He also has a nice dad
Yesterday on the red carpet of the Golden Globes, a Chinese reporter shouted "sweet tea" to Timothy Chalamet, and he heard it right away.
He is no stranger to "sweet tea". When he was promoting "Please call me by your name" before, a reporter told him at the press conference.
He is still very satisfied with his name.
Of course, this article is not about Chinese nicknames for Hollywood stars.
Today I'm talking about a movie "Pretty Boy" starring Tiancha.
He was nominated for this year's Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor for this film, although he ran away.
But as the best boy in the same age group, the future of Sweet Tea can be expected.
"pretty boy"
If you don't know the background knowledge before watching this film, you may think that it tells the story of adolescence like "Miss Bird".
However, it is not.
Sweet tea is not your Yolami in the movie. If you have to use a metaphor, it should be called a pot of venom.
An addict played by Tiancha, the type of detox → relapse → detox → relapse.
When I'm not addicted to drugs, it's sweet tea, and I can get my sister by reading any poem at school.
If you are addicted to drugs, it is more poisonous than the transformed venom.
"Pretty Boy" isn't fiction, it's a true story, based on David Sheff's memoir, "Pretty Boy: The Journey of a Father of a Drug-addicted Child."
David Sheff serialized in The New York Times how he and his son got off drugs.
The process was painful and hopeless, and the family was lucky because his son finally managed to detox.
The effects of drugs on a person and on a family are devastating.
Just as Fitzgerald's novel "Beauty and Destruction" appeared in the film, although the stories are different, the truth is the same.
From beauty to destruction is often in an instant.
This has to start with the childhood of David's son Nick.
When he was young, Nick was a standard pretty boy.
Although his parents are divorced, his father loves him all the time.
Because his father lived in San Francisco and his mother lived in Los Angeles, Nick had to travel back and forth as a child.
When he was a child, he didn't understand. When he was angry with his father, his father would tell him that he couldn't express his love even though he tried all the words. Putting all the words together, he couldn't express his love for Nick.
It turns out that the sweetest is not sweet tea, his father is the sweetest in the world.
When they remarried, Nick's father also found a wife who loved Nick.
There has never been a bloody episode where the stepmother abused the stepson in the family. A younger brother and a younger sister were born, and Nick's love was not lost.
As for Nick, he showed a talent for writing from an early age.
This is a happy, happy family.
Until Nick started getting drugs.
Having not read the original, the movie has been vague about the reasons for this result.
However, according to netizens who have read the original work, the adapted script is still very different from the original work, and their family of three is not as perfect as in the film.
Pretty Boy doesn't make this reason clear from beginning to end, or it can be avoided.
We know that Nick's parents divorced when he was a child.
He was isolated and ostracized at school.
He reads misanthropic and depressive writers.
Was it because of his parents' divorce that had an impact on him, or because he made friends carelessly at school.
The director put the pen and ink on how their family fights drugs.
When David was young, he also touched drugs, and he quit; he knew that Nick was gambling, and he just sent Nick to rehab.
Can we say that David is letting Nick run his own way? no.
At least David in the film is a typical American good father, making friends with his children and trying not to interfere with their children's privacy.
Nick was in pain, and he was also in pain. He did everything a father should do to Nick, and took out all his love.
After being infected with drugs, Nick is a different person from before. From time to time, he will disappear for a few days, and he will fall asleep when he gets home.
After quitting the drug, I relapsed again and again.
Normally, he is very good and can get offers from six universities.
He is a good elder brother to his younger siblings.
Just like a normal student, go to college normally, fall in love normally, and live normally.
In a word, it is an enhanced version of Elio.
As long as he is addicted to drugs, he becomes a different person.
He became suspicious of himself, became world-weary, and became irritable and irritable, and cursed at his father.
Stealing family money for drugs, even my brother's $8 pocket money.
He cheated money from his father for various reasons.
He fell into the most distressed boy.
It's not that he doesn't want to control himself, it's that he doesn't have the ability to control himself.
He can ignore all kinds of difficulties in life, and even if he does something stupid, he doesn't have to face it.
He said he felt more comfortable than ever when he was on drugs.
As for how comfortable it is, you can ask Ke Zhendong, who posted "Waiting and waiting.... been waiting for the past few years..." on INS some time ago, or ask Playing "Flying Tigers on the Railway" is not worthy of Fang Zuming, who has a name, or the new addict Mr. Chen.
If analyzed from the pathological point of view.
This explanation is given in the film.
Smoking ice brings high, and this mental high consumes 60% of the dopamine in the human brain, and addicts like Nick have to increase the meter, which can cause mental damage.
The more damage, the more need for pleasure, a vicious circle is thus produced.
It also alters the brain, damaging dopamine receptors, leaving the addict incapable of recovery.
This pathologically explains why Nick has repeated drug relapses.
David finds any way to help Nick.
Going to the rehab center again and again scares Nick.
And the drug rehab hospital can't let Nick get rid of his drug addiction completely.
Because it is only a 28-day treatment, there will be a consultation with a psychiatrist and an internal medicine physician every day, and there will be a drug rehabilitation mutual aid meeting every day.
It's just a passive form of therapy that most addicts like Nick don't go for voluntarily.
They will be negatively treated and will escape drug rehab hospitals.
The drug rehab hospital said that the probability of recovery can reach 25%-80%, but in the eyes of real experts, the recovery rate is even less than 10%.
During this period, Nick was not unsuccessful. He moved to Los Angeles and lived with his mother.
With the help of his mentor, he did not touch any drugs for 485 days. He is still working in a drug rehab center and helping other patients.
I checked the information and found that drugs like methamphetamine have a higher chance of relapse than other drugs.
Nick's Nth relapse, this time is obviously going to be more violent.
He also found a female companion and formed a pair of poisonous sea mandarin ducks.
After so many years of anti-drug, drugs have disintegrated the father and son internally in different ways.
Nick's father couldn't take it anymore, and for Nick, he almost gave up.
Although such a plot setting is a bit abrupt, it is understandable. After all, I have tried everything that should be tried, what else can I do?
Eventually Nick managed to get over his addiction, in a very Hollywood way.
Nick's drug sea has been in waves for so many years, and he almost died because of overdose. This time he successfully detoxified.
At least when the film was finished, he hadn't relapsed.
This ending can be said to be very Hollywood.
The first thing I felt after watching this movie was that everything was said and nothing was said.
As mentioned above, the most important reason for Nick's poisoning was not explained clearly.
For what reason?
The final awakening was also very abrupt, because after walking on the edge of death, you decided not to smoke?
The film is called "Pretty Boy", why is it all about his dad.
I don't know, what exactly is the director trying to say?
I wanted to talk about the consumption of drugs on the family and family, so I used so many flashbacks.
Highlight that the father and son are drifting apart because of drugs, and it is also very painful to accompany his father?
The movie keeps going in circles and doesn't get to the heart of the matter.
It just shows the reaction of a family after suffering a change.
Its plot direction can be guessed, and now it is hovering between detoxification and review, because of a decisive moment, the detoxification is completed.
There is no reason or opportunity for a person to be infected with drugs, it seems to be just an accident. Is this what you're trying to say - there's no particular reason for teenage drug use?
Probably because the director Felix van Gunningen is a European director, and this is his first work since he came to Hollywood.
After European directors come to Hollywood, they will be unacceptable.
It can be seen that the director wants to express on the one hand, and on the other hand has to worry about the American audience.
I believe that the flashback clips in the film are added based on this consideration, for the convenience of understanding.
But this way of handling it makes us unable to have an emotional resonance with the characters in the film.
Finally, I have to talk about sweet tea. After "Please call me by your name", his character setting seems to be on.
Literary, tangled, and world-weary, they all say that in summer, peaches and sweet tea are the best match, but they cannot always be in one role.
Think about how many years it took Ronan, who worked with you on "Miss Bird," to get out of "Atonement."
Sweet tea, let's have more dramas in the future.
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Public number: Xiaoxian movie (xiaoxianmovie)
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