SingStreet is the title of the film and the name of the school band in the movie. It is said that it is called "Sing Tongjie" in Cantonese, but it was translated as "First Love Unlimited JAM" when it was released, which immediately gave the film a layer of neon from the 1980s. Color flash. In the movie, the heroine Raphina with heavy eye makeup is like the first madness written on the workbook, making the life of the hero Conor break the boundaries of the word style. However, Sing Street is not just a pure love movie for music teenagers. It is more suitable to be called "Young Conor’s Troubles": his family numbs his muscles and bones, the school makes him devastated, his secret love makes him lost, and his brother’s black The creation and performance of vinyl records and bands accompanied his growth. Youth is cruel, and the seasons are beautiful. Perhaps after many years, how can we pay tribute to the reunion.
first love
originated from the last scene of the movie, "The Passing of Spring" by Byron. As an unfaithful reader, after all, he only knows his popular love poem, and vaguely remembers that there was a period of bitterness behind his words and sentences. It doesn’t matter whether your head is filled with rhythms, chords, or just a mass of paste that doesn’t have any thoughts, that’s okay. People standing at the bottom of the steps of admiration are the same. In no way hesitated. The boy Conor liked Rahpina at first glance. She stood opposite the school in a posture not close to anyone, with a silk scarf wrapped around her slender neck, two golden rings on her earlobes, and an unlit cigarette at the corner of her mouth. He likes her beauty and prefers that she wears all over her body and is full of opposition to his daily life. She is an alien spaceship that suddenly descends, sending gravitational light waves towards him. Raphina stared straight at Conor coming from across the street, raising her eyebrows, her eyes quickly moving up and down. This kid, who was beaten up in the school cafeteria with black eyes, started to strike up a conversation, but he was very quick.
"Do you want a fire?
No, I'm quitting smoking.
I don't have a fire either."
She is a future "model", and he has a dreamy "band". He is a 14-to-five-year-old half-mature boy. He has not yet taken off his childishness, but is carrying the social air of the adult world. Raphina asked Conor to sing to prove herself when she said, "You will sing in front of thousands of people in the future, and I'm just one of them." Just as she believed that she was about to become a London model, she was also full of pretentious gestures to school boys. It is interest, which is probably the infinite possibilities of youth dreams.
"When you don’t know some people, they will be much more interesting. They can be whatever you want; but when you get to know them, they will have deficiencies in one way or another." Conor in the video Flashed back to Raphina's face twice, the first time she looked down at him with an unfamiliar smile, and the second time she sat on the steps and took off her sunglasses to look up at herself. When the former flashed by, she was the mystery he wrote in the song. Question, when I recalled the latter, she was the moonlight with the clouds disappearing. Conor rode Raphina home for the first time. She laughed and said that she had never been on such a slow bicycle. He detours on the trails at night, and she is also in his heart. You know how much you like her/him, she/he may also know, but there is "a London full of allure" between you, it It's a faraway admission notice, a ticket to a foreign country, or a mature man driving a convertible, and you only have a lyrics in your hand. People like to compare first love to an apple, which will eventually oxidize over time after biting it, but only by tasting its sweetness or astringency can you experience the different flavors of other fruits.
Raphina will put makeup on everyone for the band's first video, and will jump into the sea to make a perfect music video. Whenever it comes to dreams, she will do everything she can. Conor rescued her who could not swim ashore, "This is for our art, you must not only do half", and then the embarrassed but beautiful first kiss in the movie, between the blue sea and the sky, the natural light and shadows and flowers are lost. The makeup is beautiful that is difficult to reproduce with any technology. On the train back home, the drenched two were separated by noisy band partners. They did not talk, but looked at each other quietly, and the brisk jumping melody gradually replaced all the sounds. At that moment, all of Conor's heartfelt voice fell on Raphina's long eyelashes like a pale yellow halo, trembling and flickering, like the wings of a swallowtail butterfly in the setting sun.
At the end of the film, Conor rode his grandfather's boat and took Raphina into the baptism of the sea again. A pair of faintly visible white-haired adults on the tall ship waved to them, desperate youth and life-satisfied twilight at this moment sailing to the same shore. The big ship leads the way, and the boat is difficult to travel, but it doesn’t matter how much wind and rain the journey is long as a teenager.
family's
first love is a sweet marshmallow with a sweet memory, it can't be soaked in the double tears of youth. The first shot of Sing Street is zoomed out from the close-up of the male protagonist Conor playing the piano and singing, and the shouts of parents arguing outside the painting are gradually rising. Not only is Conor annoyed and angry about this family life, but the plucking fingers show his fragility. Powerless.
A total of 5 groups of families appeared in the movie, portraying several kinds of "strange love". In the open line, Conor’s divorced parents, mentor-like brother, and obedient sister are fully explained. The director used the 1 minute 31 second breakfast scene to explain the tension and character of the family of five clearly and completely. : The mother who bears the living expenses wears a red plush coat, and the hard life can hardly conceal her beauty-loving nature; the father’s frequent and large gestures are both bossy and a symbol of his desire to have a family status; the sister is always silent, but Someone nodded in agreement with his father's words; the elder shook his hair, slapped his shoulders in favor of his younger brother, was frivolous and disdainful to his father, and turned a blind eye to his mother and sister around him. He seemed to live more unruly than anyone else, but only Another body trapped by the island. After his father explained everything, everyone got up and left the table. Only the confused Conor had not recovered from the news of the transfer. From an ideological point of view, he is an elder brother's supporter, and music or life follow suit. From an action point of view, he is a obedience to his father. Most of the time, he just listens to the conversations of adults in silence like his sister. . He is every adolescent child in a divided family. The more he pretends, the less he speaks.
The mother of the band member Eamon appeared in three scenes. She was a housewife who spoiled her son: in the living room there was a portrait of a rabbit that Eamon liked. She was displeased with his playing in the team but did not hinder him, and she silently accepted the child. We rehearse at home every time. When Eamon mentioned her father's band, her mother only sneered. She was obviously full of incomprehension to Eamon's father. This gap even surpassed Conor's mother complaining that her husband never paid attention to what she passed through. As a character who never appeared in the movie, Eamon’s father was also absent from his family. It was the middle-aged man Conor said that he should never become: stay in the band, stay on the island, and don’t know his dreams. , Alcoholism, and development towards depression, and eventually isolated from family relationships, leaving only his son’s knowledge of music theory to his wife full of sorrow, so Eamon’s mother was a little bit stricter in addition to her extreme pampering, smoking, college , Work, dealing with all the trivial matters of Eamon or will become all her soul sustenance in the future.
The band’s keyboard player Nike was photographed by Conor because of his skin color. In the words of his friends, "The band will be cooler if there are black people." His mother is an outgoing woman with a bad pronunciation and very fast speaking. She lives in an Irish house. The decoration is as fancy and rich as the tropical kingdom. The family plight of Raphina and the bad boy Barry is far beyond Conor’s imagination: They are a family of alcoholic and bipolar disorder, and a violent and drug environment. Both children are used to being heavily armed and ostentatious in appearance. Costumes or tyrannical fists are just their way of responding to their parents and the world.
Conor returned home and looked at his mother on the doorstep with his brother Brendan. This depth-of-field shot is the most melancholic picture in the movie. People who no longer dream, those who have shattered their dreams, and those who have lost their dreams are all here. Under a wall of red bricks. A woman in a home dress placed herself on the ground. "She came home quickly from get off work just to enjoy the last afterglow, light a cigarette, and read a book." Every short twilight is her luxurious dream. , When the night fell, she returned to the daily routine of tax bills and dinner. Brendan once dreamed of leaving the island like Raphina, but ultimately failed to escape the shackles of his mother. If the family is his prison, then it is not for his mother. She seems to be a capable and sophisticated woman who knows how to appreciate handsome young idols on TV. She has been trapped in busy work and family disputes for most of her life. Brendan told Conor’s mother that he had an affair. He only had an affair. It seemed that she would choose another life. It was unreasonable but unexpected. The brothers quickly faded this topic with the tongue war of their parents again. In some life His mistakes may be forgiven as the years get older, just as Conor sings "This is your life" in the last song, and life is countless "joys and sorrows." When you feel lonely and lonely, leaning against the window alone, there is a hard-to-read scripture under every light.
Friendship
Compared with the gloomy portrayal of family in the movie, I prefer to put my brother into the bright area of friendship. Brendan is Conor's beacon, a person who really loves art and knows art. He accidentally has enough words for his brother to use it to uplift and show off. His room is like his brother's prayer room, and he is like a mentor to a young soul. He would tear down his brother's inferior music tape, and smile attentively for his first love story. When the parents finally pierced the layer of cellophane that was barely glued together, and when Conor was still immersed in his campus performance, Brendan broke out for his family as well, and simply poured out all the heavy thoughts under his scribbled appearance. Brendan hopes that Conor can understand that it is not knowledge of music theory, not ability of lyrics and music, not drawing sketches, not focusing on a stage of life, not to tie the body and mind for the family or an isolated island, but to go to a place beyond his vision and imagination. Go, become a singer and become an artist, and he will cheer for him in front of the voyage port.
On the night when his mother packed his bags, the three brothers and sisters gathered in Brendan's room. It was his lead and record player to shade and save them. Sister Ann even sniffed his tobacco.
Every child in the band is purely beautiful. Even the bad boy who fisted Conor, Barry, was cute when he scratched his head against the instrument on the stage and stood on the side of the band to fight. They have time. , This can allow them to do a lot of right things, but also tolerate them to make more mistakes-correction is a matter of growing up. Eamon who has the most intersection with Conor is another person standing next to his soul. Brendan guides him, and Eamon accompanies him to explore. When we first met, Eamon was almost as talented and sophisticated as Brendan. Conor was speechless with his questions; together they hid in the cabin and smoked, put on funny costumes, and wrote bad songs to cheer together. Eamon would put rabbits on his bed, would participate in performances because of the girls watching, and would encourage him to take the girl he likes out of the island when Conor's low tide. Every video tape taken next to the garbage dump in the alley or elsewhere is a commemoration of their youth. Even if the dream of seeing you again in the future has long been changed, even if the trajectories of the two ends of the tide are difficult to overlap, even before the last song is played, they Still the "monsters" and "gay guys" that were ridiculed by others, this story started out of secret love, fortunately, after all, did not draw the end in the name of love.
John Carney photographed the beauty of the lush greenery of Ireland, the beauty of youth and sadness, and the beauty of dreaming and dreaming. He put the best vision of his youth into Conor’s mind, just like the American school dance. In a dreamy scene, everyone who is immersed in their own singing gets happiness. After the film is over, there may be a colorful world at the end of the voyage, or it may be just another piece of land and sea that shuts down the artist. "They are just children after all," said director John Carney. So in the far future, it doesn't matter whether you "in silence" or "in tears", as long as you remember that you were once your own "captain."
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