Blonde teenagers, beautiful boys, skateboarding youth, and ignorant eroticism, these typical elements of American youth campus movies are all available in this film, but Van Sturt still shoots a cruel youth story like "The Elephant". Every time Alex walks in the school corridor, he pulls the audience's mind back to "The Elephant", too familiar. Alex's clear eyes and youthful face combined with slow motion exudes a chic mood of melancholy and anxiety, which sets him apart from the rest. The boyish beauty of Alex's character in the doting shot where Van Stein slaps him in the face reminds me of Visconti's Broken Venice. Throughout Van Stein's other works, this film is more diverse in the form and richness of the use of lenses, especially the pictures showing the youthful skateboarders in the psychedelic park. The most impressive thing is that the teenagers are in a tunnel similar to In the round tubular building, the footage of sliding on a skateboard to the bright exit ahead is like a drug addict. In the first half of the film, while showing the aspects of Alex's life, it also added suspense elements, a case of dead bodies on the rails that happened next to the psychedelic park. The bald-headed Asian police officer's questioning of Alex intensifies the atmosphere and foreshadows Alex's relationship to the case, even if he seems so innocuous, he must have something to do with the death. The process of the case is restored in the middle of the film. Alex, who was playing with the train, pushed the security uncle who grabbed him out of his escape instinct. As a result, the uncle fell on the rails and was crushed in half by the train. The uncle dragged his upper body and leaked out. His intestines crawled with difficulty, staring at the terrified Alex before he died. This bloody and ferocious scene broke the previous calm and forbearance and was shocking. The second half of the film has been focused on showing Alex's restless and pretended composure. The image of him showering in the bathroom is very infectious, washing his sins with water to calm himself, but everything can't go back to the way it was before. , the smell of blood will forever linger on the tip of his nose, and even if he escapes the law, the guilt will punish him for life. In such a story of accidental murder, Van Sterling still does not forget to join the sexual affairs of adolescence. The beautiful girlfriend and Alex's phone call to a friend after their first sex is a comedic expression of this age group's mentality of seeing sex as its greatest show-off capital. Then Alex broke up with his girlfriend when he broke up. Sturt erased the voice of the conversation between the two, and only showed the content of the conversation with the association through the change of his girlfriend's expression. This form of expression is often used in "bad news" conversations. At the end of the film, Alex burns the words that he wrote about his inner secrets, which his female friends suggested to him to write. The chat and interaction between the two of them are the most tender and romantic moments in the film, a kind of similar to Heterosexual girlfriends actually have a relationship of mutual affection. But Alex eventually burns the text, and that bloody night, will melt into Alex's blood until death. The ending song sounded, and in the rough recording video, the teenagers stepped on the skateboard to release hormones. This is a kind of memory, the memory of every day before that night.
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