This will be a very, very personal film review. Or, it is not so much a film review as a life perception.
I just saw the cast and crew. It turned out that the little girl in the movie was the same age as me, and I became more emotional.
How did you know about this not-so-famous movie? You remember that it was a weekend in the first year of high school. My mother rushed to visit me in Nanjing and took me from the closed school in the suburbs to the bustling urban area. Relax. The TV that turned on the hotel happened to be Central Six Channel, and it was the "Spicy Baby" that was playing, and it was staged when the heroine picks up the heroine from the ballet get out of class. I thought "How can there be a kid who dances so seriously and is desperately taking drugs? The title is too popcorn, and it's another boring American movie with drunken gold fans. I don't have time to watch this kind of stuff. I still have that There are so many unfinished manuals and unsolved Olympiad questions. My classmates are so much better than me.” The voices outside the hotel were very loud and anxious. At the age of 16, I turned off the TV decisively and tried to make people feel uncomfortable. The breathless peer pressure plunged into Tihai's struggle.
It’s strange that this inadvertent momentary scene has become one of my deepest impressions of my entire 16-year-old. Ten years later, I still remember this American baby movie and the Hunan Road Octopus that my mother bought me that day. ball.
Ten years later, on such a rainy weekend in the afternoon, a sudden flash of inspiration, I decided to revisit this movie in its entirety.
After a lot of hard work to find the source of the film (after all, the film is quite old), I saw this film again in a small world built by myself at the age of twenty-five. It's completely different from what I imagined. This movie is not actually promoting the materialism of drunken fans. It is also completely different from my high school imagination of the United States. When I was in high school, I came to the provincial capital from a small county to go to school. The trendy classmates around me are enthusiastically following American pop culture, "Gossip Girl", "The Big Bang Theory", Broadway musicals, various fashion shows , "Affluent, high-end, colorful" is my entire impression of the United States, especially New York. Capitalist society has been infinitely beautified, and the lives of young people look so glamorous, rich and free. Compared with the boring and stressful Chinese high school life, "want to go to the United States" is simply the dream of every high school student like me in that era.
Later, I experienced six long years of studying abroad, and now I return to Shanghai to become a hard-working office worker. When I watch this movie again, the taste is rather deserted and lonely.
Empty apartments, deserted entertainment facilities, dirty public transportation, filthy downtown streets, interpersonal relationships that are always separated by thick glass, and every day silent enough to hear the needle landing, this is European and American life. , The real look.
This world is sometimes quiet and deserted.
Let you have a wealth of wealth, let you have peerless beauty, let you be extremely self-disciplined and motivated, everyone's life is spent most of the time alone, with silence as the company.
The two girls in the play have the same fate and tragedy. The heroine loses her parents in childhood and only has a wealth of wealth. She lives upside down and crazy; the father of the little heroine is a vegetable, and her mother is sophisticated and busy with career and small fresh meat, little girl. His cleanliness and maturity are nothing but a mechanism of self-protection, pretending to be a sane adult to deceive oneself does not need any parental love at all. This is so much like me as a teenager.
After more than two decades, many of the puzzles of that year can finally be solved. It turns out that we are just fragile human beings. It turns out that we are born to be afraid of loneliness. It turns out that the most precious thing is always love and company. We grow up with more or less deficiencies, and use various methods to conceal ourselves and deceive others, but in the end the only thing that can save us is love. We study desperately to work, we desperately lose weight and beautify, we desperately participate in social activities, in the final analysis, we just hope that we will not be abandoned by the world.
I was holding a bunch of furry little Siamese, this little beast with fangs and claws, just wanting to snor warmly in my arms. The rain is continuous outside the window, and we will no longer be cold if we have each other's company.
The little girl said, this is a harsh world.
This world has always been like this. It operates coldly according to the laws of science. If you get sick, you will die. Covid-19 is still raging in various countries around the world, depriving loved ones of the lives. It seems to be a huge social machine made of reinforced concrete, but in the end, we still have only relatives and friends. Our way of existence is not essentially different from the cavemen of thousands of years ago.
Thank you for all the gifts of destiny, thank you for all the beauty and warmth that I have at this moment.
Please always be excited about what to come next, and stop being afraid of what you might lose in the far future.
Although it will rain, there will be stillness, there will be deserted streets and parks, but we always have each other
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