Recently, many people are youthful, and they talk about youth superficially while they are hot. This word always retains some nostalgia. People who are young are basically disdainful. People who live in this mountain are always like this. Those who don't come to youth can see how precious this term is and worthy of aftertaste. It allows some non-extraordinary absurdity or recklessness, as if even God would not bear to blame a young person for doing bad things or doing wrong things.
From the perspective of cross-cultural and individual culture, there is no essential difference between the youth of the East and the West, and the youth of men and women are no different in essence. The only difference lies in the way in which youth is interpreted. When Asians look back on their youth, the tone is always a little bit of sorrow, and the carrier is always love (additionally, let’s do something else). Aunt Zhao’er’s new film is a good example. Like Westerners, they also like to talk about youth occasionally. There are hot, violent, and refreshing. "Spanish Apartment" is outstanding. It is a similar documentary that uses the multiplicity of time and place to conduct philosophical dialogues with the audience. In the movie, you will think that the protagonist there is one of your former classmates, they are also so young and frivolous, self-conscious, so true, youth has no borders.
Story
Je ne sais pas pourquoi d'une façon générale le monde a devenu un tel bordel. Je ne sais pas si c'est obligatoire que le monde doive être comme ça. Tout est compliqué, mal foutu. Avant champ, tu avais un des vaches, des poules. Tout est plus simple.
Translated into Chinese to the effect is “I don’t understand, why the normal things in this world are messed up. I don’t know if the world has to become like this, everything is so complicated , It’s boring. Before, you had a farm, raising cows, raising chickens, everything was that simple."
Xavier is a PhD who is about to graduate. He wholeheartedly hopes to become a writer, but his father arranges him to a company. The premise of the employment is to speak Spanish and conduct research on the Spanish economy. So, he signed up for the Erasmus project, and the school secretary asked him to provide a series of documents, so he fainted and said the above paragraph. One of the manifestations of youth is to complain. If one day, you become numb and stop complaining about life. Congratulations, you are mature and your youth is gone.
Xavier left his girlfriend and mother and moved from Paris to Barcelona. Looking at this strange city that is about to spend a year, from finding a house to meeting a group of young people from various European countries living with them, living a youthful life began. He embarked on a journey of finding himself. Among them, the period of looking for a house can awaken the memories of the university. I remember that at that time, the university heard that the first class of Reflets was called New Tenants. It was a pair of friends interviewing the tenants. It was exactly the same as the movie. It was very kind to think about. Later, when I arrived in France, I faced the same situation. It was really interesting. The second manifestation of
cultural
youth is the unpredictable and estimable tolerance of other cultures. Although they are all Europeans, you will find that the Germans are very strict, the Spaniards are loose, the French are very arrogant, the British are very cold and humorous, and the Italians are very warm. However, these so-called characteristics cannot be generalized: the director did not label the people in these countries in the Spanish apartment. If you have to say what label, I think they are all young. People, beyond nationality, race, color. This is somewhat of a director’s idealism in it, but if you are young, shouldn’t you take an tolerant attitude towards the various cultures of the world? Although sometimes, you feel that the closer you are to a culture, the more you hate it, just like people who face each other day and night, there will always be a few times when you are not pleasing to the eye. But C'est la vie, don't forget that it has taken you into another world, allowing you to recognize the diversity of the world, and acceptance means tolerance.
Perhaps, the more respected, the more tolerant, the more confident and deep the love of one’s own country’s culture will be shown. Wendy, a British girl, said that she was ecstatic in London. She was a bit headstrong. Xavier was called "frog". This word is a derogatory term for the French by the British, just like the French call the small cabbage choux de bruxelles (Brussels Little). Cabbage), as if Belgians are one size smaller than French. Every country in Europe is a little bit arrogant, and it's very common for all kinds of contempt for each other. Xavier did this very well. He didn't get angry because he was called a frog. He brought Wendy back into everyone's circle. He brought out the theme of friendship and showed the boy's generosity. (Dwarf mother, is he really French?!)
The cultural collision under the youth package is tolerance and conflict. Wendy's brother came to Spain to see his sister. He and his sister were very happy to chat at the table. The joke he told his sister also knew exactly where the laugh was. The other roommates were very stiff and didn't know where the joy came from. One day, my younger brother chatted with a German guy. In order to show the British (cold) sense of humor, he learned from Hitler and the German accent. In fact, you can see that he is really harmless, just kind of second. The German brother told his sister in a rage. It can be seen that cultures must be conflicting. A so-called humor is humor in one's own country, but it may be boring or even disgusting in the eyes of people in other countries. It is precisely because of this that any kind of culture has its own particularity and exclusivity, and it is even more precious. Even if they are all Orientals, there is a big difference. If you eat noodles very loudly in China, you are not educated. In Japan, you are polite and praise the owner for the good food. Does it hurt?
Language
language is the best carrier of culture. The Chinese would say "Say Cao Cao and Cao Cao will arrive." The French also means Quand on parle du loup, on voit sa queue. (When you talk about a wolf, you can see its tail.) Isn't it interesting?
Now that I am getting older, I understand that learning languages when I was young is really much faster. Xavier went to Spain to make up for Spanish and blend in with the locals. This is one of his outstanding points. He insists on speaking Spanish everywhere (except with his compatriots). Of course, he speaks French or English anyway, and the Spanish can't understand it. . . These unfavorable factors instead prompted him to grow up quickly in language. Youth is fearless, and learning languages is also fearless. Only when you are not afraid of making mistakes, you can make progress.
In addition to language, there is also the issue of dialects. There is a bridge in the film. Erasmus students said to the professor whether they can teach in Spanish instead of Catalan. The professor is very disdainful, saying that most of the class is Catalan. , Besides, there is no problem with teaching in the official language of the region. Now I know why Alasan Haining talks to each other in Songhai, O cool~
We will also make some jokes because of the language, Xavier’s mother called, Wendy picked it up, saying that he has gone to school, and X’s mother said O, à la Fac, Wendy was stunned, «wot, fuck?!» Hey, don't blame her, I was sweaty the first time I heard it. . . Fac in French means school. . .
I remember a politician from an EU country said that what really affects EU economic integration is language. For example, the problem of labor migration, seemingly integration is difficult to achieve, because it is difficult to imagine how a Portuguese who only speaks Portuguese can find a decent job in Germany. So young people in Europe are now working hard to learn other foreign languages, just to increase their chances of employment.
Self explore
what is self to explore? In an unconventional environment, stepping out of your comfort zone, re-examining yourself by prying into the world, and discussing what you want and want, I think is a very important element of self-exploration. This may be a return of self.
Paris and Barcelona are two colors and two patterns. One is cold, one is warm, one has river, one has sea, one is tender and one is unrestrained. You can’t tell which is better, but you can clearly tell what you want. In the process, you understand "Ah, I am such a person." Sometimes we are thinking, in the end. What kind of city should you live in, and what kind of people should you choose to meet and know each other. Without experiencing and walking, it is difficult to imagine what kind of life suits you. This may be the meaning of self-exploration. Youth is the courage to go if you want to go, stay if you want, and to find yourself. Are you gone? Congratulations, youth is gone~
At the end of the story, what choice did Xavier make? What was the result of his self-exploration path? I sincerely recommend you to watch this movie. You will find that the world is big, we are very small, and maybe one day, the years are too blurred, and you can still vaguely distinguish that you were really young when you were young, really.
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