Revisited.
Lucien's casting is amazing, blond hair and brittle eyes between blue and green, and Dane plays the pale, slightly sickly pretty teen, swaggering from the inside out and totally worth everyone for him bend. From his first appearance in the film, Lucien jumped on the library table to read out the works of Henry Miller in front of the crowd, a man eager to break all dogma and rules. But Lucien wasn't very brave or special. He believes that he knows the emptiness of life and that people are trapped in a cycle, so he wants to launch a literary revolution. Tear books, take drugs, the biggest feat is to sneak into the library at night to replace the precious books in the showcase with banned books. But he didn't write a word about New Vision, nor was he honest about his feelings. Lucian is the moose in the Beat Generation circle, with a devastating and dangerous beauty, his freewheeling, totally egoistic and slightly neurotic personality that, while causing David and Allen pain, is probably the greatest source of inspiration for their writing.
Also, I like the actor who plays William that most audiences ignore. Gold-rimmed glasses, neat suits and meticulously combed hair, a typical elite image, but forever addicted to the dense smoke, alcohol and psychedelic drugs, the emptiness and confusion behind his glasses can better deduce the beat generation. The sentence "Yes, Sir" erected a beat "trash" who soberly knew that he was powerless to change the reality.
I can't help but think of "American Animals". They are also four college students who want to prove that they are special ones by stealing a book. Adolescence is so wonderful, with infinite experiences and enthusiasm for life, because of infinite expectations and seriousness towards life, so I try hard to prove that I am alive and have left traces in this world.
However, the background of the times that appeared twice in the film is a little confusing. If the director wants to explain the social background of the characters in the film's confusion, emptiness, and the mental state of wanting to rebel but not knowing what to rebel, it is still a bit abrupt and confusing. .
At the end of the film, Lucien's performance when he inserts the knife into David's body is not very tense, but probably most people just care about his face.
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