Some things you don't expect to happen.
Floating clouds flow in the blue sky, green is green. The blond teenager is worried about his drunken dad and being late again; a photography student immersed in the joy of work is taking pictures of couples in school; a few chatty girls chat about all kinds of school trivia, and the big boys in their eyes. The handsome guy was talking to his girlfriend about the party; some boys in physics class were bullying the silent boys in the last row of paintings; some venomous girls in physical education class were laughing at the dull glasses girl.
Everything is perfectly normal. It's what happens in a normal high school.
Perhaps only gay meetings are less common in China.
Everything is so ordinary. Empty, dull long shots follow everyone, as if the audience are a group of ubiquitous ghosts, following and watching people. The clues of the narrative are interrupted and disrupted again and again, and then continue to unfold with the footage of another person passing by. The thread of the story is repeated and intersected again and again - people brushing each other again and again, supporting the first half of the film. Complex and huge skeleton. We've seen people's sometimes unknown lives, they're unknown, they're hiding and taking drugs, they're crying quietly for their troubles, they're talking behind their backs, they're kissing, they're fighting, they're hiding in the toilet and spitting up the lunch they just ate Come to lose weight - they are the epitome of an ordinary high school, rebellious, longing for family love, pursuit of ideals, mixed with small contradictions that are constantly blasting in friendship, disguised brilliance, inferiority complex, pride, indifference, vulnerability , fantasy, selfish or unselfish love. They are ordinary people. On such an ordinary day, ordinary things keep echoing in everyone's world.
boom.
The most dangerous undercurrents often go undetected. Or, it was selectively ignored. Like an elephant breaking into a room.
Alex and Eric, two young men who are always bullied. We have no way of knowing what they looked like, all we see is crazy graffiti in the messy room, Alex playing graceful tunes, his sad expression accustomed to crazy thoughts.
They are determined to kill, and their strange computer game has only one thing: kill. They watch Nazi shows, they buy guns, they make elaborate plans. "The most important thing is to be happy," Alex told Eric. The ostensible lovers are actually just unhappy.
They filled the campus, warning only one friend - John, who had been sullen all day. In fact, more people saw these two young men with weapons, but only John didn't ignore them.
Up to this point they were just treating the elephant in the room as an illusion.
The way of dying or surviving seems to be a metaphor: Elias took what he wanted most in the last moments of his life, Michell's calm death was more of a relief, girls who laughed at others ended up being laughed at by their own destiny...
Alex After drinking a drink left by someone in the restaurant, Eric joked with him and was killed suddenly by Alex. Alex walked into the kitchen and calmly found the last couple who hid, enie meenie ninie moe, cath a redneck by his toe, if he hollers let him go... He raised his gun and aimed, reciting the song, the camera slowly moved away Go...
Slaughter shows an inexplicable black man who appears to be trying to save some people, but succumbs to Eric's gun. Actually there is no need for a savior here.
Black saves the girl who kisses John when she sees her crying. The director kept her and John alive, whether it was to show the power of love. The cover of the movie is also the scene of their kiss.
If someone could give Alex and Eric a kiss too, the story wouldn't have happened.
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