The truest self is also the most hated self

"I'm going to kill myself." At the beginning of the movie, when Nadine sits down and starts a long speech, you can probably guess that this is just another fussing about a negative energy girl who makes a big fuss. There seem to be quite a few people like this around (I am a super Nadine person myself), so the description seems particularly real. But looking back on the American youth films in recent years, I found that most of the themes are still about the confusion and sentimentality of youth, or just popcorn-type sex comedies. It doesn't mean that this film is not about the confusion of youth, but its confusion is not like the sentimental confusion mentioned earlier, it is more like an extremely anxious and impatient confusion. It is precisely by finding this unique entry point that the film becomes different and fresh from the past. Personally, sentimentality and anxiety accounted for most of my growing pains, but for comparison, anxiety is definitely a more general term.

Therefore, this should be a movie with a strong sense of substitution, and you will hate yourself after watching it.

The story begins with Nadine's best friend "getting on" with her brother. For no reason (or rightfully?), Nadine sees them as betrayal and abandonment. Sometimes in life, you only need to tear open a small mouth, and the long-standing resentment can take the opportunity to drill out of the cracks, and then ferment and grow like bread. That's how Nadine treats her grievances. The sudden death of my father, growing up in the shadow of a perfect brother, and then to the betrayal of my best friend, life is indeed unfair, but I think, without the sensitivity and hypocrisy of adolescence, the misfortunes ahead cannot work together to push the seventeen-year-old girl to collapse edge. Seventeen-year-old Nadine actually struggles with her emotions more often. But in the process, how many seventeens can overcome well? Fortunately, the people around Nadine are mature enough to pull her back from the brink of growth.

The humorous teacher should be my favorite character in the movie. Facing the adolescent Nadine, my mother and brother will still have some crazy moments when they are caught off guard. All the sarcasm and slander of the heroine. A sentence "You are my favorite student" is enough to show the teacher's emotional intelligence. He is Nadine's best listener, in other words, he never argues with others, never refutes others' right or wrong, but silently affects Nadine with his actions. When the teacher's family of three lives happily in front of her eyes, Nadine already understands that not everyone in the world is as bad as she imagined, and many of her judgments are actually just shameless self-righteousness.

There is also a good portrayal of the Asian boy Owen. It turns out that Asian boys who grew up in the United States are still as shy and embarrassed as the domestic ones. Hahaha.

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