more than just a trick in this wonderful world.
At the end of the film, Greg achieved "self-salvation" after helping Rachel, and went up the stairs on the way Rachel watched Greg leave every day, heading for a farther distance.
"A person's life can live on in the memory of others, and that can only be done by showing what you deserve to be remembered - the love you give for others."
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