Rotten and post-pubertal struggle

Reyes 2022-01-14 08:02:32

Out of love for "Ensemble", I followed this new film by the same director. The day of a young man who came out of a drug rehabilitation center is more like a diary of an image. The image of a literary youth in the last film continues to the present. He is almost middle-aged-he can never die if he wants to die. , I want to live but I don’t have the energy to live, and I don’t want to deceive myself to pretend that there is still a very exciting life. August 31 is neither the end nor the beginning. It is a manifestation of countless struggling inner rapids. Small island. The film is plain and dull, and contrasts with the quiet life of a small European city, bringing out a suffocating, anxious and depressing tone. I have never been to Europe, but I think the director does not only convey the decadent European atmosphere, he wants to pay more attention to the inner life of a type of person.

Coincidentally, the previous part happened to watch "Youth" starring Charlize Theron. For the convenience of speaking, I call this stage of such characters in their lives "post-adolescence." It needs to be explained that this term is used to describe people who have had "adolescence" in my opinion---------In a sense, similar characteristics: indulgence, rebellion, defiance of mainstream norms, seeking passion, self Liberation and telepathy, feel the power and boundless imagination against ordinary life in art. According to what Chinese people can easily understand, in the brains of such people, in addition to tickets, houses, cars, face, social status, and the basic dignity and sense of security in the social attributes of people, there are a lot of other things. These other things Something that makes their parents destined to feel uneasy is that they will also dominate their life choices, completely eliminate the basic bottom line, and move towards madness and self-destruction. I don't know whether the term "artistic youth", which is a pan-entertainment, refers to this kind of people.

Finally, it is inevitable that this type of people will reach the age of 30-35. Perhaps sociologists can give more accurate age data. The friends around them who had fantasies and messed up together all disappeared in repaying loans, giving birth and taking care of themselves. In the "normal" days, no one will no longer talk about and pay attention to things that have nothing to do with self-interest and the narrow reality tied up by money. What's even more frustrating is that it turns out that all the magic that attracted a young man who loves fantasy has also disappeared. For them, getting old becomes a disturbing sin.

At least, in the Chinese environment, I have not seen any stories describing this stage of the loss of this type of people. Maybe, if this country has such a pen and video camera, then it must be busy making money. Always aim at those beautiful and fresh goods, among them, there are many successful people who think they have turned along the road of literature and art. A fast-developing society must ignore those so-called "losers." In reality, I can always see the shadow of the male protagonist in the film. He said: Those happy people are stupid.

Judging from the film's seemingly running account plot, the male protagonist is contradictory. On the one hand, he wants to quit drug addiction, get healthy, and re-enter a vigorous life. The eyes of those around him who regard him as waste and poisonous insects always remind him that there is no place for him in this world; on the other hand, since The "depravity" and the joy of escape from adolescence are always tempting him to return to the old path of self-anaesthesia. In his thoughts, love and pills, salvation or relief, cannot be clearly mixed together. During this day, everyone he passed by and every conversation mirrored his anxiety and depression. He returned to PARTY and found that he was inexplicably sympathetic and hostile; he went to apply for a job and found that he could not adapt; he dialed the phone of his ex-girlfriend and left a message and regretted it---------untimely poor bug, redundant People, forgotten people, outsiders with nowhere to go. Can he find a reason to go down the river like this, or can he still use the same principles ten years ago to arm a world-weary person? If the film has any social significance, then the director's attitude is very clear regarding the social environment that invisibly oppresses, suppresses and even binds dissidents.

I remember asking a young man whose life attitude and values ​​are not so "positive and correct", what will you do in the future? Now you are all like this, and you are not ashamed of nothing, and you still practice after daydreaming.

He said, if it doesn't work, he will die.

Rotten or treated, there will never be an answer. In my opinion, the protagonist is closer to the essence of life, more awake and more painful than those eloquent and triumphant liars. The waterside scene at the beginning of this movie, and the dim room after the protagonist comes to the end, surrounds a secret space that cannot be illuminated by the large, bright world outside in the early morning. That is the spirit of every experience. The shocking person is the ultimate realm on which he can survive.


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  • Anders: It will get better. Everything will be alright.

    [laughing]

    Anders: Except it won't, you know.

  • Anders: Look at my life. I'm 34 years old. I've got nothing. I don't want to start from scratch.