I haven't watched such a comfortable youth film for a long time, a rebellious and sensitive teenager on the surface x a female farmer with obsessive-compulsive disorder, even if the two don't get together in the end, I'm not just uncomfortable because the two don't get together, Instead, they feel that it is a very lucky thing for them to meet each other in the life of "living a day and earning a day".
This type of film tests the ability of the screenwriter: can you fully restore the deep emotions of the two people's youth within two hours, and complete the plot: hate seeing each other, love each other, love each other, and unforgettable. Finally, the theme is sublimated, so that the young two in the movie, even BE, have an uneasy beauty.
This type of film also tests the level of the actors: youth films are unlikely to have national hatred and family hatred, and they do not have such deep love and hatred. The two want to restore the most ordinary and most beautiful restlessness in youth, the growth and transformation of characters in the background of the story, and the contrast between falling in love with a person. From the light in the eyes to the cute frizz in the action, it should be refreshing and natural, so that the audience can believe that two people really love each other, and let the audience believe that this relationship is "higher than life".
"Five Feet Heaven" did it.
The male protagonist "wanted to live" after meeting the female protagonist
The heroine "doesn't want to live alone" after meeting the hero
One finds a reason to hold on, one finds a reason to let go
Let me tell you my favorite things about the movie
①The scenes with the monologue at the beginning and end of the film: The extra scenes at the end complete the fragments at the beginning. The audience sees the child born by the female nurse at the end of the film, the little angel Cole is playing with a breathing tube, the heroine Her friend made jokes with her, the dead sister of the heroine brought her mother's gentle warning when her sister was crazy, and the hero was deliberately funny when she was photographed. On the contrary, I can empathize with the film more: the juvenile patients in the hospital may die soon, but they all spend every day fully in love.
②Metaphors in the film:
1. When Stella and Will were on their first date, when they passed a corner with a billiard cue, a pair of old grandparents who were in love helped each other walk past, and the male and female protagonists looked at each other and smiled. The audience can easily get the ingenuity of the screenwriter here: if Stella and Will are a healthy couple, they will be together like this old couple.
2. Two actions by the pool: The first one is that the heroine pulls the pool cue and puts it on her shoulders. One of the key words of the film is [distance], so when the hero and heroine communicate with each other, the heroine's shy actions are reversed. It seems even more shocking, and the affectionate silence of the male protagonist at that time increased the sense of piety in the picture. The second is that the hero and heroine take off their clothes and show each other the countless surgical scars on their bodies. There is no lust or embarrassment. Stella, who has always been strong with a sense of guilt, shows Will to Will. The source of the pain, and the male protagonist also understands the female protagonist's thoughts and responds immediately, making the two Soulmate feel stronger.
③ "Only he understands her" in the album
Here I want to praise the heroine's acting skills first... She cried with different emotions in several paintings. I was surprised and happy to see the realistic sketch that day, and it was a pity to see the portrait of my lifelong friend who passed away. The crying when I arrived at the sketch of my sister and myself broke out because of the accumulation of thoughts.
Here, the screenwriter enriches Will's seemingly insubstantial but extremely delicate and full-hearted image: he understands what Stella is carrying behind her strong back, he understands the most difficult point about Stella, he understands Stella The role that Della's sister played in Stella's life.
There is a person in life who can really understand you, understand your unease, understand your fragility, and can really heal the wounds in your heart. Even if time is short, life is enough.
The sense of SOULMATE between the two characters is getting deeper and deeper.
Now for the actors:
Cole Sprouse won two awards for the 2019 People's Choice Award for Film and TV Actor of the Year for his film and starring "Riverdale". He is an actor I liked very much when I was in elementary school. The delicate man in "Life" already has a prototype that can't be taken away from the film: after all, it is the person Selena Gomez was crazy about when she was a child. The face shape is not as good as his brother's, but the facial features are exquisite and outstanding, and many angles are a bit like when Little Plum and Hugh Grant were young.
Later, this brother went to New York University to study archaeology, and he was very professional. The archaeological jargon uttered in an interview makes him even sexier...
Of course, his best thing is photography. This brother is a real professional photographer. He has shot blockbusters for countless big-name supermodels and first-line magazines.
In this film, Cole was full of thorns and unruly at the beginning, and he didn't care about life and death, but he was also a gentleman and polite. After falling in love with Stella, she began to want to live, and her love words were bold, straightforward, gentle and affectionate, and she began to reveal a more "juvenile true" self. In the end, when facing the fate and wanting his lover to live well, the monologue of Stella after the surgery, Su Da won the National Popularity Award (Personal Choice Award) indeed.
The role of Will and Cole do overlap in a certain way. Cole and his brother are very popular jokers on ig, and Americans have counted that they both use "American favorite twins" to describe them. Humorous gentleman, but always with an inexplicable sense of sarcasm in his speech. He smiled and talked about his deep understanding of the characters, archaeology, photography, and professional terms in related fields. He was tall and thin with a boy who would never bow his head Angry, it is very suitable for Will, a character who smiles and doesn't care even if he is blood-covered by fate.
Haley Lou Richardson
She should have ballet skills, a well-proportioned and healthy body, and a vitality that is not easily compromised, which is very suitable for the role of Stella.
There are many works of the heroine. The most beautiful part of her is her eyes. She laughs like a bright crescent moon. The crying scene is very, very good. As mentioned above, she can cry different feelings, crying helplessly, without confidence Some people are afraid to hold back their tears, cry with joy, cry with collapse, cry with relief, etc. It is easy to empathize with the actress's emotions on the screen.
She also handles the details of the actions of the female code farmer with obsessive-compulsive disorder very well, and some small actions are even more cute. The actor is the same age as me, but very girly, with the self-confidence of growing up surrounded by love and the entanglement and anxiety caused by life defects.
When domestic youth films were still fighting for their beloved girls and committing crimes for their beloved scumbags who had abortions, miscarried, and jumped off the building, Lao Mei, who had produced many sharp youth films, had also mass-produced a lot of pretentious "beautiful films" in the past two years— -Beautiful men and beautiful women, men have no love for life or death, women's families are generally good at learning in the heart, but when they bump into each other, they produce hormones inexplicably and naturally, and then return to the vulgar plot of domestic youth pain films
The only difference between the two is that the domestic youth films should be pretentious to say a bunch of baby Anne-style narrations, literary and artistic and high-profile explanations of the ignorance of the heavens and the earth, the high price of firewood, rice, oil and salt, all the tossing is tossing, and the life and death of love is only in the end. Several endings: jumping off the building and going to jail or forgetting each other in the rivers and lakes
In the United States, it is relatively simple: when we meet each other, we smile away from our grievances. In the end, most of the male and female protagonists laugh and are relieved. They raise their arms on the body to celebrate that they have "grown up" and learned to "let go"-completed the transition from "young heart to wounded body" "Heartless in "Heartless" to "Mighty Heart" after the great transformation of heartless.
But youth films never ≠ garbage classification ≠ brainless hormones
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